Chinanews client, Beijing, September 3 (Reporter Xie Yiguan) "Tianjin Free Trade Zone's "Overall Plan" and "Deep Reform Plan" have all implemented more than 70 special institutional innovation measures for Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. In addition, they have launched and implemented The "Eight Measures for Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone to Serve the Coordinated Development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei" and the "Work Plan for Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone to Serve the Coordinated Development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei" achieved remarkable results."
Recently, Tang Zhongfu, deputy director of the Office of the Administrative Committee of Tianjin Free Trade Zone, said this at the "Walking Free Trade Zone" network theme event at the Tianjin Free Trade Zone Cloud Forum.
Data map: On July 8, 2019, the world's largest container ship made its maiden voyage at Tianjin Port.
China News Agency issued Zhong Xin photo
Take multiple measures to strengthen the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei linkage
The Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone is the first pilot free trade zone in northern China approved by the State Council. It covers an area of 119.9 square kilometers, all located within the jurisdiction of the Binhai New Area. It is divided into Tianjin Port Dongjiang Area, Tianjin Airport Area, and Binhai New Area. The central business district area.
According to Tang Zhongfu, the Tianjin Free Trade Zone has always adhered to institutional innovation as its core and its local characteristics as serving the national strategy of coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
In terms of serving and promoting the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, aiming at the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei high-level opening-up platform and accelerating institutional innovation are mainly reflected in the following aspects:
The first is to build a major international trade channel between Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
It took the lead in implementing the integrated reform of customs clearance in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and explored comprehensive optimization reforms for port customs clearance and logistics processes. By the end of 2019, the time for import and export customs clearance had dropped to 36.8 hours and 3.27 hours, respectively.
The second is to serve the international operation of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei enterprises.
Leverage the advantages of cross-border domestic and foreign currency capital pools, FT accounts, and other comprehensive cross-border investment and financing functions, and strive to build "going out" overseas project export bases, central enterprises’ innovative financial sector bearers, and cross-border investment and financing hubs. A total of 81 central enterprises have established More than 400 innovative financial entities have been established.
In 2019, more than 600 non-capital core function relief projects were undertaken.
The third is to serve the high-quality development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
Establish the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Industrial Structure Adjustment Guidance Fund with a total scale of 10 billion yuan, and establish the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Makers Alliance to explore innovative businesses such as offshore leasing, international factoring, logistics finance, healthcare, digital economy, and used car export.
The fourth is to promote the sharing of regional collaborative innovation and pilot experience.
It has successively signed strategic cooperation framework agreements for the Tianjin-Hebei Pilot Free Trade Zone to carry out in-depth cooperation in system innovation and international trade logistics.
It has successively launched 178 experience cases that can be developed in conjunction with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and a batch of innovative achievements such as regional customs clearance integration and leasing cross-customs linkage supervision are replicated and promoted in Beijing-Hebei.
Data map: The 3rd Dongjiang Import Commodities Exhibition in Tianjin Free Trade Zone.
Photo by Zhang Daozheng
Self-pressurization to better serve the development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei
In order to continue to promote the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cooperative opening demonstration zone, in the second half of 2019, the Tianjin Municipal Government issued the "Measures to Support the Innovative Development of China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone" and "Innovative Development of China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone" Action plan".
"In terms of coordinated economic development, the Tianjin Free Trade Zone is self-impressing and self-planning. It hopes to seize the opportunity in the new round of reform by implementing 100 optional actions for innovative development and better serve the development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei." Tang Zhongfu said .
For example, continue to play a leading role in the demonstration of reform and opening up, and actively build the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei + One Belt One Road" overseas project export base; relying on serving the construction of world-class smart ports and green ports; Comprehensive port and shipping service capabilities; focus on the role of free trade accounts to better meet the international business needs of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei enterprises; strengthen comparative and complementary experiments with the Hebei Free Trade Zone and the expansion of the Beijing service industry, and strengthen the reform of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Innovative synergy and linkage to jointly create a collaborative and open international cooperation demonstration zone.
"In the future, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone will continue to take on the heavy responsibility of deepening reforms and opening wider to the outside world, boldly experiment, venture boldly, make independent reforms, further expand the overall pattern of international development, accelerate the construction of the northern international shipping hub, and continue to innovate policies and systems. Nurturing new kinetic energy and leading China to a higher level of opening to the outside world." Tang Zhongfu said, striving to become an innovative highland for accelerating the implementation of Tianjin's "one base and three districts" functional positioning, driving the economic development of the Bohai Rim region, and serving the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
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