The 24th Summit on Jinagsu Development held at NJU

The 24th Summit on Jinagsu Development was held at NJU April 11, 2008, presided over by Hong Yingxin, NJU Chancellor. Top provincial officials such as Liang Baohua, Luo Zhijun, Li Yunfeng, Bao Guoxin, Cheng Huanyou, and Wu Xijun attended the summit.

The summit was themed on transformation of the economic development mode of Jingsu province, and more than one hundred scholars participated in the heated discussion around this theme, including Liu Zhibiao, Pei Ping, Shen Kunrong, Bi Jun, and Huang Xianjin from Nanjing University, Xu Congcai from Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Jiang Fuxin from Nanjing Normal University, Xu Kangling from Southeast University, Chu Dongtao from Provincial Party Committee College, Song Lingfei and Shen Liren from Jingsu Academy of Social Sciences, Ye Nanke from Nanjing Academy of Social Sciences, Wu Xijun, former deputy director of Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress, Dong Qibing, President of Jingsu Guoxin Investment Group Ltd., and Luo Qun, Director of the 14th Institute.

At the closing of the summit, Liang Baohua, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, expressed his gratitude to all the participants for their inspiring opinions on the transformation of Jiangsu economic development mode. Such transformation, he pointed out, is urgent to Jiangsu鈥檚 future development and may comprise three levels of transitions, that is, transitions from investment-driven economy to innovation-driven economy, from material-recourses-based economy to human-resources-based economy, from low-tech manufacturing industries to high-tech and service industries. The ultimate goal is to upgrade the role of high-tech in economic growth, increase the share of the service industry in national economy, and promote competitiveness and added value of industries.

Liang highlighted the importance of human resources, government policies and executive mechanisms in transformation of the economic development mode. Innovative human resources, he said, and supportive financial, taxing, pricing, and land use policies, as well as a just system for selecting and evaluating organizational executives are essential to the economic transformation.