Beijing News Express (Reporter Chen Lin) China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone) was unveiled this morning (September 24), marking the official establishment of the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone.
In the afternoon at the press conference held by the Beijing Municipal Press Office, Yan Ligang, director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, stated that the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone covers 3 areas, including a technological innovation area, an international business service area, and a high-end industrial area, covering a total of 119.68 square kilometers.
“When planning the spatial layout, we fully considered the central government’s strategic positioning of Beijing and the characteristics of Beijing’s industrial spatial layout, and selected the districts.”
The first is the science and technology innovation area, with a total of 31.85 square kilometers, including 21.59 square kilometers of Zhongguancun Science City and 10.26 square kilometers of usable industrial space around Beijing Life Science Park.
Among them, the Zhongguancun Science City area mainly covers Cuihu Science and Technology Park, Yongfeng Base and the surrounding available industrial space. They and Beijing Life Science Park are several adjacent professional parks in the Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. The industrial layout in the park is reasonable, With strong technological innovation capabilities and complete supporting facilities, the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone has incorporated part of the above-mentioned park area into the technological innovation zone, focusing on the development of a new generation of information technology, biological health, scientific and technological services and other industries, building it into a digital economy pilot zone and global entrepreneurship Investment centers and pilot demonstration zones for innovation and reform of scientific and technological systems and mechanisms will help Beijing use this as a breakthrough point to build a technological innovation center with global influence, help China win the initiative in global technological competition, and contribute to building an innovative country and the world A powerful country in science and technology will make its due contribution to Beijing.
The second is the international business service area with a total area of 48.34 square kilometers, including 28.5 square kilometers of usable industrial space around Capital International Airport, 4.96 square kilometers of Beijing CBD, 2.96 square kilometers of Jinzhan International Cooperation Service Area, and the city’s sub-central Canal Business District and The available industrial space around Zhangjiawan Design Town is 10.87 square kilometers.
Yan Ligang said that the area around the Capital International Airport, including the Tianzhu Comprehensive Free Trade Zone, the Airport Economic Core Zone, the New International Exhibition, and the Jinma Industrial Park, is the leading demonstration zone for China’s airport economy; Beijing’s CBD is one of China’s most internationally resource-rich regions 1. It gathers many well-known high-end business, international finance, and international media market entities at home and abroad, and is also a benchmark area for Beijing's export-oriented economy; Jinzhan International Cooperation Service Area is located around the fourth embassy area, and is based on creating a new bright spot in the international exchange center; The city's sub-center is the pilot area for the expansion and opening of Beijing's service industry. These areas are all areas for the development of Beijing's high-end service industries. The functional positioning of each other has its own characteristics and can complement each other.
Incorporating the above areas into the international business service area, focusing on the development of digital trade, cultural trade, business conventions and exhibitions, medical health, international delivery logistics, cross-border finance and other industries, creating a pilot demonstration zone for airport economic innovation, which is conducive to improving the cohesion between industries At the same time, it is conducive to promoting the cluster development of advantageous industrial chains.
The third is the high-end industrial area, totaling 39.49 square kilometers, including 10.36 square kilometers of usable industrial space on the west side of Daxing International Airport and 27.83 square kilometers of Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that Daxing International Airport is a new source of power for the country's development and must be built into a world-class aviation hub.
Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone has formed a high-end, high-efficiency, and high-radiation industrial layout dominated by electronic information, biomedicine, equipment manufacturing and automobile manufacturing. It has unique advantages in international scientific and technological cooperation and transnational technology transfer.
Incorporating the above areas into high-end industrial areas, focusing on the development of industries such as international finance, cultural creativity, biotechnology, and general health, and building sites for transformation of scientific and technological achievements, strategic emerging industry clusters, and international high-end functional institutions clusters will help promote scientific and technological achievements The project will be transformed and implemented in the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone to form a complete innovation industry chain and improve Beijing's ability to gather and integrate global innovation resources.
Beijing News reporter Chen Lin