China News Service, Beijing, February 3 (Reporter Li Xiaoyu) There are currently 21 pilot free trade zones in China, covering more than half of the provinces, regions and cities.
Regarding whether the number will continue to increase in the future, an official of the Ministry of Commerce of China said on the 3rd that it will conduct overall research on the basis of evaluating the effectiveness of the existing pilot free trade zone.
Tang Wenhong, director of the Free Trade Zone and Port Department of the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China, said at a press conference held that day that the layout of China’s pilot free trade zones has been gradually optimized and expanded. There are now 21 areas with a total of 67 areas, covering the east, west, south and north. China's reform and opening up innovation pattern.
The requirements of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to improve the layout of the pilot free trade zone will be studied in an overall manner on the basis of fully evaluating the effectiveness of the existing pilot free trade zone construction.
At present, the pilot free trade zone has become a new bright spot in China's economic development, and has an obvious driving and leading role in opening up.
According to official data, in 2020, a total of 393,000 new enterprises will be established in the first 18 pilot free trade zones, and the actual use of foreign capital will be 176.38 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), and the total import and export volume will be 4.7 trillion yuan, accounting for 17.6 percent of the country. % And 14.7%.
According to statistics, in 2020, the negative list of foreign investment access in the China Pilot Free Trade Zone has been reduced to 30 items, and the first negative list of foreign investment access in the Hainan Free Trade Port has only 27 items.
In various fields, each pilot free trade zone has replicated and promoted 260 institutional innovations across the country.
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