Xinhua Daily: Promoting high-quality development with the power of assessment

Assessment work is a yardstick, and it is a "baton, weather vane and booster" to promote high-quality development. The summary of the province’s high-quality development in 2023 and the work promotion meeting in 2024 pointed out that the comprehensive assessment, as an important institutional arrangement, should promote the comprehensive assessment to improve in persistence and develop in perfection according to the new situation and new tasks, and better encourage the whole province to start businesses and strive for Excellence, and constantly take solid steps in promoting high-quality development.

After exploration and practice, the comprehensive assessment system in our province has been continuously improved and improved, with more accurate assessment indicators and simpler assessment methods, which has promoted all localities and units to catch up with each other and compete for development in the high-quality development track. In the past year, Jiangsu adhered to the complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, strengthened systematic thinking and made full efforts in its work. New breakthroughs have been made in comprehensive quality and efficiency, and the number of trillion cities in the province has increased to five; New progress has been made in innovation and development, and the proportion of R&D investment in the whole society in regional GDP has increased to about 3.2%; The level of coordinated development has been improved, and the income ratio of urban and rural residents has been reduced to 2.07; Green development has been improved, and the ratio of water environment quality to air quality days has been continuously improved; New achievements have been made in opening up and development, and the actual use of foreign capital has remained the first in the country; Sharing development shows new results. The per capita disposable income of residents has exceeded 50,000 yuan for the first time, and 1.38 million new jobs have been created in cities and towns … Behind the new progress and new achievements in high-quality development, the comprehensive traction effect of the "baton" of comprehensive assessment has become increasingly apparent.

At this stage, Jiangsu’s development still faces some risks and challenges. In essence, some of them are accumulated under the extensive development mode in the past, some are transformation pains brought by structural changes, and some are new challenges brought by external environmental changes. Generally speaking, they are all problems in progress and troubles in development, and they are problems that Jiangsu needs to break through first. The foundation and key to solve these problems is to promote high-quality development. We must really study and understand the spirit of the important instructions of the General Secretary’s important speech, make good use of the "baton" for assessment, strengthen our confidence and work hard in high-quality development, and jointly shoulder the political responsibility of "bravely taking the lead".

To continue to be at the forefront in high-quality development, we must use the "baton" for accurate assessment. It is necessary to target the strength, clarify the assessment requirements, and make the high-quality development orientation more distinct. Focusing on the central work, highlighting local characteristics, building a scientific and reasonable assessment system tailored to local conditions, turning high-quality development tasks into assessment indicators, and giving better play to the traction and instigation of assessment. It is necessary to carry out three-dimensional evaluation and scientific assessment, so that the task of high-quality development can be implemented in detail. Overall consideration of the commonness and differences of units, comprehensive analysis of collective role and individual contribution, objective conditions and subjective efforts, development performance and development "potential performance", actual output and cost, etc., and comprehensive evaluation to ensure that all tasks are implemented. It is necessary to encourage responsibility, deepen the connection between examination and use, and make the kinetic energy of high-quality development more surging. Give prominence to the cause first, choose people according to things, closely combine the assessment results with the management, selection and appointment of cadres, truly give play to the evaluation, guidance and supervision functions of assessment work, and guide and motivate cadres at all levels to catch up with each other and strive for the first place in promoting high-quality development.

Assessment is only a means, and development is the ultimate goal. We should lead and drive through comprehensive assessment, promote all units in various regions to achieve a leap in the level of comprehensive development, make breakthroughs in solving key and difficult problems, shape bright spots in characteristic development, accumulate new advantages in the long run by laying a foundation, test out new understandings and new concepts of high-quality development, and strive to create a new situation of high-quality development.