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Original title: 10 import trade promotion innovation demonstration zones across the country, including Shanghai Hongqiao business district, etc.
China News Service, November 4. According to the website of the Ministry of Commerce, Li Xingqian, Director of the Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce, said on the 4th that after a year of hard work, on the occasion of the grand opening of the third CIIE, the Ministry of Trade and Development and Reform Commission Nine departments and units, including the Ministry of Finance, the People’s Bank of China, the General Administration of Customs, the State Administration of Market Supervision, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the Food Administration and Medicines and the Export-Import Bank have jointly decided to establish ten innovation demonstration zones for the promotion of import trade throughout the country.
On November 4, I was looking forward to the opening of the third China International Import Expo. The picture shows a pedestrian walkway at the National Convention and Exhibition Center.Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu
On November 4, 2020, the 3rd China International Import Expo is about to open. Director Li Xingqian of the Department of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Commerce accepted the media at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai) about the function, work progress and related policies and measures of the demonstration zone of import trade promotion innovation. Interview.
Li Xinggan said that cultivating a group of import trade promotion innovation demonstration zones is an important measure to promote high-quality business development, deepen supply-side structural reforms, and promote high-level openness. After a year of hard work, on the occasion of the grand opening of the third CIIE, the Ministry of Commerce, the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the People’s Bank of China, the General Administration of Customs, the Administration General Market Supervision, the Exchange Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, the Export-Import Bank, etc. Nine departments and units jointly made the decision to establish ten innovation demonstration zones for promoting import trade throughout the country, including: Shanghai Hongqiao Business District, Dalian Jinpu New District, Liaoning Province, Kunshan City , Jiangsu Province, Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province and Hefei Economic Technology Development Zone in Anhui Province, Xiamen Huli District in Fujian Province, Qingdao West Coast New District in Shandong Province, Nansha District in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, Tianfu New District in Sichuan Province, and Xi’an International Port District in Shaanxi Province. “These 10 demonstration zones, which cover the former industrial bases of the east, center, west and northeast, including sea, land and air ports, reflect the momentum and potential of China’s import development.”
Li Xingqian said that in recent years, China has continuously lowered the overall level of tariffs, improved trade facilitation, and achieved positive results in expanding imports. China’s domestic market has great space and great potential. There are more than 400 million people in the middle income group. People’s needs for a better life continue to increase and the proportion of imports in the world continues to increase. According to WTO data, China’s imports accounted for 11.3% of the world’s share in the first half of this year, an increase of 0.8 percentage points over the same period last year and a record. China’s imports have significantly enhanced the global economic recovery. Cultivating import demonstration zones is an important starting point to implement the deployment of the Fifth Plenary Session of the XIX Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to “implement a high-level opening to the outside world and open new prospects for beneficial cooperation mutual”.
The demo area has two main functions. One is “trade promotion”, which means promoting exports, industry and consumption, the other is “trade innovation”, which means policy innovation, service innovation and model innovation. We hope to use three to five years to cultivate a series of import demonstration zones with innovative regulatory systems, comprehensive service functions and flexible transaction models, to promote the constant expansion of China’s import scale and continuous optimization of the structure, and drive related industries to improve quality, efficiency and consumption levels. Significant improvement, to provide due support for the construction of a new development pattern and to make China’s trade duly contribute to the promotion of world economic prosperity.
Li Xingqian stressed that since the beginning of this year, the new corona pneumonia epidemic has been raging, the world economy has been severely affected, and the business situation is complex and severe. The Chinese government continues to unswervingly promote the cultivation of import trade promotion innovation demonstration zones, actively expanding imports, and fully demonstrating the deepening of China’s openness. , A firm determination to defend trade liberalization. It’s about taking responsibility for a major trading country and fulfilling the actual action of a major importing country.
“Focusing on a new round of high-level opening to the outside world, we will continue to implement a series of policy measures to promote the expansion of imports of advanced technology, equipment and services, support the improvement of imports of media-related products of people’s lives, support the development of new import formats and optimize the commercialization model of imported goods. Improve the level of regulatory facilitation and support the demonstration zone to create a new situation for the innovative development of import trade ” Li Xingqian said.
