To deepen government-enterprise coordination and interaction, improve the business environment, and rally joint forces for corporate growth, the Linyi Government-Enterprise Exchange Forum under the Qinqing Reception Hall was successfully held on July 24. Yu Shengtao, Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Linyi, presided over the meeting and delivered an important speech. He listened to enterprises’ voices face to face, precisely matched their demands, and arranged key work to support corporate development.

Gao Jianming, General Manager of Shandong Hongfa Industry & Trade Co., Ltd., was invited to attend the forum. He gathered with representatives of key enterprises including Shandong Lingong, Kewei Machinery, Lulan Environmental Technology and Lixing New Materials to discuss industrial progress, deliberate on government-enterprise cooperation, and jointly draw a new blueprint for Linyi’s development.

The forum featured a pragmatic and vibrant atmosphere. Entrepreneur representatives took turns speaking based on their business operations, industrial trends as well as opportunities and challenges they encountered, putting forward valuable suggestions for the high-quality industrial development of Linyi. Mayor Yu Shengtao carefully listened to all remarks, engaged in in-depth and detailed discussions with the entrepreneurs, and spoke highly of local entrepreneurs in Linyi. He stressed that Linyi’s entrepreneurs boast broad vision, a strong sense of responsibility and deep devotion, serving as the core driving force and backbone underpinning the city’s economic expansion.

Currently, based on the development plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Linyi is striving to build itself into a provincial regional sub-center city and forge ahead toward becoming a trillion-yuan GDP city, entering a critical phase of quality improvement, efficiency enhancement and leapfrog breakthroughs. At the meeting, Mayor Yu set forth clear requirements and earnest expectations for the development of private enterprises across the city. He encouraged local enterprises to actively integrate into the city’s overall development agenda, act as leading players in urban economic growth, stay committed to the real economy, concentrate on their core businesses, and pursue high-quality corporate development driven by innovation.

Regarding enterprises’ long-term growth, the meeting clarified the following requirements:

Enterprises must prioritize scientific and technological innovation, scale up the recruitment and training of research personnel, strive to make breakthroughs in core technologies, and continuously foster new growth drivers and competitive edges; they shall wholeheartedly focus on core businesses, pursue excellence in product quality, and build core competitiveness through independent brands; they shall embrace global development proactively, expand international markets via various exhibition platforms and tap greater potential for foreign trade growth; they must abide by laws and regulations in operation, strictly observe the red lines for work safety and ecological environmental protection, so as to achieve steady and sustainable development.

Meanwhile, the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government pledged to continuously bolster service support for enterprises and act as a solid backing for their growth. Authorities will smooth regular communication channels between the government and enterprises, adhere to the service principle of "no unnecessary interference, prompt response to legitimate demands", precisely meet enterprises’ needs for capital expansion, production capacity upgrading and IPO listing, and guarantee the full supply of all production factors. Efforts will be made to deepen integration between industry and education, promote order-oriented talent training to effectively address enterprises’ talent shortages. The industrial ecosystem will be further optimized through the high-standard construction of specialized industrial parks and vigorous development of producer services, helping enterprises cut costs and boost efficiency, thus safeguarding the sound development of private businesses.

Being invited to this municipal government-enterprise exchange forum fully demonstrates the recognition by the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government of Hongfa Industry & Trade’s development achievements, industrial strength and social responsibility. As a key local enterprise rooted in the real economy of Linyi, Shandong Hongfa Industry & Trade has always aligned its development with the city’s development strategies. Centered on core businesses and empowered by technological innovation over the years, the company has upheld its commitment to product quality and technological upgrading. While sustaining steady business growth, it has earnestly fulfilled corporate social responsibilities, boosting the transformation and upgrading of local industries and the high-quality development of regional economy.

Going forward, Hongfa Industry & Trade will firmly seize the major opportunities arising from Linyi’s drive to build a provincial regional sub-center city and a trillion-yuan GDP city, respond actively to all development arrangements issued by the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and fully integrate into the city’s overall development layout. On one hand, the company will keep focusing on its core businesses, increase investment in scientific and technological R&D, recruit and cultivate professional talents, tackle key core technologies, and steadily elevate product quality and core market competitiveness. On the other hand, it will vigorously explore domestic and overseas markets, adhere to compliant operation, and steadily advance the real economy. Furthermore, leveraging its strengths as a local enterprise, Hongfa will keep participating in coordinated government-enterprise development, fuel industrial upgrading through pragmatic endeavors, boost the improvement of Linyi’s urban stature via innovative development, and contribute greater strength from Hongfa to the high-quality economic development of the whole city.