People's Daily Online, Beijing, October 16 (Sun Yang) On October 15-16, the National Free Trade Pilot Zone's high-quality development on-site meeting was held in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province.
Wang Shouwen, Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative of International Trade Negotiations, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on the construction of the pilot free trade zone, further improve the political position, and regard the construction of the pilot free trade zone as enhancing the "four consciousnesses", strengthening the "four confidences", and doing To the important practice of "two maintenances," unify thoughts and actions into the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, go all out to promote the high-quality development of the pilot free trade zone, and accelerate the formation of a domestic and international double cycle. Leading the way in the new development pattern of mutual promotion of globalization.
Wang Shouwen pointed out that over the past seven years, the pilot free trade zone has dared to take the lead, boldly innovate, and has achieved remarkable results in deepening reform, expanding opening up, and serving the national strategy, and has accumulated beneficial experience for building a new open economic system.
Since the beginning of this year, in the face of the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and the severe and complex domestic and foreign economic situation, the respective trade pilot zones have coordinated the promotion of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and have taken multiple measures to solve the difficulties in employment, epidemic prevention, and financing of enterprises for stability. Foreign trade has played an important role in stabilizing foreign capital.
Wang Shouwen emphasized that facing the new situation and new tasks, the pilot free trade zone must keep in mind the original intention of the construction, strengthen responsibility, forge ahead and make breakthroughs, strengthen research and exploration in forming a new development pattern, give greater reform autonomy, and increase foreign We will open up stress testing efforts, pay close attention to the implementation of reform pilot tasks, continue to promote system innovation, replication and promotion, earnestly guard the bottom line of risks, do a good job in supporting and guaranteeing statistics, publicity, training, etc., and make greater contributions to stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment. The construction of the pilot free trade zone has become a new height for reform and opening up.
Relevant provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the administrative agencies of their respective pilot trade zones, and representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Transport, the People's Bank of China, the State Administration of Market Supervision, and the Council for the Promotion of International Trade attended the meeting.