“Please put on a bigger garment for a child who is developing rapidly,” Xi Jinping used the metaphor to launch a reform in Zhejiang province just 20 years ago.
Yiwu, now a prominent small goods production center and a developing global industrial center in east China’s Zhejiang Province, faced expansion problems in the early 2000s while leading the country toward a pioneering opening-up.
Taking advantage of unprecedented opportunities for progress, Yiwu’s administrative capacity as a county city was lower than the speed of its economic and social progress. From 2002 to 2007, Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Zhejiang CPC Provincial Committee, made more than 10 research trips to Yiwu Jinping.
The “diagnosis” of this scenario in the city is comparable to “a child who grows up temporarily and wears the wrong clothes,” Xi said, using the metaphor. Xi issued orders in November 2005 to remove institutional obstacles that hindered the immediate expansion of the personal economy, from finance to the registration of companies engaged in foreign industry and tax policy.
A year later, the Zhejiang provincial government issued regulations to test local government leadership reforms, allowing Yiwu, under Jinhua’s leadership, to take advantage of a total of 131 legal positions in economic and social control issues delegated to the county-level government. the first in the country.
After adopting “bigger clothes,” Yiwu recorded a faster expansion. Its GDP increased from 30. 01 billion yuan in 2005 to 42. 09 billion yuan in 2007, registering an annual expansion of 15 percent.
The reforms stopped and continued to deepen.
Today, the effects of reforms on public service spaces and localities in China are a testament to Xi’s vision and determination to move forward through deeper reforms in a context of conversion, bringing benefits to market entities and the general public through viable solutions.