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Strategic Initiatives for Economic Stability and Growth in 2025

On February 25, 2025, the leaders of the company participated in the economic development meeting in 2025 organized by the city. At the meeting, leaders at all levels in the city required strengthening the cooperation between the government and enterprises, paving the way for enterprises, and enabling enterprises to go global. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we should comprehensively implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, thoroughly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the work in Shandong, aim at "leading the way and taking on the main responsibility", adhere to the general keynote of seeking progress while maintaining stability, fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, actively serve and integrate into the new development pattern, and solidly promote high-quality development. Driven by further comprehensively deepening reforms, we should vigorously implement the "number one project" of the industrial economy, deeply carry out the "Three Tens" actions, focus on improving the investment efficiency, focus on promoting the integrated development of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, focus on optimizing the environment, stabilizing economic expectations, and stimulating vitality, continuously strengthen the "ten new advantages", promote the continuous and stable improvement of the economy, and achieve the target tasks of the 14th Five-Year Plan with high quality. In order to better achieve the economic work goals in 2025, the municipal government should carry out work from the following aspects according to the work instructions of the provincial government:

  I. Deepen the reform of the regional coordinated development mechanism. Implement the integrated reform action of the major national strategy for the Yellow River, accelerate the construction of a major land-sea corridor along the Yellow River, and support Liaocheng and Heze in deepening the cooperative development in the adjacent areas of Shandong and Henan provinces. Improve the working mechanisms for docking with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Yangtze River Delta. Plan and build a scientific and technological innovation cooperation platform between Beijing and Shandong, and support Linyi, Jining and Zaozhuang in undertaking the industrial transfer from the Yangtze River Delta. Strengthen the linkage development with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Promote the "twin-city linkage" between Yantai and Dalian, and build a sea-rail combined transport China-Europe freight train. Accelerate the construction of a development pattern featuring "linkage between two urban circles, leadership by three core cities, coordination between land and sea, and all-round efforts", innovate the linkage development mechanism of the urban circles of Jinan, Qingdao and Weifang, further promote the breakthrough development of Heze and the rise of western Shandong, and carry out the action to improve the urbanization level in the potential areas of southwestern Shandong. Implement the "Strengthening 100 Counties" plan, support weak counties with the industries of strong counties, and do a good job in counterpart assistance and cooperation between the eastern and western regions.

   Make efforts and seek practical results in creating a new highland for high-level opening up. Give play to the advantages of the intersection area of the Belt and Road Initiative and the central role in regional cooperation in Northeast Asia, and build an important node for unblocking the domestic and international dual circulation.

  II. Focus on building a demonstration zone for institutional opening up. Promote the comprehensive reform of the SCO Demonstration Zone. Seize the opportunity of China's presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and organize at a high level activities such as the SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference and the International Investment and Trade Expo, and deepen the economic and trade exchanges with local regions of countries such as Kazakhstan. Align with international high-standard economic and trade rules, promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of the pilot free trade zones, and strive for the implementation of the first integrated reform of marine economy policies in the country. Support the high-standard planning and construction of the China-Singapore Jinan Future Industrial City in the Starting Area for the Conversion of New and Old Kinetic Energy in Jinan. Accelerate the construction of the China-Japan-ROK Innovation Cooperation Center. Support the construction of the Weifang National Comprehensive Pilot Zone for Opening up and Development of Agriculture. Focus on giving full play to the advantages of the container transportation capacity of Weifang Port, adding new impetus to the import and export of goods within Shandong Province.

  III. Concentrate efforts on implementing the foreign trade breakthrough action. Promote the "Ten Thousand Enterprises Going Global and Shandong Trading Worldwide" initiative, actively explore emerging markets such as South America, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Organize enterprises to participate in more than 370 overseas exhibition and negotiation activities and more than 50 international precision procurement activities. Cultivate "cargo assemblers" in cross-border e-commerce and expand the export of market procurement trade. Improve the international marketing service system, accelerate the development of intermediate goods trade, and establish a database of high-quality foreign trade products in advantageous industries such as mechanical equipment and auto parts. Explore the establishment of overseas promotion centers for "Good Products of Shandong" agricultural products. Build a regional bulk commodity mixing and matching center and support leading enterprises in various supply chains to expand their trade scale. Promote the reform of the integration of domestic and foreign trade, accelerate the development of green trade and digital trade, strive to create a national demonstration zone for innovative development of trade in services, and cultivate export growth points such as intelligent machinery, green ships, and wind power equipment. Drive the internationalization of Linyi Commercial City to achieve new breakthroughs. Improve the mechanism for responding to trade frictions and the comprehensive service system for overseas investment, give full play to the role of overseas economic and trade cooperation zones, and promote the coordinated development of trade and investment.

  According to the above work arrangements, all enterprises should make the most of and fully utilize national policies, introduce new policy measures in response to changes in the situation, accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading, take the initiative to serve and integrate into the national unified market, adhere to benchmarking development, stay firm in the correct direction, thoroughly understand the spirit of the economic work conferences of the provincial government and the Central Government, and achieve a virtuous interaction between high-quality development and high-level security.

  We should unswervingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to rally the people and forge their souls. We should take General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and requirements for the work in Shandong as the general guideline, general positioning and general navigation mark, align with them, and earnestly implement them. We must firmly grasp the hard truth of high-quality development in this new era, unswervingly promote quality transformation, efficiency transformation and driving force transformation, persistently promote the effective improvement of the quality and reasonable growth of the quantity of the economy, go all out to ensure and improve people's livelihood, and continuously consolidate the new advantages of green, low-carbon and high-quality development.

   We should firmly grasp the scientific methodology of the five "must be coordinated well", deeply study and understand the latest achievements of Xi Jinping Thought on Economics, focus on improving the overall thinking, dialectical thinking and systematic thinking, and effectively enhance the foresight, pertinence and creativity of our work. We should firmly grasp the major requirement of "making steady progress and working solidly", accelerate the construction of a pilot zone for green, low-carbon and high-quality development, and create a new highland for high-level opening up. Governments at all levels and enterprises should always adhere to the principle of seeking progress while maintaining stability, promoting stability through progress, advocating practical work, striving for practical results, and achieving tangible achievements. We should strive to build an important economic growth area in northern China, laying a solid foundation for a successful conclusion of the 14th Five-Year Plan and a good start of the 15th Five-Year Plan, and strive to write a new chapter of Chinese path to modernization in Shandong.