[Walking in the Free Trade Zone] Yunnan Free Trade Zone: Give full play to its unique advantages to create an open highland of "border + cross-border"
Chinanews client, Beijing, September 9th (Reporter Xie Yiguan) "Since its launch in August 2019, the Yunnan Free Trade Zone has effectively promoted the in-depth reform of the province through innovative and differentiated reform explorations. Through policies and projects The'two-wheel drive' effectively gathers all kinds of open industries and entities. Through the perfect open functions in the region and the superposition of policy empowerment, it provides strong support for creating an open highland along the border and cross-border."
On September 8, at the “Walking Free Trade Zone” network theme event at the Yunnan Free Trade Zone Cloud Symposium, Kou Jie, Executive Deputy Director of the Office of the Leading Group for the Work of Yunnan Free Trade Zone and Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Commerce, introduced the listing of the Yunnan Free Trade Zone Development results in the past year.
Data Map: The People's Exchange Market in Beishan, Hekou, Yunnan.
Photo by Yang Huiguo
Based on the two characteristics of "border" + "cross-border"
According to Kou Jie, the Yunnan Free Trade Zone is one of my country’s first three free trade zones in the border areas. Yunnan is bordered by Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. The border is 4,060 kilometers long and distributed in 20 countries. Port and 6 second-class ports.
The biggest feature of the Yunnan Free Trade Zone is the border, the biggest feature is cross-border, and the biggest advantage is location.
To this end, the Yunnan Free Trade Zone is based on the two major characteristics of "frontier" + "cross-border", actively promotes the "Internet + government service" model, establishes regulatory standards and regulatory systems that are in line with international standards; promotes trade transformation and upgrading, and innovates cross-border electronics For business development, speed up the construction of Hekou and Ruili international express mail supervision centers, support the construction of border warehouses in the Honghe area and Dehong area, and support the replication of the mature experience of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot areas.
At the same time, innovate a new model of economic and social development along the border, rely on the border (cross) border economic cooperation zone to carry out international production cooperation, explore the pattern of personnel exchanges in border areas, actively promote the signing of cross-border human resources cooperation agreements with neighboring countries, and explore the establishment of foreign workers Long-term management mechanism.
"In addition, the Yunnan Free Trade Zone is also playing an active role in promoting the high-quality development of the province by leaps and bounds and creating a new highland of reform and opening up in the new era of Yunnan." Kou Jie said.
Over the past year, the number of incremental market entities in the Yunnan Free Trade Zone has reached 32,775, including 13,902 enterprises (including 64 foreign-funded enterprises), 2 specialized farmer cooperatives, and 18,871 individual industrial and commercial households.
About 160 new market entities are born in the Yunnan Free Trade Zone every day, and 1 outdoor-funded enterprise is introduced every 4 days.
The huge "magnetic field effect" released by the Yunnan Free Trade Zone has become a new engine for radiation to drive regional economic development.
Data map: Enterprise representatives handle business at the Comprehensive Service Center of Kunming Area, China (Yunnan) Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Photo by Hu Yuanhang
Integrate into the national strategy and promote great development through opening up
"While seeing the opportunities, the construction of the Yunnan Free Trade Zone is also facing some challenges." Kou Jie pointed out that the reform of the Yunnan Free Trade Zone involves a wide range of areas, and it is difficult to further reform and innovate; the basic supporting facilities are not perfect; the economy and trade volume Small, the level of open development needs to be improved; business, management, and technical personnel familiar with international business rules are still in short supply, and there is still a gap between the high standards and strict requirements for the development of the free trade zone.
In the next step, the Yunnan Free Trade Zone will take the initiative to serve and integrate into the country's major development strategies, promote great development with large openings, and promote the reform, innovation and development of the Yunnan Free Trade Zone with high standards.
One is to further improve the work operation mechanism.
Strengthen the overall guidance for the construction of the free trade zone, further straighten out the relationship and working mechanism between the area management committee and the local administrative agency, strengthen coordination and linkage, and ensure efficient operation.
Guide and coordinate the district management committee to further optimize various internal management systems, promote the goal integration, personnel integration, and function integration of the functional organizations set up in the management committee, so as to truly achieve efficient operation.
The second is to further promote the implementation of the reform pilot tasks.
Actively take the initiative to match up with policies, give full play to the role of the free trade zone joint conference system, strengthen collaboration, and strive to promote major reforms and innovations across regions, departments, and levels.
Highlight the two major characteristics of "frontier" and "cross-border", carry out differentiated and characteristic pilots, and ensure that no less than 80 reform pilot tasks are completed by 2020.
The third is to further increase support for infrastructure construction.
Aiming at the area’s weak financial resources, lack of operating entities, operating platforms, application scenarios, etc., accelerate the construction of investment and financing platforms, build capital operating companies, accelerate the establishment of industrial development and infrastructure construction investment funds, and give full play to the role of capital investment and operating company platforms. Promote the effective and reasonable flow of capital and allow more capital to be concentrated in key industries, key areas, superior industries and urban construction.
The fourth is to further enhance the effectiveness of investment promotion.
Combining the 8 key industries of Yunnan Province, the construction of world-class "Three Cards" and "Digital Yunnan", flexible use of online and offline investment promotion, platform investment promotion, entrusted agent investment promotion and other methods, each area develops 4-5 courses around key industries Undergo investment promotion activities and 3-5 online activities, and carry out long-term platform investment promotion.
The fifth is to further strengthen the construction of the talent team.
Make every effort to introduce professional talents, backbone talents, etc., innovate the talent working mechanism, rationally allocate cadre resources, increase the introduction of talents, cadre education and training, exchanges and temporary appointments in the Yunnan Free Trade Zone, and strive to solve the lack of high-end talents in Yunnan Province who are familiar with the international business rules of the Free Trade Zone We will work hard to build a team of high-quality professional cadres.
Sixth, further accelerate the progress of empowerment and decentralization.
Delegating the rights that the free trade zone has in need, effectively solving the practical problems of the free trade zone and enterprises, and truly letting "the free trade zone have the final say and the power to decide things"; letting the rights inherited by the free trade zone ensure that the various Level management authority is delegated or entrusted to the free trade zone to truly "free up for the free trade zone."
"Next, we will not forget the original intention of free trade, actively adapt to the new situation and changes of global economic development, promote the conversion of new and old momentum with comprehensive innovation and opening up, expand the two major international and domestic markets, attract more resource elements, gather development vitality, and promote Economic development quality change, efficiency change and power change." Kou Jie said.
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