First, accelerating the development of modern service industry is the only way to adhere to scientific development.
In recent years, the development of Suzhou's service industry has presented a series of new features: First, the growth has gradually accelerated. From 200/kloc-0 to 2005, the average annual growth rate of Suzhou's service industry was 14.8%, which was higher than the national and provincial levels in the same period. Second, the pulling effect on GDP has gradually emerged and become an important source of local tax revenue. In 2005, the contribution of the secondary industry to the total economic output was 66.8%, and that of the service industry was 3 1.2%. In the first half of this year, service tax accounted for 34.2% of fiscal revenue. Third, the degree of openness has gradually increased, becoming the main channel to attract labor employment. The proportion of service industry employees in the total number of employees has increased significantly, which is the same as that provided by the secondary industry in our city. While the speed of service industry is increasing rapidly in the vertical direction, we must also face up to the huge horizontal gap. It is understood that at present, the service industry in many foreign countries has accounted for about 70% of GDP, and the producer service industry has accounted for about 70% of the service industry. However, the proportion of service industry in Suzhou dropped from 38.0% of 200 1 to 3 1.2% in 2005, which is far from foreign countries. In China, the gap between our city and Guangdong, Shanghai and other regions is also obvious.
At present, the development of Suzhou is facing great opportunities and new challenges. It is urgent to seek new growth space and development resources, and create new development momentum and competitive advantage. The experience of developed countries shows that the per capita GDP of a region reaches 3000 dollars, and the development of modern service industry will become an important support for economic growth. Suzhou has crossed the development stage of per capita GDP of 8,000 US dollars (calculated by registered population), and accelerating the development of service industry, especially modern service industry, has become an inevitable choice for scientific development.
With the increasingly tight macroeconomic environment and the relatively backward development of production and service industry, the cost of industrial land and labor force has risen rapidly, and the transaction cost and business cost have remained high. These factors have led to the decline of industrial competitiveness in our city. Facing the challenge, one of the ways to attract foreign investment, retain local enterprises and participate in international competition is to accelerate the development of modern service industry, especially modern producer service industry. Relying on advanced manufacturing industry, speeding up the development of modern service industry, improving the level of R&D, logistics and marketing services as soon as possible, and striving to keep more profits in the productive service industry, Suzhou must embark on a competitive new industrialization road.
The service industry mainly relies on physical and mental labor, occupying less energy and resources. Most of them are clean industries, creating green GDP. Suzhou has a small environmental capacity, a large economic aggregate and a lack of natural resources. To improve the sustainable development ability of modern service industry, we must accelerate the development of modern service industry. It is in this context that the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government have made a strategic plan to accelerate the development of Suzhou's modern service industry with a global decision-making vision.
Second, the current problems in the development of Suzhou's modern service industry
Compared with the objectives and requirements of the "Implementation Outline for Accelerating the Development of Modern Service Industry in Jiangsu Province" issued by the provincial party committee and the provincial government, there are still some problems and deficiencies in the development of Suzhou's modern service industry at present, mainly as follows:
1. Modern service industry has low proportion, small scale and scattered layout. In recent years, Suzhou's service industry has shown a rapid development trend, and the added value of service industry has increased from 58 billion yuan in 2000 to 654.38+025.6 billion yuan in 2005. However, in the composition of regional GDP, the proportion of service industry in Suzhou dropped from 38% of 200/kloc-0 to 3 1.2% in 2005, ranking first among the top ten cities in China. In terms of regional layout, the service industry in the central city of Suzhou accounts for a small proportion of the whole city, and it has not yet formed a trend of radiation-driven overall development. Compared with twin cities, the development of service industry in Suzhou central city is relatively backward, and its internal competitiveness needs to be further improved.
2. The modern service industry has low industrial relevance and unreasonable internal structure. At present, the pattern of Suzhou's service industry is basically dominated by traditional services such as commerce and catering, while emerging services with high knowledge content and high added value have not yet formed a scale. The industrial relevance is not high, there is no service organization to help enterprises develop, and there is no basic environment and supporting facilities complementary to commerce and high-tech industries, so the internal structure is not reasonable.
3. The demand for producer services is insufficient and the technical level is not high. The demand for producer services in Suzhou is insufficient. On the one hand, the demand for intermediate services of manufacturing enterprises is relatively insufficient. Suzhou manufacturing industry chain pays too much attention to the production of physical products, and material consumption accounts for a large proportion of product cost, while financial service expenditure, marketing service expenditure, human resources expenditure and outsourcing information technology services related to product manufacturing account for a small proportion of total expenditure. On the other hand, there is a contradiction between the characteristics of foreign-funded manufacturing and the localization of producer services. In Suzhou's foreign-funded manufacturing system, processing, export and production enterprises are the majority, and foreign-funded enterprises are less dependent on the credit services of local financial institutions; Product design, key technologies and parts depend on imports, and there is little demand for local R&D and technical services. In addition, the sales of foreign companies' products are mostly marketed and distributed by multinational companies or regional headquarters, which has no more relevance to promoting the promotion of Suzhou's local modern service industry.
4. Modern service industry is short of talents and weak in innovation ability. Suzhou's economic development, especially the development of modern service industry, lags far behind the needs of industrial development in attracting high-quality and sophisticated management talents, and there are structural contradictions among service industry employees. First, the lack of high-quality talents restricts the promotion of the service industry. At present, our city is dominated by traditional service industry, and the existing employees can't meet the requirements of modern service industry. Especially in the emerging modern service industry, such as modern logistics, finance and insurance, communication and information technology services, and management consulting, the shortage of human resources has become a restrictive factor for the development of the industry. Second, the annual increase in labor mobility shows that the market development opportunities of manufacturing industry are better than those of service industry. Suzhou's labor transfer and employment mode relies more on the rapidly expanding secondary industry, and the growth rate of service industry employees slows down. Although Suzhou currently has universities such as Suzhou University and Suzhou University of Science and Technology, Suzhou's vocational education can't keep up with the needs of economic development, and the lack of international talents in finance, information consulting and management seriously restricts the rational allocation of talent structure in service industry and the exertion of human resources advantages.
5. The ownership structure and investment structure of service industry are single, and the degree of opening to the outside world is not high. Due to institutional and policy reasons, the participation of foreign capital and private capital is not high, and the service industry is not open to the outside world. Although the utilization of foreign capital in Suzhou's service industry has increased steadily, the proportion of contracted foreign capital and contracted foreign capital has not exceeded 10%, and in 2005 it was 8.8% and 6. 1% respectively. Therefore, it is still necessary to further increase the attraction of Suzhou's modern service industry and introduce foreign service projects.