The height of an industry often determines the height of a city, and the quality of the business environment built under the leadership of the government often determines the height of the industry. In other words, government policies and actions have an immeasurable impact on the direction of the industry.
From this perspective, the Foshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government held a Foshan Ceramic Industry Symposium on June 22, hosted and delivered by the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. It can be said to be a clear-cut statement of its firm support for the ceramic industry. The situation in the ceramic industry has brought positive signals.
In fact, as soon as this meeting was reported (for details, see the Foshan Ceramic Industry Association WeChat public account article "Foshan Municipal Party Committee Secretary Zheng Ke's Discussion with Representatives of Ceramic Enterprises"), it caused a strong response in the ceramic circle.
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A valuable meeting
At the meeting that day, Foshan Municipal Party Committee Secretary Zheng Ke delivered an important speech, the main contents of which were:
First, we firmly support the ceramic industry to become bigger, stronger and better. There are three key points for enterprise transformation and development: the first is to do research and development; the second is to build a brand; the third is to build the market.
The second is to fully help enterprises solve practical difficulties and problems. At the meeting, the municipal party committee office asked the municipal party committee office to list the problems raised by the enterprises one by one. Those that can be solved should be solved as much as possible, and those that cannot be solved should be explained one by one.
The third is to comprehensively optimize and improve corporate service levels. Our city is now building a first-class business environment, and has made building a first-class business environment the number one reform task of the Municipal Party Committee. It is very vigorous and has very good results. Support policies, especially tax incentives, and the price of natural gas were mentioned at the meeting. In short, we will do everything possible to solve these problems, provide better conditions for enterprises, and provide better services.
Zheng Haitao, member of the Standing Committee of the Foshan Municipal Party Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor, who also attended the meeting, made a speech, which included two meanings:
First, ceramics is an important pillar industry in Foshan, and the municipal party committee and municipal government have always attached great importance to the development of this industry. Foshan ceramic enterprises are currently facing difficulties in three aspects: repeated epidemics, sluggish real estate market, and rising prices of natural gas, coal, and raw materials. In order to support enterprises to tide over the difficulties, the municipal party committee and government have done a lot of work, especially in Zhengke Under the personal deployment of the secretary, a series of policy measures were introduced.
The second is to strengthen confidence, work together between government and enterprises, and strive to promote high-quality development of the ceramic industry. Implement various policies to benefit enterprises, effectively help enterprises solve outstanding difficulties and problems faced by development; accelerate the pace of digital and intelligent transformation, and further improve the competitiveness of the ceramic industryCompetitiveness; strengthen data statistics to achieve "unification of all needs" and objectively and truly reflect the development of industry enterprises.
The participating industry representatives spoke about the production and operation of enterprises this year and put forward demands and work suggestions. The prices of raw materials for ceramic enterprises have skyrocketed, the price of natural gas continues to rise, freight prices have skyrocketed, and costs remain high. It is difficult to sell and collect payments due to real estate regulation, and there has been a serious decline in exports due to anti-dumping of Chinese ceramics by many countries, as well as tax incentives, bank loans, project approvals, etc. The Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and relevant functional departments gave clear responses to the questions, and if the issues could not be finalized on the spot, the relevant departments would coordinate and deal with them after the meeting. Regarding the price of natural gas used in the ceramic industry, Foran Energy Group stated that the price for Gaoming, Sanshui and Chancheng before heating is 4.2 yuan/cubic.
Every word spoken by the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, the Executive Deputy Mayor and the heads of functional departments positively responded to the practical problems of the ceramic industry and ceramic enterprises; especially Secretary Zheng Ke’s speech reflected Foshan’s support for ceramics A clear attitude, clear ideas and practical measures for industry development.
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A high-level meeting
For Foshan, which has always attached great importance to the creation of a business environment and its business environment index ranks among the best among cities in the country, it is nothing new for the municipal party committee secretary to hold discussions with entrepreneurs, but convening a symposium specifically for a certain industry is actually Is rare.
It is reported that a total of 12 representatives of associations and enterprises attended the meeting that day.
The 12 representatives of associations and enterprises are very representative. They are: Liang Tongcan, President of Foshan Ceramics Industry Association and Chairman of Hongyu Group, Yin Hong, Secretary-General of Foshan Ceramics Industry Association; Liang Wangjuan, Vice President of New Pearl Group, Chen Kunlie, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dongpeng Holdings, and Director of Jinyitao Group Chang Heqian, Wu Qichao, chairman of Tianan New Materials and Eagle Brand Industry, Guan Weihong, general manager of Xinruncheng Ceramics, Huo Zhibiao, chairman of the supervisory board of Wrigley Home Furnishing Group, Wu Chaorong, president of Oceano Ceramics, Ye Rongheng, chairman of Bode Precision Ceramics, Luo Wenqiang, chairman of Sunshine Ceramics , Luo Shengquan, gold medal ceramics.
More than 12 government officials attended the symposium. In addition to Zheng Ke, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Zheng Haitao, Member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Executive Vice Mayor, Ge Chengshu, Member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary-General, directors of 10 government functional departments including Foshan Municipal Development and Reform Bureau, Industry Information Technology Bureau, and Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, deputy directorand President of Foran Energy Group Co., Ltd.
In terms of the number of attendees, government personnel actually exceeded ceramic industry representatives, which shows their service attitude towards the ceramic industry and enterprises.
Such a high-level meeting undoubtedly demonstrates the importance and recognition Foshan attaches to the ceramic industry. Behind this symposium, Foshan’s positive attitude and firm determination to help ceramic enterprises transform and upgrade and accelerate development by creating a good development environment and providing high-quality services are clearly visible on the paper.
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A meeting of extraordinary significance
If we just discuss matters, no matter how significant this meeting is, it only shows that Foshan attaches great importance to and affirms the ceramic industry and the efforts it has made for this. However, if you look at the Foshan ceramic industry and even the entire ceramic industry horizontally and vertically, and look at this meeting from a broader perspective, you will find that it has more extraordinary and far-reaching significance.
Looking back in 2007, when Foshan was rectifying the ceramic industry (planning to transfer and eliminate 80% to 90% of Foshan's ceramic production enterprises within two to three years), the "one size fits all" rectification approach almost destroyed this once-promoted enterprise. Foshan's industry that has brought a lot of wealth and countless glory - a large number of ceramic enterprises that were originally operating normally have been included in the "blacklist" of closure and relocation, and are basically on the verge of being "annihilated". Fortunately, with the active efforts of a group of government officials, association representatives, entrepreneurs, experts and scholars to "preserve Foshan ceramics", Foshan has adjusted its attitude towards the ceramic industry and made a comprehensive and systematic plan for the future development of the ceramic industry.
It is on this basis that Foshan Ceramics has been preserved, reborn, and continues to advance with the times. Although its production capacity will continue to shrink in the future, it has always occupied the commanding heights of the ceramic industry chain and led China's ceramic industry. industrial development.
Looking back at Zibo's ceramic industry, after experiencing industrial rectification that reduced production capacity from 1.2 billion square meters to 700 million square meters, it encountered the "most stringent" environmental rectification in history in 2016 (the local government issued the "Zibo City Ceramics and Ceramics Regulations" Industry Precision Transformation Work Plan" to implement environmental protection), eliminated a large number of backward production capacity, and the scale of production capacity dropped sharply from nearly 300 ceramic companies and more than 500 production lines to 47 ceramic companies and 76 production lines, resulting in supporting companies leaving the country one after another. Relocation, OEMA large number of businessmen have been lost, and the core advantages that they relied on for survival no longer exist.
In the end, Zibo Ceramics also lost its status as the "second largest ceramics production area" in the country.
Two cases, one positive and one negative, vividly prove that government policies and behaviors have an immeasurable impact on the direction of the industry. In this sense, the Foshan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government held a Foshan Ceramics Industry Symposium hosted and delivered by the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee on June 22, which has practical reference significance for other production areas.
Under the difficult situation of "the price of ceramic materials has skyrocketed, the price of natural gas continues to rise, freight prices have skyrocketed, costs remain high, and it is difficult to sell and collect payments under real estate regulation...", the Foshan Municipal Party Committee and Government held such a symposium , undoubtedly injected a shot in the arm into the ceramic industry, which is of great significance to boosting confidence and maintaining stability in the ceramic industry.
Foshan ceramics people have reason to believe that with the strong support of the municipal party committee and government, and the promotion of the "Foshan Standard" product project, Foshan's beautiful business card and one of the two trillion-dollar industry clusters are important components of the pan-home furnishing industry cluster. Not only will some Foshan ceramics not be weakened, they will become bigger, stronger and better!
