On this year’s government working report, on national target of economic increasing speed, we heard the saying of 8% once again. Premier Wen Jiabao gave a specific explanation to this. The current goals comprehensively consider various factors, most importantly is to put working focus on structural optimization, raising effectiveness, energy saving and consumption cut-down and pollution discharge reduction, preventing the increasing speed of undue pursuit and unrealistic competition, realizing a quicker and better development of economy.

Central government fixes the growth index in 8%, what’s the subtext? Surrounding 8%, when government formulates new macro regulation policy, what changes will occur? Ningbo economy and Ningbo enterprise development how to realize quicker and better?

Recently, this article invites some government officials, experts on economic problems and famous enterprises’ directors of this city to have a discussion on these problems.

Better and quicker is the necessity of economic development

Chang Mingyi (vice chairman of Ningbo CPPCC) : Premier Wen Jiabao has clearly put forward in this year’s government working report, considering various factors, on the basis of optimizating structure, improving benefit, reducing energy consumption and protecing environment, this year’s GDP growth rate keeps around 8%. This fully shows that central government has sent out a clear signal, development concept should change from quicker and better to better and quicker. Good goes first. Economic development will change from pursuing total growth in the past to pursue quality improvement and coordinated development. From then on, our economy and social development will be on the way of scientific development.

Better and quicker development is deepening understanding on essential requirements of scientific development, on new situation of economic and social development in China, on the law of economic development in new stage, which will be the basic guiding concept in leading Chinese economic development in future. This reflects one big change of Chinese economic development concept. That is, in the past putting more emphasis on the developing speed, now it pays more attention to the benefit of development and the quality of growth, putting more emphasis on economical development, environmental development, safety development, harmonious development and sustainable development.

We can understand the developing speed of 8% from the view of equity and efficiency. If there’s extreme disparity in income distribution gap, surpassing people’s psychological endurance, will cause social instability, losing the necessary condition of enhancing economic efficiency and developing economy. Another connotation of 8% refers to that at present we must solve social equity and efficiency overall planning problem.

Lin Keyu (director of Ningbo economic commission) : Sticking to better and quicker development concept is the necessity of industrial economic work of out city. At present, our city is in the industrialization transformation period, in the period of urbanizing acceleration, market perfection period and internationalization lifting period, but the deep-rooted contradictions like structural property and quality that restrict industrial and economic development havn’t been fundamentally solved. These contradictions and problems have seriously impaired the better and quicker development of industrial economy of our city. So we must follow the requirements of scientific development view and constructing socialist harmonious society, consientiously do good work in industrial structure, growth pattern, development thought, these three transformations. Sturdily develop resources intensive utilization work, actively optimize enterprise production and administration environment, vigorously promote key engineering project, making an effort to create new situation of industrial economic work.

Next stop, we must mainly grasp four strengthening and four speeding up. Firstly, strengthen innovative ability construction, speed up to promote core competitive advantage of region. Secondly, strengthen the promoting of key investment projects, speed up to realize industrial structure update and transformation. Thirdly, strengthen intensive utilization of resources, speed up to promote transprmation of economic growth model. Fourthly, strengthen enterprise service work, speed up to optimize enterprise developing environment.

Fang Jianxin (deputy director of Ningbo government development and research center) : From the government working report, we can profoundly experience the following several points:

Firstly, good development is sustainable development. Since reform and opening-up, Ningbo economy and social development has gained splendid achievements. However, rapid economic development also brings the rapid increasing of factor resources consumption and ecological environment pollution. Therefore, the contradictions an