中央经济工作会议将降成本作为今年经济工作五项任务之一,充分说明这项工作的重要性。这里说的降成本不同于以往传统观念中的成本管理。我们应该更新观念、提高认识,从更高层次、更广领域、更重要的意义上正确理解和实施降成本。传统观念中的降成本主要是指实体经济中产品的生产制造过程中节约开支、降低消耗,即降低产品的制造成本。以钢铁工业为例,开展十多年的对标 The Central Economic Work Conference will Reduce Costs As one of the five tasks of this year’s economic work, it fully demonstrates the importance of this work. Here’s the cost reduction is different from the traditional concept of cost management. We should update our concepts and raise awareness so that we can correctly understand and implement cost reduction in a higher level, in a broader field and in a more important sense. The traditional concept of cost reduction mainly refers to the real economy, product manufacturing process saves money and reduce consumption, that is, reduce the cost of manufacturing products. Take the iron and steel industry as an example, carry out benchmarking over a decade