Xingtai Daily: Not long before, the fifth plenary meeting of the seventeenth CPC central committee was held. Please tell us what stood out the most for you regarding this meeting. How can one implement what the meeting advocated?
Zhu: The meeting deliberated on and adopted the proposal of the “12th Five-year” Plan and determined that the “12th Five-year” Plan shall adopt the theme of scientific outlook on development. It is the clearest feature of the Proposal and also the requirement of the times and has a bearing on the overall situation of reform, opening up and modernization in the “12th Five-year” period and beyond.
At present, Xingtai is still in an important stage strategically with a lot of opportunities. The industrial and information system should follow the guiding ideology determined in the fifth plenary meeting of the seventeenth CPC central committee and regard the strategic adjustment of economic structure as a main direction of the transformation of development model. The “12th Five-year” period is a critical period in which the industrial transformation and upgrading should take a material step. To cope with the situation, the industrial and information system of Xingtai will proceed from six aspects: the first is to accelerate the progress and innovation of science and technology and strengthen technical reforms; the second is to vigorously promote energy conservation and emission reduction; the third is to energetically reinforce quality management; the fourth is to steadily push forward mergers and reorganizations; the fifth is to work together with related sectors on strictly restricting the blind development of industries with high pollution, high energy consumption and excessive capacity. The sixth is to further strengthen the service and support capacity to informatization of the economic society.
Xingtai Daily: Looking back “the 11th Five-year” period, what industrial achievements did Xingtai realize?
Zhu: Firstly, the size of industrial economy has enlarged rapidly. The added value of the industries above designated size increased from RMB20.71 billion in 2005 to RMB45 billion in 2010, an increase of 1.2 folds. The contribution to the economic growth of the city reached 58.7%. Industry became an important force that drove the economic growth of the city during this period.
Secondly, the industrial structure was further improved and the dominant industries and preferential enterprises were gradually formed. The added value of the four dominant industries including equipment manufacturing, new energies, coal and chemical industries and new building materials accounted for above 35% of the total. The process of upgrading traditional industries including textile, garments, food, medicine and so on quickened. 7 enterprises were recognized as provincial innovation-oriented pilot enterprises; 5 enterprises ascended to the ranks of top 500 enterprises in China and 8 enterprises officially became Chinese household brands. The leading role of \key enterprises became more prominent, and the number of the industrial enterprises with above RMB100 million of sales revenue increased from 118 in 2005 to 220 in 2009.
Thirdly, industrial input and technical innovation were accelerated and their development momentum was enhanced. During the “11th Five-year” period, more than RMB130 billion of industrial investment was completed. By 2009, the city had one recognized state-level high-tech industrial base and 13 recognized high-tech enterprises at or above provincial level.
Fourthly, the area was further opened up, producing substantial results in investment attraction. In the “11th Five-year” period, through active joint venture and cooperation with domestic and foreign enterprises, the city attracted some external investment projects and enterprises, and its industrial exports grew significantly.
This year, the industrial production of our city has maintained continuous and stable growth. The 968 industrial enterprises above designated size in the city realized 18.4% year-on-year growth of industrial added value from January to September. It is predicted that the added value within the year may reach RMB45 billion, a year-on-year growth of 18%.
The economic benefit was greatly satisfying. Tax revenues and profits increased by 28% year on year from January to September. It is predicted that year-on-year growth in the year will be 25%.
The output of main industrial products also grew steadily. From January to September, among the 136 industrial products included in the key statistics, the output increase of 108 industrial products accounted for 79.4% of the total.
The construction of key industrial projects was accelerated. From January to September, RMB24.56 billion of investment was completed, accounting for 84% of the plan.
Industrial energy conservation and emissions reduction achieved noticable effects. It is predicted that the goal of reducing energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of industrial added value by 7% per year may be realized.
As a whole, under the situation of increasing pressure on energy conservation, emissions reduction, production curtailment, the industrial economy of the city still maintained a momentum of fast growth, the quality of economic development has improved obviously and hopefully the goals for industrial development determined at the beginning of the year will be fulfilled.
Xingtai Daily: What measures will the city take to speed up industrial development?
Zhu: This year, the industrial economy of our city has maintained fast growth, but the operation of the industrial economy still has some uncertain factors. At the next step, the city will mainly adopt the following measures to ensure steady operation of industrial economy.
The first is to actively promote industrial and enterprise optimization and upgrading; the second is to energetically push on project construction and foster new economic growth points; the third is to strengthen the monitoring and adjustments to the operation of industrial economy; the fourth is to continue and deepen the “help enterprise and guarantee growth” program; and the fifth is to further raise the financing and guarantee capacity of the SME guarantee center.
Xingtai Daily: How can one maintain smooth and fast growth of the industrial economy of our city in the “12th Five-year” period?
Zhu: In the “12th Five-year” period, the core mission of industrial and information fields is to stick to a new industrialization road, regard structural adjustment and transformation of pathways to economic growth as the cardinal line, to deepen reform and enlargement of opening up as a driving force, and the increase of industrial added-value rate as the main goal, develop industries on the basis of innovation drive and environmental friendliness, benefit the people’s livelihood, pursue endogenous growth and lay a firmer foundation for the all-round building of a well-off society.
For our city, the key is to center on the “1000 and 100 projects” and adjust increment to realize industrial restructuring and promote industrial upgrading. For this purpose, more effort shall be made in the following areas. The first is to focus on the construction of the photovoltaic base and cultivate strategic emerging industries. The second place emphasis on the revitalization of the auto industry and exert efforts to expand equipment manufacturing industries. The third is to rely on backbone and leading enterprises, expand and strengthen the coal chemical industry and energetically develop salt chemical industry. The fourth is to regard the building of industrial clusters as the carrier of growth and exert effort to promote the clustered development of key industries. The fifth is to actively implement the “large enterprises and large groups” strategy and exert efforts to accelerate the restructuring of enterprises. The sixth is to heighten the development of new products and exert efforts to accelerate product restructuring.
