In the middle of last week, an enlarged meeting of the China International Import Expo’s Urban Service Guarantee Leading Group was held to make preparations and arrangements for the service guarantee for the seventh CIIE, which will be held in less than 100 days. The
conference is named after urban service guarantee, but the focus of the conference is obviously not limited to service guarantee in a narrow sense. Since the CIIE has been held every year, what Shanghai can contribute to the CIIE, and what it can leave behind and leverage because of the CIIE, are issues that continue to be considered and discussed. Especially in the face of the complex and ever-changing international situation and new situations, new trends and new challenges, we must also have corresponding positions and thoughts on the understanding of the significance of hosting conferences and exhibitions and related work planning.
Economic data for the first half of the year released earlier show that China’s economy is generally recovering and improving, but it also faces challenges in some areas. Under this circumstance, the CIIE, as China's important opening window and trade platform, has a more special significance and mission.
Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Secretary Chen Jining said at the meeting that the Seventh CIIE is a major economic and diplomatic event held after the successful convening of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party. It helps countries around the world understand my country’s policy orientation of further comprehensively deepening reforms and declares that my country The firm determination to promote high-level opening up is of bellwether significance; it is of special importance for leveraging my country’s huge market advantages, further enhancing foreign investment confidence, and stabilizing the fundamentals of foreign investment and foreign trade.
He said that the CIIE should be fully utilized to demonstrate the good momentum of my country's economic recovery and Shanghai's good urban image and business environment. To this end, all tasks of organizing exhibitions and conferences must be carried out meticulously and solidly, and work in safety guarantee, exhibition services, training exercises, media publicity and other aspects must be carried out in a practical and concrete manner.
The meeting emphasized the need to make good use of the valuable platform of the CIIE and "transform the port advantages and platform functions of the CIIE into development dividends" . At present, we need to shift our focus to exhibition content planning and buyer organization, strengthen communication and coordination with exhibitors, and strive to introduce more major equipment, industrial products, consumer goods, and technical solutions with advanced technology and market influence. etc., and hold more global premieres and first exhibitions in China.
At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the connection of supply and demand information, timely and accurately identify procurement needs, and promote the implementation of more procurement plans. Focusing on further comprehensively deepening reforms, we will carefully plan and carefully prepare important forums and conference activities, and build communication scenarios and dialogue platforms. Strengthen technological empowerment, make full use of advanced intelligent and green technologies, promote further improvement of service levels, and create more new benchmarks for energy conservation and carbon reduction.
From the perspective of overflow promotion, Shanghai should strive to accelerate the integrated development of exhibition and trade and provide full-stack services in terms of product display, deal matching, and business negotiation. Strengthen the coordination and coordination of investment promotion, understand the investment willingness of enterprises, discover more investment opportunities, and introduce a number of high-tech projects and high-level entities.
In addition, we should also take advantage of the opportunity to promote the joint development of business, tourism, cultural and sports exhibitions, plan and connect events, activities, exhibitions, performing arts, etc., strengthen the mutual drainage of ports, and work together to promote consumption upgrades.
For Shanghai’s economy, the CIIE provides a special platform and opportunity, which requires all parties involved to seize the opportunity and release dividends. In daily scenarios, how to win more "development dividends" is also a practical test left to all districts, departments and cadres at all levels.
The fifth plenary session of the 12th Municipal Party Committee held early last week reviewed and approved the "Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China on implementing the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, further comprehensively deepening reforms, and giving full play to leading role and demonstration in promoting Chinese-style modernization." While making the decision to play a leading role, we also made arrangements for key tasks in the second half of the year. Among them, the reform and innovation of the investment service system and the coordinated development of business, tourism, cultural and sports exhibitions are also the focus of breakthroughs and improvements.
The plenary session pointed out that efforts should be made to build a systematic, efficient and professional investment promotion and service system.Previously, the municipal party committee's quarterly work meeting had also specifically emphasized the issue of investment services, requiring each district to strengthen the system concept based on district conditions and reality, based on the city's game of chess, and highlight the system, professionalism, and efficiency. For example, the urban and municipal levels should have a comprehensive and accurate understanding of industries and enterprises, including having a clear directory of enterprises.
Obviously, this requires a change in thinking and working methods. As a key strategy to cope with consumption upgrades, the linkage of business, tourism, cultural and sports exhibitions also needs to reflect new ideas and find new methods.
As early as last year, city leaders made it clear that cultural and sports activities should be regarded as important "traffic entrances." At present, in order to fully activate consumer demand and cope with consumption upgrades, it is obviously necessary to further expand and strengthen this "entrance". This requires the coordination and cooperation of multiple fields and subjects such as regions, culture and tourism, sports, and business. It is obviously difficult for to fight alone to cope with the increasingly complex situation. If it is limited to traditional ideas, it will not be able to timely analyze and judge new groups of people and new situations. demand and new consumption patterns, it is inevitable that the results will not be effective.
In other words, all aspects must be transformed and upgraded, and even win "development dividends". It will become increasingly important to update work ideas to drive innovation in work methods.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 12th Municipal Party Committee has made clear arrangements for this - in the context of further comprehensively deepening reforms, to continue to stabilize growth and promote development, the first thing is to deeply understand the characteristics of the urban economy, "grasp the bottom layer of trend evolution" logic and internal mechanism, establish a more systematic and mature analysis method, and improve the pertinence, coordination and clarity of policy formulation” .
