On the afternoon of March 30th, the city held a symposium on financial work. Meng Xiangwei, secretary of the CPC municipal committee, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He stressed that it is necessary to arm ourselves with Xi Jinping’s thought of socialism o Chinese characteristics for a new era, to carry out completely the spirits of the Central Economic Work Conference and the national and provincial financial work conference in order to complete the three tasks of serving the substantial economy, preventing and regulating financial risks and deepening the financial reform, and to play effectively the functional roles of government, finance and enterprises, and to work together to promote the process of Qinhuangdao's efforts to build a strong international coastal and beautiful port city.
Zhang Ruishu, deputy secretary of the CPC municipal committee and mayor, presided over the meeting and deliverd a speech. Other leaders of the city, Li Guoyong, Liu Wenjie and Zheng Quan also attended the meeting.
In the symposium, Agricultural Development Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China and other financial institutions in Qinhuangdao introduced briefly what they had been doing in supporting local economic and social development since last year, and gave speeches on how to further support the local development, existing problems they had and the thinking on the work of the next stage. The relevant departments and some counties and districts introduced the key industrial development direction and financial demands. Aidite and Lihua Starch introduced their operations and their needs for financial support.
Meng pointed out that finance is the core of modern economy and the blood of substantial economy. The development of a local economy and society is inseparable from the strong support of financial institutions. On behalf of the CPC municipal committee and the municipal government, I express thanks to the financial institutions in Qinhuangdao. In recent years, the economic and social development of Qinhuangdao has made outstanding achievements, thanks to all your supports.
Meng stressed that in order to do financial work well, we should conscientiously study the spirit of the Party’s 19th Congress, arm our minds with Xi Jinping’s thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era, and always adhere to the Party's centralized and unified leadership of the financial work. The reason why we have achieved brilliant achievements, in the final analysis, lies in the orientation and strategy of the Party Central Committee with comrade Xi Jinping as the core, lies in the scientific guidance of Xin Jinping’s thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era. In order to make greater achievements, we need to study further the spirit of the Party’s 19th congress, and make efforts to understand it, with Xi Jinping’s thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era to arm our minds, guide our practice and promote our work. The financial institutions should further strengthen the leadership of the Party, understand the general and the overall situations, carry out the decisions of the central government on the financial work, carry out the financial business with the guidance of the five major concepts of development, support the structural reform of the supply side, and offer better service for the "Three Removals, One Decrease, and One Supplement". The financial institutions should put the Party construction work in the first place, promote the Party construction work and the structure adjustment of the financial institution’s legal person governance synchronously, combine it closely with the prevention and regulation of the financial risks, and prevent resolutely the Party organization from being weakened, hollowed and marginalized.
Meng stressed that we must resolutely prevent and regulate financial risks and ensure a moderately prosperous society in all aspects by 2020. The Party’s 19th Congress take the preventing and defusing of major risks as the very first of the three major battles to build fully a moderately prosperous society. The financial risk is one of the most prominent risks. General secretary Xi Jinping points out that to guard against and defuse financial risks is related to the national security, the overall development and the safety of people's property, and it’s a battle we can’t lose. We must proceed from the overall political situation and win the battle resolutely. On the basis of the preventing and handling of the risks in the key areas in accordance with the Party central committee’s requirements, the construction of the credit system should be accelerated, and the discredited individuals, enterprises and units should be severely punished according to law and rule. Also the internal risk control system of the financial institutions should be perfected. Multi-side cooperation in handling illegal financial fund-raising and other related financial crimes should be established, to eliminate regulatory gaps and to eradicate the soil that breeds various financial risks.
Meng emphasized that financial institutions should seek development through the reform and innovation in the service of the substantial economy. The present situations of our development is not consistent with the endowment of the natural resources and the attention and care of the Party’s central and provincial committee to Qinhuangdao. Qinhuangdao should have had a better development. There are many causes for this present situation, one of which is that financial institutions' support for the substantial economy needs to be strengthened. If the service is not adequate, the financial institutions will not be able to develop themselves as well. The financial institutions should take the service of the substantial economy as the starting point and the foothold and proceed with the Qinhuangdao development strategies. They should continue to understand the production and operation, market competitiveness and reputation of the enterprises, meet the diversified financial needs of the substantial economy in promoting the convenience of financing, reducing their costs, improving the efficiency of the allocation of the resources, in order to enhance overall service efficiency.
At the end, Meng said that at present, Qinhuangdao faces a rare historic and strategic turning point, which provides a historic opportunity for the good and fast development of the financial institutions, with the integration and development of city with the port as a foundation, the construction of the innovative demonstration district of life and health industry in Beidaihe and the transformation and upgrading of the traditional advantageous industries. It is hoped that the government, financial institutions and enterprises will join hands to promote the construction process of Qinhuangdao as a strong international beautiful coastal port city.
Zhang Ruishu, in his speech, pointed out that at present, we are taking the opportunity of "Two Establishments and Two Services" to build a broad platform for the development and expansion of financial institutions and market, and help to promote the development of finance to a higher quality. We hope that all of us will have a firm faith in the development of Qinhuangdao and unify our thoughts and actions to the important judgment of the financial situations and the important deployment of the financial affairs by the central, provincial and municipal governments, in order to promote a positive circulation and healthy interaction of economy and finance. We should give full play to the role of finance in promoting the development of the economy by serving the substantial economy as the main line. It is hoped that all financial institutions in the city should take the initiative to adapt to the new situation of the high quality economic and social development, to the new orientation of building a first-class international tourist city of Qinhuangdao, and to the new requirements of building a high quality and well-off society, and to put more financial resources in the key areas and weak links of economic and social development, and to use the strengthening of the risk prevention and regulation as a guarantee, to guard and protect the faster development of the financial industry. Departments at all levels should bear financial risk in mind, strengthen the prevention and regulation of the risks from the source, in order to have earlier identification, prevention, detection and handling of financial risks, to guard firmly the bottom line of regional financial risks, and ensure the safe, efficient and stable operation of the finance.
Leaders in the relevant departments of the municipality and leaders in charge of Party and government of counties and districts under the municipality, heads of enterprises like Yideli Science and Technology, Matchbox Science and Technology, Zhongbaolvdu also attended the meeting. (Liu Jun)