On May 29, 2020, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the “Notice on Accelerating the Strengthening and Weakening of the Urbanization of County Towns”. The general requirements mentioned that the urgent need to make up for the new coronary pneumonia epidemic exposed the county’s public health, Weaknesses in human settlements, public services, municipal facilities, industrial facilities, etc., expand effective investment, unleash consumption potential, and expand market depth, providing important support for the firm implementation of domestic demand expansion strategies and new urbanization strategies.

How does the introduction of this policy affect the county’s urbanization and county economic development? What good news has been released?

First, the vitality of the county’s economic investment market is further stimulated

In the context of the current downward pressure on the economy, this policy clearly proposed four major areas 17 construction tasks, increase the development and construction of public service facilities, environmental sanitation facilities, and municipal public facilities, mainly to stimulate county market investment, stimulate market vitality, and stabilize economic development. Funding sources mainly include two aspects: on the one hand, it is to increase the support of government financial funds, that is, through local government financial funds, local government special bonds, anti-epidemic special treasury bonds, etc. In May, the scale of new local government special bond issuance is close to 10,000 100 million yuan, a new monthly high. On the other hand, it is to attract investment from social capital, mainly through financing support through developmental policy commercial finance and the National Urban-rural Integration Development Fund, standardizing the orderly promotion of the PPP model, and driving the enthusiasm of private investment in investment.

Second, the model of urbanization demonstration in county towns is further formed

The number of demonstration lists for new urbanization in county areas is 120, all of which have a solid foundation for development in each region Counties with strong financial strength and low government debt ratio, especially in the economically developed regions of the Yangtze River Delta region, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, reached 58 counties, of which Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Fujian each accounted for 10. These demonstration counties and county-level cities have a relatively high level of urbanization development. At the same time, this policy will further increase policy support for the central fiscal funds of these counties, improve the weakness of the urbanization of the county, and build demonstration projects. It will further accelerate the process of urbanization in these areas, take the lead in achieving high-quality urbanization development, form a typical model of county urbanization, and further achieve the effect of typical guidance and head goose effect.

Three, the “new infrastructure” market in the county will be further released

At present, according to the deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, we will speed up the construction of new types of infrastructure such as information networks, with “one industry leading to all industries”, both to help industrial upgrading and foster new The kinetic energy also promotes entrepreneurship and employment, which benefits the long-term benefits. The foundation is in the county, the vitality is in the county, and the difficulties are also in the county. For a long time, the ability of most county cities to rely on information technology to carry out refined urban governance is still weak. However, this policy has clearly stated: “Promote the extension of 5G network coverage to county cities and the construction of in-depth coverage of the Internet of Things; build a basic platform for city information models and promote the intelligentization of municipal public facilities; promote the administration of one service network and the government on the cloud to promote Refined social governance; building a unified basic public service platform to promote the convenience of public service supply”. Therefore, under the background of “new infrastructure” speeding up, the sinking county market will release huge potential.

Fourth, carrier operators such as “characteristic towns” in county towns benefit further

“characteristic towns” and “industrial parks” are the third and fourth lines Under the “new normal” of the economy, county towns are the main battlefield for stimulating resource advantages, expanding effective investment, and gathering high-end factors to make breakthroughs. However, the construction of industrial infrastructure and public services is the key to industrial development, and accelerating the promotion of industrial cultivation facilities to improve quality and efficiency is conducive to the development of county industrial clusters. This time the policy is issued, it clearly puts forward the requirements of “improving supporting facilities of industrial platform”, “improving cold chain logistics facilities” and “improving the level of farmers’ market”, and further emphasizes the short-term construction of industrial supporting services. The government will increase the public support for industrial carriers Supporting the construction of ancillary services will further enhance the public service capabilities of industrial carriers and improve carrier quality, which will directly benefit carrier operators.

Of course, the good news is not limited to this. During the construction of the country, “two new and one heavy”, it will bring more opportunities to the market, and at the same time, be accurate Interpret policies, avoid local government “one size fits all” phenomenon, strictly guard against local government debt risk, and strictly prevent “big demolition and large construction”, “greed and greed”.

(The author of this article is CCID Consulting’s regional economic expert Yu Debiao. CCID Consulting Co., Ltd. (referred to as CCID Consulting)) is directly under the China Electronics Information Industry Development Institute , Is the first listed consulting company in China, and provides modern consulting services such as regional development, urban strategy, industrial planning, smart city construction, and information planning for national ministries, urban parks, and industrial enterprises.)