China News Service, Nanning, May 3 (Lin Hao Ren Shimei) Director of the Guangxi Department of Commerce and Director of the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone Office Yang Chunting introduced on the 3rd that since the beginning of this year, the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone has promoted the implementation of key industrial projects. In the first quarter, 7,294 new enterprises were established, a year-on-year increase of 15%, and the actual use of foreign capital was US$69.29 million.

  Yang Chunting said that since the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially listed on August 30, 2019, it has made bold reforms in many fields such as government function transformation, investment and trade facilitation, customs clearance facilitation, financial opening, and the development of modern service industries to break through the bottleneck of industrial development. , and promote high-level institutional opening up.

As of the first quarter of this year, 120 reform pilot tasks assigned by the state have been fully implemented.

  Among them, the Nanning area of ​​the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone has explored and developed a new model of "bonded maintenance + processing trade combination business" to reduce corporate procurement and logistics costs; the Qinzhou port area has launched the business reform of "classified management" of imported plant products to realize bulk imported plant products "Straight by the ship"; Chongzuo area innovated a new mode of fast customs clearance for cross-border entry and exit vehicles, and became the first border port in China to use the fast customs clearance mode to ensure the smooth flow of cross-border logistics under the epidemic.

  In order to seize the opportunity for the implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone promotes innovation in import trade, explores businesses such as bonded maintenance, cross-border e-commerce retailing of some imported drugs, and makes every effort to speed up the Beibu Gulf International Portal. port construction.

  "The above-mentioned innovative measures have effectively promoted the development of industrial agglomeration." Yang Chunting introduced that in the first quarter of this year, the growth rate of industrial investment in the Nanning area of ​​the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone reached 207.1%. 8 electronic information industry projects including circuit wafer-level packaging and testing and integrated innovative industrial base; the total industrial output value of the Qinzhou Port area completed 28.46 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 48.4%; the value of cross-border e-commerce trade in the Chongzuo area was year-on-year An increase of 70.5%.

  Yang Chunting said that at present, the construction of Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone has entered the stage of "expanding openness, gathering industries, and developing rapidly". Next, it will take the initiative to benchmark against international high-standard economic and trade rules, promote the gathering of talents, capital and other elements, and accelerate the construction of oriented ASEAN's cross-border industrial chain.

  It is reported that as of March 31, the total number of newly established enterprises in the Guangxi Pilot Free Trade Zone exceeded 60,000, which is 17 times the number before its establishment.

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