The 18th issue of “Qiushi” Journal will publish an important article titled “Advancing the Construction of a National Unified Market to Greater Depth”.
The article emphasizes that building a national unified market is a major decision made by the Central Committee. It is not only necessary for constructing a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development, but also for gaining the initiative in international competition. As the world’s second-largest consumer market, China must build a national unified market well to strengthen its confidence in calmly responding to risks and challenges.
The article points out that the basic requirements for advancing the construction of a national unified market to greater depth are “five unifications and one opening”. “Five unifications” refer to unifying basic market systems, especially achieving uniformity in systems such as property rights protection, fair competition, and quality standards; unifying market infrastructure, breaking through logistics, capital flow, and information flow, and improving the modern commercial circulation system; unifying the scale of government actions, with clear rules on what can and cannot be done when local governments promote economic development, especially in investment attraction, to prevent each acting in their own way; unifying market supervision and law enforcement, clarifying the benchmark for administrative penalty discretion in market supervision, and applying one standard consistently; unifying the factor resource market, promoting free flow and efficient allocation, and reducing resource misallocation and idle waste. “One opening” means continuously expanding opening up, implementing internal and external opening and connectivity, and avoiding closed operations.
The article states that it is necessary to focus on key and difficult points and resolve to eliminate deep-seated problems. First, efforts should be made to rectify the chaos of enterprises engaging in low-price disorderly competition. Areas severely affected by “involution” should be effectively governed according to laws and regulations. The self-regulatory role of industry associations should be better utilized to guide enterprises in improving product quality. Promote the orderly exit of backward production capacity. Second, efforts should be made to rectify the chaos in government procurement and bidding. Focus on addressing prominent issues such as winning bids at the lowest price, passing off inferior products as good ones, and利益勾连. Standardize government procurement and bidding, and strengthen the fairness review of bidding results. Third, efforts should be made to rectify the chaos in local investment attraction. Develop a nationally unified list of behaviors for local investment attraction, clarifying specific encouraged and prohibited actions. Strengthen the disclosure of investment attraction information. Fourth, efforts should be made to promote the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade. Smooth the path for export products to be sold domestically, improve the consistency of domestic and international standards, and cultivate a group of high-quality enterprises for both domestic and foreign trade. Fifth, efforts should be made to补齐法规制度短板. Continuously carry out special actions to standardize law enforcement involving enterprises. Improve the fiscal and taxation system, statistical accounting system, and credit system that are conducive to market unity. Sixth, efforts should be made to correct deviations in the view of political achievements. Improve the high-quality development assessment system and the evaluation system for cadres’ political achievements.
The article emphasizes that building a national unified market is both a tough battle and a protracted war. All regions and departments must implement it from a political and overall perspective. Central and local governments, local governments之间, governments and enterprises, and enterprises之间 must strengthen coordination and cooperation to form a joint force for advancement.
