Developing new quality productivity is the inherent requirement and important focus of promoting high quality development. The reporter learned from the Ministry of Finance that in 2024, the financial sector will focus on strengthening the dominant position of enterprise innovation, giving play to the role of demand traction, improving the resilience and safety level of the industrial chain supply chain, stimulating the vitality of scientific research personnel, and at the same time focus on deepening the reform of the allocation and use mechanism of financial science and technology funds and vigorously developing new quality productivity.
"To implement the innovation-driven development strategy and achieve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, it is necessary to improve the new national system, optimize the allocation of innovative resources, strengthen the national strategic scientific and technological strength, and promote the deep integration of innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain and talent chain. In recent years, the state finance has given priority to science and technology as a key area of fiscal expenditure. " Wang Dongwei, Vice Minister of Finance, said.
Statistics show that from 2018 to 2023, the financial expenditure on science and technology increased from 832.7 billion yuan to 1,056.7 billion yuan. At the same time, we will comprehensively use policy tools such as tax incentives, government procurement, asset management, and finance to vigorously support scientific and technological innovation. In 2023, the state’s preferential tax policies to encourage enterprises to increase R&D investment continued to be "overweight", and the policy implementation was more accurate, effectively enhancing the confidence and confidence of enterprises in R&D investment and injecting more momentum into the innovation and development of enterprises. Judging from the prepayment declaration of enterprise income tax in 2023, enterprises have accumulated 1.85 trillion yuan of R&D expenses plus deduction, up 13.6% year-on-year, of which manufacturing enterprises enjoy 1.1 trillion yuan of extra deduction, accounting for nearly 60%. With the support of a series of central policies and the strong guarantee of financial resources, a large number of innovative achievements have emerged one after another.
Li Xuhong, vice president and professor of Beijing National Accounting Institute, believes that the accelerated gathering of innovation kinetic energy in China has benefited from the continuous improvement of a series of preferential tax policies to support scientific and technological innovation, and implemented a series of preferential policies for innovative subjects such as high-tech enterprises, small and medium-sized scientific and technological enterprises, and R&D institutions. While encouraging enterprises to increase investment in R&D, they have fully guided innovative resources to gather in enterprises, which has provided strong support for the high-quality development of the real economy and contributed tax power to promoting industrial upgrading and transformation and cultivating new kinetic energy. On the other hand, the increase in financial investment in science and technology provides financial support for the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, strongly supports the development of new industries and emerging formats, and promotes industrial upgrading and innovation-driven.
"To promote the development of new quality productive forces, financial strength is indispensable. Under the complicated overall economic situation, the financial sector has maintained its support for investment in scientific and technological innovation, supporting the development of new quality productive forces from multiple levels and angles. A series of innovative breakthroughs in key scientific and technological fields and major application fields cannot be separated from the continuous support of financial funds. " He Daixin, director of national academy of economic strategy Finance Research Office, said.
Wang Dongwei said that in 2024, the financial sector will take more effective measures to promote the construction of a modern industrial system with scientific and technological innovation and vigorously develop new quality productivity.
On the one hand, in terms of policy orientation, we should pay attention to four aspects. First, focus on strengthening the dominant position of enterprise innovation. We will implement the structural tax reduction and fee reduction policy and focus on supporting scientific and technological innovation and manufacturing development. Give full play to the inciting role of financial funds, promote financial resources and social capital to invest more in scientific and technological innovation, and promote the gathering of various innovative resources to enterprises. The second is to pay attention to the role of demand traction. Make good use of the advantages of domestic super-large-scale market, make greater efforts to promote the application iteration of innovation achievements, implement and improve the insurance compensation policy for the first (set) of major technical equipment and new materials, and solve the initial application bottleneck in a market-oriented way. The third is to pay attention to improving the resilience and safety level of the industrial chain supply chain. Integrate and optimize relevant financial projects, focus on key industrial chains, and support research to break through a number of short-board and weak technologies. We will implement the financial support policy of "specialization and innovation" for small and medium-sized enterprises, and drive more enterprises to focus on market segmentation and take the road of "specialization and innovation". Fourth, pay attention to stimulating the vitality of researchers, support the pilot reform of salary system in universities and research institutes, accelerate the pilot reform of ownership or long-term use right of post scientific and technological achievements, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of researchers.
On the other hand, in the use of funds, efforts should be made to deepen the reform of the allocation and use mechanism of financial science and technology funds and achieve the "top four". The first is a strong foundation. Increase investment in basic research, applied basic research and cutting-edge research, and support the promotion of original innovation ability. The second is to tackle key problems. Vigorously support the fight to win key core technologies, support the layout of a number of major national science and technology projects, and accelerate the seizure of the commanding heights of science and technology. The third is strong power. Focus on national laboratories, national scientific research institutions, high-level research universities and leading enterprises in science and technology, and support the strengthening of national strategic scientific and technological strength. The fourth is strong efficiency. Strengthen the overall planning of projects, funds, talents and innovative resources of the base, comprehensively strengthen performance management, and strive to improve the use effect of science and technology funds.
"Developing new quality productivity and promoting high-quality development is a long-term process. The financial department is broadening the scope of support and strengthening support, and giving full support to researchers, key laboratories and related enterprises for a wider range of basic research and key technology research in a larger field that is in urgent need of financial support at this stage. " He Daixin said.
Reporter Zeng Jinhua
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