beijing encourages private capital to participate in the franchise of major projects; two major environmental protection projects are approved first
2024-09-04
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recently, the beijing municipal development and reform commission issued the "implementation plan (trial) on implementing the new mechanism of government-social capital cooperation to standardize and promote franchise projects", which clarified the implementation process of franchise projects in the city and provided service guarantees for private capital to participate in franchises. reporters learned that since the release of relevant policies on the new mechanism, tongzhou district and fangshan district have taken the lead in promoting garbage disposal franchise projects in the field of environmental protection. the two projects have completed the selection of franchisees through public bidding, and the selected franchisees are all private enterprises. in addition, tongzhou, shijingshan, fengtai, fangshan and other districts are exploring and promoting multiple franchise reserve projects in the fields of sewage treatment and transportation.
the exterior rendering of the fangshan biomass resource regeneration center project. photo courtesy of beijing municipal development and reform commission
franchise project full life cycle management
a relevant person in charge of the beijing municipal development and reform commission introduced that government and social capital cooperation projects should focus on user-pays projects, implement them in a franchise model, and reasonably grasp key areas. projects that have not completed the bidding and procurement procedures before the government and social capital cooperation project cleanup and verification in february 2023, as well as subsequent newly implemented government and social capital cooperation projects, should all be implemented in accordance with the new mechanism regulations, give full play to the role of market mechanisms, and encourage private enterprises to participate to the greatest extent.
beijing is promoting franchise projects in cooperation between the government and social capital. in accordance with the requirements of full life cycle management, the implementation process is divided into the planning and generation stage, the franchisee selection stage and the project implementation stage.
in the planning and generation stage, the competent industry department is responsible for planning and generating franchise projects that meet the requirements, and reporting to the government at the same level for authorization as the franchise project implementation agency. in the franchisee selection stage, the project implementation agency takes the lead in preparing the franchise plan, which is reviewed by the development and reform department in accordance with the approval authority and requirements of government investment projects. after the review, the competent industry department shall report to the government at the same level for approval. the implementation agency shall select franchisees through open competition in accordance with the approved franchise plan, and standardize the signing of franchise agreements on the basis of equal legal status and equal rights and obligations. in the project implementation stage, the implementation agency shall guide and assist franchisees in fulfilling the project investment approval procedures, strengthen project implementation and operation supervision, and ensure safe, orderly and stable project construction.
policy support for franchise projects continues to be optimized
for franchise projects, beijing will optimize policy guarantees, and the municipal government's fixed asset investment will provide support during the project construction period according to relevant policies, and provide financial guarantees for project planning and early promotion. at the same time, the city will regularly carry out major project financing docking, make good use of policies such as the revitalization and mixed use of construction land, and strengthen project land guarantees.
in terms of supporting innovative implementation methods, franchise projects are encouraged to improve project returns through comprehensive utilization of the ground and underground, integrated implementation, etc., support the issuance of infrastructure reits for existing projects with stable operations, and open up a virtuous cycle of investment.
in terms of optimizing project services, we will use the special working group mechanism for key project implementation and investment promotion to strengthen coordination and scheduling for projects with problems and difficulties. each approval department will adopt measures such as parallel approval, prior land use, and acceptance with missing documents to improve approval efficiency and promote the accelerated implementation of projects. at the same time, we will use the work mechanism for promoting major projects to private capital and provide good promotion services for franchise projects.
the first innovative environmental protection project to be approved for franchise
among the two first approved projects, the tongzhou organic waste resource comprehensive treatment center is the first franchise plan approved under the new mechanism in beijing. in this project, the innovative "resource recycling center" business model, through the unified planning and construction of different types of organic waste treatment facilities such as catering, kitchen waste, waste grease, etc., and the use of self-developed multi-biotechnology resource technology, realizes the coordinated treatment of various organic wastes, and further transforms them into clean energy products such as fatty acid methyl esters, biogas, and green electricity, to achieve efficient resource utilization. through technological innovation, the organic matter extraction rate under the same conditions has increased by about 20% compared with the industry average.
according to the relevant person in charge of beijing municipal development and reform commission, beijing's private investment has stabilized and rebounded since the beginning of this year. from january to july, the city's private investment increased by 18.1% year-on-year, accounting for 27.8% of the total investment, an increase of 4.4 percentage points from the end of last year. in the next step, the city will promote the standardized development and high-quality development of the cooperation between the municipal government and social capital, further expand the space for private investment participation, and effectively stimulate the vitality of private investment.
beijing news reporter geng ziye
editor: zhang shujing proofreader: liu yue
