On June 5, Chongqing — From “suggestions on paper” to “tangible development results,” the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the China Democratic League (CDL) has turned multiple research proposals into actionable policies in 2025.
From expanding state-owned venture capital funds to boost technological innovation, to the pilot implementation of national data element reforms in Chongqing, and the continuous upgrading of community services for the elderly and children, many of the committee’s research recommendations have been transformed into visible and accessible policies.
In 2025, 52 pieces of social and public opinion information from the Chongqing CDL were adopted by the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), setting a new record. Five district-level organizations and 10 members were recognized as national advanced units or individuals in political participation. Fourteen achievements received awards from the CDL Central Committee. A path of “in-depth research, precise suggestions, and effective transformation” has turned proposals on paper into living practices that drive development and benefit people’s livelihoods.
Deepening Industrial Research: Injecting CDL Wisdom into New Productive Forces
“Government venture capital funds should serve as a lever to drive technological innovation, but our research found many funds are small, have unclear positioning, and are reluctant to invest in early-stage projects,” said Wen Yan, deputy chair of the CDL Banan District Committee and deputy director of the Banan District Financial Development Center, who was fully involved in a special study on venture capital funds.
To understand the real situation, she and colleagues spent two months visiting 12 state-owned venture capital firms and 32 technology enterprises, held 12 symposiums, identified 46 industry pain points, and ultimately produced a report titled “Strengthening Government and State-Owned Venture Capital Funds.” It proposed specific suggestions, including clarifying the functional positioning of two types of funds and optimizing assessment and accountability exemption mechanisms.
Now, Chongqing has introduced special policies extending the evaluation cycle of state-owned venture capital funds, reducing the weight of short-term financial indicators, and adding over 5 billion yuan in new funds focused on fields like artificial intelligence and biomedicine, solving financing difficulties for more than ten early-stage technology enterprises. “Seeing our research results actually help enterprises makes all the hard work worthwhile,” Wen Yan said.
As a major automotive hub, Chongqing’s data element market for intelligent connected vehicles became another research focus for the CDL committee. “Competition in intelligent connected vehicles is essentially competition over data elements,” said Hu Wei, a CDL member and director of the Strategic Development Department at Western Vehicle Network (Chongqing) Co., Ltd. During research, they found that issues like unclear data ownership and poor cross-departmental sharing severely constrained industrial upgrading.
In response, the committee proposed suggestions such as “seeking national comprehensive data element pilot projects and promoting government-enterprise data integration.” Today, Chongqing has been approved as one of the first batch of national pilot projects for trusted data space innovation and development by the National Data Administration, and has launched the country’s first automotive industry trusted data space. Chongqing has also been included in the national pilot for comprehensive factor market allocation reforms, injecting new momentum into the development of the intelligent connected vehicle industry.
This is just one example of the CDL committee’s focus on “industrial upgrading and technological innovation.” In 2025, the committee closely aligned with the city’s key tasks, including the “33618” modern manufacturing cluster initiative and the cultivation of new productive forces, conducting over ten special research projects on industrial fields and producing more than 20 high-quality policy suggestions, many of which were incorporated into local policy documents.
Focusing on Open Hubs: Unblocking the “Arteries” of the Inland Economy
Building an inland open highland is a major mission for Chongqing. In 2025, the CDL committee focused on the problems of “scattered, congested, weak, and shallow” commodity resource allocation hubs, conducting in-depth research at ports, docks, and logistics parks to propose targeted solutions.
“Many districts blindly built general-purpose warehouses, leading to severe homogeneous competition, with some facilities operating at less than 60% capacity, while there was a shortage of specialized storage for auto parts,” recalled Wei Lu, a CDL member and senior engineer at the Western Land-Sea New Corridor Logistics and Operations Organization Center. The research team visited key nodes like Jiangjin Port and Guoyuan Port, witnessing the mismatch between hardware facilities and actual demand.
In response, the committee submitted a proposal titled “Suggestions on Accelerating the Construction of Chongqing’s Commodity Resource Allocation Hub,” recommending core measures such as “establishing a centralized coordination office, differentiating the functions of various districts,
