People¡¯s governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and ministries and commissions directly under the State Council,

Important by-stage achievements have been made in the past five years since implementation of the strategy of revitalization of the old industrial bases including Northeast China. Specifically, major breakthrough was made on institutional innovation with focus on reform of state-owned enterprises, the economic system with diversified ownership structure was under rapid development, the economic structure was optimized, the independent innovation ability was obviously improved, those bases were more open to the outside world, the infrastructure was ameliorated, key livelihood issues were gradually solved and both urban and rural areas took on a new look. It is proved by the practice that the strategy of the Central Government for revitalizing the old industrial bases including Northeast China is timely and correct. However, deep-rooted problems on aspect of system and structure in the old industrial bases including Northeast China are to be solved, the achieved results are to be reinforced and the potential for accelerated development are to be exerted. In current situation, the government shall learn from experience gained from practices, enrich the revitalization strategy and formulate new policies and measures in a timely manner, which are necessary to counter global financial crisis, promote steady and fast economic development and boost rejuvenation of the old industrial bases including Northeast China. To this end, opinions are proposed as follows:

I. Optimize economic structure and build a modern industrial system

1.       Speed up merger and restructuring of enterprises. The principle of market domination and government guidance shall be insisted on and regional, industrial and ownership limits shall be eliminated. Efforts shall be made to optimize resource allocation, promote merger and restructuring of enterprises and develop large corporation groups with international competitiveness. Where any association and restructuring of enterprises in Northeast Region involves disposal of any asset of ¡°shares converted from debts¡±, the right concerning such shares shall be properly handled by new disposal approaches according to real situations. China supports association and restructuring of large corporation groups under the Central Government with local enterprises, encourage private and foreign-invested enterprises to participate in reform and restructuring of enterprises in the old industrial base and give prior supports to merged or restructured enterprises for their technical transformation. 

2.       Make great efforts to facilitate nonpublic economy and small and medium sized enterprises. A fair competition environment shall be created to equally protect different ownerships and boost development of nonpublic economy. Policies on financing, taxation and market access shall be put into effect to encourage nongovernmental investment in infrastructure, public utility, financial service and social causes. The government shall promote the co-development of public assets, private assets and foreign assets and actively develop the mixed-ownerships economy. Employees are allowed to hold certain percentage of shares of their restructured enterprise. Small and medium sized enterprises shall be guided to innovate in institutional system and improve operation and management level and market competitiveness. The advantages of concentration of large enterprises in the old industrial bases including Northeast China shall be fully exerted and small and medium sized enterprises are encouraged to establish cooperation relationships with large enterprises to form industrial chains and develop to be ¡°professional, unique and superior¡±. The government shall improve its service to small and medium sized enterprises¡¯ entrepreneurial financing, continue the establishment of the credit system and the credit guarantee system for such enterprises and support small and medium credit re-guarantee enterprises and their affiliates to expend their businesses.

3.       Improve and empower pillar industries. The plan on adjusting and revitalizing key industries shall be carried out. More efforts shall be made on structural adjustment, elimination of backward facilities and avoidance of repeated construction. The government shall actively promote IT-based industrialization, transform traditional industries by modern IT means and improve the level of digitalization and intellectualization. The more shares of the Central Government budget shall go to adjustment and reconstruction projects in the old industrial bases including Northeast China. Industries with competitiveness, key enterprises and important brands in this region are encouraged to increase market shares. More efforts shall be made to increase the production of large castings and forgings, nuclear power equipment, wind power equipment, shield machinery, advanced vessel and marine engineering equipment, large agricultural machinery, high-speed motor chain units, high-power locomotives, high-end digital control machine tools and key parts and components, which are of competitiveness and are in urgent need in market. Enterprises are encouraged to purchase equipment made in China and apply initial important technical equipment. The Export-Import Bank shall arrange certain credit quota annually to support export of important technical equipment made in northeast China and the People¡¯s Bank of China and the Administration of Foreign Exchange shall give policy supports. More efforts shall be made to promote structural adjustment of auto industry in northeast China, mainly developing autos of self-owned brands, autos with small capacity engines, autos using new energy and key parts and components. The product structure of steel industry shall be further adjusted. Efforts shall be made on energy saving and emission reduction, elimination of backward facilities and improvement of market competitiveness. Meanwhile, more efforts shall be made on resource exploration and development and foreign cooperation, and improvement of guarantee level of ore resources supply. The oil industry shall be optimized. The organs concerned shall speed up the execution of large oil-refining and ethylene projects, improve processing capability and develop fine chemicals and chemical fertilizer industries.

4.       Take initiatives to nurture industries with potentials. The region shall develop basic support parts and components, processing tools and special raw materials by taking advantage of its strong equipment manufacturing ability. It shall develop civil-military dual-purpose technologies by take advantage of concentration of military industrial enterprises to promote co-development of civil and military purpose technologies and enhance the leading role of military industrial enterprises. Relying on its advantage as a raw material processing base, the region shall spare no efforts to develop downstream distinctive light industries. With the advantages of its large quantity of agricultural and forest products with superior qualities and its developed stockbreeding, the region may put more efforts on development of deep processing of agricultural and forest products. The advantage of abundant Chinese medical plant resources shall be given full play to develop modern Chinese medicines. Since it is located in the center of northeast Asia, the region shall enhance its cooperation with neighboring countries on energy and resources development. Emerging industries including aviation, electronic information, biological pharmaceutics, new energy and new materials shall be proactively developed. Local governments are encouraged to set up special support funds for those industries with potentials.

5.       Speed up the development of modern service industry. Domestic and foreign financial institutions are encouraged to establish branches and offices in Northeast Region. Cities that meet certain requirements are encouraged to undertake financial reform and innovation. Small and medium financial institutions are under active support. The region may promote establishment of auto financial companies and expand auto consumption financing channels. The northeast property transaction platform shall be improved on aspect of mutual connection, regional integration and function expansion. Dalian Commodity Exchange is supported to build itself an important futures transaction center in Asia and launch new types of futures with competitiveness in northeast China and consistent to its functional positioning based on improvement of its current listing future types. The modern logistics shall be facilitated. Researches shall be made to formulate special plans for development of logistics in northeast China and a batch of major regional logistics parks shall be established in a comprehensive way. The development of software and service outsourcing industries shall be quickened. Three service outsourcing demonstration cities---Dalian, Harbin and Daqing---are under major support and Yanji and Suifenhe are encouraged to take advantages of their unique locations to develop software and service outsourcing industries. The plan for adjustment and revitalization of cultural industry shall be carried out to support accelerated development of cultural industries including cultural innovation, publishing and distribution, production of films and TV programs, performances and recreation, cultural exhibition, digital sector and animation, so as to create cultural brands with characteristics of Northeast Region. Constructions of public cultural infrastructure and projects for benefits of the public shall be strengthened and the public cultural service system shall be improved. Efforts on protection of cultural relics shall be heightened and overseas cultural exchange shall be expanded. More efforts shall be made to develop tourism. The organs concerned shall launch special plans for tourism development in Northeast Region as soon as possible to enhance construction of tourism infrastructure, develop appealing destinations with distinctive features and improve management and service level, so as to build barrier-free larger northeast tourism zone.

6.       Support the fast development of clusters of key industries. Liaoning coastal economic zone, Shenyang economic zone, Heilongjiang-Daqing-Qiqihar industrial corridor and Changchun-Jilin-Tumen region economic zone are encouraged to speed up development and become high-class modern industrial bases in China. The organs concerned shall formulate development plans to support Shenyang Tiexi old industrial base to be adjusted and reconstructed as a new demonstration zone of equipment manufacturing and support the development of the equipment manufacturing clusters in Dalian, so as to create an advanced equipment manufacturing base with international competitiveness. Efforts shall be made to promote the construction of the energy and heavy chemicals base in east area of Inner Mongolia, coal-based power and chemicals base in east area of Heilongjiang and coal-based chemicals in west area of Liaoning to improve the transformation and utilization level of resources. The leading role of hi-tech industrial bases including Shenyang, Changchun, Harbin, Dalian and Tonghua shall be fully exerted to form advanced industries and industrial clusters with core competitiveness. Regions with mature conditions are supported to establish distinct industrial parks with influences and large scale. The development of Changchun automobile industry development zone and railway transport equipment industrial park shall be speeded up. Endeavors shall be made on establishment of Dalian national ecological industrial demonstration zone (under category of venous industries). The expansion of national economic and technical development zones and upgrading of major provincial development zones that meet requirements in northeast China shall be promoted.

II.  Speed up the technological advancement of enterprises and fully improve their independent innovation capability

7.       Strengthen technical transformation of enterprises. Technical transformation of enterprises is an important content of adjustment and reconstruction of the old industrial base and critical experience for obtaining achievements on revitalization. More supports shall be given to technical transformation: the fund for adjustment and reconstruction of the old industrial bases including Northeast China shall be appropriated from the current relevant special investment funds and the investment from Central Government budget will be increased to support technical transformation of enterprises in the old industrial bases including Northeast Region, mainly for a batch of recently-selected projects. The share of the budget of the Central Government for operation of state-owned assets for state-owned enterprises in the old industrial bases including Northeast Region shall be increased. The investment fund for equipment manufacturing industry shall be established as soon as possible, mainly supporting the technical transformation and merger and restructuring of equipment manufacturing enterprises in northeast area.

8.       Improve independent innovation capability. The old industrial bases including Northeast Region shall give play to the human resource advantage and establish a sound system to encourage independent innovation. In the major development fields in the old industrial base, based on leading enterprises and major projects, a batch of technical innovation and hi-tech industrialization projects with strong leading power and influence and quicker returns shall be carried out. The scientific research and industrial advantages of the old industrial bases including Northeast Region shall be fully utilized. Through major national scientific and technical special projects and special projects of building innovation ability, a batch of project research centers, engineering labs and enterprise technical centers shall be established and breakthroughs on core technologies and key generic ones may be made. Enterprises are supported to effectively utilize internationally innovation resources to improve their abilities of creation and recreation based upon introduction and absorption. The old industrial base is supported to attract talents and teams of entrepreneurship and R&D ones in urgent need in some major industries. The national projects of ¡°introduction of one thousand talents¡± and ¡°introduction of one hundred talents shall mainly support introduction of overseas talents to the old industrial bases including Northeast China. Flexible policies and measures such as share participation by means of technology and option incentives are encouraged to be taken so as to create good environment for high-end talents to put their abilities to use.

9.       Promote industrial application of the results of independent innovation. All efforts shall be made to promote the application of the results of independent innovation so as to transform such results into advanced productivity and culture new economic growth powerhouses. More supports shall be given to application of independent innovative results in hi-tech fields including new energy, new materials, biology, IT, aviation and high-speed railway. Vigorous endeavors shall be made to promote combination of efforts of enterprises, universities and research institutions and encourage institutions of higher learning and scientific and research institutions to transfer their independently innovative results to enterprises and more scientific and technical personnel to found scientific and technical enterprises. Scientific and technical enterprises that satisfy requirements are under prior support to be listed in the second board to raise funds. Special funds for hi-tech industry development in the old industrial bases including Northeast Region shall continue to exist, mainly supporting construction of national hi-tech industrial bases in the old industrial bases including Northeast Region, application of results of independent innovation and innovation ability. The local governments concerned shall formulate policies to support the application of the results of independent innovation to production in the old industrial base.

III  Speed up the development of modern agriculture and reinforce its fundamental position

10.   Vigorously develop modern agriculture. The Northeast Region is of advantaged conditions to develop modern agriculture. Governments in the region shall focus on improving land productivity, resources utilization rate and labor productivity and launch policies and measures to boost development of modern agriculture in Northeast Region. Those governments shall take into consideration of the plan for newly increase of 100bn grain production across the country to enhance grain production in the region and build the region a steady national strategic grain base. More efforts shall be made on implementation of the scientific and technical program for increase of grain production and promotion of new technologies for high yield, superior quality, cost saving and efficient improvement. The structure of agricultural machinery shall be optimized and the mechanical level of agriculture shall be improved. Efforts shall be heightened on construction of storage yards for agricultural machinery and tractor roads. The subsidies for agricultural machinery operation in important links such as deep scarification shall be studied. Research shall be made on a long-term system for stabilizing production of corns and soybeans. The policy of national collection and storage of corns and soybeans produced in Northeast Region shall continue to be executed at proper time. The state-owned farms shall continue to play its positive role in developing modern agriculture and safeguard national food safety. The program of ¡°co-development of large state-owned farms and counties¡± shall be promoted to provide demonstration and socialization services for local agriculture development. Agricultural cooperation between Northeast Region and the outside shall be enhanced and the enterprises that meet requirements are supported to undertake agricultural cooperation and development in neighboring countries and regions.

11.   Strengthen infrastructure construction in agriculture and rural areas. Basic agricultural infrastructure with focus on water conservancy facilities and infrastructure in rural areas with focus on water, power, road and gas shall be built. The construction of major water conservancy projects including diverting Nenjiang River to Baicheng and to irrigation areas of the Sanjiang (Songhua River, Heilong River and Wusuli River) Plain, the downstream of Nierji Reservoir, the downstream of Chuole hydro complex and Da¡¯an, and renewal and reconstruction of large irritation drainage pump stations. The reservoirs with potential dangerous conditions shall be reinforced and the projects of water-efficient irritation demonstration and small farm water conservancy shall be carried out. The special campaign of disseminating knowledge of scientific storage of grains shall be conducted and the technologies for scientific storage of grains shall be promoted. The development of new grain inventory and circulation businesses such as grain bank is under support. Nonstop transport of bulk grains by railway to other regions in China shall be promoted, the through transport by water and railway shall be more used and large grain logistics bases, transfer stations and load stations with strategic significance as well as grain warehousing and drying facilities shall be built. Active efforts shall be made to promote IT-based agriculture, establish a sound system of providing scientific, technical and socialized services and improve services. The development of urban and rural areas shall be planed in a comprehensive way and the development of small towns and central villages shall be quickened by combining the construction of new socialistic countries. The conditions of living and production of people in rural areas shall be ameliorated. The drinking water safety issue existed in rural areas shall be solved as soon as possible. The support funds of governments at the county level or below for construction projects for the pubic benefits in rural areas shall be cancelled.

IV  Strengthen infrastructure construction and create conditions for overall revitalization

12.   Accelerate the building of a comprehensive transport system. The special railway lines from Beijing to Shenyang, from Shenyang to Dandong and from Harbin to Qiqihar and the railways from Jilin to Tumen, from Dalan to Dandong, from Harbin to Mudan River and from Harbin to Jiamusi shall be started to build. The reconstruction of the existing railways including Mudan River-Suifenhe and the construction of the following railways shall be promoted: the northeast border railway, the Yiershi-Arihashate railway, the Baiyinhua-Chifeng-Jinzhou port coal special line, Tongjiang River Railway Bridge and the coastal railway. The main and feeder airports shall be constructed under a comprehensive plan. Efforts shall be made to improve the layout of airports in Northeast Region, advance the expansion and relocation of some airports in the region during the ¡°11^th Five-Year Plan¡± period, and do good job on preparations for the expansion and relocation of some other airports to be expanded and relocated in the ¡°12^th Five-Year Plan¡± period. Since the development of highway is relatively backward in Northeast Region, more investment shall be made in building highways and rural roads in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Inner Mongolia by consideration of the features of extremely cold in winter of the region. The team for coordination and promotion of transport infrastructure in Northeast Region shall be set up to coordinate, guide and facilitate building of transport facilities in the region and formulate a comprehensive transport plan for the region.

13.   Optimize energy structure. The following two projects shall be started to build: two 10mn kilowatt wind power bases in the east area of Inner Mongolia and northeast China, and the channels for transport of coal-based power from the east area of Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang to the outside. The first-stage works for the Liaoning Hongyan River Project Phase II and Xudapu and Jilin nuclear power project. The construction of grids in northeast area shall be enhanced and the reconstruction of the existing grids shall be promoted, so as to improve the power transmission ability of major grids. Efforts shall be heightened on reconstruction of grids in rural areas, especially major grain production areas, and forest regions. The issues concerning grid interconnection of small power resources including wind power shall be solved. Intellectual grid construction pilots may be made on the northeast grid.

V.  Take initiatives to promote the transition of resource-oriented cities to facilitate sustainable development

14.   Nurture and empower substitute and alternative industries. To develop substitute and alternative industries is the ultimate solution to economic transformation of cities that have exhausted resources. Efforts shall be made to implement the special plan for resource-based cities to create jobs, comprehensively use resources and develop substitute and alternative industries, and support and guide such cities to form their new dominant industries as soon as possible. Development banks and other financial institutions are encouraged to enhance their efforts to support the sustainable development of the said cities. For those cities, supports shall be given on aspect of layout of industries, examination and approval of projects, land use, loans and financing, technical development and market access. Those cities are encouraged to built parks for substitute and alternative industries and actively take transferred industries. The plan for development of substitute and alternative industries in the resource-based cities shall be formulated and implemented.

15.   Establish a long-term sustainable development system. The system of reserves for sustainable development of resource-based cities shall be launched as soon as possible and the government-supported section of the special reserve fund shall be used to solve problems concerning environmental treatment in resource-based cities. Sustainable development pilots may be conducted in resource-based cities where resources exploitation is at growth or maturity stage. The formulation of the Regulations for Sustainable Development of Resource-based Cities shall be expedited. The people¡¯s governments at the provincial level shall full perform their duties to launch policies and measures to support the sustainable development of those cities and make the works on transformation of development mode as one element of the system for assessing the major officials of the people¡¯s governments of resource-based cities.

16.   Give more financial policy supports. More guidance shall be given on transformation of development mode of cities that have exhausted their resources and the effectiveness of use of fiscal transfer payment by the said cities shall be improved. The central budget shall give more funds for treatment of extremely large mining pits and deep gobs in resource-based cities. On appropriation of the special fund for finding alternative resources instead of exhausting mines, more supports shall be given to the cities that have exhausted resources in the old industrial base in northwest China. The resource-based enterprises in the above-said cities are supported to develop and utilize resources outside the region and China.

VI  Practically protect ecological environment and vigorously develop green economy

17.   Strengthen ecological building. The development of forestry and forest area economy shall be oriented by ecology. The fall of timbers in the state-owned forest areas in northeast China shall be further reduced and efforts shall be made to put forward transformation of economic development mode and promote sustainable economic development in the areas. The natural forest protection project shall continue to be executed, the relevant policies and measures shall be improved and the support efforts shall be heightened. The achievements of vegetation restoration project shall be enhanced and more efforts shall be spent on cultivating, managing and protecting forests. More emphasizes shall be paid to the function of Daxing¡¯anling and Xiaoxing¡¯anling as ecological screens and the plans for ecological protection and economic transformation of the said areas shall be formulated. The reform of the collective-owned forest right system shall be promoted and the pilots for reform of state-owned forest right system shall be steadily advanced. Efforts shall be made to enhance restoration and protection of natural meadows and construction of ecological projects including comprehensive treatment of soil erosion in black earth area. Organs concerned shall make more endeavors on ecological projects including protection and restoration of wetlands and treatment of desertification and environment of mines, and undertake eco-migration of residents living in the core area of Zalong wetland in Heilongjiang.

18.   Take initiatives to promote energy saving and emission reduction. Organs concerned shall fully implement the relevant laws, regulations, plans and industrial policies and enhance control of the total amount of major pollution sources. The expansion of industries that have high energy consumption and cause heavy pollution shall be restricted and small enterprises engaged in coal-based electricity generation, steel, paper making and cement that cause heavy pollution shall be closed down. Focusing on industries of energy, raw materials, equipment manufacturing and agricultural product processing, organs concerned shall enhance management of industrial parks and promote clean production. The low carbon technologies are supported to be developed and applied and the development of circular economy is encouraged. Organs concerned shall spend more efforts in promoting the application of energy-saving technologies and products, develop environmental-friendly structures and green structures that save energies and land, and implement the project of promoting energy-saving products for the public benefits.

19.   Enhance treatment of environmental pollution. Organs concerned shall enhance water pollution prevention and treatment of major drainage basins including Songhua River and Liaohe River and support areas in Songhua River Basin to conduct pilots of compensation for discharge amount of major pollutants and transaction of discharge right. More efforts shall be made on construction of wastes and sewage treatment facilities in large cities, promote wastes classification, recycling and clean incineration and gradually raise the standards of charges for treatment of sewage, waste and discharge in urban areas. Industrial pollution shall be under strict monitoring and shall be prevented and treated and the pollution sources from agriculture shall be solved in a comprehensive way. Efforts shall be made to promote the comprehensive treatment of environment in rural areas so as to create a beautiful look of countries.

VII  Focus on livelihood of the people and facilitate social causes

20.   Create more jobs by all means. Organs concerned shall actually pay more attention to employment, carry out policies for employment of university graduates, immigrant workers from rural areas and groups having difficulties to find jobs, and ensure stability of employment situation. The said organs shall well exert the functions of governmental investment and major construction projects on promoting employment, vigorously create more jobs for persons needing special care, and try to help at least one person in a family that nobody has a job find job. Policies and measures for supporting entrepreneurs shall be proactively carried out to create more jobs. The enterprises engaged in service industry and nonpublic economy and small and medium sized enterprises are encouraged to create more jobs. Enterprises in difficult operation are guided and supported to adopt flexible employment and working hours and give training to employees while not reduce jobs as much as they can do.

21.   Actively improve social security system. Efforts shall be made to promote the comprehensive planning at the provincial level for endowment insurance of employees in urban areas and properly raise the standards of basic retirement pensions of people retired from enterprises. The system of the minimum living guarantee for people in rural and urban areas shall be improved. Organs concerned shall energetically promote the pilots of new endowment insurance in rural areas and extend the coverage of rural cooperative medical insurance. Works on social insurance of farmers whose farms have been expropriated shall be well done. Organs concerned shall improve the policies and regulations on employment injury insurance, expand the coverage of such insurance and solve the issues of making the treatment of persons who suffered employment injuries before implementation of the said insurance to be subject to comprehensive management of employment injury insurance.

22.   Solve outstanding livelihood issues including housing and heating in winter. Works on handling letters and calls from the public shall be well done and more efforts shall be made on solving livelihood issues with high public concerns. Efforts shall be heightened on construction of tenements and affordable housing in urban areas and reconstruction of squatter settlements in state-owned forest areas, dilapidated houses in state-owned reclamation area, dilapidated houses in rural areas and dilapidated school houses as well as squatter settlements in mining areas. Supports shall be given to reconstruction of squatter settlements in urban areas. Organs concerned shall give more supports to the combined heat and power development project carried out in extremely cold areas in Northeast Region, speed up reconstruction of concentrated heat supply networks in cities in Northeast Region and solve issues of heat supply for families receiving social welfare support in urban areas. The program of development-oriented poverty reduction shall be promoted in rural areas to help more poverty-stricken people to increase incomes.

23.   Facilitate education, health and other social causes. Organs concerned shall study and promote reform of educations of all kinds, improve educational quality and provide human resource support for revitalizing the old industrial base. The organs concerned shall give full play to the advantage of cluster of universities and colleges in Northeast Region and improve the level of major institutions for higher learning. Contents of vocational education and school sizes shall be properly decided by consideration of optimization and upgrading of industrial structure in the old industrial base. More supports shall be given to vocational education practice bases and improvement of basic abilities of vocational education. Organs concerned shall promote the reform of medical care system, quicken the establishment of the basic medical insurance system covering people in urban and rural areas, establish a sound medical care service system at the community level and expand the coverage of medical insurance for workers and residents in urban area.

VIII  Deepen regional cooperation and promote economic integration in the region

24.   Facilitate regional integration. The Northeast Region is encouraged to conduct cross-province economic cooperation, promote reasonable flow of factors for production and improve the level of integrated development. Recently, cooperation on integration on aspect of tourism, logistics, transport and science and technology shall be conducted at first. Organs concerned shall fully implement the Plan for Revitalizing Northeast Region, do good job of urging and inspecting the execution of tasks prescribed in the said Plan, and speed up the construction of major infrastructure described in the Plan. The industrial matchmaking and reasonable division of work between the east region of Inner Mongolia and three provinces in Northeast Region shall be promoted. The tax policies to support the adjustment and reconstruction of the old industrial bases including Northeast Region shall be studied.

25.   Establish a cooperation system in Northeast China. The negotiation system of administrative chiefs of four provinces (autonomous region) in Northeast Region shall be established to research issues concerning coordination in construction of major cross province infrastructure projects, layout of industries and regional coordinated development, and propose opinions on major issues concerning adjustment and reconstruction of the old industrial base on a regular basis.

IX  Deepen reform and opening up and vitalize social and economic development

26.   Deepen reform of state-owned enterprises. Organs concerned to promote the reform of state-owned enterprises, make endeavors to establish a sound modern corporation system and rejuvenate the economy in the old industrial base. During enterprise restructuring, organs concerned shall insist on handling issues according to procedures prescribed in laws and regulations, make transparent practices, actually safeguard legitimate rights and interests of employees and prevent loss of state-owned assets. People¡¯s governments at all levels in Northeast Region shall promote works on pilots of reform of collective-owned plants set up by large state-owned enterprises and the relevant departments shall make a summary of the previous works and improve policies for those pilots. The issues concerning medical insurance, employment injury insurance and social insurance of the retirees from enterprises directly under the central government or delegated to local government that have closed down according to policies and from local enterprises that have gone bankruptcy according to law shall be properly handled. The disposal of bad bank loans concerning the equipment manufacturing industry in Northeast Region shall be finished as soon as possible. The reform of state-owned enterprises engaged in industries of grain, commerce and trade, construction, agricultural cultivation, forestry and culture shall be quickened.

27.   Advance reform in other fields. The areas in Northeast Region that meet requirements to conduct national support reform pilots shall be decided as soon as possible. The fiscal management system shall be reformed and the finance of counties shall be subject to the direct administration of the province. The establishment of the basic finance guarantee system at the county level shall be studied. Efforts shall be made to improve the policies for enterprise bond issuance and explore diversified approaches of improving enterprise bond credit. More efforts shall be spent in developing diversified new rural financial institutions and promoting innovation of financial products and services in rural areas. The development of agricultural insurance shall be quickened, pilots and risks shall be expanded, and subsidies from central government shall be increased. A sound market for transfer of land use rights in rural areas and transaction of factors for forestry shall be established, so as to regulate administration and enhance efforts on service. Organs concerned shall check administrative charges imposed on enterprises, carry out policies and measures for enterprises that meet requirements to delay their payment of premiums of social insurance, and on reduction of fee rate and expansion of the expenditure scope of unemployment insurance funds, and reduce the burdens of enterprises. The reform of urban heat supply system and rural water conservancy administration system shall be promoted.

28.   Further open up to the outside world. Niaoning coastal economic area and Changchun-Jilin-Tumen River economic area shall be more open to the outside. The Guidelines for Plan on Cooperation between the Old Industrial Bases Including Northeast China and Fareast Area of Russia is urged to be concluded and put into action. The formulation and implementation of the plan for protection and development of Heixiazi Island shall be quickened. Organs concerned shall combine the works on opening-up of coastal and border areas, development of overseas resources, regional economic cooperation and taking of domestic and overseas transferred industries and support areas that meet requirements to set up border trade centers, economic cooperation centers, export-oriented processing zones and imported resources processing zones. Organs concerned shall make researches on establishment of China-Russia local cooperative development fund to support the implementation of the projects stipulated in the guidelines for plan of cooperation between local areas of China and Russia. The overseas ports may be utilized to conduct cooperation on cross-border transport of domestic commodities, and the channels for joint sea-and-rail transport in Heilongjiang and Jilin shall be kept for normal operation. Organs concerned shall vigorously make institutional innovation of administration of special zones under customs¡¯ monitoring, quicken the construction of Dalian Northeast Asian International Shipping Hub with Dalian Dayaowan Bonded Zone as the core, Suifenhe Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Shenyang Bonded Logistics Center, and facilitate bonded logistics and processing industry in the Northeast Region. The pilots for settlement of trade in goods in RMB may be conducted. The Northeast Region is encouraged to enhance economic and trade cooperation with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

Revitalization of the old industrial bases including Northeast China is a long-term hard task. The people¡¯s governments at all levels in this region, other regions and the relevant departments under the State Council shall fully carry out the scientific outlook on development, free minds to make innovation, and cooperate with each other to put all policies into effect. They shall promote the old industrial bases including Northeast Region to step on a new stage when countering global financial crisis and speed up to build its new growth powerhouse with unique advantages and competitiveness, so as to make contributions to national economic growth.

State Council

Sept. 9, 2009