At the briefing of the State Council Information Office held on March 5, Chen Danyang, head of the drafting group of the Government Work Report and director of the State Council Research Office, said that this year's Government Work Report emphasizes the need to implement the annual reform tasks, pay attention to comprehensive promotion, and make breakthroughs in key areas, especially to promote the accelerated implementation of landmark reform measures.
In terms of fiscal and taxation system reform, this year, we will accelerate the transfer of consumption tax collection links in some items and place them down. This reform has actually been proposed for many years, and this year it is determined to speed it up. This will help alleviate the financial pressure of production enterprises and will not increase the burden on taxpayers. It will also help guide local governments to improve the consumption environment and actively stimulate local consumption.
In terms of education reform, the Government Work Report proposes to gradually promote free preschool education. This will help reduce the cost of family care and education and also help promote long-term balanced population development.
In terms of medical and health reform, the "Government Work Report" emphasizes the need to deepen the reform of public hospitals oriented towards public welfare, so that the people can experience medical treatment and seek medical treatment more securely and more conveniently.
Chen Danyang introduced that this year's "Government Work Report" emphasizes the need to steadily expand institutional opening up, orderly expand independent opening up and unilateral opening up, and continue to create a first-class business environment for market-oriented, law-based and internationalization.
In addition, Chen Danyang also stated that this year, he will further relax foreign investment market access, expand the pilot program of opening up in the fields of telecommunications, medical care, education, etc., revise and expand the "Catalogue of Industries Encouraging Foreign Investment", and expand the fields and scope of foreign investment. For example, we will focus on strengthening service guarantees for foreign-funded enterprises, optimizing full-process projects, broadening financing channels for foreign-funded enterprises, and promoting the convenience of personnel exchanges. I believe that as long as foreign investors seize the favorable opportunity, make long-term layout and actively invest and cooperate in China, they will definitely be able to share more and better new business opportunities in China's expanding market.
(CCTV reporter Liu Ying and Ding Yani)
