Abstract：Under the general tone of stability and seeking progress in stability, how can the pilot Free Trade Zone, as an important force of "progress", be constructed, upgraded and developed? How to promote institutional opening?
The 21 pilot free trade zones are "experimental fields" for China's system and mechanism innovation, a "growth pole" for industrial agglomeration development, and a "new highland" for expanding opening-up cooperation.
Under the general tone of stability and seeking progress in stability, how can the pilot Free Trade Zone, as an important force of "progress", be constructed, upgraded and developed? How to promote institutional opening?
In the new year, the respective pilot trade zones continue to promote institutional opening-up measures, leading and driving the country's high-level opening-up.
Recently, the pilot of high-level opening-up and foreign exchange management reform of cross-border trade and investment in the new port area of Shanghai free trade zone was officially launched, covering 9 capital account reform measures and 4 current account facilitation measures.
Zhang Xiaohong, deputy director of Finance and Trade Department of Lingang New District Management Committee of Shanghai Free Trade Zone: in the pilot policy, policies such as supporting small, medium and micro high-tech enterprises to borrow foreign debt, combined with policies such as supporting qualified enterprise tax relief in the New District, will help to improve the business environment and attract more high-tech enterprises to settle down.
Jinan area of Shandong pilot free trade zone has built a platform to provide digital trade services for China Europe trains. Just put into operation, it has provided more than 200 foreign trade enterprises with one-stop online services such as warehousing, space booking and customs declaration. Through blockchain technology, an exclusive "code" is pasted on the container to view the location of export goods online and in real time, Achieve accurate supervision of goods before shipment.
Liang Meilan, head of foreign trade enterprises in Jinan area of Shandong pilot Free Trade Zone: originally, we contacted freight forwarders (cargo agents) to deal with space booking, customs declaration, transshipment and other work. Now through the service platform of the free trade zone, we can realize paperless operation, greatly improve our work efficiency and deliver our goods to customers in time.
In order to reduce the operating costs of enterprises and optimize the business environment, Guangxi pilot free trade zone will exempt all enterprises registered in the pilot free trade zone from local water conservancy construction funds this year. In January, 2075 enterprises were newly established in Guangxi pilot Free Trade Zone, completing 10% of the annual task.
Guangdong Province has also issued 27 measures to promote trade and investment facilitation in the free trade zone, and proposed to support Hong Kong and Macao service providers to invest in the establishment of travel agencies, liberalize the legal inspection of international registered ships, and build Guangzhou futures exchange with high standards.
On January 1, the negative list of foreign investment access in the pilot free trade zone was reduced for the seventh time, and the items were reduced from the initial 190 to 27. The open fields involved various industries such as the first, second and third industries, the items of manufacturing industry were cleared, and the service industry continued to expand its opening-up.
Wu Hongliang, deputy director of the foreign investment department of the national development and Reform Commission: (new version) the negative list of foreign investment access has realized the full liberalization of the manufacturing industry in the pilot free trade zone. At the same time, the pilot free trade zone will explore the relaxation of access restrictions in service industries such as market research, so as to accumulate experience for further opening up in telecommunications, medical and other fields.
Optimize, expand and strengthen the industrial agglomeration development of the pilot Free Trade Zone
Combined with their own strategic positioning, location conditions and industrial foundation, their respective pilot trade zones solve development problems, constantly expand and extend the industrial chain and value chain, and actively build industrial clusters.
Recently, the first Super Large Artificial Intelligence Computing Center in East China was launched and operated in the new port area of Shanghai Free Trade Zone, which is an important step towards building a highland of artificial intelligence industry in the new port area. The new port area of Shanghai free trade zone has continued to issue capital incentive policies to support "specialized and special new" enterprises to actively use artificial intelligence, 5g and other related technologies for demonstration applications such as digitization, informatization and intellectualization.
Wuhan area of Hubei pilot Free Trade Zone vigorously develops a new generation of information technology industry with "optical, core, screen, terminal and network" as the core industrial chain, gathering more than 16000 science and technology enterprises, which are distributed in the subdivided fields of optical communication, wireless communication, photoelectric display, photoelectric sensor and so on. Not long ago, after the core business of a well-known technology enterprise landed in Wuhan, it settled its power R & D center in "China Optical Valley".
Zhou Maohua, head of an enterprise in Wuhan area of Hubei Free Trade Zone: as a world-class industrial cluster, optical, core, screen, terminal and network have gathered a large number of excellent industry leaders, providing a good ecological industrial environment for our whole development.
In addition, Guangdong pilot free trade zone has built platform Clusters - Guangdong Macao cooperation Industrial Park, Hengqin Macao Youth Entrepreneurship Valley, Guangdong Macao cross-border financial cooperation demonstration zone... New platform carriers have been accelerated to refresh the industrial level.
Relying on the transportation and logistics advantages located in the Central Plains, Henan pilot Free Trade Zone explores cross-border trade e-commerce services and creates infrastructure clusters. Relying on the four open channels of "air, land and sea", a 100 billion level modern logistics industry cluster is taking shape.
Zhu Zhaolong, deputy director of Zhengzhou area of Henan pilot Free Trade Zone: build an international cooperation and exchange platform, accelerate the construction of multimodal transport international logistics center, and promote the implementation of the first approved cross-border e-commerce retail import drug pilot in China.
Xiyong area of Chongqing pilot free trade zone is characterized by intelligent terminal industry cluster. It has an annual output of more than 100 million computers, printers, mobile phones and wearable devices, and the output of notebook computers has reached 30% of the world.
Heihe District of Heilongjiang Province innovated a new mode of cross-border multi carrier e-commerce live broadcasting integration, and formed a cross-border e-commerce live broadcasting industrial chain based on cross-border e-commerce Industrial Park, with the advantages of live broadcasting industrial clusters and characterized by "border people mutual trade + e-commerce".
Zhao Fujun, director of the comprehensive research office of the Foreign Economic Research Department of the development research center of the State Council: after determining the theme industries and characteristic industries, China's pilot free trade zone should actively expand and extend the industrial chain, form new advantages in participating in international economic competition, and give better play to the radiation and driving role of the pilot free trade zone.
Give play to the role of "locomotive" for the economic and trade rules of elevation level
In 2022, how to further play the "locomotive" role of the pilot free trade zone? The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce said that he would continue to make efforts in reform, opening up and innovation, form institutional innovation achievements and build a world leading industrial cluster.
At present, their pilot trade zones are paying attention to making full use of the dividends brought by the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP), accelerating institutional innovation and fully enjoying preferences.
Qingdao area of Shandong pilot free trade zone and Jinyi area of Zhejiang pilot Free Trade Zone actively build RCEP economic and trade cooperation demonstration zone.
In January this year, Guangzhou Nansha area of Guangdong pilot Free Trade Zone released the country's first integrated innovation initiative of the pilot Free Trade Zone benchmarking the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) and the comprehensive and progressive trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (cptpp), accurately benchmarking the terms of RCEP and cptpp, and put forward 17 pilot measures.
Tang Wenhong, director of the free trade zone and port Department of the Ministry of Commerce: promote the pilot docking of international high-standard economic and trade rules in conditional pilot free trade zones and free trade ports, and promote high-level institutional opening-up. Promote the introduction of the negative list of cross-border service trade in the pilot free trade zone.
On the basis of the negative list of cross-border service trade in Hainan, continue to promote the introduction of the negative list of service trade in the pilot free trade zone; We will continue to promote deep-seated reform and produce more institutional innovations in the pilot free trade zone.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Commerce said that it would focus on key areas, key links and basic systems, carry out in-depth reform pilot, promote the delegation of more provincial economic management authority to the pilot Free Trade Zone, and continue to promote the high-quality development of the pilot free trade zone.
Tang Wenhong, director of the port Department of the free trade zone of the Ministry of Commerce: promote the pilot free trade zone to carry out integrated innovation of the whole industrial chain based on the local actual situation, attract industrial chain and global production factor resources, cultivate characteristic leading industries, and create more world-leading industrial clusters.