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Original title: The Ministry of Commerce answers the questions of all journalists: copy and promote the innovation achievements of the free trade zone to achieve 1 + 1> 2 effects
Every time reporter Zhang Huaishui Every time editor Chen Xing
On February 3, the Ministry of Commerce held a special press conference on the construction of pilot free zones during the period of the XIII Five-Year Plan.
Since 2013, my country’s pilot free trade zones have increased to 21 and cover the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions. During the “XIV Five-Year Plan” period, will the number of pilot free trade zones in my country be further expanded? How to deal with the relationship between the free zone and existing customs zones, industrial free zones, economic development zones and other parks? A reporter for “Daily Economic News” asked the Commerce Ministry questions at the press conference.
Tang Wenhong, director of the Free Trade Zone and the Department of Ports of the Ministry of Commerce, responded that the design of the pilot free trade zone started from 28.78 square kilometers in the four special areas of customs supervision of Shanghai , gradually optimized, expanded and gradually expanded. Now there are 21, a total of 67. The area has formed a pattern of reform and opening of innovation that spans the east, west, south, north and center areas. The “Proposals of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the formulation of the fourteenth five-year plan for national economic and social development and the long-term goals for 2035” are presented to improve the design of the pilot free trade zones. “We will conduct a general investigation based on a full evaluation of the effectiveness of the construction of the existing pilot free trade zone according to the decision-making and deployment.”
The free zone has the highest degree of openness.
After five expansions, China has formed a “geese formation” with 21 pilot free trade zones. It only took 7 years from its debut in 2013 to cover most of China today.
How to coordinate the relationship between the pilot free trade zone and other parks such as the state-level economic development zones, free zones, export processing zones and the best performance of the role of pilot free trade zones has become in the focus of social attention.
Tang Wenhong told the “Daily Economic News” reporter that the pilot free trade zone overlaps and complements the special customs supervision zone and the economic development zone. The positioning of the pilot free zone is to explore new paths and accumulate new experience to fully deepen the reforms and expand the opening. Therefore, during the construction of the pilot free zone several key expressions have been put forward, such as “innovation of systems as the core.” “Open high-level stress tests” is the basic requirement to be reproducible and reproducible. These expressions are the biggest difference between the Piloto Free Zone and other parks.
Tang Wenhong further pointed out that in terms of opening up expansion, the pilot free trade zone should conduct an opening resistance test, which has the highest degree of openness to the outside world and has more advantages than other parks. In terms of deepening reforms, the Free Trade Pilot Zone has undertaken more national pilot projects than other zones. In terms of strategic positioning, the general plan of each pilot free trade zone has clear regulations, and each pilot free trade zone should also take the initiative to dock and serve the main national development strategies.
“During the construction of the pilot free trade zone, it is necessary to give full play to the customs supervision function of the special customs supervision area, and the function of the economic development zone to absorb foreign investment and economic development. Therefore, the regional scope of some pilot free zones and related parks have Overlap, in the process of practice, the pilot free zone and these parks have better exercised the effect of overlapping policies, effectively improving the sense of acquisition of entities and achieving mutual promotion and coordinated development, “said Tang Wenhong.
Help all kinds of parks enjoy more new dividends
Tang Wenhong told the “Daily Economic News” reporter that the innovation of the pilot free trade zone system has attracted more market players, which may bring more development opportunities to the park located in the pilot free trade zone. On the other hand, the relevant parks of the Pilot Free Trade Zone also undertake reform tasks such as trade and investment liberalization and facilitation and transformation of government functions, and have also brought many institutional innovations.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, during the period of the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan”, the National Free Trade Pilot Zone explored and formed 173 institutional innovations and replicated them at the national level, reaching a total of 260. According to incomplete statistics from various regions, During the period of the “XIII Five-Year Plan”, the respective commercial pilot zones have formed more than 1,300 institutional innovations to be promoted in their provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, of which more than 220 were promoted in 2020.
Tang Wenhong introduced that, for example, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone promoted 11 experiences such as “the creation of a system to appoint arbitrators of labor and personnel disputes in Hong Kong and Macao”; The Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone promoted 23 experiences such as “Establishing a service window for Taiwan compatriots and Taiwanese companies”, the Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone has promoted 20 experiences such as the “Consolidated Cargo Container Mixed Model and exported for China-Europe express trains serving “One Belt One Road.” The Heilongjiang Pilot Free Trade Zone has promoted 10 experiences, including “building a medical tourism model with Russia”.
In addition, the reporter noted that the pilot free trade zone has also accumulated rich experience in promoting high-level openness. According to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce, the special measures for handling the negative list of foreign investment in the Pilot Free Trade Zone will be reduced from the initial 190 items to 122 items at the beginning of the period of the “XIII Five-Year Plan” to 30 items for 2020, Hainan’s first free trade port for foreign investors. There are only 27 items on the negative investment access list.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, in 2020, a total of 393,000 new companies will be established in the first 18 pilot free trade zones, the actual use of foreign capital will be 176.38 billion yuan, and the total volume of import and export It will be 4.7 trillion yuan, which is less than four thousandths of the country’s land area. It achieved 17.6% of the country’s foreign investment and 14.7% of imports and exports, playing an important role in stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment.
In response to a question from a “Daily Economic News” reporter, Tang Wenhong pointed out that in the next step, the pilot free trade zone will firmly grasp the core of institutional innovation, better realize the policy effect of 1 + 1> 2, and explore more institutional innovation results., Replicate and promote on a larger scale, and drive the continuous improvement of the business environment throughout the country, so that all kinds of parks outside the free zone can also enjoy more reforms and openings increase the dividends of innovation.
(Edit: Wen Jing)
