On February 5th, the first working day after the Spring Festival of the Year of the Snake, Anhui, Guangdong, Shandong, Shanghai, Liaoning, Hubei and other places held the "First Party of the Spring Festival" to plan the work for the beginning of the year. The first day of the Chinese New Year often has a guiding significance for work throughout the year. This year, high-quality development, technological innovation, and optimizing the business environment have become the keywords of the "first party of the Chinese New Year" in various regions. The reporter noticed that Guangdong and Shandong, two major economic provinces, will achieve high-quality development during this year's Spring Festival. On the first working day after the Spring Festival, the Guangdong Province High Quality Development Conference was held in Guangzhou, with the theme of "Building a Modern Industrial System". This is the third consecutive year that Guangdong has held the "Spring Festival First Conference" on the first working day after the Spring Festival, all of which have achieved high-quality development. The economic powerhouse province bears the heavy burden, and Guangdong's "first meeting of the Chinese New Year" has attracted much attention. This meeting showcased the effective achievements of Guangdong in building a modern industrial system in 2024, and looked forward to how to "compete" in 2025; 21 cities have submitted their 2024 development report cards on site and will continue to enrich high-quality development reality maps; Around the development of industrial clusters, five parallel forums have been set up... As a major economic province, on February 5th, Shandong held a conference on promoting high-quality development through reform and innovation, and put reform and innovation at the forefront of key work for 2025. The meeting pointed out the need to shape new advantages for high-quality development through landmark reforms and innovations, and identified 10 key reform contents. It is also pointed out that the effectiveness of reform should promote development, highlight goal orientation, focus on the primary task of high-quality development, improve the evaluation mechanism of reform, and test the effectiveness of reform with the actual results of high-quality development. Focusing on technological innovation, technology is the primary productive force, and innovation is the primary driving force for development. Technological innovation can give birth to new industries, new models, and new driving forces, and is the core element for developing new quality productivity. At this year's "New Year's Day", some provinces have clarified the key direction of scientific and technological innovation. On February 5th, Anhui held the "New Year's First Conference" with the theme of "Technological Innovation Leading the Development of New Quality Productivity". From a traditional agricultural province to an emerging industrial province and advanced manufacturing base, Anhui is insisting on leading the way with science and technology, and is striving towards innovation and intelligence under the empowerment of scientific and technological innovation. Anhui requires that we should anchor the strategic positioning of building "three regions and one district", give play to the overlapping advantages of multiple national development strategies, actively seize the major opportunities such as the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform, establish a sense of leadership, lead the development of new quality productivity with scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and strive to write the chapter of Chinese path to modernization in Anhui. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, multiple provinces are planning their annual scientific and technological innovation work. Guangdong emphasizes the need to ignite the surging engine of technological innovation, adhere to climbing towards "high", focusing on "reality", exerting force towards "transformation", and expanding outward. Shandong emphasizes the need to strengthen the promotion of scientific and technological innovation, establish a mechanism for integrating scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, make good use of the provincial science and technology innovation fund, focus on cutting-edge fields of science and technology, deepen the reform of the mechanism for transforming scientific and technological achievements, give full play to the leading role of cities such as Jiqingyan, and strive for more national innovation resources. Focus on optimizing the business environment. The business environment can only be better, not the best. At this year's "New Year's Day", some provinces made further arrangements to optimize the business environment. On February 5th, the "First Party of the Chinese New Year" was held in Shanghai, and the 8.0 version of the action plan for optimizing the business environment was released, titled "Action Plan for Shanghai to Focus on Enhancing Enterprise Experience and Continuously Building an International First Class Business Environment", involving 58 task measures. Since 2018, holding a city wide conference at the end and beginning of the year to discuss the direction of optimizing the business environment for the new year has become an important tradition in Shanghai's economic development. Over the past seven years, Shanghai has issued 1101 task measures to optimize the business environment. This year, "enhancing corporate experience" has become a key focus of Shanghai's business environment construction. On the first working day after the Spring Festival, Liaoning held a mobilization conference for the province to optimize the business environment and win the three-year action plan. This is the second time that Liaoning's "New Year's Day" focuses on the same theme. The meeting emphasized the need to continuously create a first-class business environment, strengthen the construction of the rule of law, optimize public services, and enable various business entities to have a sense of gain, courtesy, and belonging in Liaoning; To launch a batch of reform measures and experience achievements with Liaoning's recognition, to optimize the "soft environment" and stimulate new vitality through the reform of "hard measures"; We need to deepen the linkage between the three enterprises and the joint efforts of the three capitals, promote the strengthening, optimization, and expansion of state-owned capital and enterprises, and support private enterprises in transforming their methods, adjusting their structures, changing their driving forces, and upgrading their capabilities. (New Society)