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Written by: Yang Yingwei, Cheng Xue, Huang Yunna
2021-03-30 14:50
Last update date: 2021-03-30 16:45
The National Two Sessions, which ended in mid-March, passed two important bills for Hong Kong.
The first is to decide to amend the Hong Kong election system to promote good governance and good governance in Hong Kong. The second is to formally pass the "14th Five-Year Plan and 2035 Vision Goals Outline", which has far-reaching impact on Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council is responsible for the think tank "National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association", the "Hong Kong Restart Alliance" led by the two former chief executives of Tung Chee-hwa and Liang Zhenying and the vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the One Country, Two Systems Research Center, today (March 30) afternoon Hosted the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" seminar and invited many heavyweight guests to attend, including Minister of Science and Technology Wang Zhigang, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission Hu Zucai, and former Deputy Director of the Central Finance and Economics Leading Group Office Yang Weimin , Xu Ze, President of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association, Li Xiaojia, former CEO of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and so on.
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Xu Ze, president of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association and former deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council, believes that Hong Kong has geographical advantages and will definitely have a lot to do in the country's "14th Five-Year Plan" process.
Xu Ze pointed out that the "14th Five-Year Plan" shows the policy orientation of China's future reform and opening up and economic development.
The world today has not undergone major changes in a century. There are three changes that need attention: the global economic center moves eastward, the rapid development of high-tech technology, and the new crown epidemic has brought humankind to humans that were not caused by the hot war and the cold war. We need to explore humanity from a deeper level. The subject of a community with a shared future.
At this time, China demonstrated economic culture and institutional resilience: the epidemic was effectively controlled, the economy was heading upwards, and it achieved three major increases in the total amount of foreign investment, growth rate, and global share in global trade.
As for Hong Kong, Xu Ze quoted President Xi Jinping as saying that the development of Hong Kong must believe in itself, in the country, and in Hong Kong. It must not only establish cultural self-confidence and institutional self-confidence, but also maintain Hong Kong's stability and prevent external interference.
He emphasized that "One Country, Two Systems" has not changed, the Basic Law has not changed, and the central government's determination to support Hong Kong's development and ultimately achieve dual universal suffrage has not changed.
What Hong Kong needs to change is that all Hong Kong stakeholders must deeply understand the complete connotation of "One Country, Two Systems", take responsibility for the development of Hong Kong, and enable Hong Kong to share the national development dividend while assuming the responsibility of safeguarding national security.
Xu Ze believes that the most important boost for Hong Kong's development is to participate in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The main achievements in recent years are: (1) The planning system and policy system have gradually formed. In 2019 alone, more than 260 policies related to the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area were issued; (2) Infrastructure interconnection has been accelerated. Including the start and completion of a series of bridges, ports, and tunnels.
Two inspections in one place, 24-hour customs clearance, and soft measures such as Hong Kong and Northbound; (3) Breakthroughs have been made in the connection of rules and mechanisms.
The construction of hospitals allows Hong Kong people to enjoy public medical care in Shenzhen-the completion of the Hong Kong Medicine Link is nearing completion, and the first batch of international drugs will be used in Shenzhen; in the field of education, the two places have achieved remarkable results in running schools; in the financial field, the scope of the stock exchange is expanding. ; In the field of law, Hong Kong-funded Hong Kong-Hong Kong-law-Hong Kong arbitration has made progress in Shenzhen certification.
Xu Ze suggested that there are three directions for Hong Kong's integration into the development of the Greater Bay Area in the future.
First, strengthen top-level design and decision-making execution.
Since the existing institutions at all levels cannot implement overall coordination, it is necessary to effectively realize the docking of mechanisms, to have a top-level design, and to clarify the implementation of decision-making.
The second is to take the construction of key regions to form a radiant drive, conduct pilots on a comprehensive platform, attach great importance to the development and construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao cooperation platform, and lead and drive the comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
Third, to make breakthroughs in key areas and support the Greater Bay Area to become an international innovation center. This is one of the main tasks for the construction of the Greater Bay Area.
He reiterated that Hong Kong is not only the need of an international innovation hub, but also the significance of driving the construction of science and innovation industries in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Macao. Therefore, it is necessary to explore a set of replicable and popularized experience to provide a path for the industrialization of scientific research.
Xu Ze, chairman of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association and former deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.
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Yang Weimin, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Economic Committee, and former deputy director of the Office of the Central Finance and Economics Leading Group, deconstructed the "14th Five-Year Plan" from three levels: new development stage, new development concept, and new development pattern.
In the new stage of development, the "14th Five-Year Plan" is the first five-year plan for building a modern country in an all-round way and marching towards the second centenary goal. It is different from the previous five-year plans, so it is of great historical significance.
The key word for China's development and construction is "well-off". The first two decades are "well-off life" and the next thirty years are "well-off society", achieving basic practice and modernization.
For example, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the country will increase its efforts on common prosperity to solve the problem of uneven development and the large gap in income distribution among residents.
The new development concept refers to that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping has continuously put forward some new development concepts and gradually formed a systematic "Xi Jinping Economic Thought."
As for the new development pattern, it includes 6 keywords and 8 key tasks: the former is pattern, circulation, openness, integration, construction, and system; the latter is to cultivate a complete domestic demand system, expand household consumption, increase household income, and strengthen technology Self-reliance and self-reliance, strengthen technological self-reliance and self-reliance, deepen supply-side structural reforms, improve the ability of cities and urban agglomerations to gather elements, and persist in expanding high-level opening up.
Yang Weimin, member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy director of the Economic Committee, and former deputy director of the Office of the Central Financial Leading Group
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Wang Zhigang, Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, talked about the future of innovation and technology in Hong Kong.
In view of the high technology and high quality of scientific research personnel in Hong Kong, the state will encourage Hong Kong's willing scientific institutions to join the national scientific research system and encourage young Hong Kong scientific and technological personnel to come to the Mainland for exchanges and cooperation.
The Ministry of Science and Technology will vigorously support Hong Kong in building a national scientific research platform, a laboratory in the Greater Bay Area, and a national technological innovation center to attract international scientific and technological talents and technologies to Hong Kong.
Wang Zhigang pointed out that science and technology have a profound impact on the country’s future and destiny and people’s lives and well-being, and Hong Kong’s innovation and development have become an important part of the country’s construction of an innovative power. The future focuses on the following eight aspects:
(1) Strengthen the national strategic scientific and technological strength, of which Hong Kong's scientific and technological strength is an important part of the national strategic scientific and technological strength, and support Hong Kong to establish a national strategic platform; (2) Concentrate on breakthroughs in key technologies and make every effort to improve the supply capacity of key core technologies (3) Persevere in strengthening basic research and enhancing the ability to innovate sources; (4) Enhance corporate innovation capabilities and form a technological innovation system that takes the enterprise as the main market as the guidance of the deep integration of production, education, research and application. At present, China’s corporate R&D expenditure accounts for the entire society. 76% of R&D expenditures; (5) Fully stimulate talent innovation vitality.
Hong Kong’s scientific research personnel are highly skilled and highly qualified. We encourage Hong Kong’s willing scientific institutions to join the national scientific research system, and encourage Hong Kong’s young scientific and technical personnel to come to the Mainland for exchanges and cooperation; (6) Accelerate the construction of regional highlands, including the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao innovation centers. , Can build scientific infrastructure clusters in the Greater Bay Area, and turn the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area into a highland connecting domestic and foreign countries; (7) Establish and improve intellectual property protection; (8) Actively integrate into the global innovation network.
In this regard, support Hong Kong's competent scientists and institutions to cooperate with mainland institutions to undertake major national scientific research projects.
Wang Zhigang, Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
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Hu Zucai, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, believes that the country has entered a century without major changes, and the domestic and international environment faced by the country has undergone complex and profound changes. It is necessary to achieve more equitable and more sustainable development.
The reason why the country builds a pattern where the domestic and foreign double cycles promote each other is based on the global economic environment and domestic development changes. The country has entered a stage of high-quality development and must improve its development. quality.
Among them, the growth rate of R&D investment is included in economic indicators and maintained at more than 7% per year; and innovation-driven development will be adhered to, and ultra-new driving will be the main task to accelerate digital development and digital transformation, including the establishment of national laboratories, etc. , The goal is to account for more than 17% of the GDP of strategic emerging industries.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" has set up a special chapter for the development of Hong Kong and Macau, and the central government's requirements for firmly supporting the development of Hong Kong and Macau will not change.
The general requirement is to adhere to one country, two systems, Hong Kong people administer Hong Kong and Macao people administer Macao, implement the central government's power to control the Special Administrative Region, and ensure the overall social stability of the Special Administrative Region, and prevent and contain external forces from interfering in Hong Kong affairs.
The state focuses on supporting Hong Kong in enhancing its status as an international financial, shipping, trade center, and international aviation hub, and strengthening its functions as a global offshore RMB business hub, an international asset management center, and a risk management center.
Support Hong Kong's construction of an international innovation and technology center, an Asia-Pacific international legal and dispute resolution service center, and a regional intellectual property trading center, support the development of Hong Kong's service industry in a high-end and high-value-added direction, and support Hong Kong's development of a Sino-foreign cultural and artistic exchange center.
Support Hong Kong's integration into the overall situation of national development, build the hub role of the Belt and Road Initiative, deepen the interconnection between the mainland and Hong Kong's financial markets, and improve the convenience measures for Hong Kong residents to live in the mainland.
In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the basic French education of the constitution and strengthen the patriotic awareness of Hong Kong compatriots.
Hu Zucai, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission.
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Leung Chun-ying, who presided over the meeting, said that the seminar was to interpret the national development plan and help Hong Kong society actively integrate into the overall national development in the next five years and seize new development opportunities.
He also mentioned that Hong Kong and foreign societies do not understand the current state of development and planning in the Mainland, and hope that all walks of life can overcome unknown obstacles, solve unknown problems, and tell the story of the "14th Five-Year Plan" well.
Chair:
Liang Zhenying, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former Chief Executive
Guests:
Wang Zhigang: Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology
Hu Zucai: Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission
Yang Weimin:
Deputy Director of the
Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Economic Committee, former Deputy Director of the Central Finance and Economics Leading Group Office
Xu Ze: Chairman of the National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association, former Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council
Liu Yuanchun: Vice President of Renmin University of China
Li Xiaojia: Former Chief Executive Officer of the
Hong Kong
Stock Exchange
Ni Mingxuan: Chief Vice President of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Chair Professor of Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Ye Zeen: Former Vice President of Hong Kong Trade Development Council
Wang Jixian: Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Research Director, District Hong Kong Center
The "14th Five-Year Plan" Plan Chinese Economy Hong Kong Economy One Country, Two Systems Greater Bay Area Liang Zhenying National Hong Kong and Macau Research Association Hong Kong Re-start Alliance
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