Source: Liu Bing, Sun Yuanze Drafting: Gong Xiaolei In 2023, two achievements of the Shandong Pilot Free Trade Zone will be selected as the seventh batch of reform pilot experiences to be promoted nationwide. The picture shows the Qingdao Free Trade Zone. (Reporter Bai Xiao reports).
Reporter Liu Bing Sun Yuanze.
Reform and opening up is a "key move" to speed up the construction of a modern and strong province. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 12th Provincial Party Committee and the Economic Work Conference of the Provincial Party Committee required that new advantages be created in deepening reform and opening up, deepening reforms in key areas, releasing the vitality of private economic development, promoting foreign trade to promote stability and quality, actively introducing high-quality foreign investment, and improving the comprehensive energy level of the open platform.
The online handling rate of government service matters according to the application has reached more than 90%, and the online handling rate of the whole process has exceeded 80%; Imports and exports in the first 11 months 296 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22%, the growth rate of import and export, export and import is higher than the national average in the same period; The number of China-Europe trains in Shandong exceeded 2,500 ......In the past 2023, Shandong insisted on solving problems through reform, activating power with opening-up, continuously expanding new space for high-quality development, and accelerating the creation of a new highland for opening up.
Grasp the core key and drive the overall development with key reform breakthroughs.
Approaching the end of 2023, in the 10,000-square-meter marine traditional Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine production workshop of Qingdao Mingyue Marine Traditional Chinese Medicine Technology Co., Ltd., located in Qingdao West Coast New Area, the whole process production line of traditional Chinese medicine pretreatment, extraction, concentration, and preparation is still busy, and workers are working overtime to catch up with orders. In June last year, Qingdao Mingyue Seaweed Group's marine traditional Chinese medicine preparation project was completed and put into operation, which is the largest production base in the field of marine traditional Chinese medicine in China.
The marine biomedical industry is one of the key industries in Qingdao West Coast New Area, and the local government relies on the backbone enterprises that have mastered key technologies to promote the development of this industry in the direction of intensive processing and high-value utilization of marine organisms, marine innovative drugs and preparations, and new biological materials. "As a national-level new area, the West Coast New Area, based on its own characteristic advantages, is the first in the country to integrate land spatial planning and industrial development planning, and strives to solve the problems of convergence of industrial types, spatial layout, insufficient industrial agglomeration effect and duplicate construction in major functional areas and towns. Sun Yonghong, member of the Standing Committee of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Working Committee of the West Coast New Area and Secretary of the Huangdao District Party Committee, said.
The development zone is the main battlefield of the industrial economy, the gathering place of high-end industries, and the vanguard of reform and opening up. The reporter learned from the Reform Office of the Provincial Party Committee that in order to further stimulate the vitality of the development zone, Shandong formulated and issued the "Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the Management System of the Development Zone and Promoting the High-quality Development of the Development Zone", optimized the regional layout and functional positioning of the development zone, and included 157 development zones above the provincial level into the assessment system for the first time, and promoted the high-quality development of the development zone by optimizing the performance appraisal.
Not long ago, Shandong Development Green Valley Industrial Park, which was constructed and operated by Shandong Development Investment Holding Group, opened in Jinan Lingang Economic Development Zone. In the 100 acres of park, 20 outstanding enterprises in the industry such as Chenhe Intelligent have been attracted, including 13 provincial-level specialized and special new enterprises, provincial-level gazelle enterprises, and national-level high-tech enterprises.
We have deepened the reform of state-owned enterprises, established a green capital investment group and a modern industrial investment group, and promoted the expansion and strengthening of green investment and financing and park operations. Guo Xiaodong, chairman of Shandong Development Investment Holding Group, said that as of the end of November 2023, the company has reserved 600 projects, 120 key promotion projects, and completed 32 investments6.5 billion yuan.
Looking at the whole province, Shandong has promoted the provincial state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises to improve quality and efficiency, adjust the structure, and prevent risks in the reform, and the scale has continued to expand, which has continuously strengthened the supporting role of the province's economy. As of the end of November 2023, the total assets of Shandong provincial enterprises are 49,287600 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 94%, and the main economic indicators continue to rank among the top in the country.
The avenue goes straight, and its life is renewed. From deepening the reform of the system and mechanism of the development zone to initiating the implementation of the deepening and upgrading of the reform of state-owned enterprises; From continuously optimizing the business environment to promoting the integration of domestic and foreign trade, market-oriented allocation of factors and other areas of reform and ......Shandong pays attention to planning work with reform ideas, solving problems, strengthening system integration, coordination and efficiency, and driving overall development with key reform breakthroughs. In 2023, the 102 annual reform tasks planned and launched have all achieved phased results.
Pay close attention to the blocking points and difficulties, and continue to improve the comprehensive energy level of the open platform.
Recently, Yantai Yingde Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. applied for a total loan of 9.5 million yuan successfully arrived. "At the beginning of December last year, we submitted an application for 'Branch Credit' to the Yantai Free Trade Zone Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, and we did not expect it to be successfully approved in a few days. Sun Jing, the person in charge of the enterprise, said that the company has achieved a breakthrough in the research and development and manufacturing of diesel vehicle exhaust treatment devices, and the recent export orders have increased significantly, and it is imminent to expand the scale of production.
Small and medium-sized technology-based enterprises often face financing difficulties due to their inherent characteristics such as "light assets, high risk, and difficult to measure the value of technology". The Yantai Area of the Shandong Pilot Free Trade Zone has innovatively launched financial products such as "Branch Credit" to guarantee and enhance credit for enterprises and help technology-based enterprises grow rapidly. In 2023, the total amount of science and technology credit loans in the Yantai Free Trade Zone will exceed 2 billion yuan, and more than 300 science and technology enterprises will benefit from it.
To build a new system of open economy at a higher level, open platforms such as pilot free trade zones are important carriers. Implement the "enterprise financial insurance" and "zero cost" guarantee model, innovate the new model of "district-port linkage" vehicle export, and explore the ...... of unmanned bayonet supervision mode of automated terminalsBased on its own functional positioning and characteristic characteristics, Shandong Pilot Free Trade Zone has made every effort to promote the practice of institutional innovation, issued the first batch of 144 institutional innovation achievement packages, and 2 achievements were selected as the seventh batch of reform pilot experience to be replicated and promoted across the country, and the total number ranks among the top of their respective pilot trade zones.
On December 20, 2023, the border port warehouse of the SCO Demonstration Zone-Heihe "Silk Road E-commerce" Comprehensive Service Base was unveiled, and the first border port warehouse in the SCO Demonstration Zone was officially launched. "After the establishment of this border port warehouse, cross-border e-commerce import and export goods can be quickly distributed between the SCO central warehouse and the border port warehouse. Lei Hairui, general manager of the Heilongjiang branch of Ningbo International Logistics Development Co., Ltd., the operator of the border port warehouse, said.
Openness is a distinctive sign of the SCO Demonstration Zone. In order to solve the difficult problems of cross-border settlement, slow customs clearance, and poor tax and foreign exchange compliance in the cooperation of SCO countries in the field of cross-border e-commerce, in August 2023, the SCO Demonstration Zone launched the construction of a comprehensive service base for "Silk Road E-commerce", focusing on the source of policies and systems, the agglomeration of industrial entities, the transformation of data resources, the guidance of model innovation, and the priority of open cooperation, to provide a demonstration plan for the international cooperation of "Silk Road E-commerce", and to build a public service platform for international cooperation in the field of "Belt and Road" e-commerce.
Highlighting the attributes of international public goods and continuing to amplify the demonstration effect, the scale of imports and exports between the SCO Demonstration Zone and SCO countries will continue to grow rapidly, which is expected to increase from 8500 million yuan increased to 8.5 billion yuan in 2023, an increase of 9 times. Li Gang, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee and executive deputy director of the Management Committee of the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone, said.
Bring in and go out, and make greater efforts to stabilize foreign trade and attract foreign investment.
Woo! Woo! On January 1, with a long whistle, the first Shandong China-Europe train in 2024 departed from Dongjiazhen Station in Jinan, carrying laser cutting machines, tires and other "Made in Shandong" to Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Accelerate the pace of "going out" development, continue to deepen the overseas market, "Central Asia" has become a "hot word" for Shandong to actively serve and integrate into the construction of the "Belt and Road" in 2023: On May 20, 2023, the first batch of 1,000 Zhongtong buses in Kyrgyzstan The off-line ceremony was held in Liaocheng Zhongtong Bus Company. In September 2023, Shandong set up the first overseas Almaty assembly center in Kazakhstan to build a core hub ...... for trains in Central Asia
Connected by land and sea at home and abroad, and mutually beneficial in both east and west, Shandong, which is located in the eastern bridgehead of the Eurasian continent, has outstanding geographical advantages. "We rely on the overseas train network to expand the import of high-quality agricultural and sideline products in Central Asia, and effectively promote economic and trade exchanges between Shandong and Central Asia. Fu Shihao, deputy general manager of Shandong High-speed Qilu International Dry Port Development, said that in 2023, the number of Shandong China-Europe trains will exceed 2,500, of which more than 140 will be returned to Central Asia, an increase of more than 60% over the previous year.
To shoulder the responsibility of "building a new highland for opening up" and make greater efforts to stabilize foreign trade and attract foreign investment, we must adhere to the two-way force of "bringing in" and "going out". On November 15, 2023, Shangang Trafigura International** (Shandong)**, a joint venture established by Shandong Port Group and Trafigura Group, was inaugurated. At the 4th Qingdao Summit of Leaders of Multinational Corporations, Shandong Port and Trafigura signed a cooperation agreement, agreeing to jointly build a one-stop service chain for the upstream and downstream of bulk commodities, and create "four major services" of futures and spot services, chain operation nearby delivery services, mixing and processing services, and long-term cooperation services. "The establishment of Shangang Trafigura International will further broaden the cooperation path of 'port + chain + local industry', promote the integration of chain resources, and help the development of an open economy. Huo Gaoyuan, chairman of Shandong Port Group, said.
Focusing on the problems of sluggish foreign demand and insufficient orders, since 2023, Shandong has innovated the form of investment promotion, implemented the "Overseas Hundred Exhibitions" market development plan, organized more than 3,600 enterprises at the provincial and municipal levels to participate in more than 530 overseas exhibitions, and organized more than 6,000 enterprises to participate in well-known domestic exhibitions such as the Canton Fair.
According to the data, in the first 11 months of 2023, the province's actual use of foreign capital ranked fifth in the country, and the actual use of foreign investment in the manufacturing industry was 61900 million US dollars, accounting for 381%, the actual use of foreign capital in high-tech industries is 52600 million US dollars, accounting for 323%。