China News Service, Haikou, December 1 (Reporter Wang Ziqian) Since the announcement of the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port" (hereinafter referred to as the "Overall Plan") on June 1, the core policies of the Free Trade Port have been implemented and formed phased results. , Achieved early harvest.

  "The Hainan Free Trade Port policy and system have been implemented smoothly, and considerable dividends have been produced in half a year." Chen Xiaohua, deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee's Deep Reform Office (Free Trade Port Working Committee Office), said that the initial results of the free trade port construction are reflected in the fourth Aspects: Early policies have been implemented intensively, system integration and innovation have been achieved continuously, the construction of important functional platforms of the free trade port has been smooth, and important progress has been made in attracting investment.

  In the past six months, Hainan Free Trade Port has implemented the "Overall Plan" in the six areas of trade, investment, cross-border capital flow, free and convenient transportation of personnel, and safe and orderly flow of data. For example, the implementation of the new policy for duty-free shopping on outlying islands will announce the first The "zero tariff" list, the introduction of the interim measures for domestic equity investment by qualified overseas limited partners, and the introduction of the management measures for the practice of overseas personnel, etc.

  These policies have produced obvious results.

For example, the new policy for duty-free shopping in Hainan Islands was implemented from July 1 to November 20. Sales, number of shoppers, and number of purchases increased by 207%, 78% and 135% respectively year-on-year, which strongly supported the construction of an international tourism consumption center.

  System integration innovation is in a prominent position in the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port.

Hainan upgraded individual system innovation to system integration innovation, and clarified the roadmap and timetable for the realization of "reinvented and integrated reengineering" of system mechanisms.

Hainan has also introduced a fault-tolerant and corrective mechanism for public officials to "support reformers and applaud innovators."

  Hainan has established 11 key parks, which have become an important functional platform for the construction of a free trade port.

After the implementation of the international ship registration system with Chinese characteristics in the Yangpu Economic Development Zone, 19 international ships have been registered as "China Yangpu Port" registration ports.

Shao Jinning, director of the Shipping Office of the Yangpu Economic Development Zone, said that the convenience of handling international ship registration procedures has been greatly improved, and it is expected that 26 international ships will be registered by the end of the year.

  The current global economy is still affected by the epidemic, but the Hainan Free Trade Port is favored by foreign investors.

From June 1 to November 20, Hainan added 671 foreign-funded enterprises, an increase of 229.8% year-on-year, and the actual use of foreign capital increased by 46.7% year-on-year. A large number of foreign-funded enterprises such as Tesla and TUI were established.

  As optimistic about the prospects of Hainan's luxury consumption, the famous Swiss luxury retailer Kirchhofer set up its China headquarters in Hainan.

Zhang Yi, the chief representative of the company's Greater China region, revealed that the relevant procedures for the landing are being processed and it is expected that the business will be officially launched before the end of the year.

  The external environment for the development of Hainan Free Trade Port is constantly changing.

China is gradually forming a new development pattern with the domestic big cycle as the main body and the domestic and international double cycles mutually promoting each other. At the same time, the signing of RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) will also deeply affect the regional economy.

The governor of Hainan Province, Shen Xiaoming, recently pointed out that Hainan will build a free trade port into several industrial chains in the new development pattern, with the goal of becoming the intersection of domestic and international cycles.

  According to Chen Xiaohua, the Hainan Free Trade Port will promote two major tasks in the next phase: First, continue to promote the early implementation of the free trade port policy to achieve effective results, formulate supporting policy documents for the policies proposed in the "Overall Plan", and issue relevant operating rules.

The second is to comprehensively speed up the preliminary work of island-wide customs closure, speed up the promotion of infrastructure construction and the formulation of supporting management measures.

  The reporter learned from the Hainan Provincial Party Committee's Deep Reform Office (Office of the Free Trade Port Working Committee) that the Hainan Free Trade Port has "one negative and three positive" four "zero-tariff" product lists, and relaxed market access "three lists". The approval of core policies is accelerating its implementation.

  It is worth noting that the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress will review the draft of the Hainan Free Trade Port Law this month.

"This indicates that the opening of Hainan Free Trade Port will be fully authorized, and the process of'independent reform' will be further accelerated." Liu Feng, director of the Free Trade Port Research Center with Chinese Characteristics of Hainan Normal University, said that Hainan will make more market-oriented reforms of factor resources. As the focus, promote decentralization, management, service, and government administrative efficiency.

  Experts pointed out that the smooth progress of Hainan Free Trade Port is good for the world.

Hofman Hofman, Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore, said that in the context of economic globalization and the accelerated adjustment of global supply chains, the promotion of the Hainan Free Trade Port demonstrates China’s determination to further promote economic globalization and will also open up the world economy. And prosperity play an important role.

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