Jinan, August 21 (Xinhua) — The on-site meeting themed "Fully Implementing the Spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, Promoting Private Investment, and Advancing High-Quality Development of the Private Economy" was held on August 20 in Jinan, Shandong Province. The meeting aimed to fully implement the decisions and arrangements of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and to promote private investment and high-quality development of the private economy through more pragmatic measures.

The on-site meeting themed "Fully Implementing the Spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, Promoting Private Investment, and Advancing High-Quality Development of the Private Economy" was held in Jinan on the 20th.

Zheng Bei, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that private enterprises are expected to take the initiative in developing new quality productive forces, accelerate the high-end, intelligent, and green transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing sector, actively participate in the construction of major national projects and major technological research tasks, and take part in the construction of key national industrial chain and supply chain projects; accelerate management innovation, improve governance structures and management systems, enhance the efficiency of resource and factor utilization and the level of operation and management, fulfill social responsibilities, strengthen international cooperation with a stronger awareness of opening up, enhance international competitiveness, and strive to become world-class enterprises. "Next, the National Development and Reform Commission will work with all regions and relevant departments to make greater efforts to resolve various problems in the development of the private economy and more effectively stimulate the vitality and creativity of the private economy."

In his address, Zhou Naixiang, Deputy Secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Governor, said that as a major province of the private economy, Shandong will focus on boosting enterprises' confidence in development, deepen factor market reform, protect the property rights of private enterprises and the rights and interests of private entrepreneurs in accordance with the law, and stimulate the vitality of private economic development; focus on expanding private investment, improve the "three lists and one platform," strengthen the reserve of key private investment projects, explore a linkage mechanism of "able to invest, daring to invest, and investing well," and expand the development space of the private economy; focus on promoting enterprise transformation and upgrading, strengthen the principal role of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, advance the "ten thousand technological transformation projects and ten thousand enterprise transformations," and enhance the efficiency of private economic development; focus on optimizing the business environment, deepen the advancement of "efficiently handling one matter at a time," improve and perfect the normalized mechanism for government-enterprise communication, ensure that policies reach enterprises promptly, help resolve difficulties for private enterprises, and cultivate fertile ground for the development of the private economy.

"In recent years, Jinan has adhered to deepening reform as the driving force, factor guarantees as the support, and environmental optimization as the foundation, continuously injecting surging momentum into the development of the private economy." Yu Haitian, Deputy Secretary of the Jinan Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, said that the city has earnestly implemented the requirements of the negative list for market access, carried out in depth the "three comprehensive cleanups," and eliminated hidden barriers to market access for private capital. Focusing on key tasks such as deepening the conversion of old and new growth drivers and building the pioneer zone for green, low-carbon, and high-quality development, Jinan released the 2024 list of investment opportunities for private enterprises, with 150 projects selected in the first batch, striving to boost confidence in private investment.