CPC Hunan Provincial Economic Work Conference Held in Changsha

On December 22, the CPC Hunan Provincial Economic Work Conference was held in Changsha. Zhang Qingwei, secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee, attended and delivered a speech. He summarized the economic work in 2021, analyzed the current economic situation, and arranged the economic work in 2022.

The meeting noted that President Xi Jinping’s important speech made at the Central Economic Work Conference clearly put forward the overall requirements, main goals, policy orientations, and key tasks of next year’s economic work, and profoundly answered the major issues of how to see and do economic work in the new era. Premier Li Keqiang laid out specific tasks for next year's economic work. Efforts should be made to thoroughly study and implement the essence of the Central Economic Work Conference; combine it with implementation of the spirits of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee and President Xi Jinping’s important speeches and instructions on Hunan Province; and, integrate it with implementation of the arrangements and requirements of the 12th CPC Hunan Provincial Congress.

It called for a profound understanding of the analysis and judgment of the CPC Central Committee on domestic and international economic situation; the necessity to adhere to the centralized, unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, promote high-quality development, pursue progress while ensuring stability, and strengthen coordination and systems thinking; the overall requirements and policy orientation of “prioritizing stability while pursuing progress in next year’s economic work; and, the new major theoretical and practical issues. It is necessary to maintain strategic resolve, firm up confidence in development, run self-affairs well, and promote the latest achievements of Xi Jinping’s economic thoughts and the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee to take root and put into practice in Hunan Province.
The annual CPC Hunan Provincial Economic Work Conference was held in Changsha on December 22, 2021. Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and governor of Hunan Province, made specific arrangements for the next year’s economic work.

The meeting highlighted that 2022 is the year when the 20th CPC National Congress will be convened, and the beginning of the implementation of the spirit of the 12th CPC Hunan Provincial Congress. It is of great significance to do economic work well. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, it is necessary to:
- implement the spirits of the 19th CPC National Congress and its plenary sessions, the Central Economic Work Conference, and President Xi Jinping’s important speeches and instructions on Hunan Province;
- carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party;
- carry out the requirements and arrangements of the 12th CPC Hunan Provincial Congress;
- uphold the underlying principle of pursuing progress while ensuring stability;
- faithfully implement the new development philosophy;
- serve and integrate into the new development paradigm;
- deepen reform and opening-up across the board;
- be committed to the innovation-driven development;
- promote high-quality development;
- implement the positioning, missions, and tasks of the Three Highlands and Four New Missions Strategy;
- take supply-side structural reform as the main task;
- coordinate epidemic control with economic and social development;
- balance development and security imperatives;
- continue to ensure stability in 6 key areas and effectively meet 6 priorities;
- continuously improve the people's livelihood;
- keep major economic indicators within an appropriate range; and,
- maintain social stability to prepare for the 20th CPC National Congress.

The meeting requested to do well in the key tasks of next year's economic work; organically combine stable growth, structural adjustment, and reform; unremittingly focus on priorities, address inadequacies, and shore up points of weakness; do our best to develop economy; and, break new ground in promoting high-quality development. It asked to:
- consolidate and enhance the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, to ensure the safe supply of agricultural products;
- strengthen the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry, to promote the improvement of both the quantity and quality of the industrial economy;
- give full play to the advantages and functions of the platform pilot programs, to stimulate the vitality of high-quality development;
- better coordinate development and security imperatives, to guard against and defuse major risks;
- put the environment first and pursue green development, to achieve the carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals; and,
- ensure and improve the people’s wellbeing, to solidly push forward common prosperity.

The meeting was also a video and telephone conference. The persons in charge of relevant provincial departments, enterprises, and central enterprises in Hunan Province; state-owned enterprises in Hunan Province and relevant financial institutions; key manufacturing enterprises, major scientific research institutions, innovation entities; and, relevant units of the Hunan Pilot Free Trade Zone, attended the meeting in the main venue. All the cities and prefecture, counties, and districts set up branch venues.

Source: enghunan.gov.cn