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　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 19th　Question: What do you think of the economic situation in the first quarter? How to expand domestic demand and strengthen confidence? — — Press conference of National Development and Reform Commission responds to current economic hotspots.

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter Pan Jie

　　According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 18th, China’s GDP increased by 4.5% in the first quarter of this year. How to treat the economic situation in the first quarter? How to expand domestic demand and strengthen confidence? The National Development and Reform Commission held a press conference on the 19th to respond.

　　"China has achieved rapid economic recovery"

　　Meng Wei, spokesperson of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that China’s economic development achieved a good start in the first quarter. Against the background of the obvious slowdown in global economic growth and high inflation in major economies, China has achieved a rapid economic recovery, laying a solid foundation for completing the goals and tasks of economic and social development throughout the year.

　　She said that the characteristics of economic operation in the first quarter were mainly reflected in "expansion of demand, recovery of supply and expected improvement". Domestic demand has gradually expanded, consumption has recovered rapidly, and investment has grown steadily; The recovery of production supply was accelerated, the contact-gathering service industry, which was greatly affected by the epidemic in the early stage, recovered strongly, the producer service industry grew rapidly and the industrial economy grew steadily; Both ends of production and demand continue to expand, and the market is expected to be stable.

　　Meng Wei said that the next step will be to firmly grasp the primary task of high-quality development, comprehensively release the potential of domestic demand, promote the sustained recovery of consumption, release the potential of service consumption, effectively stimulate the vitality of private investment, and give play to the guiding role of government investment; Accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, lay a good battle for key core technologies, and strive to promote industrial upgrading and development; Further deepen reform and opening up, plan and implement a new round of reform of state-owned enterprises, promote the development and growth of private economy, stabilize the basic disk of foreign trade, and attract and utilize foreign capital more vigorously; We will continue to safeguard and improve people’s livelihood, actively stabilize and expand employment, further promote the prevention and control of environmental pollution, and constantly enhance the people’s sense of gain, happiness and security.

　　"On the basis of in-depth investigation and research, we will do a solid job in economic operation monitoring, situation analysis and countermeasure research, and timely introduce pragmatic and effective policy measures to consolidate the momentum of expansion and promote the sustained overall improvement of economic operation." She said.

　　Take measures to stabilize consumption and promote consumption.

　　The data shows that in the first quarter, the contribution rate of final consumption expenditure to economic growth reached 66.6%, which was significantly higher than last year. "The consumer market started well in the first quarter, laying a solid foundation for restoring and expanding consumption throughout the year." Meng Wei said that the driving force for the sustained recovery of consumption needs to be further boosted, and the next step will focus on "sustainability" in four aspects.

　　The first is to promote the sustained recovery of consumption. Study and draft policy documents on restoring and expanding consumption, focus on key areas such as stabilizing bulk consumption, improving service consumption and expanding rural consumption, and formulate targeted policy measures according to the needs of different income groups and different consumer goods to promote steady growth of consumption.

　　The second is to make great efforts to stabilize automobile consumption. Accelerate the construction of charging piles and urban parking facilities, vigorously promote new energy vehicles to the countryside, and encourage automobile enterprises to develop models that are more suitable for use in county and rural areas. At the same time, accelerate the implementation of the pilot project of comprehensive electrification of vehicles in the public sector.

　　The third is to promote the improvement of consumption power. We will optimize the promotion mechanism of employment, income distribution and the virtuous cycle of consumption, strengthen the employment priority policy, increase the income of urban and rural residents, and ensure the supply and price stability of basic consumer goods so that residents can consume and dare to consume.

　　The fourth is to further optimize consumption conditions. In view of the institutional mechanism that restricts consumption, we will study and formulate policy documents on creating a safe consumption environment, further improve the standard quality management system, strengthen the construction of consumer credit system, and improve the diversified consumer dispute resolution mechanism and online consumer dispute resolution mechanism, so that ordinary people can gain a strong sense and are willing to spend.

　　"Study on reasonably reducing the negative list of foreign investment access"

　　On the basis of last year’s high base, China’s utilization of foreign capital has continued to grow this year, and high-tech industries have performed brilliantly. "This fully shows that China is still one of the most attractive investment destinations in the world." Meng Wei said that it will study how to reduce the negative list of foreign investment reasonably, implement the new catalogue of industries to encourage foreign investment and several policies and measures on promoting the expansion of foreign investment with emphasis on manufacturing, and guide foreign investment to invest more in key areas such as advanced manufacturing, modern service industry, high-tech, energy conservation and environmental protection, and key areas such as the central and western regions and the northeast.

　　She said that she will continue to play the role of the special class mechanism for major foreign-funded projects and track and solve the problems and difficulties encountered in the project construction process in a timely manner; Improve the management system of development zones, improve supporting policies such as industry, science and technology, and environmental protection, and strengthen the investment attraction function of development zones; Hold a series of international industrial investment cooperation activities to provide a platform for multinational companies to invest in China and attract local investment.

　　According to reports, at present, the investment of the first six major foreign-funded projects has exceeded 63 billion US dollars. "We will accelerate the implementation of the first six batches of projects to attract foreign capital inflows. We will improve relevant policies and measures in the field of foreign investment, create a market-oriented, rule-of-law and international first-class business environment, and make greater efforts to attract enterprises from all countries to invest in China. " She said.

　　"Let more private capital participate in the construction of major national projects"

　　Last year, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a document to increase efforts to support the development of private investment. "Judging from the progress, ‘ Fourteenth Five-Year Plan ’ The task of planning 102 key areas of major projects has been subdivided into specific projects to attract private capital to participate; Strengthen the cooperation and docking of social capital investment and financing. More than 9,000 of the more than 50,000 projects promoted in various places since last year have attracted private capital participation, involving private investment of 2.9 trillion yuan. " Meng Wei said.

　　She said that the next step will be to strengthen overall planning and system deployment, establish a mechanism to encourage private capital to participate in major project construction, strengthen information release and guidance, and actively recommend attractive projects to private capital based on the national online approval and supervision platform for investment projects, so that more private capital can participate in the construction of major national projects.

　　For major national projects and short-board projects that attract private capital, we will accelerate the preliminary work procedures such as project review and preparation, planning and site selection, land use and sea use, environmental impact assessment, and construction permit, and implement various construction conditions.

　　"To implement relevant policies and measures, it is clear that the nature of ownership shall not be used as the selection criteria, and factors such as enterprise scale, registered address and local tax contribution shall not be used as the main bid evaluation conditions. When arranging all kinds of government investment funds, we will treat private capital equally and continue to support major projects in which private capital participates through policy development financial instruments. " Meng Wei said that financial institutions should be promoted to increase credit support for private investment projects according to the principle of marketization. Summarize the good experiences and practices of typical places, typical enterprises and typical projects in time, and replicate and promote them at the national level.