The Tianjin Municipal Party Committee has entrusted democratic parties and non-party personages to carry out key inspections and surveys for eight consecutive years. The Municipal Federation of Industry and Commerce participated for the first time this year.

China News Service, Tianjin, November 12 (Reporter Yang Ziyang) The 2026 Tianjin Municipal Party Committee commissioned a research and consultation symposium on "cultivating and strengthening advantageous and characteristic industrial chain groups" was held on the 11th. Different from previous years, Tianjin Federation of Industry and Commerce has entered into the work system of key inspections and surveys entrusted by the Municipal Party Committee for the first time this year. Since 2019, this survey, commissioned by the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and carried out by Tianjin Municipal Committees of various democratic parties and non-partisan persons, has been conducted for eight consecutive years, with a total of more than 1,400 research topics and more than 430 direct recommendations.

The professional threshold of industrial chain research determines "how to divide topics" as the first step. This year, the United Front Work Department of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee split the "cultivating and strengthening the advantageous and characteristic industrial chain clusters" into nine specific industrial directions - automobiles, marine, circular economy, biomedicine and medical equipment, green petrochemicals, information technology, equipment manufacturing, producer services, and aerospace. The Tianjin Municipal Party Committee, the Tianjin Federation of Industry and Commerce and non-partisans of the various democratic parties claimed respectively according to their sectoral advantages, "one track for each family."

Mechanisms have also been adjusted: the research needs of all political parties have been collected in a unified manner, and department docking, park visits, and enterprise interviews can be combined. More than 20 municipal departments and the Tianjin Municipal Committee of 8 democratic parties have established a regular reporting and joint research mechanism. As of the end of October, various research teams had visited government departments, industrial parks, enterprises and universities and institutions a total of 141 times.

The visits brought back more than just reports. According to incomplete statistics, this survey produced more than 140 reports, suggestions and information on social conditions and public opinion, and helped solve nearly 90 problems, of which 58 were submitted to the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government as direct suggestions. Some suggestions have already reached the policy level: the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Democratic League's suggestions on opening up application scenarios and setting up a special working group were adopted by relevant documents of the Tianjin Municipal Government; the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Peasants and Workers' Party's suggestions on the cell therapy industry promoted the introduction of classification standards for gene and cell therapy in the free trade pilot zone; the suggestions on commercial mediation by the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Democratic League were approved by city leaders, and the Tianjin International Commercial Dispute Mediation Center entered the preparatory stage.

There are also more specific "little things". When the Tianjin Municipal Committee for Democracy visited the Tianjin Economic Development Zone Nucleic Acid Pharmaceutical Industrial Park, the company reported that parking was difficult after the expansion, and the research team coordinated on the spot to promote the solution. The Zhi Gong Party Tianjin Municipal Committee’s suggestions on optimizing import cold chain tax management, the Tianjin Federation of Industry and Commerce’s suggestions on improving the industrial business environment, and the Taiwan League Municipal Committee’s suggestions on accelerating the cultivation of a new OPC industrial ecology were approved by the main leaders of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.

Some results are beyond the scope of Tianjin: the research results of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Kuomintang on large-scale automobiles and autonomous driving supervision were submitted to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference by the Central Committee of the Kuomintang; the brain-computer interface proposal of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Jiusan Society was listed as a key proposal for supervision by the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

At the symposium, responsible comrades from the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Democratic Party, Tianjin Federation of Industry and Commerce and representatives of non-partisan persons introduced the results one by one. Responsible comrades from the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau and Binhai New Area responded point by point on the spot. Clear work measures that can be adopted and those that need to be studied are documented.

After the conclusion of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Democratic Party, the Tianjin Federation of Industry and Commerce, and non-party personages stated that the next step will be to continue to follow up and conduct research on the replenishment of weak industries, the extension of advantageous industries, the upgrading of traditional industries, and the construction of emerging industries to connect projects and talents in the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.