昆明“官员招商”:打造新螺蛳湾

Kunming Adopts A Forceful Trade and Investment Promotion Policy

在昆明，越来越多的“螺蛳湾市场”正面临被外迁或拆除的命运。 昆明版“义乌商城”僵局 上世纪80年代末，由于昆明商业区的拆迁，大批个体工商户搬迁到老螺蛳湾市场，在几年后，这里成为了云南省最大的日用百货批发市场。

Currently, more and more markets in Kunming such as Luoshiwan Market have no choice but to move outside or be knocked down as the government is planning to carry out trade and investment promotion programs. At the kick-off meeting on trade and investment promotion held in February 2008, 35 out of the 70 government departments were chosen to take the lead in the activity. 35 trade and investment bureaus were established and 105 cadres were dispatched to coastal and prefectural cities or above to implement 24-hour professional and stationary investment promotion. Such trade efforts brought Kunming over 600 million dollars of foreign capital and 5.305 million dollars of paid-up capital from outside Kunming, up 100.3% and 76.2% respectively. The high investment yielded high growth. In 2008, Kunming realized gross output value of RMB160 billion, up 12%. The Chinese government has launched several trade and investment promotions ever since the 1990s in the hope of stimulating the economy in a short time by governmental intervention, which has now become the thinking pattern of local government officials. Professor Yao Yang with China Center for Economic Research holds that the government system reform at the end of the 1990s curtailed much of the government power, but current forceful investment promotion is in fact bringing the government back to the microscopic economic operation. 'Many social problems may find their roots in the investment promotion model as directed by government officials.' remarks Yin Yungong, a researcher with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. How to carry out foreign investment programs and protect the benefits of local small-and-medium-sized enterprises is putting local government to test.