To create a "capital model" of reform and opening up,
our reporter Li Jialin
In the first year of the "14th Five-Year Plan", Beijing is accelerating the construction of the "two districts", actively integrating into and serving the new development pattern of the country.
In September 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the 2020 China International Service Trade Fair Global Service Trade Summit, emphasizing that in order to better leverage Beijing’s leading role in the opening up of China’s service industry, he will support Beijing in building a national service industry expansion. Open up the comprehensive demonstration zone, increase the intensity of first-hand trials, and explore more replicable and popularized experiences; establish a free trade pilot zone featuring technological innovation, open service industry, and digital economy, and build a high level of coordinated development in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei The open platform has led to the formation of a new pattern of higher-level reform and opening up.
The Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have actively promoted the construction of the "two districts" based on the standards of the first good, strive to create a "capital model" of reform and opening up, and continue to accumulate new advantages for opening up.
In the six months since the construction of the "two districts", more than 1,100 new projects have been added to the database in Beijing.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Government, at present, the two documents issued by the State Council to support the construction of Beijing's "two districts" involve 251 policy measures, and more than 140 items have been implemented.
Twelve of these policies are the first or the first to be implemented in the country, including new technology enterprise identification "approval upon filing", corporate venture capital corporate income tax incentives pilot, technology transfer income tax incentives pilot, private equity investment share transfer pilot, multinational companies Pilot projects for integrated domestic and foreign currency fund pools, etc.
The service industry accounts for more than 80% of Beijing’s GDP, which is nearly 30% higher than the national average.
Five years ago, the state listed Beijing as the only city to launch a comprehensive pilot program for expanding the opening up of the service industry.
Over the past five years, Beijing has launched more than 400 initiatives, of which 25 experience cases have been promoted across the country.
On the basis of the pilot project, this time to further build a comprehensive demonstration zone for the expansion and opening of the national service industry is to further give play to Beijing's leading role in the opening up of the service industry.
At the same time, the characteristics of the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone are also very distinctive: highlighting technological innovation, rapid development of the digital economy, and obvious competitive advantages in the service industry.
The relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Government stated that the comprehensive demonstration zone for expanding the opening up of the national service industry is promoted by industry, which can be understood as vertical; the construction of the pilot free trade zone is to create an open and integrated highland according to the region, and is carried out according to the horizontal direction.
Promoting the construction of the "two districts" can be combined horizontally and vertically, as well as from block to block.
According to reports, the construction of Beijing's "two districts" is mainly promoted from three dimensions—industry, parks, and element guarantees.
Industry development focuses on 9 key areas, including business, technology, finance, culture, tourism, health care, digital economy, aviation services, and professional services; the park dimension means that Beijing’s 16 districts and economic and technological development zones have "two districts" The construction tasks are all bearing areas for the implementation of relevant policies.
The construction of the Pilot Free Trade Zone also includes technological innovation, international business, high-end industries, and the Daxing Airport Area (Beijing area) of the Hebei Pilot Free Trade Zone; the factor protection dimension focuses on production factors such as intellectual property rights, funds, data, talents, and land. , To enhance service guarantee capabilities and create a world-class business environment.
In Chaoyang District, there is a high degree of concentration of international talents. In order to understand policy needs, the district visited more than 3,000 foreign foreign trade, multinational corporate headquarters and financial companies.
Beijing CBD International Talent One-stop Service Center creates a “one-stop” service for international talents, integrating 120 service items from 19 functional departments.
Since the establishment of the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone, Chaoyang District has added 14,790 domestic-funded enterprises, a year-on-year increase of 22.39%; newly established 245 foreign-funded enterprises, a year-on-year increase of 11.36%.
The role of policy innovation in promoting the construction of the "two districts" continues to appear.
Hu Xiaoxia, general manager of the Foreign Affairs Department of Science Park Xinhai in Shunyi District, said that as a cross-border e-commerce company, the rapid development of its business benefits from the driving force brought by the "two districts" policy to the development of the company.
Mechanism innovation is eclectic.
Taking the financial industry as an example, Wang Ying, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau, introduced that Beijing has set up a "service steward" working mechanism for foreign-funded financial institutions to provide a one-stop shop in policy consultation, administrative approval, and supporting services. , "One-to-one" service, attracting multiple "first" high-quality financial resources to land: the country's first alternative investment insurance asset management company-China Life Insurance Asset Management Co., Ltd., the country's first wholly foreign-owned holding licensed payment The company-Guofubao Information Technology Co., Ltd., the country's first wholly foreign-owned insurance asset management company, and the country's only major financial infrastructure that carries the function of cross-border financial information transmission-Financial Gateway Information Service Co., Ltd.
Highlights of business innovation are frequent.
In Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, the first phase of the world’s first connected cloud-controlled high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone has been basically completed. By 2022, “smart roads, smart cars, real-time clouds, and reliable Internet The construction of the five major systems of "Accurate Map" realizes the commercialization of a series of application scenarios and the promotion and application of a batch of intermediate products.
In addition, the official release of the "Chang'an Chain", the first independent and controllable blockchain software and hardware technology system in China, and the official listing of the Beijing Financial Court are also landmark events for Beijing to accelerate the construction of the "two districts".
The effect of the reform has continued to show up.
There are 102 tasks for the construction of the "two districts" in the financial sector, and 45 have been implemented. The opening of digital renminbi, equity investment, cross-border financial services and other fields is the country's leading; Beijing Jiaotong University and Fengtai District Government jointly built "Rail Transit Innovation in Fengtai Park, Zhongguancun" Base", more than 150 national leading key rail transit enterprises in the park, will achieve high-energy breakthroughs in the "stuck neck" technology of the benchmarking industry.
In the first two months of this year, more than 80% of the investment in key areas of Beijing’s service industry opened up.
The service industry actually utilized US$2.5 billion of foreign capital, a year-on-year increase of 23.9%.
Among them, the actual use of foreign capital in key areas of service industry expansion was US$2.26 billion, accounting for 83.9% of the city's total.
The promotion of various innovative activities has improved the business environment for high-quality development in Beijing, and has also provided a demonstration and guidance for the open and innovative development of the service industry across the country.
Our reporter Li Jialin