The Central Economic Work Conference has introduced new "Five Musts" requirements for conducting economic work under the new situation. The Provincial Economic Work Conference emphasized the need to closely integrate with the actual conditions of the province, grasp the characteristics of the current development stage, and translate the central government's systematic understanding of economic work into tangible development results. Adhering to the "Five Musts," with "fully tapping economic potential" placed at the forefront, represents not only a new theoretical insight refined from economic practice but also a scientific methodology for guiding economic work. This holds significant practical value for China in breaking through development bottlenecks and seizing strategic initiative at present. A large economic volume requires greater driving force for forward development. As a major economic province with a GDP exceeding 14 trillion yuan, Jiangsu must excel in "potential tapping" to shoulder its major responsibilities. It needs to effectively stimulate and unleash its economic potential, transforming it into a powerful momentum for promoting high-quality economic development, thereby solidly supporting the consolidation and enhancement of the steady and improving economic trend.
Fully tapping the potential of advanced productive forces is crucial for enhancing independent innovation capability and endogenous growth momentum. Supply capacity determines the "ceiling" of economic potential. Tapping economic potential essentially involves releasing the potential of social productive forces that are in a suppressed state, forming real supply capacity at the material and technological level. In the current era where high-quality development is the paramount principle, China's economic growth logic has shifted towards achieving a "qualitative leap" through economic quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, and innovation upgrading. Only in this way can space for quantitative expansion be opened up at a higher qualitative level. Therefore, the essence of Jiangsu's potential tapping lies in avoiding the generation of ineffective or inefficient accumulated supply and instead fostering advanced productive forces with superior quality and greater competitiveness.
Tapping the potential for innovation and upgrading of industrial chains and clusters is essential. It is important to grasp the inherent logic that a strong industry necessitates strong chains and clusters. Leveraging Jiangsu's advantages of complete industrial and supply chains and rich application scenarios, extraordinary measures should be taken to achieve breakthroughs in key core technologies within critical industrial sectors. The efficient conversion and application of major scientific and technological achievements must be accelerated, promoting characteristic chains and clusters to increase their innovation density, broaden their industrial spectrum, enhance supply-demand alignment, and unleash innovation momentum, thereby achieving rapid cluster evolution. Building on the foundational advantages of a rich variety of industrial intermediate goods and a high degree of internationalization, continuous efforts should be made to strengthen advantages in R&D design, manufacturing, full-lifecycle services, and instant response, thereby raising competitive barriers and "irreplaceability." Conducting technology substitution reserves is also key to enabling timely technological substitution and rapid capacity release under extreme scenarios.
Tapping the potential for functional expansion in service-oriented manufacturing is another priority. Responding to the practical needs of deepening division of labor and cross-border integration in Jiangsu's manufacturing sector, efforts should be made to deeply embed services into the entire product lifecycle and all stages of manufacturing, extending industrial chains, reshaping value chains, and building new ecosystems. Business entities should be encouraged to expand services such as collaborative R&D, crowdsourced design, system consulting, integrated solutions, remote diagnostics, maintenance and repair, technical training, full-lifecycle management, and value-added information. Support should be given to leading enterprises in producer services to transform into integrated service providers.
Tapping the potential for profound changes in enterprise organizational forms is also critical. It is important to grasp the structural opportunities arising from the comprehensive rectification of "involution-style" competition and to顺应 the trend of industrial model innovation and organizational transformation under fair competition mechanisms. This will promote a profound restructuring of industrial quality, formats, and enterprise organizational forms across the province. Following market principles and strengthening policy support, the pace of paradigm shifts within industries should be accelerated. High-quality enterprises should be guided to increase capital and expand production, integrate resources through mergers and acquisitions, increase investment in product R&D innovation and brand creation, expand production scale, enrich product supply, and enhance the long-term sustainability of industrial development.
Fully tapping the potential of the vast domestic market is key to enhancing consumption's pulling power on economic growth. Demand scale determines the extent to which economic potential can be released. Currently, unleashing consumption potential and enhancing consumption resilience have become pivotal in addressing the prominent contradiction of insufficient domestic demand. As a major province in terms of both population and consumption, Jiangsu urgently needs to focus on the consumption end to effectively respond to challenges such as "supply stronger than demand" and "decelerating demand-side expansion," thereby better leveraging consumption's role as a powerful engine and stabilizing anchor in driving economic growth and smoothing economic circulation.
Tapping the synergistic potential of "consumption capacity + consumption willingness" is vital. By capitalizing on new trends such as hard-tech entrepreneurship, quality consumption entrepreneurship, and market penetration creating new entrepreneurial space, Jiangsu can recreate new advantages in innovation and entrepreneurship. Expanding employment opportunities in new industries and formats like new manufacturing and new consumption, while simultaneously increasing marginal labor remuneration, will boost residents' actual consumption capacity. Implementing actions to support and guarantee consumption capacity, effectively reducing costs associated with childbirth, parenting, and education, improving medical and elderly care security capabilities, expanding the coverage of subsistence allowances, and enhancing the consumption capacity of low-income groups are essential. Leveraging the brand influence of initiatives like "Su New Consumption" and "Su Chao," efforts should focus on creating a number of branded, benchmark consumption activities that feature broad public participation, strong consumption driving force, and integrate goods and services consumption, forming new growth points for consumption.
Tapping the synergistic potential of "responding to demand + creating demand" is equally important. Utilizing Jiangsu's strengths in strong innovation and creativity capabilities and diverse market demand, various entities should be encouraged to provide products and services with "pioneering" characteristics. When designing products and services, striking a balance between quality, experience, and price is crucial, aiming to create a comprehensive advantage of "new products/models + new services + cost-effectiveness," increasing the accessibility of products and services, and achieving a unity of innovation effect and scale effect. Encouraging the development of consumption formats such as首发经济, e-commerce,特色消费, green economy, duty-free and bonded economy, and digital-intelligent consumption will continuously unleash the potential of new types of consumption.
Tapping the synergistic potential of "consumption environment + consumption scenarios" is necessary. Improving the standard systems for consumer goods and service consumption, and strengthening the credit system in the consumption field are key steps. Leveraging the advantages of consumption center cities, business districts, streets, hubs, and platforms, traditional department stores and other physical stores should be transformed into new commercial spaces. Implementing the "Thousand Fairs, Ten Thousand Stores" renovation and upgrading program in counties, and promoting the introduction of high-quality commercial elements are important. Integrating various technologies and resources to create immersive, experiential, and interactive consumption environments, and forging new models of consumption scenarios that blend online and offline, cross boundaries and domains, will enhance consumption vitality through new spaces and new supplies.
Fully tapping the potential of spatial structure optimization is essential for shaping a robust and dynamic regional growth pattern. Tapping economic potential inherently requires the formation of several economic spatial units with high growth potential and development resilience. Starting with township economies, and led by county economies and park economies, Jiangsu has率先 established a pattern dominated by urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, with coordinated development of large, medium, and small cities and small towns, shaping Jiangsu's advantage of a diversified economic space. Looking ahead, Jiangsu will support various sub-regions to further highlight their distinctive development characteristics. While contributing more strengths, enhancing synergistic complementarity will continuously promote the release of the province's spatial economic potential.
Tapping the potential of adjusting the provincial productive forces layout is a focus. Aligning with national policy deployments for optimizing industrial layout and promoting the orderly domestic transfer of key industries, Jiangsu should leverage the new advantages formed by potential areas like Northern Jiangsu and the coastal region in terms of urban park functions, factor and project security, technology application and conversion, and logistics collection and distribution systems. Making full use of the advantages of the Yangtze River Delta world-class urban agglomeration in innovation chain, industrial chain, supply chain, capital chain, talent chain, as well as the regional large market advantage, will further amplify the "Southern Jiangsu innovation, Northern Jiangsu conversion" strength, driving a comprehensive optimization of the provincial productive forces layout.
Tapping the potential of citizenization of agricultural migrant populations is crucial. Seizing the opportunities inherent in implementing actions to enhance the quality of citizenization for agricultural migrant populations, Jiangsu should推行 the system of providing basic public services based on household registration in the place of habitual residence. Strengthening support for resource elements in advantaged areas and cities with net population inflow is necessary. Building on the foundational advantages of strong regional central cities and leading county development, efforts should aim to raise standards and expand the connotation of providing basic urban public services and equalizing urban-rural public services for the vast number of agricultural migrant populations and外来灵活务工人员. This will enable more people to settle down in Jiangsu, transforming them from relatively conservative variables in expanding domestic demand, increasing employment, and promoting entrepreneurship into more dynamic constants.
Tapping the potential of county economies to drive urban-rural integration is key. Promoting the expansion, quality improvement, and functional enhancement of county central urban areas is essential. Integrating development positioning focused on strong functions, strong momentum, and strong radiation driving force into the entire process of planning, construction, and management of central urban areas will strengthen the integration of functions like sci-tech innovation, commerce and trade, culture, and education. Implementing old city renewal, and comprehensively promoting integrated improvements in residential areas, ecological spaces, infrastructure, inefficient land use, and historical culture are important. Focusing on enhancing the industrial platform agglomeration power, infrastructure support capacity, public service guarantee capability, and ecological environment carrying capacity of county central urban areas will enable their seamless integration into the networks and quality spaces of their respective metropolitan areas and urban agglomerations, thereby enhancing the development capacity and radiation driving force of county economies.
Fully tapping the potential of marine economic development is vital for striving for maritime strength and building a blue growth engine. The ocean is a strategic space for high-quality development and a contested area for tapping economic potential. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, driven by key dynamics such as the offshore engineering and shipbuilding industry weathering the industry cycle to enter a period of explosive growth, and major coastal industrial sectors entering a phase of密集 project implementation, Jiangsu's Gross Ocean Product (GOP) historically surpassed the 1 trillion yuan threshold. Entering the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the construction of Jiangsu as a strong marine economy province enters a new stage characterized by strategic overlaps, policy enhancements, functional upgrades, resource convergence, emerging scenarios, and ecological optimization, making it the right time to unleash the potential of the marine economy to a greater extent.
Tapping the economic potential of the world-class "Jianghai扇面" is a strategic move. Leveraging the advantages of the Yangtze River region in marine innovation resources and the coastal region in marine development space, Jiangsu should smooth the flow channels for various resource elements between the river and the coast, significantly enhancing the depth, breadth, and space of river-sea linkage. Promoting the radiation and convergence of river-related marine sci-tech innovation resources towards the coast, and ensuring effective coastal对接 of industrial and technological radiation transfer from the river region, will focus on deeply integrating provincial marine sci-tech innovation with marine industrial innovation and regional coordination, creating a "Jianghai扇面" for high-quality marine economic development with global influence.
Tapping the potential for high-end manufacturing in shipbuilding and offshore engineering is essential. Building on the advantages of the shipbuilding and offshore engineering industry, Jiangsu should promote the intelligent and green upgrade of mainstream ship types like bulk carriers, container ships, and tankers, develop a new generation of low-carbon intelligent ship products, and implement the R&D and demonstration application of new-generation dual-fuel eco-friendly ships, liquid hydrogen carriers, and electric vessels. Promoting equipment updates and technological upgrades will focus on enhancing capabilities in intelligent manufacturing integration services, high-end manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing, and professional services, aiming to create an internationally competitive hub for intelligent marine equipment manufacturing.
Tapping the potential for deep-sea industry development is forward-looking. Giving full play to the leading role of the Taihu Laboratory for Deep Sea Technology and Science, Jiangsu should deepen high-risk, high-value basic research in deep-sea science and technology, and strengthen the layout and cultivation of cutting-edge and disruptive technologies. Supporting the integrated development of deep-sea industries, promoting the development and utilization of deep-sea and polar biological resources, and prioritizing the R&D of technologies for supporting equipment like deep-sea intelligent monitoring and control systems, manned submersibles, and unmanned underwater vehicles are key. Enhancing the ability to integrate and apply innovative technologies and achievements in information technology, new energy, new materials, and biotechnology with the development of deep-sea resources is crucial.