Just after the Spring Festival holiday, all over the country held the "First moment of the New Year" to deploy the whole year's work. It was found that many provinces clearly put forward the theme of reform and innovation or took it as a key task in the "first moment of the New Year".

Taking reform and innovation as the main theme of the New Year's work is not only an inevitable choice to cope with the complex external environment, but also an inherent requirement for achieving high-quality development. At present, the global economic recovery faces uncertainties and the domestic economy faces many difficulties and challenges. Reform and innovation will help strengthen the internal driving force, promote the upgrading of the industrial structure, cultivate new drivers and enhance competitiveness.

Reform and innovation need to develop their strengths. Local governments are focusing more on key areas and highlighting key areas. In the face of limited resources such as financial, material and human resources, especially in the context of increasing downward pressure on the economy and prominent contradictions between fiscal revenue and expenditure, local governments have abandoned the "pepper spraying" approach of comprehensive and average efforts, and increasingly pay attention to the "longboard" thinking, and strive to identify the focus of reform and innovation. For example, Guangdong takes advantage of the two major advantages of electromechanical technology and digital intelligence technology to concentrate its efforts in the two major fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, and build a new pillar of high-tech, high-growth and large-volume industry. Jiangsu proposed to make greater efforts to develop emerging industries and future industries, in-depth development of strong chain reinforcement chain extension chain, and create a number of world-class strategic emerging industrial clusters. Key areas and key links are often the "nose of a cow" that affects the whole body. Through key breakthroughs, the coordinated development of other areas will be driven, and the effect of "one child falling and full revitalization" will be formed.

Reform and innovation need to fight a "coordinated war". All localities not only plan their layouts based on local economic fields, social governance, ecological environmental protection, and improvement of people's livelihood, but also promote reform and innovation in a regional cooperative, open and win-win manner from the perspective of regional development, showing the momentum of systematic promotion and coordination of opening up. The Yangtze River Delta and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region have called for overall planning, collaborative innovation, industrial collaboration, joint contribution and shared benefits, and are committed to forming a new pattern of regional development featuring common goals, integrated measures, complementary advantages, and mutual benefit.

Focusing on precision and effectiveness, highlighting the goal orientation is the key to ensure the success of reform and innovation. There is a strong atmosphere of strengthening responsibility, continuous optimization and improvement, and focusing on the effectiveness of reform. Jiangsu proposed to use scientific and technological innovation to break through a number of key core technologies and basic frontier technologies; Chongqing said that it is necessary to comprehensively promote the governance of megacities enabled by artificial intelligence, and walk out of a new road of livable, resilient, and smart modern governance of megacities. He stressed that reform measures must be able to solve practical problems and produce practical results. Clear expected goals and results are conducive to the development of specific plans in the next step to ensure that reform and innovation can be effective.

The more reform is carried forward, the more difficult it will become. The more comprehensively deepened, the more arduous the task will be. We need to make great efforts to crack the "hard bones", resolve deep-seated institutional and institutional shortcomings, and break down the barriers of solidified interests. In the face of the deep-seated contradictions restricting development, local governments have the courage and ability to use reform and innovation as the "golden key" to cope with uphill pressure and solve development problems, and have entered the "deep water zone". Shanghai's action plan to optimize the business environment has been upgraded to version 8.0, resolutely serving business entities, and reflecting strong pain points and difficulties in the "dead" market; Shandong's 10 key reform tasks include deepening the transformation and reform of financing platforms and urban investment companies, the reform of local small and medium-sized financial institutions, and the reform of energy transformation. In the course of reform and innovation, local governments can constantly sum up experience, cultivate resilience, and find a way to break through obstacles, resolve contradictions and make up for weaknesses. This will surely usher in new opportunities for high-quality development.

Source: SASAC of The State Council