Vice Minister of Commerce Guo Tingting said on the 20th that in the past 10 years, the Party Central Committee has deployed and established 21 free trade pilot zones, which contributed 18% of the country’s foreign investment and import and export with less than four thousandths of the land area. In total, a total of 302 institutional innovation achievements have been replicated and promoted nationwide, becoming a new highland for reform and opening up in the new era.
Guo Tingting made the above statement at the 10th anniversary theme forum of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone held that day. Guo Tingting said that on September 29, 2013, China’s first free trade pilot zone was launched in Shanghai. Since its establishment, the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone has achieved many "firsts" in my country's reform and opening up process: launching the country's first negative list for foreign investment access; launching the country's first international trade "single window"; creating the first The free trade account has contributed a lot of "Shanghai experience" to comprehensively deepening reform and opening up.
The "White Paper on the 10th Anniversary of the Construction of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone" released at the forum shows that among the 302 institutional innovations of the Pilot Free Trade Zone that have been replicated and promoted at the national level, those originated from Shanghai's first or simultaneous pilot trials Matters account for nearly half.
"The reform of the free trade pilot zone is not to 'make bonsai' but to 'plant a nursery', and the reform results should benefit a wider range." Yang Zhengwei, director of the Department of Coordination of Free Trade Zone and Port Construction of the Ministry of Commerce, said that in promoting high-level opening up In terms of aspects, the Pilot Free Trade Zone has undertaken major opening-up pilot tasks and effectively promoted the liberalization and facilitation of investment and trade; in terms of promoting in-depth reforms, the Pilot Free Trade Zone has exerted a "lead goose" effect in institutional innovation and transformed trade, investment, and government functions. It has implemented many pioneering reforms in terms of financial services and real economy; in terms of leading high-quality development, it has cultivated a number of world-leading industrial clusters such as oil and gas, biomedicine, and engineering machinery.
In the past 10 years, my country has established 21 free trade pilot zones, forming an innovative development pattern of reform, opening up, covering the east, west, south, north, and middle, and coordinating the coastal, inland and border areas. The Beijing Free Trade Zone promotes digital trade rules to benchmark against high international standards, the Guangdong Free Trade Zone promotes interconnection with the financial markets of Hong Kong and Macao, and the number of new enterprises in the Sichuan Free Trade Zone is 11 times that before the listing... At the forum, representatives from Beijing, Shandong, and Guangdong Relevant persons in charge from , Hainan, Sichuan and other places shared the development results and experiences of their respective trade zones.
Guo Tingting said that the free trade pilot zone will further align with high-standard economic and trade rules and further promote institutional opening; increase stress testing and improve market access levels; promote the integration of reform systems and strengthen new development momentum; and carry out differentiated exploration. , create modern industrial clusters with unique characteristics, and make new contributions to the comprehensive promotion of Chinese-style modernization.