How can Xinjiang, located in the core area of ​​the Silk Road Economic Belt, implement the spirit of the private enterprise symposium, fully support the private economy to become stronger, better and bigger, and take new steps to promote high-quality development? The reporter interviewed Erken Tuniyazi, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and chairman of the autonomous region.

Deeply implement the spirit of the private enterprise symposium

Reporter: How does Xinjiang understand and grasp the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the private enterprise symposium?

Erken Tuniyazi: The spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the private enterprise symposium provides a fundamental guideline, point out the direction and lays the foundation for us to promote the development and growth of the private economy in the new era and new journey. The Party Committee and Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have always adhered to the principle of "two unshakable" and "three unchanged" to promote the sustained, healthy and high-quality development of the private economy.

As of the end of February 2025, the total number of private economic entities in Xinjiang increased by 16.32% compared with the end of 2021. In 2024, the added value of the private economy accounted for about 40% of the GDP of Xinjiang, and the growth rate of the added value of industrial private enterprises above the designated size in the region was 9.3 percentage points higher than the industrial added value of industrial private enterprises above the designated size in the region; 68% of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in Xinjiang, 78% of high-tech enterprises, 84% of national-level specialized and new "little giant" enterprises, 98% of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises and 99.86% of specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises are all private enterprises, and the innovation vitality of private enterprises continues to increase; the import and export value of private enterprises in Xinjiang is 403.1 billion yuan, accounting for 92.6% of the total value of the region during the same period, and the position of the main force in the development of foreign trade of private enterprises is increasingly consolidated.

At present and in the future, Xinjiang will combine the implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech with the complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept and the Party’s Xinjiang governance strategy in the new era, anchor Xinjiang’s “five strategic positioning”, fully implement the “Several Policy Measures of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Promoting the Development and Growth of the Private Economy”, hold a regular consultation symposium on “Face-to-face”, etc., and strive to create a market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment, and convey a strong signal to the whole society to value business, be friendly to business, and protect business. We will formulate policies, measures and solve problems in accordance with the law and regulations, and make every effort to promote the strengthening, improving and expanding of Xinjiang's private economy.

Seize the opportunity, the private economy has great potential

Reporter: What are the opportunities for the sustainable development and growth of Xinjiang’s private economy?

Erken Tuniyazi: Building a modern industrial system is an important part of promoting Chinese-style modernization. Xinjiang serves the overall national strategic situation and has determined a new blueprint for industrial development based on Xinjiang's resource endowment and industrial foundation. In the new development opportunities, Xinjiang will use its development advantages to boost development confidence and stimulate the endogenous motivation of private enterprises.

First, policy advantages. With the deepening of my country's expansion of opening up to the outside world, the development of the western region, and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", Xinjiang has changed from a relatively closed inland to the forefront of opening up to the outside world. Promoting the construction of the core area of ​​the Silk Road Economic Belt, including Xinjiang's regional opening-up strategy in the overall layout of the country's opening-up to the west, and providing support in terms of fiscal funds, project construction, preferential policies, etc., is an important policy advantage in achieving high-quality development in Xinjiang. The foundation of "stability" is constantly consolidated, and the trend of "progress" is constantly improving. Xinjiang has become a hot spot for investment and business development, and it has also become a big stage for private enterprises to realize their own value in serving national strategies.

The second is resource advantages. Xinjiang's resource advantages are accelerating the transformation into real productivity and economic development advantages. In 2024, Xinjiang will focus on the needs of the country and its own capabilities, develop new quality productivity according to local conditions, enrich and expand the "Top Ten Industrial Clusters", and the output of major characteristic and advantageous resource products such as oil, natural gas, coal, grain, and cotton will reach a new level, and deliver a brilliant "answer". Focusing on the construction of the "Top Ten Industrial Clusters", private enterprises have great potential in transforming and upgrading traditional industries, strengthening characteristic and advantageous industries, and accelerating the development of emerging industries.

In combination with the construction of the "Top Ten Industrial Clusters", the government will increase its efforts to promote projects to private capital, support private enterprises to participate in the construction of major infrastructure projects such as railways, energy, water conservancy, and urban renewal, actively explore countries and other emerging potential markets for jointly building the "Belt and Road" countries and other emerging potential markets, and implement new mechanisms for cooperation between government and social capital.

Coordinate the implementation of various policies and measures

Reporter: Faced with the new situation and new tasks of the development of the private economy, what specific measures and work ideas do Xinjiang take in promoting the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy?

Erken Tuniyazi: To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech at the private enterprise symposium, Xinjiang will coordinate the implementation of various policies and measures to promote the development of the private economy, and strive to help the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy from five aspects.

First, optimize the market environment and strive to promote fair access. Strictly implement the negative list management model for market access and fully implement policies and measures to relax market access for private enterprises. Continue to clean up various explicit and implicit barriers that restrict private enterprises from integrating into the unified national market and participating in fair competition.

The second is to make full use of policies and strive to support the development of private enterprises. We will ensure the implementation of national and autonomous region policies. Effectively reduce social logistics costs. Establish a working mechanism for handling cases of large enterprises with arrears of small and medium-sized enterprises quickly and quickly reviewing and executing them. Improve the long-term mechanism for managing the arrears of project funds.

The third is to strengthen legal protection and strive to protect the legitimate rights and interests of private enterprises in accordance with the law. The "Regulations on Optimizing the Business Environment in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region" was issued. Carry out special actions to standardize law enforcement involving enterprises, strengthen supervision of abuse of intellectual property rights and false litigation, and strengthen civil and administrative litigation supervision and criminal crackdown on intellectual property rights involving private enterprises. Implement the "Spring Rain Action" to solve the difficulties and problems of private enterprises.

Fourth, adhere to problem-oriented approach and effectively solve the problems of difficulty and high cost of financing. Implement special credit report to replace any illegal and irregular records. Improve the new regulatory mechanism, support qualified private small and medium-sized enterprises to raise funds in the bond market, and further increase the scale of bond issuance of private enterprises. Carry out application and dynamic management of resource database for listing reserve enterprises in the autonomous region. Strengthen the cultivation and reserve of real estate investment trust fund projects in the infrastructure field.

Fifth, build a government-enterprise communication platform and comprehensively build a friendly and clean government-business relationship. Establish and improve the system of party and government leading cadres at all levels contacting private enterprises and business associations, etc., encourage leading cadres at all levels to have open and sincere contact with private entrepreneurs, and guide private entrepreneurs to actively communicate with party committees, governments and departments at all levels.

"People's Daily" (Edit 02, April 3, 2025)