China News Service, Fuzhou, January 21 (Reporter Long Min) According to the Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce, the China-Indonesia Economic and Trade Innovation Development Demonstration Park was recently approved by the State Council to be established in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province.

　　It can be seen from the official approval documents that the construction of the China-Indonesia Economic and Trade Innovation and Development Demonstration Park should be based on the new development stage, fully, accurately and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, coordinate development and security, strengthen strategic docking, and meet high-standard international standards. Economic and trade rules, carry out system and mechanism innovation, deepen China-Indonesia economic and trade cooperation, and promote efficient and coordinated development of industries.

It is necessary to give full play to the complementary advantages of economic and trade cooperation with ASEAN countries, explore an international division of labor and cooperation model with deep integration of industrial chains, supply chains, and value chains, and create a new highland for economic and trade cooperation and exchanges with ASEAN countries.

The picture shows Yuanhong Wharf in Yuanhong Investment Zone, Fuzhou.

Photo courtesy of Fuqing Image Center

　　Why did the China-Indonesia Economic and Trade Innovation Development Demonstration Park settle in Fuzhou?

As we all know, Indonesia is an important country along the joint construction of the "Belt and Road". Fuzhou is an important node city and an important hometown of overseas Chinese on the "Maritime Silk Road". , closer contacts and exchanges, deepening economic and trade cooperation has broad prospects.

　　Fuzhou and Indonesia have profound cultural ties.

In Indonesia, many folks whose ancestral home is Fuzhou, Fuqing have created a huge business empire, among which Lin Shaoliang and Lin Wenjing are the most famous.

　　It is against this background that in 2019, Fujian Province put forward the idea of ​​building a "two countries, two gardens" in Indonesia, actively integrating into the new development pattern of domestic and international double cycles, and promoting the "Fujian, Fuzhou local" and "overseas Fujian, Rong Membership Society" deep link.

　　The Yuanhong Investment Zone has been identified as a Chinese cooperation zone for the "Two Countries, Two Parks" project between China and Indonesia, and has become a new engine for Fujian to expand its opening up to the outside world.

As a witness and participant of Yuanhong Investment Zone, the earliest state-level foreign investment zone in China, Jin Nengchou, the former mayor of Fuzhou City, has long paid attention to and promoted the construction of China-Indonesia Economic and Trade Innovation Development Demonstration Park.

He recalled that in 1992, the Yuanhong Investment Zone invested by Indonesian overseas Chinese broke ground and became the first overseas Chinese cooperative development zone in the country and the largest foreign land development project in the country.

　　At present, Fujian is actively promoting the in-depth implementation of the return project, attracting overseas Chinese capital, gathering overseas Chinese talents, pooling overseas Chinese wisdom, and attracting more overseas Chinese to join in the construction of their hometown.

Jin Nengchou said that there are more than 600,000 overseas Chinese living in Fuzhou in Indonesia. They will give full play to the unique advantages of overseas Chinese capital and overseas Chinese, strengthen exchanges and cooperation with each other, inherit the cultural bonds of overseas Chinese and Chinese, and enhance emotional identity. This will promote the demonstration of China-Indonesia economic and trade innovation and development The construction of the park will create a new highland for economic and trade cooperation and exchanges between Fujian and ASEAN countries.

　　At present, the "China-Indonesia "Two Countries and Two Parks" Industrial Cooperation Plan" and "Overall Plan for Building China-Indonesia Economic and Trade Innovation Development Demonstration Park" have been compiled.

Li Yan, executive director of Fujian Zhongzi Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., believes that with the release of policy advantages, the demonstration park will strengthen the complementarity of industrial cooperation between Fujian and Indonesia, extend the advantageous industrial chain and supply chain, expand the potential of marine cooperation, and deepen the close cooperation in fishery It provides a broad space for deepening the close exchanges between the two sides.

　　Relying on the advantages of the large number of overseas Chinese and the strong foundation of Fuqing's food industry, a number of leading projects have settled in Yuanhong Investment Zone, and 44 projects including Fengda, Shengtian, and Yuguan have been completed and put into operation, with a total investment of 21.4 billion yuan (RMB, below same), the million-ton Fuzhou National Backbone Cold Chain Logistics Base, the Global Fishery Center and other projects have begun to take shape, accelerating the construction of 19 projects including Zhaohua, Xinglongxiang, Zhongke Jingwei Prefabricated Vegetable Production and Research City, with a total investment of 20.4 billion Yuan, is docking 15 projects including Changde Protein Industrial Park and Paul (Yuanhong) Food and Health Industrial Park, with a total investment of 25.9 billion yuan.

　　The first base of the Indonesian Ocean Fishery Center project jointly invested by Shengtian (Fuqing) Food Co., Ltd. and Indonesian Salim Group was put into operation in March last year. At present, the products of the Indonesian Ocean Fishery Center have entered the domestic market.

According to Shi Jie, head of Shengtian (Fuqing) Food Co., Ltd., nine fishery sorting centers will continue to be established in Indonesia. In the future, through the China-Indonesia economic and trade innovation and development demonstration park cooperation platform, nearly 5 million tons of fish and The surimi is transported back to Fuqing for intensive processing.

　　The relevant person in charge of the Fuqing Functional Zone Management Committee of Fuzhou New Area said that it will focus on the three key supporting projects of China Indonesia City, the Special Supervision Zone, and the International Fishery Cooperation Base, accelerate the implementation of feasibility studies, project approval, and approval, and simultaneously promote 23 key supporting projects The project will further improve the comprehensive bearing capacity of the park.

At the same time, strive to land on platforms such as bulk commodity exchanges and marine protein engineering research centers, strive to obtain more preferential policies in the fields of land use, customs clearance, financing, food safety assurance, etc., and promote the establishment of an optimal division of labor in the supply chain of specific product industry chains between the two countries The cooperation model releases more policy dividends for the development and construction of the park.

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