Comrades:
Shortly after the closing of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, the whole nation was still immersed in the joy of celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of new China. The 14th annual meeting of Chinese small and medium-sized entrepreneurs officially opened today. Here, I would like to express my sincere congratulations on the opening of the annual meeting!
Since the founding of the people's Republic of China 70 years ago, small and medium-sized enterprises in China have developed vigorously, from small to large, from weak to strong. They have played a unique and important role in increasing employment, stabilizing growth, and promoting innovation. Their role as a new force in the national economy has become increasingly prominent. At present, China's small and medium-sized enterprises are getting rid of the traditional resource processing path, transforming into a new way, relying on the integration of resources and model changes, forming a new combination of factors such as technology, network and human innovation, which not only speeds up the restoration of traditional kinetic energy, but also generates new kinetic energy through the development of new economy. Now, I would like to make a few comments for your reference.
First, new technology, new industry and new consumption promote the new economy. In recent years, the new technology, new industry and new mode of industrial development emerge in endlessly. Emerging industries such as intelligent manufacturing, e-commerce, express delivery, financial leasing, energy conservation and environmental protection, and health services, as well as emerging industries such as geographic information, cross-border e-commerce, and Internet finance, rose and grew rapidly. With the steady progress of the strategic planning of manufacturing in China, a large number of traditional garment, home appliances, chemical and other enterprises have extended the value chain through intelligent transformation, forming a new growth space. The application of new technology and new consumption in the service industry is more prominent. According to the data of the National Bureau of statistics, in the first half of 2019, the total retail sales of social consumer goods reached 19521 billion yuan, an increase of 8.4% year on year. Among them, the national online retail sales reached 4816.1 billion yuan, up 17.8% year on year. This means that consumption upgrading is still continuing and new consumption channels have risen. In this era, the powerful potential behind Chinese consumer brands has emerged.
Second, deep participation in globalization brings new opportunities for SMEs. Manufacturing industry can further enhance its international competitiveness through "upward" and "outward". In recent years, the pace of China's manufacturing industry going global has accelerated significantly. Many enterprises not only invest in building factories overseas, but also start to establish R & D institutions in other countries, or carry out joint restructuring with advantageous enterprises in other countries. This is conducive to making better use of the global advantage resources, improving the position in the global value chain, and realizing "going up". With the further development of the "one belt and one way" construction, China's combination of advanced technology and international demand in some fields is conducive to accelerating the construction of its own global value chain network, and has huge room for "outward going" to develop investment and trade and international capacity cooperation.
Third, technological support empowers SMEs to integrate into the new economy. Science and technology are the foundation of national prosperity, and innovation is the soul of national progress. We will improve the innovation mechanism for the integration of industry, learning and research, with enterprises as the main body, and support enterprises in leading the implementation of major science and technology projects. We will speed up the construction of an open and shared platform for scientific and technological innovation resources, and strengthen technical innovation services for small and medium-sized enterprises. In the process of China's economic transformation and upgrading, especially in the support of scientific and technological innovation, whether small and medium-sized enterprises can make a breakthrough in the core competitiveness of their products, provide personalized and high-quality services that meet the needs of the society, and more use should be made of the integration of industrialization and industrialization, intelligent manufacturing, big data, and new technologies. The key lies in the innovation of formats and models. Only in this way can the traditional kinetic energy be restored, the new kinetic energy be cultivated and strengthened, and the large-scale effect of large enterprises and the new economic dual driving force of small and medium-sized enterprises be realized in China's economy in the future.
Fourth, industry associations and social organizations have played an important role in the integration of SMEs into the new economy. The cultivation of the new economy can not be separated from the extensive small and medium-sized enterprises, the integration and innovation of the real economy and the digital economy. We should continue to give full play to the social organization strength including the China Association of small and medium-sized commercial enterprises, continue to deepen reform and innovation management, and continue to create favorable conditions for leading the new economy, stimulating new vitality and creating favorable conditions.
Comrades:
At the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, it was proposed to speed up the improvement of the socialist market economy system, improve the system and mechanism of scientific and technological innovation, and build a new open economic system at a higher level. This provides a greater opportunity and a better space for the new round of development of small and medium-sized enterprises. I hope that everyone can innovate, stimulate enthusiasm, integrate into the times, gather strength, and strive for a better tomorrow!
I wish the annual meeting a complete success, thank you!