At the advent of the new century, we are glad to see that important
progress has been made in the reform and difficulty relief of
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) through the common efforts of
the upper and lower levels of the whole Party, the objective
of reforming SOEs and lifting them out of difficulties in three
years set forth by the Party Central Committee has by and large
been realized.
This achievement
is of very important significance to ensuring the sustained,
rapid and sound development of the national economy, enhancing
the competitiveness and control force of the State-owned economy
and guaranteeing a good beginning of the 10th Five-year Plan
for economic and social development.
In the face of
the new century and the 10th Five-year Plan, SOE reform and
development will also enter a new stage, we should continue
to work in a down-to-earth manner, make pioneering efforts
to advance continuously toward the new goal.
The target for
SOE reform and difficulty relief in three years has been basically
realized. This is a hard-won achievement. It is the result
of the common efforts of the whole Party and the people of
the whole country under the correct leadership of the Party
Central Committee with Comrade Jiang Zemin at the core; it
is the result of the hard struggle and pioneering efforts
made by the general run of enterprise workers and staff members,
and the result of the all-out support extended by people on
various fronts and in various professions and trades.
The central authorities
have adopted a proactive fiscal policy and a stable monetary
policy, and expanded domestic demands; raised the export refunding
rate, encouraged exports and boosted economic growth; cracked
down on smuggle and tax fraud, rectified market order, controlled
arbitrary collection of charge, indiscriminate fines and unchecked
apportionment of expenses from enterprises, thus improving
enterprises' external environment. All these measures have
played an extremely important role in the SOE reform and difficulty
relief.
Various regions,
departments and economic and trade commission at various levels
and the numerous enterprises have done a great deal of meticulous
work and made painstaking efforts to overcome mountains of
difficulties. The general run of employees have given active
support to reform, and thus made major contributions to enterprise
reform and difficulty relief. In this process, we have gained
many valuable experiences, effective use of these experiences
is of important significance to accelerating SOE reform and
development during the new historical period.
In the face of
this favorable economic situation, we should both reinforce
our confidence and be aware of difficulties and shortcomings.
We should realize that attainment of the goal of SOE reform
and difficulty relief in three years is only a phased achievement.
Many deep-seated contradictions and problems facing SOE reform
and development have not yet been fundamentally resolved and
the foundation for eliminating difficulties is not firm enough.
While a batch of loss-making enterprises ending losses, some
new loss-incurring firms have emerged again.
The contradiction
of the irrational economic structure has stood out, the quality
and efficiency of economic operation remain to be further
improved. In addition, along with China's accession to the
WTO, a group of enterprises failing to adapt to this new situation
will face the danger of going bankrupt. We must not take this
lightly, instead, we must do our level best and make great
efforts to solve the problem step by step.
The 10th Five-year
Plan signifies a new period for China's economic development
and a new stage for SOE reform and development. For a period
of time to come, oriented toward the establishment of a modern
enterprise system, continued deepening of SOE reform and development
remains a key link in the structural reform of the entire
economy.
Centered on improving
economic returns, vigorously pushing forward the strategic
readjustment of the economic structure is the main line of
the entire economic work. We should vigorously accelerate
the strategic readjustment of State-owned economic layout
and the reorganization of State-owned enterprises, to ensure
that we will have something done in our advance, maintain
order in our retreat, well-performed large enterprises should
be strong, and liberalized small enterprises be vigorous.
We should continue
to implement the strategy for excellent and strong enterprises,
actively cultivate and develop large company and enterprise
groups which have outstanding main businesses, hold independent
intellectual property rights, and boast strong core capabilities.
We should speed
up the transformation of a standard corporate system, perfect
a legal person management structure, establish a modern enterprise
system and strive to make system innovation. These arduous
tasks placed before us must be well done before we can further
successfully run State-owned enterprises and enhance the competitiveness
and control forces of the State-owned economy.
The new century
is soon to come, and the new five-year plan for China's national
economic development will also begin. In the new historical
period, as long as we work with concerted efforts of the upper
and lower levels, properly implement the strategic plan of
the Party Central Committee and the State Council, go all
out and make explorations and progress, State-owned enterprises
will certainly be able to make still greater contributions
to the sustained, rapid and healthy development of the national
economy on the basis of the phased achievement gained in reforming
State-owned enterprises and getting them out of difficulties
in three years.
(People's Daily
12/13/2000)
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