China News Network, Chongqing, March 31 (Reporter Liu Xian) The China (Chongqing) Pilot Free Trade Zone will be listed for its third anniversary. The Chongqing Municipal Commercial Committee held a press conference on the 31st, saying that the next step will be to build a Sichuan-Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone Cooperative Opening Demonstration Zone.
The Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone was listed in April 2017. According to Song Gang, a member of the party group and deputy director of the Chongqing Commercial Committee, the implementation of customs facilitation reform measures has led to a reduction in the overall customs clearance import time at Chongqing ports by more than 60% and export time by more than 90%. The local government has successively approved the pilot policies of China's fourth first import of medicines and biological products, as well as facilitation of foreign exchange settlement and payment of capital account items, parallel automobile imports, railway mail, 144-hour visa-free transit, and tax rebate at the port of departure.
In particular, in the exploration of land trade rules focusing on the materialization of railway waybills, a series of progress has been made: the world's first "International Bill of Lading for Railway Bills of Lading" has been implemented in batches, and 47 railway bills of lading have been issued in total. Valued at RMB 400 million.
The Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone Shapingba Plate is the birthplace of the China-Europe Railway (Chongqing). It has gathered more than 200 international and domestic top logistics supply chain companies such as Singapore Fengshu, Italy Veyron, and American Amber. Its bonded logistics park (type B) made breakthroughs in its operations, carrying out businesses such as importing engine oil from Germany, importing vehicle parts from Europe, and importing coffee from Southeast Asia.
At the beginning of 2020, the sixth meeting of the Central Finance and Economic Committee pointed out that promoting the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing two-city economic circle is conducive to the formation of an important growth pole in the western region, and creating an inland opening strategic highland is of great significance for promoting high-quality development. .
Song Gang said that in the next step, he will benchmark the construction experience of foreign advanced urban economic circles and the demonstration areas of coordinated development such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Yangtze River Delta integration, and study and introduce operational and predictable reforms and innovations. The measures are aimed at establishing a collaborative and open demonstration zone in the Sichuan-Chongqing Free Trade Pilot Zone.
The local government will try first in the fields of establishing a free trade account system suitable for the characteristics of Chongqing, digital trade regulatory innovation, expanding opening of the service industry, and piloting green financial innovation; highlighting the characteristics of inland opening up, and further deepening the rules of land trade and multimodal transport Differentiation and exploration of logistics and finance; integrate and optimize various functional service platforms in the free trade pilot zone, and build a digital free trade zone.