What Is an Area Coordinator?

Regional coordinated development strategy is one of the "five overall plans" proposed by the Third Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee. The specific contents are as follows: Actively promote the development of the western region, revitalize the old industrial bases in the northeast region, promote the rise of the central region, encourage the eastern region to take the lead in development, continue to give play to the advantages and enthusiasm of each region, and improve the market mechanism, cooperation mechanism, mutual assistance mechanism, and support. Mechanism to gradually reverse the trend of widening regional development gaps, and form a new pattern of mutual promotion, complementary advantages and common development of East, China and West. ^[1]

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The main function area is a kind of space unit that determines a specific area as a specific main function positioning type based on the resource and environmental carrying capacity of different areas, the existing development density, and development potential. The "Outline" proposes that according to the carrying capacity of resources and environment, the current development density and development potential, we should consider the population distribution, economic layout, land use, and urbanization of China in the future, and divide the land into optimized development, key development, and restricted development. Development and prohibition of four types of main functional areas, adjustment and improvement of regional policies and performance evaluations in accordance with the main functional positioning, standardizing the order of space development, and forming a reasonable space development structure. This is a major strategic measure to implement the scientific development concept in regional development. It is a new idea and new measure to promote coordinated regional development. It is of great significance to reduce regional disparities and achieve sustainable development.

First, it embodies the people-oriented concept of development and breaks the long-standing concept of increasing the economic aggregate of a region as the starting point and the sole goal to reduce regional disparities. The direction of narrowing regional disparities was clearly defined. It is not mainly to reduce the disparity in economic aggregates between regions. It is not to increase the rank of economic aggregates in various regions. People in different regions enjoy equalized basic public services, and all enjoy a generally comparable standard of living.

The second is to reflect the concept of respecting the laws of nature and development, and to break the mindset that all regions should increase their economic development efforts. China's regional resources and environmental carrying capacity and development potential are quite different. In particular, the ecological environment of a considerable part of the country is very fragile, and it is not suitable for large-scale agglomeration economies to promote industrialization and urbanization on a large scale. On the land area of 9.6 million square kilometers across the country, some areas must assume the functions of economic development and population gathering to support the sustainable development of the national economy; some areas must assume the function of protecting the ecological environment. For these areas, the meaning of "development" is mainly Not to increase the economic aggregate, but to protect the natural ecology. Only in this way can we follow both economic laws and natural laws to achieve rapid and good development.

The third is to reflect the idea of breaking through administrative areas for development, and change the thinking method of formulating regional policies and performance evaluations based on administrative areas. The carrying capacity of resources and environment in different regions of China is different, the capacity of agglomeration economy and population are different, the connotation and requirements of development should also be different, and the evaluation content and focus of different main functional areas should also be different. Only by adopting new measures to break through existing institutional obstacles and policy constraints and formulating more targeted and differentiated regional policies and performance evaluation indicators can we make regional policies and performance evaluation indicators more scientific and scientifically guide regional coordinated development.

The fourth is to reflect long-term strategic thinking and change the concept of too much pursuit of short-term development results. The next few decades will be a period of accelerated industrialization and urbanization in China, and hundreds of millions of rural people will be employed in non-agricultural industries and in cities. In this historical period of rapid changes in the spatial structure accompanying the economic structural adjustment, China's regional development will face greater pressure and challenges. Proactively plan the distribution of China's future billions of people and tens of trillions of economies in national space, actively guide the economic layout, population distribution to adapt to resources and the environment, and coordinate the contradiction between the limited space and the unlimited demand It is extremely important to the long-term development and survival of the Chinese nation. (Courtesy of Development and Reform Commission)

Competitive allocation: bidding funds are the development of bidding

Projection presentations, speeches, defenses, summaries, etc. The mayors have stepped onto the "PK stage", and the bidding industry transferred competitive support funds.

Qingyuan City, through participating in the compulsory education standardized school construction special fund competition project, won the provincial compulsory education standardized school construction special fund of 31 million yuan, improving the regional compulsory education stage infrastructure conditions.

Lin Jiang, director of the Department of Finance and Taxation of Lingnan College of Sun Yat-sen University, said that under the government-led economic development model, government financial investment plays a key role in local economic development and guiding industrial transformation and upgrading. Guangdong's new round of financial system reform has broken the "average exertion" of financial funds, so that this limited cake of financial funds "feeds more stomachs."

The bidding funds are the development ideas of bidding. In this sense, both the winning and the unsuccessful bidders are winners. In line with the implementation of the "dual transfer" strategy of industry and labor, the competitive allocation method is a first try on the 7.5 billion yuan industrial transfer support fund used to support the construction of industrial transfer parks in less-developed areas: a competitive method of bidding, divided into five 1.5 billion yuan will be allocated for each batch to select and support the construction of demonstration industrial transfer parks in three less developed regions.

In order to ensure a more fair and scientific allocation of funds, Guangdong builds an expert database according to the technical and professional characteristics of the project. During the formal review, the review experts are determined by drawing lots, and the participating review experts are required to sign a commitment to ensure fair review. The review process fully introduced media supervision and department supervision, and carried out "sunshine review" and "transparent review".

Financial funds are not "Tang Monks' flesh." Fighting for money is only the first step. It is a more difficult task to manage and make good use of financial funds in accordance with the commitments made at the time of bidding. In this regard, Guangdong Province has established a performance evaluation system for the entire process of the use of funds before, during and after the event, and implemented a full-track tracking and accountability mechanism for the use of funds. For example, in the process of implementing the Provincial Comprehensive Agricultural Development Special Fund competitive allocation process, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance regularly organizes the evaluation of the work performance of comprehensive agricultural development counties, and those with poor performance are suspended or disqualified from developing counties.

"Four or Two": Public Finance Management is Breaking the Problem

As the first person in charge of the Heyuan Industrial Transfer Park, Huang Jianzhong, the executive deputy mayor of Heyuan City, was deeply moved by the huge changes brought about by the competitive distribution of fiscal funds.

Through participating in the bidding, Heyuan City obtained 2 batches of industry transfer support funds totaling 1 billion yuan. After the industrial transfer support funds arrived in the transfer park, they were injected into the park's development and construction unit Heyuan High-tech Development Zone Co., Ltd. as a capital to reduce the company's asset-liability ratio from 86% to less than 50%. As a result, various financial institutions raised the company's credit rating and reached a loan intention of 1.6 billion yuan with it, alleviating the financial pressure on the development and construction of the park.

Meizhou City, which is also an underdeveloped region and has received two batches of 1 billion yuan in industry support funds, also produced a huge fission effect. Li Jia, the secretary of the Meizhou Municipal Party Committee who has experienced bidding in the past, said: "The rolling development of support funds has brought a huge amplification effect and has become a powerful engine for starting Meizhou's" green rise. "

At present, the first phase of 7.266 square kilometers development of Meizhou Industrial Park has been basically completed, and key supporting facilities such as the water purification plant and enterprise service center in the park have been completed and put into use. A total of 130 enterprises have entered the park with a planned total investment of 23.029 billion yuan.

Cantonese who have tasted the sweetness, have begun to promote competitive distribution reform to more areas of fiscal funds.

From 2008 to 2009, Guangdong completed a total of 22 pilot reforms for the competitive allocation of provincial fiscal special funds, involving nearly 10 billion provincial fiscal funds in 10 provincial departments.

In 2010, Guangdong's finance made a competitive allocation of the first batch of 580 million yuan of special funds to support strategic emerging development.

In 2011, Guangdong Province set up a special fund for government-bank-enterprise cooperation in strategic emerging industries; within a five-year period, a total of 5 billion yuan was arranged to promote the accelerated development of strategic emerging industries through loan discounts.

Competitive distribution mechanism is becoming a powerful fiscal lever, which will promote the scientific development of regional economy. After the implementation of the Guangdong Province Comprehensive Agricultural Development Special Fund, the government s investment in comprehensive agricultural development has increased significantly; the competitive allocation of the Private Fund for Technical Education for Private Workers has greatly mobilized private capital to participate in the development of skilled worker education. The enthusiasm, 15 million yuan of financial funds brought 20 times the rolling investment; the "Provincial Tourism Poverty Alleviation Project" directly provided employment opportunities for 100,000 people in less than a year ...

Zeng Zhiquan, director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, said that as a new and scientific distribution culture, the competitive distribution mechanism has a profound impact on financial management reform. The reform of the competitive distribution of fiscal funds has fully brought into play the role of "four or two pounds" of fiscal funds, forming a "backward force mechanism", which is helpful to break the traditional path dependence and thinking formula of local and departmental departments. "change. ^[1]