Shanxi Taiyuan Fair: Central City Mayor Dialogue With Multinational Companies

On urban sustainable development and industrial restructuring

Sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce and the provincial government, Ministry of Commerce

1., central China should seize opportunities.

Roland Begg, senior partner Ge Ji Yu: the central region is now facing tremendous opportunities for development and can undertake industrial pfer from the eastern region.

The central region has the advantage of developing costs, and the related costs are only 30% to 40% of the cost of Shanghai and Beijing.

But objectively speaking, at present, the central region only attracts a very small proportion of foreign capital, and has great potential in the future.

At the same time, the central region will experience a huge consumption upgrading process because of its dense population and potential for purchase, which is a very good opportunity for multinational companies.

Luo Ruifu, executive director of the British business center: I think the attraction of the core of the central region is to absorb investments from multinational companies.

The central region now has invested heavily in railways and highways, which is strengthening the advantages of this cooperation.

For multinational companies, we tend to walk into such a place because it has some advantages and attractions we see.

Bai Changbo, vice president of Coca-Cola Greater China: now Coca-Cola is developing a plant bottle, which is a breakthrough in the field of materials.

We use polyester materials and plants instead of traditional plastic bottles. We also hope that more enterprises will take advantage of this crop waste instead of beverage packaging raw materials, because the cost is still very high in the early stage of R & D, so if the 6 provinces in the central part have some guidance on this policy, and if there are some concessions, we are willing to make some attempts in the 6 provinces of central China.

3. development is facing challenges.

Roland Begg's senior partner Ge Ji Yu: the development of the central region also faces some challenges, first of all, the lack of talent, especially in comparison with some coastal cities. We must continue to work hard at this point. No matter whether the multinational companies or the government should work together to bring people into the central region.

In addition, the opening of the central region is not as good as the East. In many ways, it is still very traditional and needs to be internationalized.

Chong Quan, deputy representative of the Ministry of Commerce International Trade Negotiations: at present, the pressure of environment and resources has brought a great impact to the economic development of central cities. The traditional development mode has not adapted to the resources of some cities. Therefore, changing the mode of economic development has become the most serious challenge facing the development of the central region.

The development of the central cities should make full use of the advantages of late development and learn from the experience of coastal cities. We should further optimize the structure and build a resource-saving and environment-friendly city according to our own advantages and characteristics of industrial development. We must seek for the sustainable development of the city fundamentally. At the same time, we should strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, make positive and effective use of foreign capital, optimize the structure of utilizing foreign capital, enrich the way of utilizing foreign capital, and achieve leaping development.

The 4. industry pformation is at that time.

An Huanxiao, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the provincial people's Congress: the new round of industrial adjustment and pfer in the world today is irresistible, and all the provinces and cities in the central region regard the acceleration of industrial pformation as the primary task according to the actual situation.

Shanxi will seize the national strategy of revitalizing the industrial base and the opportunity of Taiyuan city group to rise to the national strategic level, accelerate the pace of industrial pformation and development, realize the pformation from a single dominant industry to an intensive low-carbon and efficient industry, take the circular economy as the basic path, pform and upgrade traditional industries, promote the production capacity to become large, and intensify production, so as to realize the pformation from traditional industries to new industries.

Li Junming, executive vice mayor of Taiyuan, Taiyuan: the proportion of heavy industry in Taiyuan is very large, especially in traditional industries. Coal, coke, metallurgy and electricity are the four traditional industries, accounting for 80% of the total economy. Therefore, the pformation is especially important for Taiyuan.

In accordance with the strategic plan of the provincial Party committee and the provincial government, Taiyuan put forward the goal of building a first-class provincial capital city, in particular, put forward the goal of building a first-class new industrial base, a first-rate independent innovation base and a first-class modern livable city; in the emerging industry, it proposed that the development of coal should be based on multi elements, and that the traditional manufacturing industry should be developed in the direction of high-end, clustered and intelligent, especially in the manufacture of coal machinery.

In addition, we also propose that the production of new materials of stainless steel and magnesium alloys as an important goal, give play to our advantages in the field of high and new technology, take the lead in the Internet communications, and promote the pformation of the economy through the pformation of the industry.

5., the government should change its functions.

Liu Tong, vice president of New Zealand's Fonterra China, whether the upgrading of the industry or the rise of the central part of the country is mainly determined by the pformation of government functions.

When attracting investment, local governments may make sacrifices to the greatest extent. This is not only in the eastern region, but also in the central region. It is hoped that the government can pform its functions, formulate and implement plans in a realistic way, adjust some relevant assessment methods, provide a good investment environment with soft environment and soft power, instead of sacrificing the price of policy to invest in others.

Zhengzhou vice mayor Xue Yunwei: the government should achieve three words in terms of efficiency, the first is integrity, the government must count, and that is what we must do; the second is efficiency, that is, improving the efficiency of the government, of course, we need to pform our functions to improve our efficiency; third, we need to improve our talents, talents and nurture talents, as well as the legal system. It is very important to find better talents. We must have better people to do better things, so that investment projects can better land.

Li Junming, executive vice mayor of Taiyuan: to create a first-class legal environment, a humane environment, a policy environment and a livable environment, we must not sacrifice policies, invest simply and attract investment, but rather create a soft environment.

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6., the central region should give full play to its advantages.

Taiyuan executive vice mayor Li Junming: the State Council approved Shanxi to be a comprehensive reform experimentation area for the resource-based economy pformation. The biggest feature is the whole province. The biggest policy is to go ahead and try first. All the other policies in the comprehensive reform area can be tried in Shanxi. The State Council has upgraded the urban agglomeration with Taiyuan as the core to the national level, so it is a historic opportunity for the urbanization construction. Taiyuan's urbanization rate has reached 82.6%, and the next step is to improve the quality of urbanization.

Therefore, the national policy is our opportunity, and it is also an advantage of our cooperation.

Zhengzhou vice mayor Xue Yunwei: Zhengzhou is building roads, railways, high-speed railways and aviation hubs in the central region, so we need to build a logistics center, the center of various resource exchanges. Now, the volume of commodities such as agricultural products and building materials, Zhengzhou is the top three and top five in the whole country. Zhengzhou needs to build a resource development center in the future to raise the level of development, to enhance the logistics industry, to bring more employment opportunities for the city, and at the same time to enhance the service function of the city. At that time, many multinational enterprises will have many opportunities for layout in Zhengzhou.

7. cooperation and win win in Central China

Wuhan vice mayor Ma Xuming: the six central provinces have their own advantages and are faced with rare opportunities for pformation and leapfrogging. We must cooperate well.

If we cooperate well, we can develop together and achieve win-win cooperation, because we are faced with common opportunities, including common problems.

I feel that the central region needs to cooperate in five ways: to cooperate in independent innovation, to enhance the capability of independent innovation in the six central provinces; to cooperate in infrastructure construction, to enhance the status of pportation hub in the six provinces of the central region; to cooperate in opening up, to enhance the level of opening to the outside world; to cooperate in industry, to enhance our industrial competitiveness; to cooperate in urbanization, so as to speed up the process of regional urbanization in the central region.

8. effective pformation to promote development

Meng Dong, President of Decathlon Greater China: due to factors such as location and resources, the central region and other regions are different.

On the one hand, the local government needs to serve the enterprises well, but on the other hand, the governments of various provinces and cities in the central part of China also have the right to request the multinational enterprises to fully manifest their advantages in other countries and the developed areas in the East.

Because every multinational company has some plans to combine the planning vision of MNCs with the development plan of the city so as to achieve coexistence and win win.

That is to say, cooperation should achieve a win-win situation. Transnational corporations should never seek resources from the government alone.

9. make good use of success factors

Nanchang mayor Chen Junqing: as a matter of fact, the central region is now the most developed region, and there are many successful factors in developing strategic emerging industries.

The most developed areas in eastern China have developed to a certain extent, and strategic pfer must be carried out.

The central region is undoubtedly a must.

The central region has its own advantages in pportation. For example, Nanchang is the only city in the country that is adjacent to the Pearl River Delta. Its pportation is well-developed.

These favorable conditions determine that the central region will soon rise.

Hefei vice mayor Jiang Hong: Hefei's greatest strength is the advantage of science and education.

There are 59 major secondary schools in the city and 480 thousand of the employees in the technology industry, that is to say, there is one person in every four people.

In addition, Hefei is the only pilot city for technological innovation in the country.

In our industrial economy, the high-tech industry accounts for more than 53%, and the industrial industry accounts for about 30% of the strategic industry.

10. learn from successful experiences.

Yu Junxiong, President of 3M China: the future development of the six provinces in the central part of the country is absolutely red, but there is no such thing as a free lunch.

The development of the six provinces in the central part of the province is not only internal competition among the six provinces, but also the competition from other countries.

In the absence of talent and resources, it is very gratifying to achieve today's results.

In our enterprises, our secret weapon is no secret at all. It is very simple, that is, innovation.

The main point is not to do what is meant to be done, but to do it or to do it better.

Innovation is not confined to enterprises. In fact, the government itself can also make many innovative initiatives. It is not necessarily necessary to pass new industries.

Innovation is not only product technology, but the key is that every province has its own expertise.

For example, the photovoltaic industry in Hefei is now hard to compete with others.

Therefore, doing something that others do not have is actually innovation.

Akama, China's chairman, Ling Jie: ah karma is actually a typical example of innovation.

The Internet has changed our way of thinking, the Internet is everywhere, from traditional industries to new industries, to media entertainment manufacturing are using it.

What we do is not a point, but a surface. We are looking at more than 70 countries in the world.

Because of this, the industry also needs the cooperation of various industries. The collaboration between the six provinces in the central part is very important, because after the completion of the final work, we benefit from our common people.

11., policies should be strongly supported.

Meng Dong, President of Decathlon Greater China: judicial justice is productivity. If the judiciary is fair, the multinationals who come to invest can receive fair treatment, so the development of local economy is inevitable.

If there is no judicial justice, it is inevitable for the locality to develop.

Nanchang mayor Chen Junqing: for businesses, profit is the ultimate goal. It only goes where money can be made.

This requires the government to build good faith and legal system to serve the enterprises well.