The "Comprehensive Deepening of the Overall Plan for the Pilot Program for the Innovation and Development of Trade in Services" is issued to promote the orderly relaxation or removal of restrictions on trade in services
Economic Daily-China Economic Net Beijing, August 14 (Reporter Feng Qiyu Chen Guojing) In order to enhance the status of "China Services" in the global value chain and give full play to the supporting role of service trade in stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment, the Ministry of Commerce recently issued the "Comprehensive Deepening of Services" The Overall Plan for the Pilot Trade Innovation and Development.
"The pilot service trade innovation development has promoted the high-quality development of the national service trade." said Gao Feng, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce. Statistics show that in 2019, the import and export of services in the service trade pilot regions accounted for more than 75% of the country's total, and the growth rate was faster than the national average.
In the first half of this year, facing the severe challenges brought about by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, my country introduced a series of policies and measures to stabilize service trade. Vigorously promote the innovation and development of service trade and achieve positive results. Excluding travel services severely affected by the epidemic, my country's service imports and exports increased by 2.1% in the first half of the year, of which exports increased by 3.7% and imports increased by 0.5%. Previously, in order to promote the development of a new round of pilot work, the State Council agreed to comprehensively deepen the pilot service trade innovation development in 28 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities (regions) including Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai. The period of comprehensive deepening of the pilot program was 3 years.
The "Plan" released this time clarifies that it is necessary to comprehensively explore and expand opening up. Adhere to the combination of element-based and institutional openness, coordination of openness and supervision, and connection between pre-access and post-access, and continue to make efforts at the institutional level and key areas to improve the level of openness. Expand open areas in an orderly manner. In compliance with high international standards, in the key service areas of full competition, limited competition, and natural monopoly services, the principles of complete cancellation, substantial relaxation, and orderly liberalization are used to promote the cancellation or relaxation of restrictions on service trade. Measures. Explore the relaxation of service trade restrictions under the mode of natural persons movement in specific service areas, explore allowing overseas professionals to obtain domestic professional qualifications and employment opportunities in specific open fields in accordance with relevant requirements, and promote mutual recognition of professional qualifications in accordance with the principle of reciprocity. Explore the path of institutional opening. In pilot areas, stress tests will be carried out focusing on the opening up of emerging service industries and promote orderly relaxation or cancellation of relevant restrictions. Take the lead in exploring risk prevention mechanisms that adapt to new situations and needs in key service areas.
At the same time, it is necessary to comprehensively explore innovative development models for service trade. The "Plan" proposes to expand new business formats and new models. Vigorously develop digital trade, improve digital trade policies, optimize inclusive and prudent supervision of digital trade, and explore digital trade management and promotion systems. Explore the establishment of a new development pattern in which the domestic and international dual cycles of digital trade promote each other, and actively establish a national digital trade expert working group mechanism to provide consulting and guidance for the innovative development of pilot areas. Promote the synergy and integration of digital technology with the value chain of the industrial chain, promote the digital transformation of the industry, promote the deep integration of the manufacturing service industry, promote the integration of the producer service industry into the global value chain through service outsourcing, and vigorously develop the delivery logistics, warehousing, research and development, Design, inspection and testing, repair and maintenance, film and television production, international settlement, distribution, exhibitions, cross-border leasing and other emerging service trades. For intermediate investment in "two ends outside" service trade, we will explore systematic arrangements and support in policy and other aspects.
The "Plan" particularly emphasizes the comprehensive exploration and improvement of the level of convenience. Promote the facilitation of capital flow. Accelerate the cross-border use of the renminbi in the field of trade in services. Improve foreign exchange management measures.
It is worth noting that the "Plan" in the "Comprehensive Deepening of Service Trade Innovation and Development Pilot Tasks, Specific Measures, and Division of Responsibilities" section proposes: to carry out the pilot areas in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the central and western parts Pilot digital renminbi.
The pilot areas proposed in the "Plan" are consistent with those disclosed by the People's Bank of China Digital Currency Research Institute in April this year. "This does not mean that digital renminbi is officially issued." The Central Bank Digital Currency Research Institute responded in April this year that the current digital renminbi research and development work is steadily advancing, and the digital renminbi system adheres to the premise of two-tier operation, M0 substitution, and controllable anonymity. Next, basically complete top-level design, standard formulation, function research and development, joint debugging and testing, and follow the principles of stability, safety, controllability, innovation, and practicality. At the current stage, first in Shenzhen, Suzhou, Xiongan, Chengdu and the future Winter Olympics The scenario is internally closed and pilot tested to continuously optimize and improve functions.