Delegates participating in the fourth session of the 14th Beijing Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) began arriving to register yesterday afternoon. At the registration site, delegates signed in under the guidance of staff and collected their relevant credentials and meeting materials.
The 14th Beijing Municipal CPPCC Fourth Session is scheduled to open on the 24th. On the afternoon of the 23rd, over 700 municipal CPPCC delegates registered in an efficient and orderly manner, exhibiting high spirits and full morale. This year marks the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Delegates unanimously expressed their commitment to actively offering suggestions and advice on how to get off to a good start, aiming to foster a powerful synergy for the high-quality development of the capital.
Topics such as invigorating the modern capital metropolitan area, creating high-quality public space art, and supporting the construction of an international exchange center garnered significant attention. Delegate Qi Xiangdong emphasized the synergy of "four chains" to activate the modern capital metropolitan area. "The modern capital metropolitan area is the core support for the world-class Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration. The integration of the industrial chain, capital chain, innovation chain, and talent chain is the 'golden key' to leveraging high-quality development of the metropolitan area," said Qi Xiangdong, a municipal CPPCC delegate from the science and technology sector and Chairman of Qi-Anxin Group, who focused on the 15th Five-Year Plan period with multiple proposals for building the modern capital metropolitan area.
Qi stated that the national 15th Five-Year Plan proposal calls for "strengthening coordinated and interconnected development of key city clusters and promoting efficient collaboration between regional innovation chains and industrial chains," which provides direction for the integration of the "four chains." He suggested leveraging fiscal and tax policies as a "baton," focusing on the "six chains and five clusters" to provide special subsidies to enterprises achieving technological breakthroughs and those implementing results, thereby promoting collaborative development across the industrial chain's upstream and downstream. Simultaneously, exploring the establishment of a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industrial coordination white paper to unify industrial management standards, enterprise entry thresholds and approval processes, factor allocation, and preferential policies like traffic access, achieving "approval in one location, mutual recognition across three regions," was proposed.
To facilitate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, Qi Xiangdong recommended building an intelligent innovation platform for characteristic industries in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, aggregating data such as corporate technological needs and university research成果, to promote precise matching of innovation resources and form a virtuous cycle where "industrial demand finds experts, and innovation成果 find enterprises." Delegate Xu Bin called for improving the planning and implementation of public space art. "Beijing's public space art is an important specialized component of urban design and should serve as a lever for enhancing the quality of the human environment," suggested Xu Bin, a municipal CPPCC delegate from the China Zhi Gong Party sector and Chief Master Planner of Hongdu Institute, Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning & Design.
Xu suggested that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, as Beijing anchors its goal of building an international first-rate harmonious and livable capital, it should further implement the series of requirements from the Beijing City Master Plan regarding "optimizing urban public space and enhancing urban charm and vitality," to improve the city's comprehensive strength and elevate the image of the nation's capital. Xu noted that currently, there are approximately 3,700 registered public art pieces citywide, primarily consisting of urban sculptures and murals, with fewer examples of installations, new media, and other forms. "Incorporating public space art into urban development strategy has become an international consensus, whereas our existing relevant planning is the 'Beijing Urban Sculpture Construction Planning Outline' promulgated in 1993," Xu said.
Xu Bin recommended improving planning guidance by initiating specialized planning research for public space art and promoting overall implementation in an orderly manner in conjunction with specific construction projects like urban renewal actions. Delegate Miao Lu focused on attracting international organizations to take root and develop in Beijing. The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical time for building Beijing's function as an international exchange center. Miao Lu, a municipal CPPCC delegate from the overseas Chinese federation sector and Co-Founder of the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), paid particular attention this year to topics related to enhancing Beijing's participation in global governance.
In recent years, Beijing has made positive progress in attracting and cultivating international organizations, having gathered 127 representative offices of international organizations, which has established an important platform for serving the country's overall diplomacy and participating in global governance. "Currently, international organizations in Beijing are mainly liaison and service-type offices; the proportion of institutions with regional headquarters functions or core decision-making authority needs to be increased. Some branches of international organizations need to strengthen linkages with local industries and scientific research systems to form effective resource aggregation and value conversion," she stated.
In her view, as a next step, Beijing could focus on strengthening core function cultivation, enhancing the effectiveness of targeted recruitment, and optimizing a livable and business-friendly environment to actively introduce and cultivate international organizations, thereby boosting participation in global governance. For example, existing policy resources could be integrated to develop a comprehensive policy package covering office space, tax incentives, personnel services, and other full-chain supports, forming a recruitment pattern characterized by "vertical linkage and area-wide coordination." Delegate Rui Yukui proposed promoting the age-friendly adaptation of the "Beijing Inclusive Health Insurance." The city's 15th Five-Year Plan proposal calls for "improving multi-level social security." This year, Rui Yukui, a municipal CPPCC delegate from the agricultural sector and a professor at China Agricultural University, brought suggestions for promoting a full-process, age-friendly adaptation of the "Beijing Inclusive Health Insurance."
"'Beijing Inclusive Health Insurance' currently relies mainly on online operations, which makes it difficult for many elderly individuals to complete independently," Rui Yukui noted. In response, he suggested that relevant departments should collaborate to prompt insurance underwriters to launch an "exclusive service mode for seniors," simplifying the interface, enlarging fonts, adding voice guidance, and completely eliminating steps like printing, manual signing, and photo uploading, while promoting integrated "facial recognition + electronic signature" authentication to achieve one-click claims settlement and intelligent form filling. Furthermore, service points for the inclusive health insurance could be established relying on venues such as community elderly care service stations and community health service centers, staffed with trained social workers or volunteers to provide offline consultations,代办 assistance, and other services, which should then be incorporated into the street community service assessment system.