General

On February 7, the 2023 Business Work Conference was held in Shanghai. The meeting reviewed and summarized the work in 2022 and arranged the key tasks in 2023 according to the work deployment of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the Shanghai Municipal Government. Hua Yuan, Vice Mayor of Shanghai, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Gu Jun, Director of the Municipal Commission of Commerce and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, delivered a report on the city's business work.

Huayuan said that in 2023, Shanghai's business work should focus on the main line of high-quality development and highlight the "four full efforts". First, we should fully implement major national strategies. We should give full play to the leading role of the national strategy and accelerate the transformation of the advantages of multiple strategies into the victory of high-quality development. Second, we should make every effort to stabilize the growth of business economy. All regions, departments and units should redouble their investment and efforts, strengthen the sense of urgency of seizing every moment, and go all out to stabilize growth and promote development. Third, we should make every effort to improve the soft power of the International Trade Center, promote the energy level of the International Trade Center to a higher level, and focus on cultivating new drivers and creating a new environment. Fourth, we should make every effort to enhance the effectiveness of business to benefit the people, strengthen the guarantee of supply and price stability, speed up the implementation of people's livelihood, improve the energy level of the wholesale market of agricultural products, and pay attention to safe production.

The meeting pointed out that 2022 is a very unusual and extraordinary year, and the Shanghai business system has always adhered to the requirements of "epidemic prevention and control, economic stability, and development security", insisted on the overall planning of epidemic prevention and control and business and economic development, with two hands in hand, two hands hard, and two hands win. According to the data, the import and export of international trade in goods in Shanghai will reach 4.2 trillion yuan in 2022, up 3.2% year on year, and the scale will reach a new record. The total volume of port trade will continue to be the first in the world; The actual use of foreign capital reached a record high of US $23.96 billion; The total retail sales of social consumer goods reached 1.64 trillion yuan, which continued to rank first in central cities, with 1073 new first stores added, and the quantity and quality continued to maintain the leading position in domestic cities.

The meeting stressed that in 2023, Shanghai should better coordinate epidemic prevention and control and business and economic development, organically combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with the deepening of supply-side structural reform, promote high-level opening up, deepen the upgrading of the energy level of the international trade center and the construction of the international consumption center city, and promote the effective improvement of the quality and reasonable growth of the business economy, We will help Shanghai to accelerate the construction of a socialist modern international metropolis with world influence, and continue to be the vanguard of reform and opening up and the pioneer of innovation and development on the new journey.

Huayuan said that we should focus on eight aspects of work. First, we will thoroughly implement major national strategic tasks. Accelerate the implementation of the policy of Pudong's high-level reform and opening up, the pilot free trade zone and the new area near the port to expand the opening up, meticulously hold the 6th International Expo, support the Hongqiao International Central Business District to build a new trade platform, promote the high-quality development of the bridgehead of the "the Belt and Road" construction, and promote the high-quality integrated development of commerce in the long triangle. The second is to implement the action of "optimizing the consumption supply structure". Implement policies and measures to expand consumption, accelerate the cultivation of new consumption, gather global consumption resources, and innovate consumption scenarios. Third, implement the action of "innovation and expansion of trade circulation". Expand the scale of commodity market, cultivate high-energy commodity trading platform, and deepen the pilot construction of domestic and foreign trade integration. Fourth, implement the action of "optimizing and upgrading trade in goods". We will make every effort to stabilize the basic situation of foreign trade, accelerate the expansion of new international trade, vigorously promote the high-quality development of the exhibition industry, continue to optimize the business environment of cross-border trade, and improve the ability to prevent and control international trade risks. Fifth, implement the action of "innovative development of service trade". Strive to create a national service trade innovation and development demonstration zone, vigorously develop digital trade, build an important carrier of service trade, and accelerate the development of characteristic fields. Sixth, implement the action of "using foreign capital to build a foundation and strengthen the country". Give full play to the advantages of the open economy to attract more foreign capital, do a good job in the service of foreign-funded enterprises, speed up the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the headquarters economy, and cultivate high-energy local multinational companies. Seventh, implement the action of "business is convenient for the people and benefits the people". We will continue to optimize the supply guarantee system in megacities, deepen the construction of breakfast projects, promote the quality and capacity expansion of domestic services, and continue to optimize the consumption environment. Eight is to lead the high-quality development of business with high-quality party building. Constantly strengthen political construction, continue to promote style construction, solidly promote the construction of business rule of law, and strive to improve the efficiency of business administration.