The first anniversary of the establishment of Lingang New Area in Shanghai Free Trade Zone
Accelerate innovation and development (economic focus)
More than half of 78 policy and system innovation tasks have been completed, and 45 have been implemented
Our reporter Xie Weiqun
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In accordance with the principle of "systematic reform, integrated innovation", a series of reforms in the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone are proceeding in an orderly manner. Continuously optimize the business environment, build the Yangshan Special Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and carry out financial innovation experiments... Since this year, the Lingang New Area has adhered to both epidemic prevention and control and economic development, and coordinated efforts in institutional innovation to ensure that "the heat is not diminished and the momentum is Without reducing the intensity of reform,” regional development has accelerated.
One year ago, on August 20, the Lingang New Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone was inaugurated. In the past year, a series of reforms in the Lingang New Area have been carried out in an orderly manner in accordance with the principle of "systematic reform and integrated innovation".
Zhu Zhisong, Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Government and Executive Deputy Director of the Lingang New Area Management Committee, introduced that since the beginning of this year, the Lingang New Area has adhered to both epidemic prevention and control and economic development. The momentum remains unabated and the intensity of reform does not decrease.” Regional development has accelerated: 78 policy and system innovation tasks decomposed from the overall plan have been completed more than half, 45 have been implemented, and 22 other plans have been formed.
Committed to forming a more efficient, fair and predictable investment environment
"Unattended automatic processing", each business of the construction project water and soil conservation plan approval items has been run at least once, submitted 3 materials, processed for 7 days, and reviewed more than 10 information, compressed to the current zero running, online submission 1 It only takes 5 minutes for the whole process to realize automatic examination and approval. Not long ago, it only took 4 months from signing the contract to obtaining the construction permit for Jinping Technology's new energy project, and Lingang New Area once again refreshed its service speed.
Not only that, the Lingang New Area fully promoted the reengineering of the approval process, proposed 26 review and reform measures involving the entire process of government and corporate investment projects, and introduced new processes such as "filling up deficiencies", "regional assessment", and "combining multiple evaluations". Through a series of process reengineering, the process of investment projects has been greatly accelerated.
It is understood that the Lingang New Area crosses Shanghai’s Pudong New Area and Fengxian District. Prior to this, the market supervision administrations of Pudong New Area and Fengxian District were responsible for reviewing the business licenses of market entities in Lingang New Area. In March of this year, the newly established Lingang New Area Market Supervision and Administration Bureau integrated the original cross-district administrative functions and provided convenience for enterprises in the area to carry out activities and apply for policies.
Zhu Zhisong introduced that, up to now, the Lingang New Area has comprehensively promoted 51 "licensing and license separation" reforms involving enterprise business licenses, of which 1 was approved and filed, 22 implemented notification commitments, and 28 optimized service methods.
With the continuous optimization of the business environment, the accumulation of resource elements is accelerating. In one year, there were 15,115 companies newly settled in Lingang New Area, 358 projects were signed, and the total investment was 271.363 billion yuan. Foreign businessmen are particularly enthusiastic in investing in the Lingang New Area. From the inauguration to the end of June, a total of 260 foreign-invested enterprises were newly established, of which wholly foreign-owned enterprises accounted for 70%.
Focus on high-standard goals and build Yangshan Special Comprehensive Bonded Zone
When the car reaches the Donghai Bridge, a row of large arched characters is eye-catching: Yangshan Special Comprehensive Bonded Zone. This is the only special comprehensive bonded zone among the 151 special customs supervision areas in the country, and it is also an area representing the high standard of trade freedom in the Lingang New Area. On January 17, 2020, the State Council approved the establishment of Yangshan Special Comprehensive Bonded Zone. On May 12, the first phase was closed and officially listed on May 16.
The reporter learned that the special comprehensive bonded zone has special development goals: to further gather innovative and high value-added industries such as cross-border trade, high-end shipping, international supply chain management, international high-end manufacturing and related service industries.
International transfer and consolidation business is an important indicator to measure the degree of development of international hub ports. In response to the current situation that Shanghai’s ocean routes are concentrated in Yangshan Port and near-ocean routes are concentrated in Waigaoqiao Port, the Lingang New Area actively breaks through the cross-customs transfer problem with Shanghai Customs and other regulatory authorities, and strengthens the global hub port international transfer hub. Features.
To this end, Shanghai Customs approved Shanghai Deepwater Port International Logistics Co., Ltd. to set up an international transshipment centralized supervision center to implement closed, informatized, and intensive management of centralized cargo, and completed the entire international transit centralized shipping manifest mode. Process trial order operation and multiple speed-up trial orders have greatly improved the efficiency and convenience of customs clearance.
In order to support high-standard trade in the zone, the General Administration of Customs has formulated the Yangshan Special Comprehensive Bonded Zone Supervision Measures, several measures to support the innovative development of key industries in the Lingang New Area, and canceled unnecessary trade supervision permits and procedures. At the same time, relying on an integrated information management service platform, a precise, intelligent and non-inductive electronic fence supervision system has been formed.
Since its inauguration, there have been 163 new registered projects in the Yangshan Special Comprehensive Bonded Zone with a registered capital of 9.82 billion yuan, of which 11 projects are over 100 million yuan, and 123 projects are in progress, with an estimated investment of 15.13 billion yuan.
Focus on facilitation of funds collection and payment, and carry out financial innovation experiments
In just one year, there have been continuous explorations in the financial sector in Lingang New Area.
On May 8 this year, the Shanghai Headquarters of the People’s Bank of China, together with the Lingang New Area Management Committee, the Shanghai Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau, the Shanghai Securities Regulatory Bureau, and the Shanghai Financial Work Bureau, jointly issued the "Financial 50 Measures" to support development in the Lingang New Area Various financial innovation experiments. The pilot project for facilitation of cross-border RMB settlement is one of the important ones.
CSSC Ocean Power Technology Service Co., Ltd. is the only platform company that provides external after-sales service guarantees to the CSSC Group. With a large number of cross-border receipts and payments of service trade and frequent settlements, there is an urgent need for simplified document review of cross-border receipts and payments. After Shanghai Pudong Development Bank has listed the company as a high-quality company through due diligence, the company can handle cross-border receipts and payments under trade in services without having to submit documents in advance.
Relevant staff of the company said that compared with the original, it saves one working day and greatly improves the efficiency of the company's internal capital management. The favorable policies have made customers feel that the financial business of the Lingang New Area is getting faster and faster in line with international standards.
Zheng Yang, Chairman of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, said that the Lingang New Area is bringing opportunities to the development of the financial industry. With the help of the Lingang New Area, financial institutions are trying to reform pilot policies. Various financial institutions are strengthening financial product innovation, which is a large number of factors. The market provides high-quality services to help the Shanghai International Financial Center accelerate the pace of innovation.
Because of the continuous increase in financial innovation, a number of financial institutions have gathered in the Lingang New Area. A number of landmark projects such as the China State-owned Enterprise Mixed Ownership Reform Fund with a total scale of 200 billion yuan have settled in the Lingang New Area.