Core view: Qiao Ruiqing, columnist of China Economic Net, believes that the purpose of building a national unified market is to give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation and let the market contribute more to promoting the development of productivity. Building a national unified market is an inevitable requirement of the development of the times, which is conducive to making market competition more full and effective, giving better play to the role of market coordination, and further stimulating the vitality of market subjects.

Recently, the “opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on accelerating the construction of a national unified market” was officially issued, which defined the working principles and main objectives of building a national unified market, adhered to the simultaneous development of innovation and innovation, and put forward the key tasks of accelerating the construction of a national unified market from six aspects, so as to comprehensively promote the transformation of China’s market from large to strong and provide a basis for the construction of a high standard market system Provide strong support for building a high-level socialist market economic system.

It should be noted that building a national unified market is an inevitable requirement of the development of the times. Since the reform and opening up, with the continuous expansion of market scale, the necessity and possibility of building a national unified market are increasing day by day. From “making the market play a fundamental role in resource allocation under the macro-control of socialist countries” to “making the market play a decisive role in resource allocation”, the function of market optimizing resource allocation is becoming increasingly prominent. At present, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern with the domestic big cycle as the main body and the mutual promotion of domestic and international double cycles puts forward higher requirements for market standards and market system. It is urgent and timely to build a national unified market.

Building a national unified market is conducive to making market competition more full and effective. Competition is the soul of the market. The more full and effective the competition, the more vitality and vigor the market will have. The national unified market requires breaking the regional segmentation of the market and promoting the smooth flow of production factors and goods and services across the country, so as to make the market competition more full. The national unified market requires filling in the “depression” of local policies and preventing “policy arbitrage”, so that the price can better reflect the market supply and demand, so as to further enhance the effectiveness of market competition.

Building a national unified market is conducive to giving better play to the role of market coordination. The market coordinates the economic activities of market participants through price, supply and demand and competition. Due to the existence of urban-rural market differences and regional market differences, market subjects distributed in urban and rural areas and different administrative regions will be affected in the discovery and transmission of market information from time to time due to the inconsistency of rules, resulting in the inhibition of the role of market coordination to a certain extent. The national unified market will effectively promote the unification of market rules across the country, so that market participants can act based on common rules, so as to greatly reduce transaction costs and give better play to the role of market coordination.

Building a national unified market is conducive to further stimulate the vitality of market players. Market is the realistic space for the survival and development of market subjects. The existence of super large-scale market advantages provides broad activity space for Chinese market subjects. However, due to local protection, market segmentation and other factors that hinder the smooth flow of resources, the actual activity space of market subjects is restricted to a certain extent. To build a national unified market is to get through the market blocking points and fully expand the actual activity space of market subjects. The sea is wide, the fish leap, and the birds fly high. Let the market players experience and grow in the vast ocean of the national unified market, and the vitality of the market players is bound to continue to increase.

Under the condition of socialist market economy, it is absolutely impossible without a market. Of course, the market is not omnipotent. The purpose of building a national unified market is to give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation and let the market contribute more to the development of productive forces. The effective market is inseparable from the promising government. Whether building or managing the national unified market, the government needs to be active and promising. The effective interaction between the government and the market is a necessary condition for any healthy economic system. To build a national unified market, the government should be in place and not offside, and do something rather than chaos. (Qiao Ruiqing, columnist of China Economic Net)

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The central government issued a document to speed up the construction of a national unified market. How should we understand it? (CCTV)

Recently, the “opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on accelerating the construction of a national unified market” was released. How to understand the national unified market? From what aspects?

For the national unified market, we can understand it from the four key words of the document name.

First, it is at the national level, not at the local or regional level. Therefore, we should break down local protectionism and regional barriers.

Second, its basic institutional rules, market facilities, factors and resource markets are unified, rather than local or regional fragmentation and layers of overweight.

Third, “big” is easy to understand. The market scale is very large. At the same time, we should promote the transformation of China’s market from big to strong.

Fourth, we need to speed up the construction of the “market”, and the foothold is the market economy, so that the smooth flow of resources and factors, and give play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of resources.

The purpose of speeding up the construction of a national unified market is to comprehensively promote the transformation of China’s market from large to strong, and provide strong support for the construction of a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and domestic and international double circulation promoting each other.

After the transformation of the domestic market from large to strong, it will be more resilient to external challenges and more resistant to risk shocks.

China has a population of more than 1.4 billion and has the advantage of large-scale market. However, the existence of local protection and closed small markets will become the key blocking point restricting the economic cycle, so that our advantages of super large market scale can not be brought into full play.

Therefore, to speed up the construction of a national unified market, this document should use the “addition and subtraction method” of “establishing and breaking simultaneously” to break all kinds of self small cycles and regional blockades, so as to make all links of production, distribution, circulation and consumption more unblocked and achieve the effect of “multiplication and division method”.

For example——

There are many reasons for the relatively high logistics cost in China, but one of them is the high institutional cost: the phenomenon of broken roads, the phenomenon of increasing charges and even fines across administrative regions, and the phenomenon of blocking points in the last kilometer. These are not conducive to the flow of resources across administrative regions and hinder the establishment of the national unified market.

Therefore, the “opinions” emphasize the need to “further reduce market transaction costs and eliminate obstacles to the market-oriented allocation of various production factors and the circulation of goods and services