In 2016, the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee invited 8 representatives of private entrepreneurs from this city to the Municipal Party Committee for a discussion, listening to their suggestions on the construction of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center and economic and social development. After listening to everyone's speeches one by one, it is emphasized that private enterprises have made outstanding contributions to the economic and social development of Shanghai, are an important force for innovation, the main force for expanding employment, and the backbone force for promoting and reflecting the vitality of Shanghai's economy. In the process of comprehensively promoting reform and building a science and technology innovation center for the 13th Five Year Plan, Shanghai should make greater efforts to create a better environment for the development of private enterprises, build a larger stage for entrepreneurship, and promote private enterprises to make greater contributions to the development of Shanghai.

At the more than three hour symposium, Zheng Yuewen, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Korui Group Co., Ltd., Huang He, Chairman of Meizhuan Energy Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Zhang Feng, Chairman and President of Shanghai Huitian Chemical New Materials Co., Ltd., Yang Guisheng, Chairman of Shanghai Jieshijie New Materials (Group) Co., Ltd., Tan Jianfeng, Chairman of Shanghai Renren Network Security Technology Co., Ltd., Li Jianjun, Chairman of Shanghai Ruier Industrial Co., Ltd., Zhang Zhongyuan, Chairman of Shanghai Liwusheng Enterprise Group Co., Ltd., and Wang Yuhan, Chairman of Shanghai Tuopu CNC Technology Co., Ltd., combined with the actual innovation and entrepreneurship of the enterprises themselves, focused on the common problems and bottlenecks faced by private enterprise development, and put forward fair opinions and suggestions. Entrepreneurs expressed confidence and expectations in the construction of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center in their speeches, unanimously believing that technology innovation enterprises have ushered in new development opportunities.

*Listen while asking questions, communicate openly with everyone, thank you for your targeted suggestions and opinions. He said that for a long time, private enterprises in Shanghai have made outstanding contributions to the city's economic and social development. They are an important force for innovation, the main force for expanding employment, and the backbone force for promoting and reflecting Shanghai's economic vitality. These important forces are particularly reflected in the development of the four new economies and the real economy. Facing the 13th Five Year Plan, Shanghai will make greater efforts to create a favorable environment for the development of private enterprises in the process of comprehensively promoting reform and accelerating the construction of an influential science and technology innovation center. One is the market environment, establishing and improving the market mechanism of survival of the fittest and equal competition, and truly playing a decisive role in the allocation of innovative resources in the market. The government should play a better role, which should be reflected in risk prevention, market supervision, and other aspects, and concentrate efforts to do things that the market cannot do well. The second is the legal environment, and the market economy is also a legal economy. We should establish a more complete legal environment in accordance with the spirit of the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and promote better development of enterprises. The third is the talent environment. Talent is the most important resource in Shanghai, and how well the talent advantage is utilized determines Shanghai's competitiveness and whether the Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center can be smoothly promoted. The fourth is the cultural environment. Innovative culture is an important component of urban and social culture and must be further promoted.

*It is emphasized that private enterprises are an important part of Shanghai's national reform and opening up, as well as innovative development. They must be based in Shanghai, face the whole country, and go global to further enhance their competitiveness. The 8 private enterprises participating in the symposium are representatives of the many backbone private enterprises in Shanghai. While encouraging mass entrepreneurship and innovation, we need to promote some of the backbone private enterprises to become those with core technologies and independent brands, truly possessing core competitiveness. We need to pay special attention to a group of backbone private enterprises that can promote the development of the real economy, so that they can develop faster and stronger, and make the contribution that private enterprises should make to "Made in China 2025". Facing the development of the 13th Five Year Plan, the development environment for private enterprises will become increasingly better, and there will be a greater stage for entrepreneurship. I hope more private entrepreneurs can emerge in Shanghai, achieve greater success for their enterprises, and make greater contributions to the development of Shanghai.

Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Ying Yong, Standing Committee Member of the Municipal Party Committee and United Front Work Department Changsha Hailin, Standing Committee Member of the Municipal Party Committee and Secretary General of the Municipal Party Committee Yin Hong, Vice Chairman of the Municipal Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of the Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce Wang Zhixiong attended the symposium. (Reporter Tan Yan)