China News Service, Shanghai, December 17 (Reporter Li Shuzheng) Shanghai Free Trade Zone Lingang New Area (hereinafter referred to as Lingang New Area) released on the 17th "China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Lingang New Area Promotes High Offshore Trade Several Measures for Quality Development" (hereinafter referred to as "Several Measures").

  As the frontier of national strategy and reform and opening up, Lingang New Area will undertake more innovation missions in terms of standardizing high-level international economic and trade rules and launching greater stress tests.

  There are a total of 24 "Several Measures" released on that day, focusing on six aspects.

According to officials here, the "Several Measures" will focus on promoting the agglomeration of offshore trade industries, supporting international settlement and financing facilitation under offshore trade, providing all-round services, and innovating regulatory models to carry out active exploration and practice to further enhance the port The level and quality of the new international trade industry in the new area will deepen the construction of a practice area for the development of offshore trade innovation in the new area.

  According to Tang Peng, deputy director of the Financial and Trade Department of the Lingang New Area Management Committee, the implementation of the "Several Measures" is to continue to optimize financial services.

Under the guidance and help of the People’s Bank of China, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange and other departments, we have taken multiple measures to promote banks in the new area to improve their complex business handling capabilities and financial service levels, and provide cross-border services for honest and law-abiding companies to carry out true and compliant offshore international trade. Convenient fund settlement.

  The second is to accelerate the establishment and improvement of offshore trade coordination mechanisms and information platforms.

Unblock channels for policy coordination, information sharing, and case discussions among relevant departments, and explore the establishment of an information sharing platform and linkage and collaborative work mechanism.

  The third is to increase the cultivation of offshore trading enterprises, focus on the new international trade industry ecosystem, continue to optimize the business environment, and strive to provide enterprises with better market conditions and better public services for offshore trade.

  With the implementation of the new support policy, more high-energy leading trade companies are accelerating their gathering in new areas.

On the same day, the Lingang New Area Management Committee and 9 companies including GCL Group, Trafigura Investment, Yonggang Resources, Victor Energy, Shanghai Shouyu, Shengwei Supply Chain, Shanghai Xindanuo, Jintian Industrial, and Lunhu Trading Key enterprises have signed cooperation agreements.

  "In the past, we deployed offshore trading business in Singapore and Hong Kong, China." Sun Wei, vice chairman of GCL Group, said in an interview that day. After the release of the new area policy, the company plans to gradually introduce mature businesses such as petroleum and new energy materials to Shanghai strives to achieve a "good start" in 2022 and promote the landing of the first order.

  Since the beginning of this year, the Lingang New Area has accelerated the landing and gathering of key traders, promoted the construction and operation of supporting service platforms, and continued to promote the innovative practices of banks and traders in the area.

  The Lingang New Area has attracted hundreds of well-known enterprises at home and abroad, and top 500 enterprises to settle down and have successively launched offshore trading businesses.

According to officials, as of now, the number of companies involved in offshore trade and the scale of transactions have doubled compared with the previous year.

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