"People's Daily East China News": Whose business is it to attract investment?

●“Everyone is an investment environment, and everyone is a subject of investment promotion.” This saying has become popular everywhere. From the perspective of creating an environment, attracting investment is indeed not only a matter for the government, but also requires the participation of the broad masses of cadres and the masses. However, it should not become a "business for all" that even teachers and doctors have targets, nor should it be regarded as the work of people who have nothing to do with it. Salary income is linked to investment performance. To develop an economy, it is important to let everyone do what they should do and jointly build a good investment environment. A few days ago, a relative who is a department leader in a county rushed to Shanghai to see me. He brought a lot of investment project instructions and said that the county had issued investment quotas to every cadre, and that wages and bonuses were linked to investment performance. If the tasks were not completed, hundreds of yuan would be deducted from the monthly salary. This puts a lot of pressure on him, whose salary is not high, and he is obviously a bit "hurt to seek medical treatment". After thinking about it, it was difficult for me to help him. Search the Internet for "investment promotion" content, and there are many such articles. Most of them describe the grand event of nationwide investment promotion in a certain place and its fruitful results in a warm and affirmative tone. You can see "Everyone is an investment environment, and everyone is an investment subject" and "Everyone is an investment environment." "Carry out investment promotion activities throughout the county, implement goals and tasks at all levels, and achieve simultaneous promotion of domestic investment, foreign investment, joint ventures, and cooperation, and lead investment promotion, department investment promotion, enterprise investment promotion, and national investment promotion at the same time" and other slogans. In some places, even teachers and doctors All have been allocated investment quotas. Attracting investment is the highlight of economic development and an important measure to achieve leap-forward economic development. In many places, especially in relatively economically developed areas, investment promotion is an important indicator of their economic development level. However, who will “recruit” investment? Thinking about my relative, it was really difficult for him. He has never done economic work, and has never heard of many terms in the investment promotion project book. "Isn't this just letting us mess around?" he complained a little, and further asked himself: "Whose business is it to attract investment? Do we really need cadres and the masses to do it together?" This question is indeed difficult to answer. In fact, like other government work, investment promotion work does require the participation of the masses, especially when it comes to the investment environment, and everyone has a duty to do so. The question is how to participate? In the process of attracting investment, local governments can get twice the result with half the effort by fully mobilizing the masses to participate, using their wisdom and connections, and broadening the channels for attracting investment. However, if it starts in a hurry, even if it will attract some businessmen and capital, it may also have some negative effects. First, it distracts energy, especially for those cadres in non-economic departments; second, the nationwide investment promotion will inevitably be a mixed bag, and the quality of the businessmen and qualifications attracted is difficult to guarantee, because it is "rushing to attack the heart", and some people They dare to ask for any business and get any funding. Some projects may have obvious benefits for a while, but they are not conducive to sustainable development. There are many such examples; thirdly, the promotion of investment by officials may lead to new corruption. Linking the wages of those who are not directly related to investment promotion work to investment performance is not a good idea, and may even create a rebellious mentality. Local governments should guide cadres and the masses more to create a good investment environment. For government cadres, the first thing is not how many businessmen can be recruited, but how to provide high-quality services to businessmen; for teachers and doctors, if the teaching quality is poor and the medical skills are not effective, no matter how many businessmen are recruited, they will not be considered good teachers or good doctors. On the contrary, it will discourage foreign businessmen. In the final analysis, it must be fundamentally conducive to attracting investment. The most important thing is that every cadre in this place performs his or her duties and does his or her own thing well. Of course, cadres who are indeed capable of attracting investment can be heavily rewarded to encourage them. Investment promotion also has its own inherent rules and is subject to various objective conditions, such as the location, economic development level, industrial layout, software and hardware of the place, etc. Sometimes there is no need to rush. Local governments should carefully analyze the actual local situation and set more practical goals in order to achieve better results. (Wang Xiaodong)