Ningbo ranks No.6 in China’s service sector reform cities
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- Published: Monday, 06 April 2020 13:34
The National Development and Reform Commission recently announced the evaluation results of comprehensive reform of the national service industry in the 13th Five-Year Plan period (pilot municipalities, cities specially designated in the state plan, provincial capitals, and provincial capitals in the eastern and central regions). Ningbo ranked sixth, right after Shenzhen and Hangzhou.
From June to December 2019, the National Development and Reform Commission evaluated 19 pilot areas for comprehensive reform of the 13th Five-Year Plan. The assessment involves six aspects including working mechanism and innovation reform measures, overall development level and quality, investment and construction achievements, innovation and development of service industry, expansion of service industry opening, and service industry development environment. The qualitative and quantitative evaluation was carried out through four working stages, including the preliminary review of the manuscript, i
nspection, defense evaluation, and quantitative analysis and evaluation of data indicators. Ningbo ranked 6th in the 19 pilot regions because of the leading indicators, and the top 5 were Jing'an District of Shanghai, Haidian District of Beijing, Wuhan, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou.
The evaluation report shows that developed cities such as Ningbo have made outstanding achievements in optimizing the development environment of the service sector and creating new formats and models; the logistics and foreign trade service industries have been well cultivated during the pilot process and have become the focus of local service industry development.
Back in 2010, Ningbo participated in the pilot program for the reform of the national service industry during the 12th Five-Year Plan period. In recent years, the municipal party committee and government have made greater efforts to promote the transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure, and have made significant achievements in advancing pilot reforms in key areas of the service industry. By the end of 2019, the contribution rate of the service industry to the city's economic growth has increased to 54.2%, accounting for 49.1% of GDP. The service industry became the primary economic driver for Ningbo. At the same time, air terminals and logistics, international trade, modern finance and other advantageous service industries continued to grow bigger and stronger. E-commerce, information services, technology services, business services, cultural creativity, energy conservation and environmental protection and other emerging service industries achieved breakthroughs. Lifestyle services such as elderly care, tourism, modern commerce and trade, and family services have gained the momentum and become an important part of the new urban economy. The internal industrial structure of the service industry has been further optimized.
In the future, Ningbo will continue to advance the pilot of comprehensive reform of the national service industry, innovate the development mechanism, optimize the development environment, pool talents, vigorously cultivate a group of local service industry leading enterprises, and strive to create a number of state-level modern service industry cluster demonstration zones to comprehensively improve our development level of the city's service industry and its position in the Yangtze River Delta region. It will strive to build a new service industry pattern with distinctive regional characteristics, clear development priorities, high-end business structure, and strong radiation capabilities