"Shanxi Accelerating Transformation and Development" Series - Deepening Reform in Key Areas Special Press Conference Held (21st)
On the morning of October 24, the Information Office of the Provincial Government held the 21st press conference of the series of press conferences on the theme of "Accelerating the Transformation and Development of Shanxi", which was also a special press conference on deepening the reform of key areas. The relevant responsible comrades of the Political Research Office of the Provincial Party Committee (Reform Office of the Provincial Party Committee), the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Provincial State-owned Assets Operation Company, the Provincial Local Financial Supervision Bureau, and the Provincial Energy Bureau introduced the relevant situation of deepening the reform of key areas in our province and answered questions from reporters.
Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee
Zhang Yu, Director of the Information Office of the Provincial Government:
Journalists,
Today, the Information Office of the Provincial Government held the 21st press conference of the series of press conferences on the theme of "Accelerating the Transformation and Development of Shanxi", which is also a special press conference on deepening the reform of key areas. We are pleased to invite:
Zhang Lu, Deputy Director of the Political Research Office of the Provincial Party Committee (Reform Office of the Provincial Party Committee);
Yan Zhongli, deputy director and spokesman of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission;
Liu Wei, deputy general manager of the provincial state-owned assets operation company;
Zhang Yongsheng, deputy director and spokesman of the Provincial Local Financial Supervision Bureau;
Hou Bingrang, deputy director and spokesman of the Provincial Energy Bureau.
I would like to ask them to introduce the relevant situation of deepening the reform in key areas of our province and answer the questions that are of interest to all the reporters.
First of all, I would like to invite Zhang Lu, deputy director of the Political Research Office of the Provincial Party Committee (Reform Office of the Provincial Party Committee), to make an introduction.
Zhang Lu, Deputy Director of the Political Research Office of the Provincial Party Committee (Reform Office of the Provincial Party Committee):
Dear Media Friends,
Thank you very much for your long-term concern and support for Shanxi's reform work!
The goals and tasks set by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in the next five years are "new steps in reform and opening up, the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity is further promoted, the socialist market economy system is more perfect, and the new system of a higher-level open economy is basically formed", which points out the direction for promoting reform on a new journey and a new starting point. The Sixth Plenary Session of the 12th Provincial Party Committee took "deepening the reform of key areas" as an important driving force for accelerating transformation and development, and made specific arrangements. The Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, thoroughly implement the important expositions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on comprehensively deepening reform and the spirit of the important instructions of Shanxi's important speech on investigation and investigation, anchor the "two basic realizations" goal, focus on breaking down deep-seated institutional and institutional obstacles, plan to build a reform policy system, and continuously improve the reform implementation mechanism. The breadth has increased significantly.
The pilot project of comprehensive reform of the energy revolution continues to deepen. We will complete the task of ensuring national energy supply, promote the construction of the "five bases" and the integrated development of the "five integrations" of the energy industry, improve the coal production, marketing, storage and transportation system, deepen the reform of the coalbed methane system and mechanism, and the marketization of electricity, and promote the integration of "source, grid, load and storage", multi-energy complementarity, energy Internet and other reforms, and the green transformation of the energy industry has reached a new level.
The promotion mechanism for industrial transformation has been continuously improved. Focus on the main direction of the revitalization and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, promote the construction of the "chain length system" of key industrial chains and characteristic professional towns, deepen the supply-side structural reform of the cultural, tourism, health and wellness industry, promote digital industrialization and industrial digitization, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system.
The reform of the business environment has been further promoted. Implement the 3.0 version of the reform of the business environment, deepen the integrated reform of "commitment system + standard place + full agency" and the reform of government services, effectively optimize the development environment of private enterprises, carry out the multiplication project of market entities, and promote the pilot of a long-term mechanism for normalizing the promotion of projects to private capital, so as to make it more convenient for market entities and the masses to do things.
The reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises has entered a new stage. The three-year action for the reform of state-owned enterprises has been completed, and the state-owned assets supervision system focusing on capital management has been improved, the strategic restructuring and professional integration of provincial enterprises have been promoted, the digital and intelligent management of state-owned capital and the efficiency of the innovation system of state-owned enterprises have been improved, and the core functions and missions of state-owned enterprises have been strengthened.
Fiscal, taxation and financial reforms have been carried out steadily. Establish a provincial-level financial major event guarantee mechanism, promote the reform of the division of fiscal powers and expenditure responsibilities below the provincial level, complete the integrated operation reform of government financing guarantee institutions in cities and counties, promote the reform of urban commercial banks and rural credit cooperatives, and continuously improve the ability of financial services for the real economy.
Accelerate the optimization of the innovation ecosystem. Promote the strategy of innovation-driven development, strengthening the province with talents, and rejuvenating the province through science and education, deepen the reform of "unveiling the leader" for key scientific research projects, promote the reform of giving scientific research personnel the ownership or long-term right to use scientific and technological achievements, build the Shanxi base of Huairou National Laboratory, improve the cooperation between provinces and schools and the flexible talent introduction mechanism, and continuously enhance the vitality of innovation and creativity.
Regional opening-up and co-construction gather new momentum. We will improve the docking mechanism of major national regional development strategies, enhance the energy level of open platforms such as comprehensive bonded zones and cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones, promote the reform experience of free trade zones, improve the high-quality development system and mechanism of the urban agglomeration in central Shanxi, implement the investment promotion reform of "government + chain master + park", and continuously improve the policy system of opening up to the new highland in inland areas.
The reform of the ecological field has been promoted in depth. Accelerate the construction of an important experimental area for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, orderly promote the Shanxi action to peak carbon emissions, implement the project of "one clear water flowing into the Yellow River", improve the protection and management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands and the ecological restoration and governance mechanism of the "first-class area of two mountains and seven rivers", carry out pilot projects of horizontal ecological compensation mechanisms in the upstream and downstream of the Fenhe River and Sanggan River basins, improve the market-oriented trading of carbon emission rights and the value realization mechanism of ecological products, and continuously improve the quality of the ecological environment.
Remarkable results have been achieved in party building and reform in the social field. The reform of party and government institutions has been steadily promoted, party building has been grasped to promote the normalization of grassroots governance, and the grassroots social governance system of "five governance integration" has become more sound. The employment promotion mechanism has been continuously improved, the comprehensive reform of education has been deepened, the integrated reform of medical and health care at the county level has formed the Shanxi model, and the pilot projects such as personal pension and "housing certificate payment" have been carried out solidly, and the revitalization of thousands of villages has been accelerated with the experience of the "Ten Million Project", and the people's livelihood and well-being have been continuously enhanced.
"Reform is not complete, only ongoing." In the next step, it is necessary to strengthen the direction of reform, maintain the determination of reform, and steadily promote the "9+3+X" reform action, so as to continue to provide strong momentum for accelerating transformation and development. Thank you!
Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee
Zhang Yu, Director of the Information Office of the Provincial Government:
Thank you, Deputy Director Zhang Lu, for your introduction.
Next, we will start answering questions from reporters. Please inform your reporter of the name of the news unit you belong to before asking a question.
Xinhuanet reporter:
The construction of an important experimental area for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin is one of the goals of "three districts and three places" determined by the Provincial Party Committee.
Yan Zhongli, deputy director and spokesman of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission:
Thank you for your question. First of all, thank you for your concern and support for the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in our province. In order to thoroughly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, the Provincial Party Committee put forward the goals and tasks of building an important experimental area for ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin. Under the strong leadership of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, and with the joint efforts of all departments at all levels in the province, the construction of the experimental zone has achieved positive results.
The first is to formulate and introduce an implementation plan. In April this year, the General Office of the Provincial Government issued the "Implementation Plan for Shanxi to Build an Important Experimental Area for Ecological Protection and High-quality Development of the Yellow River Basin", focusing on promoting the construction from the three levels of flowing counties, river basin areas and the whole province. With the counties flowing through as the breakthrough point, we should focus on ecological protection, consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and effectively connect with rural revitalization, take the river basin area as the main battlefield to make overall plans for pollution control and ecological economic construction, and take the whole province as a community to focus on ensuring national energy security and doing a good job in the transformation and development of resource-based economy.
Second, it is necessary to plan and implement a number of major projects. Proceeding from the systematic and ecological integrity of the river basin, we have adhered to the integrated planning of the upstream and downstream, the main and tributaries, the left and right banks, and the water and land areas, the integrated restoration of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands and sands, and the integrated promotion of mountain control, water control, gas control and urban management, and scientifically planned a number of major projects, especially the "One Flood of Clear Water into the Yellow River" project with a total investment of 104.6 billion yuan, which is currently progressing smoothly. In the first three quarters of this year, 81.4 percent of the 59 national examination sections in the Yellow River Basin were excellent water quality, up 2.1 percent year-on-year, the average air quality composite index was 4.07, down 4.0 percent year-on-year, and the average concentration of PM2.5 was 32 micrograms per cubic meter, down 5.9 percent year-on-year, indicating significant improvement in the ecological environment.
The third is to strive to explore a high-quality transformation and development path. We will continue to deepen the pilot of comprehensive reform of the energy revolution, and continuously optimize and adjust the energy structure. Accelerate the cultivation of industrial chain clusters, develop and expand strategic emerging industries, and accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system. In the first three quarters of this year, the advanced coal production capacity accounted for 80%, the installed capacity of new energy and clean energy accounted for 43%, the growth rate of manufacturing and strategic emerging industries was 2.2 and 9 percentage points faster than that of the above-scale industries respectively, and the output value of the ten key professional towns at the provincial level increased by 16.9% year-on-year.
Fourth, carefully build a cultural tourism belt of the Yellow River. Adhering to the modern tourism transportation concepts such as "fast travel, slow travel, deep experience" and "traffic and tourism integration", the province's first high-standard and high-quality tourist highway along the Yellow No. 1 has been built, with a total length of 1,238 kilometers, and is on the list of "Top Ten Most Beautiful Rural Roads" in the country. During this year's "Eleventh" Golden Week, the province's 66 key monitoring scenic spots received a total of 6,137,400 tourists, with a cumulative ticket income of 243 million yuan, and the cultural charm of the Yellow River is constantly being demonstrated.
In the next step, we will focus on the key objectives and tasks of the construction of the experimental area, thoroughly implement the Yellow River Protection Law, and work with all cities and departments to strengthen the implementation of planning policies, strengthen the traction and drive of projects, improve the legal system guarantee, and promote the construction of important experimental areas for ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin to achieve greater results. Thank you!
Reporter from Shanxi Radio and Television News and Financial Media Center:
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to deepen the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises, accelerate the optimization of the layout and structural adjustment of the state-owned economy, and promote the strengthening of state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises. What are the specific measures taken by the provincial state-owned assets operating company to promote the provincial state-owned capital and state-owned enterprises to become stronger, better and bigger?
Liu Wei, deputy general manager of the provincial state-owned assets operation company:
Thank you for your question. First of all, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the news media and all walks of life for their attention and support to the work of the provincial state-owned assets operating company over the years.
Reform is a key measure to determine whether state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises can achieve high-quality development. The provincial state-owned assets operating company itself is a product of reform, and it is the practice and exploration of the provincial party committee and the provincial government's market-oriented capital management. In recent years, we have firmly grasped the mission positioning, taken the lead in promoting the strategic restructuring of provincial enterprises and the implementation of two major reforms, such as the "six determinations" reform, continued to deepen the traction reforms such as investment control, main and auxiliary divisions, benchmarking and tapping potential, and digital intelligence management, and firmly grasped the key tasks such as reversing losses and reducing losses, improving quality and efficiency, capital operation, and performance appraisal, helping provincial enterprises to steadily improve their economic benefits and development quality, and further demonstrating their role as the "pillar" and "ballast stone" of the province's economic development.
Since the beginning of this year, guided by the implementation of the province's transformation strategy and taking the opportunity of deepening and upgrading the reform of state-owned enterprises, we have firmly practiced the operation concept of marketization, rule of law and specialization, continued to deepen reform and innovation, made good use of the directly affiliated tool companies, and strived to build a service pattern of "advance and retreat circulation and insurance" of state-owned capital, and strived to build a "Shanxi model" for the high-quality development of provincial enterprises, and achieved solid results.
1. Lead the optimization of the layout of state-owned assets with capital empowerment. Give full play to the leading role of investment, increase the docking of high-quality transformation projects with provincial enterprises, and implement transformation investment of 2.93 billion yuan in tool companies. Cooperate in the establishment of a 31.5 billion yuan national survey phase II coordinated development fund, effectively leverage social capital, increase the cultivation of new industries. Relying on the professional strength of industrial research "think tanks", we will promote scientific and professional investment control, and guide provincial enterprises to complete the investment of 83.91 billion yuan in the main business and 33.16 billion yuan in the new industry and advantageous industries. Helping to accelerate the liquidation of "non-performing financial assets" and "two non-capital assets", a total of 19.86 billion yuan of local financial non-performing assets were acquired, and 3.04 billion yuan of "two non-financial assets" were disposed of in a market-oriented manner.
2. Gather momentum for transformation and development with ecological empowerment. Build an Internet platform for the coal industry, promote coal mines to reduce personnel, increase safety and improve efficiency, and attract intelligent upstream and downstream ecological enterprises to land in Shanxi and cluster development. Give full play to the advantages of Shanxi's state-owned supply chain service platform, effectively solve the problems of small and medium-sized enterprises such as difficult financing, expensive financing, and difficult collection, provide support for the coordinated development of the industrial chain, and help optimize the business environment. Give full play to the strength of the professional team of capital operation, provide solutions for the listing of enterprises with "one enterprise and one policy", explore and carry out market value management, and improve the level of provincial state-owned assets securitization.
3. Empower state-owned enterprises with digital intelligence to help standardize governance. Build a digital and intelligent management platform for state-owned capital, horizontally cover "people, finance, and materials", vertically penetrate the whole level, and capture data from top to bottom, effectively solve the problems of underlying data inaccuracy and information distortion, and realize the understanding of enterprise conditions, management improvement, cost reduction and efficiency increase. The fund monitoring system monitors the capital, financing, credit and guarantee of provincial enterprises in real time; the financial management system realizes the four major functions of economic operation analysis, cost analysis per ton of coal, enterprise benchmarking management and financial risk early warning; the asset management system has launched physical assets exceeding 1.3 trillion yuan; and the investment management system realizes the full life cycle control of investment business before, during and after investment.
Fourth, promote the quality and efficiency of state-owned enterprises with reform and empowerment. Deepen the assessment reform of "comprehensive budget, full-level sub-classification, and comprehensive benchmarking", and promote the more accurate adaptation of classified assessment and enterprise functions and missions. Strengthen the control of costs and expenses, and the profit margin of operating income, cost profit margin, and return on net assets of provincial enterprises have reached the average level of state-owned enterprises in the country. Establish a long-term mechanism for the reform of "six determinations", and the labor productivity of all employees has steadily increased to 447,000 yuan. Strictly abide by the bottom line of risk, strengthen the "dual control" of asset-liability ratio and total financing, and provincial enterprises paid 143.7 billion yuan of bonds on schedule. Thank you!
Reporter from the Yellow River News Network:
What work has the Provincial and Local Financial Supervision Bureaus done to implement the decisions and arrangements of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, and to deepen the reform of the local financial sector, and what results have they achieved?
Zhang Yongsheng, deputy director and spokesman of the Provincial Local Financial Supervision Bureau:
In recent years, the Provincial Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau has fully implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and under the strong leadership of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, it has focused on promoting the reform of urban commercial banks within its jurisdiction, the reform of improving the quality and efficiency of financial institutions, the reform of rural credit cooperatives, and the reform of financing facilitation in the field of local finance, and has achieved remarkable results.
The first is to promote the phoenix nirvana of urban commercial banks through reform. In view of the problems of small asset scale, heavy historical burden, fierce homogeneous competition, inadequate corporate governance, innovation and development and insufficient anti-risk ability of the five municipal-level city commercial banks in Datong, Yangquan, Jinzhong, Changzhi and Jincheng, in 2020, the provincial party committee and the provincial government made a major decision and deployment to reform from the root, break the system and establish the governance with the courage to take the initiative to eliminate risks, the responsibility of smashing the pot and selling iron, and the vision of planning for the long term. The reform work leading group headed by the main leaders of the provincial government shall coordinate and promote the reform of urban commercial banks. The provincial local financial supervision and administration bureau actively assumed the responsibilities of the office of the leading group, took the lead in formulating the reform plan for the establishment of new banks by merging and establishing new banks by merging and establishing new banks, coordinated with relevant departments to actively strive for national special bonds and special loans, and carried out the disposal of non-performing assets and equity investment through the market-oriented path of setting up parent and child funds, so as to effectively ensure the successful implementation of the reform of urban commercial banks; Key tasks such as asset evaluation, equity quantification, capital increase and share expansion, and liquidation of problematic shareholders. The reform plan of the urban commercial banks in our province was approved within 18 days of reporting, the application for the establishment of new banks was approved within 7 working days of reporting, and the five municipal urban commercial banks were successfully merged and reorganized into one provincial-level urban commercial bank after 8 months, creating the "Shanxi speed" of local financial reform. On April 28, 2021, Shanxi Bank, which was reborn from the ashes of five municipal-level urban commercial banks, was officially opened, marking a milestone in the reform of Shanxi urban commercial banks. As of the end of September 2023, the total assets of Bank of Shanxi reached 341.8 billion yuan, the balance of general loans was 114.8 billion yuan, and the balance of deposits was 247.9 billion yuan, an increase of 29.5%, 41.2% and 21.2% respectively compared with the opening date.
The second is to promote the quality and efficiency of key provincial financial enterprises through reform. In 2021, the Provincial Party Committee held a special meeting on deepening the reform of local financial enterprises, reducing risks, improving quality and efficiency, and made important arrangements for key provincial financial enterprises to further benchmark first-class and improve the quality and efficiency of operations. The Provincial Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau actively performs the duties of the Office of the Provincial Leading Group for Financial Stability and Development, organizes the Provincial Rural Credit Union, Shanxi Bank, Jinshang Bank and Financial Holding Group to focus on corporate governance, development model, reform and risk reduction, internal management, quality and efficiency improvement, strict governance of the party, etc., clarify short-term goals and medium and long-term planning, and conscientiously establish a "N×3" work matrix of target standards, task measures and policy systems. The party committees of the four provincial key financial enterprises attach great importance to the implementation of benchmarking and tables, respectively select the leading institutions in the same industry in China as the benchmarking objects, strictly implement the implementation mechanism, and strive to turn the plan into construction drawings, the goal into the development direction, and the measures and systems into specific actions, so as to promote the enterprises to continue to move forward to the requirements of the modern financial enterprise system. It is understood that in the first half of 2022 alone, Jinshang Bank will establish, reform and abolish more than 300 systems. Through the implementation of benchmarking and table comparison, the role of these four provincial key financial institutions in serving the high-quality development of the province has been further amplified. In 2022, Jinshang Bank and Rural Credit System achieved profits of 9.3% and 5.79% respectively compared with 2021, and Bank of Shanxi successfully turned around losses and realized profits of 417 million yuan in 2022, while Jinshang Bank, Rural Credit System, Bank of Shanxi and Financial Holding Group increased by 19.46%, 11.46%, 9.04% and 6.07% respectively.
The third is to promote the reshaping of the rural credit system through reform. In view of the fact that the grassroots social corporate governance mechanism of the rural credit system in the province is not in place, the risk prevention and control system is not perfect, the gap between high-quality development is large, the accumulation of various burdens is abnormal, and the management of the whole industry is difficult to adapt to the requirements of economic and social development, the provincial party committee and the provincial government implement the relevant decisions and deployments of the central government, and require further promotion of the reform of the rural credit system in the province. The Provincial Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau conscientiously performs the responsibilities of the Office of the Provincial Leading Group for the Reform of Rural Credit Cooperatives, and coordinates and organizes all relevant parties to focus on promoting the following "three-step" reforms:
The first step is to change the course of grassroots societies. That is, through measures such as asset clearance and capital verification, asset evaluation, introduction of qualified investors, standardized disposal of original members' shares, effective disposal of non-performing assets, and making up for the gap in net assets, the former grassroots rural credit cooperatives will be promoted to be restructured into rural commercial banks with clearer property rights, more standardized governance, more effective management, more effective services, and various indicators that meet regulatory standards. At present, 101 of the 108 county-level rural credit cooperatives in the province have been restructured into rural commercial banks. As of the end of September this year, the total assets of the province's rural credit system were 1,761.775 billion yuan, the balance of deposits was 1,301.344 billion yuan, and the balance of loans was 806.867 billion yuan, an increase of 26.59%, 44.37% and 39.55% respectively compared with June 2020, the non-performing loan ratio decreased by 3.69 percentage points compared with June 2020, and the provision coverage ratio increased by 61.08 percentage points compared with June 2020.
The second step is to change the provincial association to the provincial association. In October 2022, the state approved the reform plan of rural credit cooperatives in our province, one of the important contents is: in accordance with the standards for the establishment of a good bank, based on the original provincial association, through the establishment of financial contributions, supplemented by market fundraising, the establishment of Shanxi Rural Commercial United Bank, further improve the governance mechanism, accept efficient and strict external supervision, perform duties in accordance with the positive and negative lists of functions, implement limited license operation, and do not open deposit and loan business to the public. In December 2022, the Provincial Associated Press held a general meeting of members to review and approve the preparation plan for the establishment of Shanxi Rural Commercial United Bank, issued an announcement in February 2023 to officially start the establishment work, approved the establishment of the national regulatory department in June, held the first meeting of the founding meeting and the general meeting of shareholders in September, and issued a business opening approval on October 23, and will be listed for business in the near future on the stage of financial history. This is a landmark achievement of the reform of rural credit cooperatives in our province.
The third step is to deepen the reform of municipal and county legal entities, that is, as the first province in the country to be approved to adopt the "top-down" model reform, the newly established Shanxi Rural Commercial United Bank should combine the province's rural credit reform risk plan, invest in grass-roots legal entities in accordance with the "voluntary and step-by-step participation of institutions", form a standardized, market-oriented, legalized, enterprise-oriented, and integrated risk defense consortium, accurately play the role of industry management and service of the provincial platform in accordance with the law, and promote grass-roots legal entities to strengthen the construction of grass-roots party organizations. Strengthen the positioning of supporting agriculture and small enterprises, strengthen corporate governance capabilities, establish a management mechanism with quality and efficiency as the core, adhere to a differentiated development path, and achieve overall reconstruction, rebirth, and high-quality development.
Fourth, reform to promote financing facilitation. The provincial and local financial supervision and administration bureaus have mainly implemented three key actions in this regard.
The first action is to promote financing facilitation through credit reporting. Focusing on solving the problem of information asymmetry between banks, governments and enterprises, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government decided to support Taiyuan City to set up a local credit reporting company on a pilot basis and obtain the legal filing qualification of the only enterprise credit reporting agency in the province. On this basis, we will further open up the smooth docking chain of "information-credit-credit" in the whole province, and comprehensively upgrade the municipal platform to a provincial platform serving the whole province. As of the end of September 2023, the provincial credit reporting platform has collected and shared 1.422 billion pieces of credit information related to various enterprises of departments or units, and has helped enterprises obtain financing of 174.069 billion yuan and credit of 326.459 billion yuan.
The second key action is to promote financing facilitation through the connection between government and banks and enterprises. The provincial government is requested to issue a special document to establish a normalized docking mechanism between government and banks and enterprises. All relevant parties at all levels have conscientiously implemented the requirements of the document, and since the beginning of this year alone, 107 major financing docking activities have been held, and more than 150 billion yuan of financing from financial institutions such as banks, insurance, securities, and funds has been promoted.
The third key action is to promote financing facilitation through financing guarantees. In view of the shortcomings of government financing guarantee institutions, such as the insufficient role of government financing guarantee institutions, in 2022, the integrated operation reform of government financing guarantee institutions in cities and counties with "reducing quantity and improving quality" as the core will be launched and completed. As of the end of September this year, the balance of the province's financing guarantee industry reached 84 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 73%.
In the next step, the provincial local financial supervision and administration bureau will conscientiously implement the major decisions and arrangements of the central government and our province on financial work, continue to deepen local financial reform, and resolutely shoulder the political responsibility of "reform is always on the road", so that the development of local financial institutions in our province will continue to enrich the development format, continuously improve the quality of development, continuously enhance the ability to resist risks, continuously improve the service mechanism, and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of services. Thank you!
Reporter from Shanxi Radio and Television Economic and Technology Channel:
As a pilot province for the comprehensive reform of the energy revolution, Shanxi Province is an important part of the electricity market-oriented reform, and is in the forefront of the country.
Hou Bingrang, deputy director and spokesman of the Provincial Energy Bureau:
Thank you for your question. In recent years, our province has taken the reform of electricity market as one of the important tasks of the comprehensive reform pilot of the energy revolution, and has achieved remarkable results in the reform of the electricity sales side, the liberalization of power generation and consumption plans, and the construction of spot markets, which has become a bright business card of the comprehensive reform pilot of Shanxi's energy revolution, and has injected new vitality into the comprehensive promotion of the transformation and development of the energy industry in our province.
The first is to focus on building a framework system for the reform of the electricity market. A series of supporting policy documents of "1+1+N" have been researched and formulated, including the Measures for the Operation and Management of the Electricity Market in Shanxi Province, the Work Plan for Further Promoting the Construction of the Electricity Market in Shanxi Province and a series of supporting implementation rules, and a complete power market system with the integrated development of "medium and long-term + spot + auxiliary services" and "intra-province + delivery" has been constructed.
The second is to promote the independent and standardized operation of power trading institutions. In September 2016, Shanxi Electric Power Trading Center, which is controlled by State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Company and participated by a number of power generation companies and power users, was officially established in the country. In June 2021, the equity structure of the CFETS was further optimized and adjusted, providing a fair, just, competitive and open platform for the in-depth promotion of the market-oriented reform of electricity.
Third, the scale of medium and long-term power transactions has gradually expanded. The amount of electricity traded has expanded from 1.36 billion kWh in 2013 to 168.5 billion kWh in 2022, an increase of about 124 times in ten years. The formation of the market-oriented electricity price mechanism has played an important role in promoting and guiding the healthy development of the province's economy and optimizing the industrial structure.
Fourth, we will continue to deepen the pilot project of the construction of the electricity spot market. Since the trial operation began in 2019, the Shanxi electric power spot market has carried out seven settlement trial runs, and the market rules have been updated to the 13th edition on a rolling basis, ranking first in the country in terms of cumulative trial operation days. It is the first to carry out medium and long-term daily trading in 24 periods, realizing the transformation from "electricity" trading to "electricity" trading, and the function of price discovery in the electricity market has been fully reflected.
Fifth, improve the market-oriented response mechanism on the power demand side. Explore the establishment of a market-oriented operation model of virtual power plants suitable for the characteristics of new energy, issue the "Implementation Plan for the Construction and Operation Management of Virtual Power Plants", and establish a market-oriented operation mechanism for virtual power plants under the background of spot.
Sixth, the reform of the electricity sales side has effectively stimulated the vitality of the market. It has cultivated a number of electricity sales companies with strong personnel quality, high management level, excellent business ability and advanced service awareness, of which 95.51% are private capital holding companies. The effective competition in the electricity sales market has stimulated the innovation of a variety of business models based on electric energy services, and attracted a number of high-tech talents at home and abroad to take root in our province and seek common development with local enterprises.
We will continue to adhere to the problem-oriented, overcome the difficulties encountered in the construction of the market, and actively promote the construction of a market mechanism that adapts to the new power system.
First, it is necessary to coordinate the construction of a "four-in-one" power market operation and management system of market regulation and control mechanism, market rule formulation and revision mechanism, market risk prevention and control mechanism and market supervision mechanism.
Second, in accordance with the requirements of the full coverage of national renewable energy green power certificates, we will explore the establishment of a green electricity and green certificate trading system, stimulate the enthusiasm of users to consume green electricity, and tap the potential of new energy consumption by market-oriented means.
The third is to further improve the market mechanism of virtual power plants and independent energy storage, stimulate the flexibility and regulation ability of various resources, and promote the consumption of new energy and the guarantee of power supply.
Fourth, relying on information technology and big data platform technology, we will improve the online trading platform for the two-level market of power batch and zero to further reduce market transaction costs.
In short, we will conscientiously implement the overall requirements of the central government on promoting the reform of the electricity market, in accordance with the arrangements of the provincial party committee and the provincial government, based on the actual situation in Shanxi, dare to take responsibility, have the courage to innovate, further improve the power market system, deepen the construction of the power market, and continue to make Shanxi's contribution to the construction of a unified national market. Thank you!
Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee
Zhang Yu, Director of the Information Office of the Provincial Government:
I am very grateful to the Provincial Party Committee Political Research Office (Provincial Party Committee Reform Office), the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Provincial State-owned Assets Operation Company, the Provincial Local Financial Supervision Bureau, and the Provincial Energy Bureau for attending the press conference of the Provincial Government Information Office, and I am also very grateful to all reporters and friends for their strong support for our work.
This concludes today's press conference. Thank you!
