China News Service, Beijing, February 5 (Zhang Yuhui) On February 5, on the first working day after the Spring Festival of the Year of the Snake, Anhui, Guangdong, Shandong, Shanghai, Liaoning, Hubei and other places held the "First New Year Meeting" to plan the start of the year. The "First New Year's Meeting" often has a "barometer" significance for the whole year's work. This year, high-quality development, scientific and technological innovation, and optimization of the business environment have become the keywords of the "first New Year meeting" in various places.

Make high-quality development

China News Service has noticed that Guangdong and Shandong, two major economic provinces that "take the responsibility" will make high-quality development this year's "first New Year meeting".

On the first working day after the Spring Festival, the Guangdong Provincial High-Quality Development Conference was held in Guangzhou, with the theme focusing on "building a modern industrial system". This is the third consecutive year that Guangdong has held the "First New Year Meeting" on the first working day after the Spring Festival, and both have made high-quality development.

The economic province "takes the main responsibility", and Guangdong's "first New Year meeting" has attracted much attention. This conference showed Guangdong's effective achievements in the construction of a modern industrial system in 2024, and looked forward to how to "fight" in 2025; 21 cities and cities handed over the 2024 development report card on site and continued to enrich the real picture of high-quality development; five parallel forums are set up around the development of industrial clusters...

Both are major economic provinces, today, Shandong held a conference on strengthening reform and innovation to promote high-quality development, and "topped" reform and innovation in 2025 key tasks.

The meeting pointed out that we must use landmark reform and innovation to create new advantages in high-quality development, and clarified 10 key reform contents. It also pointed out that the results of reform should promote development, highlight the goal orientation, focus on the primary task of high-quality development, improve the reform evaluation mechanism, and test the results of reform with high-quality development performance.

Focus on scientific and technological innovation

Technology is the primary productive force, and innovation is the primary driving force for development. Technological innovation can give birth to new industries, new models and new momentum, and is the core element in developing new quality productivity. At this year's "First New Year's Meeting", some provinces clarified the key work direction of scientific and technological innovation.

Today, Anhui held the "First Meeting of the New Year", with the theme focusing on "Science and Technology Innovation Leads the Development of New Quality Productivity".

From a traditional agricultural province to a new industrial province and an advanced manufacturing base, Anhui is adhering to the lead in science and technology, making new efforts and moving towards wisdom under the empowerment of scientific and technological innovation.

Anhui requires anchoring the strategic positioning of building the "three places and one region", giving full play to the advantages of the superposition of multiple national development strategies, actively seizing major opportunities such as the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, establishing a leading awareness, leading the development of new quality productivity with scientific and technological innovation, accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system, and striving to write a chapter of Chinese-style modern Anhui.

At the "First New Year Meeting", many provinces planned annual scientific and technological innovation work. Guangdong emphasized that it is necessary to ignite the surging engine of scientific and technological innovation, and insist on climbing to "high", focusing on "reality", turning to "transform", and expanding to "outward".

Shandong emphasized that we must step up efforts to promote scientific and technological innovation, establish a mechanism for the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, make good use of the provincial science and technology innovation fund, focus on cutting-edge areas of science and technology, deepen the reform of the transformation mechanism of scientific and technological achievements, give full play to the leading role of cities such as Jinanqingyan, and strive for more national innovation resources.

Focus on optimizing the business environment

The business environment is only better, but not the best. At this year's "First New Year's Meeting", some provinces made further arrangements to optimize the business environment.

Today, Shanghai's "First New Year Conference" was held and the 8.0 action plan to optimize the business environment was released, entitled "Shanghai's Action Plan to Focus on Improving Enterprise Feelings and Continuously Create an International First-Class Business Environment", involving 58 tasks and measures.

Since 2018, a city-wide conference was held at the end of the year and the beginning of the year to discuss optimizing the direction of the business environment in the new year, which has become an important tradition in Shanghai's economic construction. Over the past seven years, Shanghai has issued 1,101 tasks and measures to optimize the business environment. This year, "improving corporate experience" has become a focus of Shanghai's business environment construction.

On the first working day after the Spring Festival, Liaoning held a mobilization meeting for the province's optimization of the business environment and the three-year action decisive year. This is the "first New Year meeting" in Liaoning once again focused on the same theme.

The meeting emphasized that we must continue to create a first-class business environment, strengthen the construction of the rule of law, optimize public services, and allow all types of business entities to have a sense of gain, courtesy and belonging in Liaoning; we must launch a number of reform measures and experience results with Liaoning recognition, optimize the "soft environment" and stimulate new vitality through reform "hard measures"; we must deepen the "three enterprises linkage" and "three resources to work together", promote the strengthening, improving and expanding state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises, and support private enterprises to change their modes, adjust their structure, change momentum, and improve their energy levels.