Actively cope with international financial crisis to promote fire equipment impo

Actively cope with international financial crisis to promote fire equipment import

By China Police Network

The western financial crisis, solicited by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, is becoming increasingly worsened and spreading to real economy sectors. A worldwide economic crisis has shown apparent signs. In face of the crisis, governments of various countries modified their fiscal and monetary measures to stabilize the financial market and prevent economic recession. In accordance with changing domestic and international economic situations, the Chinese government dramatically regulated its macro-control policies, implemented proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy, invested more in sectors relating to people’s livelihood, infrastructures and ecological environment to promote economic development. Fire control is an important part concerning people’s livelihood. Fire equipment is an important factor to construct the project benefiting people’s livelihood. It is of great significance to actively cope with the international financial crisis and promote development of fire equipment, particularly imported equipment.

SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE MORE INVESTMENT

With the outbreak of the international financial crisis, the Chinese government successively promulgated a series of macro-control policies, particularly a new round of proactive fiscal policy, which immediately attracted the eyes of the global economic sectors. Under the measures, the Chinese government will earmark 4 trillion yuan in the next two years for projects concerning people’s livelihood, infrastructures, ecological environment and post-earthquake reconstruction, in a bid to vigorously start up domestic consumption and promote healthy, sustaining and steady growth of the economy.

Public fire control is a crucial part of public security. Fire fighting is a key project concerning people’s livelihood and directly associated with economic and social development, people’s lives and property security. In recent years, public fire brigades at various levels have paid close attention to orders of local governments and dutifully implemented the No.15 document of the State Council, and No.300 document of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Public Security, greatly raising expenses for fire control efforts. In the face of new situations, we need to make in-depth analysis, firmly grasp the opportunity that central and local governments invest heavily in people’s livelihood related projects, positively win supports of the governments and related organs, bring fire control infrastructures including fire equipment into people’s livelihood projects and infrastructures construction, improve the long-term expenditure guarantee mechanism, ensure and promote fire equipment construction.

MAKE SCIENTIFIC REASONING AND PROPERLY IMPORT EQUIPMENT

Fire equipment construction is directly associated with the capacity and success of public fire brigades in putting out fires and rescuing victims. Therefore, we need to make scientific verification and overall plans. We must earnestly analyze current domestic and international economic situations, and scientifically and reasonably establish fire equipment construction programs in line with local economic and social development, features of major dangerous source distributions, and actual demands for fire control and rescue. In particular, in the process of mapping out fire equipment importing program, we must respect the overall layout of fire equipment development and equipment construction factors, organize industry experts to make scientific evaluations and repeated argumentations, to decide the scales, amounts and varieties of imported fire equipment, for the sake of promoting optimization of fire equipment structures and improving fire control capacities. Meanwhile, we need strictly carry out the current macro economic policy to expand domestic demands. We will try all means to buy domestically made equipment with mature technologies and quality. Meanwhile, we will duly command international fire equipment technological trends, introduce badly needed fire equipment with novel concepts, advanced technologies, exquisite crafts, efficient performances and wide applications. We will fully demonstrate the “multiplier effect” of imported fire equipment to promote scientific development of public fire brigades equipment. A crucial factor in managing fire equipment import is to take the initiative to win greatest benefits in bid-based purchases. It largely decides the quality and efficiency of imported fire equipment. Nowadays, the international economic situation is undergoing dramatic changes. Many developed economies suffering from the international financial crisis are setting their eye on the vast Chinese market to expand external demands and prevent economic recession. Under this circumstance, we must have a clear mind in importing fire equipment. We must realize that along with long-term continuous and rapid growth of the Chinese economy, we have enormously sharpened the comprehensive competitiveness of the nation, exerted growingly greater impacts on the global economy. China has won universal admiration in actively coping with the present international financial crisis. In this way, when organizing purchase of imported fire equipment, particularly when following the single source purchase and competitive negotiation purchase modes, we must further intensify our confidence, flexibly apply business talk skills, deal with suppliers in a with good reason, with advantage and with restraint mode, and minimize purchasing prices and costs. We must also avail ourselves to tax exemption policies on importing fire equipment to maximize efficiency in using funds.

Besides, we must pay high attention to the following three aspects: First, accurately grasp and scientifically forecast development trends of main foreign exchange rates, “act as the occasions demand” to sign agreements with suppliers on foreign currency payment modes and time, so as to reduce capital losses from foreign exchange rate changes, and take a more favorable position. Second, closely watch economic situations and policies of countries of origin, utilize effective channels to intensify supervision of fire equipment manufacturers, and minimize damages from changes of economic situations and policies, or broken capital chain or bankruptcy because of poor business management in the countries of origin. Third, we must strictly examine imported fire equipment, make use of fire equipment quality management agencies, intensify supervision and examination of imported fire equipment quality, and prevent suppliers from “making converse selections” by taking the liberty to lower production standards and reduce quality and performances of imported fire equipment.

INTENSIFY MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVE EFFICIENCY

Intensifying management plays a crucial role in deciding whether imported fire equipment fully display their performances. First, we need to do a good job with the headstream. We must ensure sound after-sale services from suppliers by stimulating them to continually improve their after-sale service systems in the country and elevate their emergency response capacities to safeguard fire control and rescue equipment. Second, we must keep sound daily management and give priority to bringing imported fire equipment management into the army equipment management system. We must take practical measures to ensure daily maintenance and repair of imported fire equipment, so as to keep them in sound states. We will also stress talent training, positively rely on the after-sale service system of suppliers, integrate the modes of “going out” and “coming in”, improve pre-duty and on-duty training, continually elevate training quality and levels, and gradually set up a diversified professional specialty-based fire equipment management team.