China News Service, Nanning, January 19 (Reporter Huang Lingyan and Yang Qiang) Lan Lanli, chairman of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, proposed at the "two sessions" in Guangxi held here that the local area will seize the opportunity to implement the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership" (RCEP), Pragmatically connect with the implementation of RCEP, deepen the institutional reform of the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone, jointly build a new western land-sea corridor at a high level, promote a higher level of opening, and actively serve the building of a China-ASEAN community with a shared future.
Guangxi is the only province in China that is connected with ASEAN by land and sea, and it is the window and frontier of China's open cooperation to ASEAN.
With the implementation of RCEP, this frontier province has ushered in the opportunity to expand its opening-up and development.
In the past 10 years, the two-way investment between Guangxi and RCEP member countries has reached 11.2 billion US dollars, and the latter has become the largest "going out" investment destination and the third largest source of foreign capital in Guangxi.
With advanced planning and multiple measures to seize the opportunity of RCEP, Guangxi is fully prepared for the effective implementation of RCEP.
At the beginning of 2021, Guangxi has successively issued a number of documents such as "Several Measures for Guangxi to Accelerate the Integration of RCEP's New Economic and Trade Rules", "Guangxi's List of Potential Commodities for Trade in Goods under RCEP", and "List of Potential Fields for Guangxi's Trade in Services under RCEP" to carry out research on existing industries. Sort out and propose differentiated development policies for different markets such as ASEAN, Japan and South Korea.
In order to serve enterprises to better seize the RCEP opportunity, Guangxi explores the establishment of a cooperation mechanism with ASEAN countries in the industrial chain and supply chain of the industrial and commercial circles, expands investment channels, and promotes more enterprises in key links of the industrial chain and supply chain to cooperate with key parks, advantageous industries and brands in Guangxi. Enterprises have precisely matched and cooperated, and in the restructuring and adjustment of the industrial chain and supply chain brought about by RCEP, the important links of the chain have been laid out in Guangxi.
On the other hand, Guangxi has attracted enterprises from Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and other countries, as well as domestic enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, to build industrial clusters, explore the Southeast Asian market, and promote the formation of a regional industrial structure with internal and external linkages and complete supporting facilities.
In the month when RCEP came into effect, Guangxi Automobile Group and Japan ASF Co., Ltd. signed an agreement to jointly develop pure electric logistics vehicles.
According to the agreement, it will be developed and produced by the Guangxi New Energy Vehicle Base, and the research and development expenses will be provided by Japan ASF Co., Ltd. and sold in Japan. The cooperation amount will reach 210 million yuan. chain formation.
Guangxi Beitou Port Investment Group Co., Ltd. is the largest investment and operation enterprise in Guangxi border ports.
Based on the logistics system of cross-border highways, the company is committed to building a new comprehensive foreign trade service system for ASEAN, providing convenient services to upstream and downstream enterprises, and comprehensively improving customs clearance efficiency to adapt to the "6-hour customs clearance" of perishable goods and express goods under RCEP. promise.
"In order to seize the development opportunities of RCEP, the company has fully invested in the construction of international logistics hubs, and will build the Pingxiang Comprehensive Bonded Area and the port park of Dongxing Second Bridge into logistics hub projects with a radiating and driving effect." Guangxi Beibu Gulf Investment Group, which the aforementioned enterprise belongs to Li Xiaoqin, chief accountant of the company, said.
The China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone also plays the role of a "test field" to implement high-quality RCEP, build a free trade zone that leads China-ASEAN openness and cooperation, and explore institutional innovations in financial opening, trade and investment facilitation, and modern service industries. .
Not long ago, the RCEP Enterprise Service Center, the Guangxi Enterprise RCEP Goods Trade Intelligent Service System, the Guangxi Goods Trade Potential Commodities List under RCEP, and the Guangxi Service Trade Potential Field List have been established or released in the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Yang Chunting, director of the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said that Guangxi will fully release the opening dividends of RCEP, speed up the integration of new international economic and trade rules, and launch a batch of "Guangxi experience" for high-quality implementation of RCEP rules. demonstration.
Due to the implementation of RCEP, Guangxi has promoted the upgrading and development of the China-ASEAN Expo.
Wang Lei, director of Guangxi International Expo Affairs Bureau and secretary general of the China-ASEAN Expo Secretariat, said that the official will promote the establishment of the RCEP (Nanning) International Expo Center, expand the platform functions of the China-ASEAN Commodity Convergence Center, and create a "Nanning channel" for RCEP cooperation. Expand the service scope of China-ASEAN Expo from "10+1" to all RCEP member countries.
At the same time, Guangxi will speed up the construction of China-ASEAN import and export bulk commodity trading platform, China-ASEAN digital economy industrial park, China-ASEAN emergency management cooperation base and other projects, and solidly promote the construction of ASEAN-oriented financial opening portal and technological innovation cooperation zone.
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