The Fourth Session of the 13th Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference commenced grandly on the morning of February 4th. During the opening ceremony, six provincial CPPCC members, including Bao Yanhong, Wang Liang, Wang Lei, Cao Xia, Chen Ying, and Wu Guilin, delivered speeches. They expressed their diverse viewpoints, offering suggestions and strategies for Anhui's high-quality development.
Bao Yanhong, a CPPCC member and Dean of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Anhui University, advocated for attracting advanced technologies to Anhui for "first trials and first applications." Professor Bao Yanhong stated that the construction of the Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) International Science and Technology Innovation Center presents a historic opportunity for Anhui to connect with high-end resources, promote deep integration of science and industry, and enhance its innovation capacity. She proposed vigorously advancing the substantive reform of the Hefei Binhu Science City, further leveraging the supporting role of national strategic scientific forces such as national laboratories, the University of Science and Technology of China, and the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, aiming for the frontiers of science to achieve more original breakthroughs.
Furthermore, Bao Yanhong recommended establishing a full-lifecycle cultivation database for technology-based enterprises, improving the sci-tech financial services system, and fostering more unicorn companies and internationally influential tech leaders. Simultaneously, she suggested connecting with the technology transaction and international incubation platforms of Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, jointly building a technology transfer network, creating a shared alliance for major scientific and technological infrastructure in the Yangtze River Delta, and promoting access to existing and under-construction major scientific installations for enterprises.
"We should also leverage our province's advantage of having abundant application scenarios," Bao Yanhong said, "jointly release 'unveiling the list and appointing the best' demand lists with Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, collectively undertake major national scientific tasks, and attract advanced technologies to Anhui for 'first trials and first applications'."
Wang Lei, a CPPCC member and Vice President of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, focused on stimulating greater vitality in private investment. Wang Lei, also Chairman of Anhui Taohuayuan Industrial Co., Ltd., emphasized the need to strengthen government integrity, enhance policy continuity and stability, prioritize sustained institutional mechanisms over one-time subsidies, establish "advance notice periods" and "transition periods" for major policy adjustments, and implement third-party evaluation of policy effectiveness alongside enterprise feedback mechanisms. This would allow businesses to form stable expectations that "long-term investment yields returns."
Additionally, Wang Lei expressed hope for supporting private capital to increase investment in areas like new quality productive forces, emerging service industries, and new types of infrastructure, guiding private investment to actively participate in innovation concerning key common technologies, frontier-leading technologies, modern engineering technologies, and disruptive technologies. "We could annually publish a list of scenario innovations and application scenario demonstration projects," he suggested, "clarifying commercialization paths and return mechanisms, promptly applying scientific and technological achievements to specific industries and supply chains, thereby creating greater space for private investment development."
Moreover, Wang Lei proposed promoting data transparency, process standardization, and intelligent supervision in the field of public bidding, using technological penetration to break down hidden barriers, enabling all market entities to participate in competition equally, and fully unleashing the vitality of the socialist market economy.
Wu Guilin, a CPPCC member and Chairman of the Ma'anshan Municipal Committee of the CPPCC, discussed burnishing the "Yangtze River Conservation" brand. Wu Guilin stated that Anhui, guided by the joint construction of the Yangtze River Delta as a pilot zone for a Beautiful China, has accelerated the protection and management of major rivers like the Yangtze and achieved numerous results.
Wu Guilin called for proactively formulating the province's 15th Five-Year Plan for promoting high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, establishing sound mechanisms for cross-regional horizontal ecological compensation and joint regulatory enforcement, and improving mechanisms for sharing environmental monitoring data and jointly responding to major incidents. Concurrently, he emphasized strengthening coordinated cross-regional governance of air, water, and solid waste, promoting unified standards for pollutant discharge and environmental monitoring within the Yangtze River Delta region, collaboratively advancing the Yangtze River's "ten-year fishing ban," and jointly building the Yangtze River ecological corridor.
Cao Xia, a CPPCC member and Vice Mayor of Chizhou Municipal People's Government, advocated for empowering cities with cultural connotative development. Cao Xia believes that urban development in the province has transitioned from a phase of "expanding scale" to one focused primarily on "enhancing quality," and that cultural empowerment is key to this connotative development.
She stated that efforts should be intensified to protect famous historical and cultural cities, towns, and villages, achieving a synergy between preservation and development. Simultaneously, she suggested promoting the successful renovation experiences of projects like Hefei's New Granary, Wuhu's Old Shipyard 1900, and Huaibei's Kuiniu Tianjie Street, transforming old factories and warehouses into cultural exhibition spaces, creative workshops, and characteristic commercial blocks. Regularly hosting activities such as intangible cultural heritage displays and performances of Anhui local operas can make old buildings "come alive and become popular."
Furthermore, Cao Xia believes it is essential to support various cities in deeply exploring their local historical and cultural resources. Utilizing technologies like 3D scanning, VR/AR, and digital modeling, and leveraging "cross-border" expressions such as online literature, online games, and web series, can help better transmit urban cultural contexts in the new era.
Chen Ying, a CPPCC member and Vice Chairperson of the Huaibei Municipal Committee of the CPPCC, focused on driving income growth through industrial upgrading. Chen Ying, concerned about urban and rural residents' income, proposed using industrial upgrading to drive income growth, improving the linkage mechanism between the province's high-quality industrial development and residents' income increase. This involves promoting the extension, supplementation, and strengthening of strategic emerging industry chains, expanding the scale of industrial clusters, creating and stabilizing employment positions, attracting high-end segments like R&D design and brand marketing, and cultivating local chain-leading enterprises.
Simultaneously, she suggested supporting private enterprises to expand in advanced manufacturing, modern services, the digital economy, and other fields, creating more high-quality, new-form employment opportunities, and unleashing the dual efficacy of private enterprises as "employment absorbers" and "sources of income growth." Additionally, implementing a "New Huizhou Merchant Cultivation Project," perfecting the policy support chain throughout the enterprise lifecycle, and cultivating "golden baby" enterprises in a gradient manner can increase high-salary job positions.
Wang Liang, a CPPCC member and Director of the Huainan Disabled Persons' Federation, emphasized supporting chain-leading enterprises in establishing innovation consortiums. Wang Liang stated that the robust performance of the industrial economy has become the "ballast stone" for Anhui's stable growth, but the province still faces shortcomings in cultivating high-level, modern industrial clusters.
Wang Liang recommended focusing on key industrial chains, identifying global chain leaders and "hidden champions" in critical segments, forming high-level task forces, and conducting targeted investment promotion. Simultaneously, he proposed formulating a "frontrunner" enterprise cultivation plan, supporting the creation of "industrial communities" through mergers, acquisitions, and open supply chains. Furthermore, he stressed strengthening the dominant role of enterprises in innovation, supporting chain-leading enterprises in taking the lead to form innovation consortiums, fully implementing the "enterprise poses challenges, government assists, collaborative problem-solving" mechanism, and配套 establishing industrial攻关 guidance special projects to jointly tackle "bottleneck" technologies, enhancing the resilience and security level of industrial and supply chains.