[Walking in the Free Trade Zone] Write the word "agriculture" well, the road of innovation in Yangling area of Shaanxi Free Trade Zone
China News Service, Beijing, September 9 (Zuo Yukun) "The Yangling area of China (Shaanxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone is the only free trade area in my country that promotes international cooperation and exchanges in modern agriculture. "
At the "Walking Free Trade Zone" network theme event held recently, at the Shaanxi Free Trade Zone Cloud Symposium, Su Yawen, party secretary and director of the Office of the Management Committee of the Yangling Demonstration Zone in Shaanxi Free Trade Zone, said that in recent years, the Yangling region has continuously deepened international agricultural cooperation , The level of opening to the outside world has increased significantly.
The picture shows the imported products displayed at the China-Russia cross-border product experience and cloud service sales center.
Photo by Dang Tianye
The Shaanxi Pilot Free Trade Zone was inaugurated on April 1, 2017, with a total area of 119.95 square kilometers, including the central area, Xi’an International Port Area, and Yangling Demonstration Area.
Among them, the Yangling Demonstration Zone covers an area of 5.76 square kilometers.
Since its listing for more than three years, the Yangling area has continuously deepened international cooperation in agriculture and actively integrated into the “Belt and Road” construction. It has successively established cooperative relations with more than 60 countries in the field of modern agriculture, and has cooperated with more than 20 countries along the Silk Road including the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan. National government departments have signed relevant agreements to strengthen agricultural cooperation, carried out more than 300 international exchanges and cooperation activities, and laid out a number of international agricultural science and technology cooperation parks such as China-Kazakhstan, China-Australia, China-Germany, and China-Russia.
As of July 2020, the Yangling Free Trade Zone has accumulatively added 2,349 market entities of various types, including 1,633 enterprises, and completed actual use of foreign capital of 24.33 million US dollars, an increase of 42.7%; from January to July, the total import and export trade volume was 583.59 million yuan , The market vitality has been effectively stimulated.
How to highlight the characteristics of agriculture in the future?
"The construction of Yangling Comprehensive Bonded Zone will closely focus on the development strategy of the National Free Trade Zone, and build an agricultural industrial cluster with international influence and competitiveness based on Yangling's location advantages, resource endowments and industrial foundation." Su Yawen introduced that the area has now officially launched approval Set up procedures. The project will build a germplasm resource bonded R&D park, high-end food processing park, biomedicine and plant extract industrial park, cross-border e-commerce industrial park, and facility agricultural equipment and agricultural production in accordance with the industrial layout of "four parks and one center". Information display trading center.
Specifically, the first is to vigorously develop the cross-border trade of bulk agricultural products and the bonded processing industry, relying on Yangling's mature feed industry and plant extraction industry foundation, and taking advantage of the relevant policy advantages of the comprehensive protection zone that are not restricted by agricultural product quotas, and vigorously developing cross-border bulk agricultural products Trade and bonded processing industries will build Yangling into a bulk agricultural product trade, processing and logistics center.
Second, explore new paths for cross-border bonded research and development of germplasm resources, relying on the advantages of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling Seed Industrial Park, Smart Agriculture Valley and other seed industry technology research and development advantages to serve Syngenta Seed, Bayer Seed, DuPont Seed and other international Seed industry giants to build a bonded R&D industrial park for germplasm resources.
Data map: Space pumpkin displayed at the Yangling Agricultural High School.
Photo by Gao Qingguo
The third is to build an international bonded exhibition and trading center for agricultural machinery, agricultural materials, and agricultural products. Yangling Comprehensive Bonded Zone will build a bonded exhibition and exhibition center of no less than 30,000 square meters for importing agricultural machinery, facility agricultural equipment, biological pesticides, biological fertilizers, and high-end agricultural products. , Food and other bonded display, at the same time will also build online and offline trading platform, agricultural information release and brand marketing platform.
Su Yawen said that the establishment of the comprehensive bonded zone will become the only special customs supervision area that serves the development of the agricultural industry in my country. It is the Yangling Demonstration Zone to better fulfill "to comprehensively promote international cooperation and exchanges in the agricultural field, and to create a modern agricultural international cooperation center along the Belt and Road." An important platform for the national mission is also a platform for the Yangling Free Trade Zone to carry out institutional innovation in the agricultural field.
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