A good seed can sow hope;A new seedling can grow into a large tree.
On March 28, 2018, when the general secretary presided over the first meeting of the 19th National Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, he emphasized that it is necessary to conscientiously summarize the experience of the construction of the free pilot zone, in accordance with the requirements of high-quality development, compared with international advanced rules, with institutional innovation as the core, and risk prevention and control as the bottom line, expand the field of opening up, improve the level of governance, strengthen the integration of reform systems, and strive to obtain more replicable and promotable institutional innovation achievements, so as to better serve the overall situation of national reform and opening up.
Half a month later, the general secretary solemnly announced at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Hainan Province as a special economic zone that he decided to support the construction of a free pilot zone on the whole island of Hainan, support Hainan to gradually explore and steadily promote the construction of a free port with Chinese characteristics, and establish a free port policy and institutional system step by step and in stages.
In 2020, the general secretary made important instructions on the construction of Hainan Free Port, emphasizing: "It is necessary to put system integration and innovation in a prominent position, emancipate the mind, boldly innovate, mature one by one, and make steady and far-reaching efforts." ”
From the pilot free trade zone to the free port, China has accelerated the promotion of institutional opening-up, and institutional innovation has been placed in an important position.
Over the past decade, the Pilot Free Trade Zone has adhered to the principle of deepening reform and opening up to drive industrial innovation and development, and has built a number of world-leading industrial clusters. The picture shows the area around Xinying Bay, where Yangpu Economic Development Zone, a key park of Hainan Free Trade Port, is located. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Pu Xiaoxu.
Over the past ten years, the respective pilot trade zones have implemented the best decision-making and deployment, emancipated the mind, kept integrity and innovation, launched a large number of basic and pioneering reform and opening up measures, formed many landmark and leading institutional innovation achievements, and effectively played the role of a comprehensive test platform for reform and opening up.
According to the data of the Ministry of Commerce, in the past ten years, the pilot free trade zone has summarized and refined 302 institutional innovation achievements to be replicated and promoted across the countryAt the local level, all localities have independently promoted more than 2,800 institutional innovation achievements in combination with actual development conditions, covering many fields such as investment liberalization and facilitation, management reform, and financial opening and innovation.
Promote the improvement of the business environment and the transformation of functions with institutional innovation, and continuously stimulate the vitality of the market
On the afternoon of May 23, 2014, the general secretary came to the Waigaoqiao Comprehensive Service Hall of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone to listen to the report on the overall construction of the pilot zone, and communicated with the staff of the window of industry and commerce, customs, inspection and quarantine.
It was learned that in the 8 months since the establishment of the pilot zone, 1More than 60,000 investment enterprises and 280,000 employees have achieved positive results in forming a more open and transparent investment management system, improving the level of facilitation, deepening financial system innovation, and promoting management reform, and initially formed more than 30 reform items that can be replicated and promoted.
In the past ten years, the pilot free trade zone has taken the lead in implementing first-class management reforms such as "separation of licenses and licenses", promoted the improvement of the business environment and the acceleration of the transformation of first-class functions, actively explored the construction of a high-quality, efficient and convenient administrative management system, continuously improved service efficiency, innovated before, during and after supervision, accelerated the modernization of first-class governance capabilities, and continuously stimulated market vitality.
Promote investment facilitation with institutional innovation and help build a new system of open economy
On November 4, 2020, despite the impact of the epidemic, the 3rd China International Import Expo opened as scheduled.
China will effectively play the leading role of free pilot zones and free ports, issue a negative list of cross-border services, continue to expand opening-up in the fields of digital economy and the Internet, carry out in-depth reform and innovation in investment liberalization and facilitation, and promote the construction of a new system of a higher-level open economy. * The General Secretary's words at the opening ceremony were resounding.
At the beginning of July 2023, China's international ** "single window" platform ushered in good news - the "Optimized Railway Manifest Merge Query Function" was launched. "The new feature is very useful for customs brokers, and we have now reduced the time it takes to consolidate a manifest to 1 minute!The person in charge of a freight ** company said.
The country's first international "single window" launched in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone has been connected to more than 20 regulatory departments, covering more than 70 functional modules, leading the construction of the national version of the "single window".
It is necessary to adhere to all-round opening up to the outside world and continue to promote the liberalization and facilitation of investment", "we must give full play to the first-mover advantage and take the lead in establishing an institutional system that is in line with international investment and general rules", ......Over the past ten years, the general secretary has put forward a series of requirements for the construction of the pilot free trade zone, accumulated experience for the construction of a new system of a higher-level open economy, and gradually shaped China's new advantages in international cooperation and competition.
Promote financial openness and innovation through institutional innovation, and carry out broader and deeper reform exploration
Financial openness and innovation is a key area for the pilot free trade zone to carry out broader and deeper reform exploration. In March 2014, the general secretary pointed out that some stress tests should be carried out in the free pilot zone to control the risks that may occur in all aspects, and effectively prevent systemic risks, especially financial risks.
There is no need to open a mainland bank account, and there is no need to go to the bank to handle cross-border remittance", "the whole process only needs to be operated online, and you can successfully pay taxes in a few minutes, and the electronic ** is also opened, which is quite convenient" ......Many Hong Kong and Macao taxpayers who have used the cross-border RMB electronic tax payment business have given feedback to the tax department in Hengqin, Zhuhai, Guangdong.
In July 2023, six institutional innovations in the field of financial opening-up, including the "cross-border RMB full electronic tax payment", were selected as the seventh batch of reform pilot experiences in the Pilot Free Trade Zone, and have been replicated and promoted nationwide.
Over the past ten years, the financial management department has actively supported the pilot free trade zone to expand the opening up of the financial industry, promoted the free and convenient flow of cross-border funds, and took the lead in creating a free ** account in the pilot free trade zone, realizing the integration of domestic and foreign currencies, free convertibility within the account, and reducing the financing cost of enterprises. The respective pilot trade zones have also actively carried out financial service innovations such as foreign exchange capital settlement for foreign-funded enterprises and cross-border two-way RMB capital pooling business, so as to continuously enhance their ability to serve the real economy.
For the national trial system, promote the transformation of "nurseries" into "forests".
According to the data of the Ministry of Commerce, in terms of systematically promoting institutional innovation, the pilot free trade zone has successively applied for the introduction of 28 pilot free trade zone construction plans and a number of policy documents with high gold content, and has deployed more than 3,400 reform pilot tasks, forming a relatively complete policy and institutional framework system for the pilot free trade zone.