Abstract：Focusing on the development goal of "building a new system of cooperation with Russia and accelerating the deep transformation and upgrading of opening to the outside world to a wide range of fields", Heihe free trade area takes the lead in scie
It has successively been approved as a pilot Free Trade Zone, a comprehensive pilot cross-border e-commerce zone, a pilot cross-border economic cooperation zone and the only pilot city in Heilongjiang Province to prosper the border and enrich the people; Since the Sixth Party Congress of Heihe City, focusing on the development goal of "building a new system of cooperation with Russia, accelerating the deep transformation and upgrading of opening to the outside world to a wide range of fields", Heihe City has taken the lead in scientific measures and insisted on bold trials, bold breakthroughs and independent reform, Efforts have been made to promote the upgrading of the cooperation strategy with Russia, so as to continuously consolidate and highlight the strategic portal position of opening to the north, which has brought new historical opportunities for the leapfrog development of Heihe River.
The construction of free trade area leads the cooperation with Russia to a new level
Since the construction of Heihe Free Trade Zone started for more than two years, it has handed over a heavy report card: in 2020, the import and export of foreign trade will be 4195.82 million yuan; From January to October 2021, 6129.02 million yuan was completed, with a year-on-year increase of 143.4%. In 2020, it was approved as a cross-border e-commerce retail pilot city, a cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone and a national e-commerce demonstration park. The "1210" business of the bonded logistics center (type b) was successfully opened, with a cross-border e-commerce transaction volume of 1.501 billion yuan and an online retail volume of 418 million yuan. The Ministry of Commerce approved Heihe to be included in the first batch of pilot areas for the landing and processing of border people's trade commodities, the first order of Russian imported traditional Chinese medicine entered the customs smoothly from Heihe, and a new breakthrough was made in the import of trade commodities in Heihe free trade area. In 2021, the first rookie cross-border central warehouse in Northeast China was settled in Heihe. The logistics and sales network of Heihe's import and export of goods to Russia was further improved, with a cross-border e-commerce transaction volume of 1.249 billion yuan and an online retail volume of 307 million yuan.
In order to promote the prosperity of border areas and enrich the people, Heihe free trade area has introduced nine measures for the innovative development of border people's inter market trade, first tried in the traceability of inter market trade goods, the digitization of border people's certificates, and mutual trade finance, innovated and developed the new business form of "inter market trade + cross-border e-commerce", launched "border people's entrepreneurship guarantee loan", and developed "customs tax guarantee" and other financial products, It pioneered the "free trade e-Loan" in China.
Heihe free trade zone and Russia jointly build a "6 + n" cross-border industrial cluster of cross-border energy and resources comprehensive processing, green food, trade and logistics, tourism, health, border finance and cross-border timber, Russian electric processing, green new material manufacturing and electromechanical manufacturing. At present, an industrial system represented by cross-border e-commerce and logistics, cross-border electromechanical manufacturing, cross-border agricultural product processing, comprehensive utilization of imported energy and health, culture and tourism has been formed.
Heihe Free Trade Zone launched institutional innovation achievements to provide new impetus for building an important window for opening to the north. Innovate the new mode of "multi warehouse linkage" of cross-border e-commerce freight logistics, open up the two-way import and export channels between China and Russia through the construction of border warehouses, overseas warehouses and relay warehouses, and realize the interconnection, interoperability and interaction of goods. As the only 50 typical cases successfully selected in China's reform in 2020 in the province. The case of "Sino Russian cross-border cluster construction" was selected into the fourth batch of 18 "best practice cases" of the national pilot Free Trade Zone, becoming the first case copied and promoted in the country since the establishment of Heilongjiang free trade zone.
The "northernmost free trade area" is the first to try, creating a "test field" for cooperation with Russia... The major policy advantages of multi area superposition have become a new opportunity for the development of Heihe area of the free trade area, the dividend of reform and innovation has been released, and has become a "new business card" for opening to the north.
Infrastructure connectivity promotes deepening cooperation with Russia
In recent years, Heihe has made rapid progress in the construction of interconnection infrastructure with Russia, continuously upgraded the cross-border interconnection network, made the opening path more smooth, and steadily moved towards a new realm of cooperation with Russia.
The China Russia east line natural gas pipeline was officially put into operation for ventilation. Russian gas entered the country from the first station of Heihe and began to benefit thousands of households. It is of great significance to Heihe City in developing downstream related industries, cultivating new growth points and forming new momentum of development.
The Heilongjiang bridge has been successfully closed, passed the acceptance and is ready for traffic. A new international highway channel has been formed in Heihe City, becoming a new bridge to promote the prosperity and development of border areas and a new link to consolidate and deepen traditional friendship.
The construction of the first cross-border cableway between China and Russia will be started in Heihe and cloth city of Russia in July 2019. After completion, the one-way customs clearance speed of passengers will be reduced to less than 10 minutes. The supporting functions of the project, such as tourism services, leisure shopping and simplifying transit procedures, will have a deep pulling effect on the cultural exchanges of China Russia economic cooperation.
Heihe bonded logistics center (type b) was officially closed for operation, many businesses entered the normal operation stage, business service supporting facilities were gradually improved, and high-quality projects were attracted. Up to now, 10 traditional foreign trade enterprises and 20 e-commerce main enterprises have settled in Heihe, laying a solid foundation for Heihe to release strong momentum at a high level, build an economic highland open to the outside world and improve the level of international connectivity.
Build a bridgehead for cultural and cultural exchanges in economic and trade cooperation with Russia
Since 2017, Heihe has achieved a total import and export volume of 22.024 billion yuan. The quality of foreign trade has improved significantly. The energy structure is prominent. The import of Russian electricity and natural gas makes Heihe an important channel for China Russia energy cooperation; Support the continuous improvement of foreign trade transformation and upgrading capacity, and the projects such as liyuanda special vehicle export manufacturing and fangshengyuan fruit and vegetable export base have been completed and reached production capacity; New business forms are developing rapidly, cross-border e-commerce development is diversified, new business forms such as online and offline integrated development are emerging, and some industrial chains extend upstream and downstream. Heihe cross-border e-commerce park has become a national e-commerce demonstration base through the linkage of border warehouses and overseas warehouses and the opening of cross-border two-way channels.
One belt, one road, the Heilongjiang China International Russia hockey competition, the Tengchong Heilongjiang "international road hockey" friendly competition. The Sino Russian cross border Conference on "one belt and one road" in Heihe has carried out various sports exchanges between China and Russia, and Heihe has made continuous exchanges with Russia and gradually formed a unique brand. In recent years, Heihe City has also successfully held the first self driving tour of the world's first ice and snow track in Heihe section of Heilongjiang River, the Bering Sea bipolar ice and snow Challenge series, the China Russia international children's football friendship match and the China Russia International Youth table tennis match. Folk sports exchanges between the two countries cover ball games, chess, winter swimming, skiing, boxing, taekwondo, track and field and other projects, which has promoted the in-depth integration of local folk sports culture between China and Russia.
Heihe's cultural and artistic exchange activities with Russia have gradually formed the characteristics of cooperation, mechanism, scale, comprehensiveness and public participation. In the past five years, Heihe has cooperated with Bolshevik to create a number of brand projects for cultural exchange. Cultural exchange activities such as Sino Russian youth national instrumental music performance competition, "world reading day", celebration of the victory of the world anti fascist war and the victory anniversary of the Anti Japanese War, childhood talent competition and performance along the Amur River (Heilongjiang) have achieved good results. In 2017, Heihe City cooperated with Bolshevik city in Russia to establish the China Russia international Orchestra, which performed more than 30 times in China and Russia. Since 2020, affected by the epidemic, Sino Russian cultural exchange activities have continuously innovated forms, and many activities such as the Sino Russian youth national instrumental music performance competition have been carried out online. The 11th Sino Russian cultural collection started on the ships of China and Russia on the Heilongjiang River at the same time.