On the afternoon of February 15, 2015, CPC Guangdong Committee Secretary Hu Chunhua presided over the meeting of the Standing Committee of CPC Guangdong Province. Some Policies and Opinions of the People’s Government of Guangdong Province on Accelerating Sci-tech Innovation and Opinions on Carrying out List Management to Guangdong-based Enterprise Investment Projects (Trial) were deliberated and adopted at the meeting.

 

It is stressed at the meeting that the launch of the policies and opinions on accelerating sci-tech innovation and the implementation rules is an important measure to carry out General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important directions and vigorously apply the innovation-driven development strategy. The cities above prefectural level shall take the actual situation into consideration and apply practical and effective measures to fully carry forward relevant policies, energetically boost the sci-tech innovation-centered comprehensive innovation, optimize the province’s innovation and startup environment, and further stimulate the innovation energy of higher education schools, scientific institutes and enterprises. Relevant provincial departments shall strengthen the connection with related state-level ministries and commission, follow up relevant policies promulgated by the country and further improve the province’s policy system on innovation-driven development strategy.

 

It is also pointed out at the meeting that the negative list management pilot on enterprise investment is a fairly important reform of the province. We’ll fully understand the significance of the reform, attach great importance to the work, fully boost the effective implementation to ensure the completion of various pilot tasks. According to the requirement of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to establish the market access negative list, the governmental power list and the governmental duty list, we shall observe the norm of “never act without legal power, act in case no legal prohibition, and performance of legal duties is a must,” boldly explore and try to establish a set of new operation mechanism, and discover the path, accumulate experience and offer demonstrations for carrying out a nationwide, unified market access negative list system through one to two year pilot work.

 

Other issues were also discussed at the meeting.

 

Source: Nanfang Daily, Feb. 15, 2015