Expanding high-level opening up (focusing on the “hard truth of the new era”)
The government work report proposes to expand high-level opening up to the outside world and promote mutual benefit and win-win results.
Actively align with high-standard international economic and trade rules, steadily expand institutional openness, enhance the linkage effect of two resources in domestic and international markets, consolidate the fundamentals of foreign trade and foreign investment, and cultivate new advantages in international economic cooperation and competition.
In the past year, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has unswervingly promoted high-level opening up, insisted on promoting reform, development, and innovation through opening up, promoted the construction of an open world economy, and opened up broad space for development.
my country's export share of the international market remains stable, the structure of actual use of foreign capital has been optimized, and the international influence and appeal of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" have become more evident.
Representative members said that in the new era and new journey, we must unswervingly expand high-level opening up to the outside world, continue to optimize the business environment, consolidate the fundamentals of foreign trade and foreign investment, cultivate new advantages in international economic cooperation and competition, and continue to bring new developments to the world with our own new development. Motivation, new opportunities.
Promote the quality improvement and stable quantity of foreign trade, and accelerate the construction of a strong trade country
The government work report proposed to promote the quality improvement and stable quantity of foreign trade.
Representative members said that currently, the world's economic growth momentum is insufficient and demand is weakening, but the industrial foundation, factor endowments, and innovation capabilities that my country's foreign trade development relies on are constantly increasing.
It is necessary to continue to play the supporting role of exports in the economy, strengthen confidence, go all out to stabilize foreign trade, and accelerate the cultivation of new momentum for foreign trade.
Expand new growth points such as intermediate product trade and green trade.
Representative Du Weidong, chairman of Chongqing Xiyong Microelectronics Industrial Park Development Co., Ltd., believes that it is necessary to base on the local industrial foundation, cultivate new productive forces, promote the upgrading of processing trade, increase the added value of products, and enhance the international competitiveness of Chinese enterprises and products.
Currently, Xiyong Microelectronics Industrial Park mainly exports laptops and other smart terminals. It is deeply empowered by new technologies such as naked-eye 3D and artificial intelligence (AI) to promote the extension of processing trade to the high end of the industrial chain value chain.
Promote the healthy development of new business formats such as cross-border e-commerce.
"Cross-border e-commerce, as a new foreign trade format with fast development speed, great potential and strong driving effect, is becoming the development trend of international trade." Representative Li Kuiwen, member of the Party Committee of the General Administration of Customs and director of the Guangdong Branch, said.
In recent years, my country has continued to improve policies on customs clearance, taxation, foreign exchange and other aspects, supported the reform and innovation of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones, cultivated and strengthened cross-border e-commerce entities, optimized the layout of infrastructure such as overseas warehouses, and promoted the healthy and vigorous development of cross-border e-commerce. .
Optimize the trade environment.
Representative Li Kuiwen said that as a major foreign trade province, Guangdong is actively building a high-level gateway hub for opening up to the outside world, solidly promoting the construction of smart customs, implementing the "Smart Customs and Strengthening the Country" action, continuously improving the port business environment, optimizing customs clearance operations, and creating a market-oriented, A legal and international first-class port business environment.
Increase efforts to attract investment and steadily expand institutional opening-up
The government work report proposed to "increase efforts to attract foreign investment" and "comprehensively remove restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector, and relax market access to telecommunications, medical and other service industries."
Representative members said that to accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, we must promote efficient connectivity of two domestic and international markets and two resources, steadily expand institutional opening up such as rules, regulations, management, and standards, and build a new higher-level open economic system.
Actively attract and utilize foreign investment.
"Last year, the State Council issued opinions proposing 24 policies and measures to stabilize foreign investment, which released China's firm determination to promote opening up and greatly encouraged the confidence of foreign investment in China." said Jiang Ying, the relevant person in charge of Deloitte Co., Ltd., China continues to expand The pragmatic measures of opening up are a major benefit to foreign investment. Deloitte will continue to leverage its professional advantages to help foreign-funded enterprises deepen their exploration in China.
Deeply implement the free trade pilot zone improvement strategy and create a new highland for opening up to the outside world.
"Implement investment facilitation measures focusing on process supervision; implement 'non-stop sailing certification' in the transportation field, shortening the processing time by an average of 70%... Since the establishment of the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, it has maintained openness and reform The intensity and development momentum will not diminish, and the 'five freedoms and one convenience' system will gradually form." Representative Gu Jun, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government and director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, said that Shanghai will continue to benchmark against the highest standards and best levels, focusing on cross-border We will promote the development of border services trade and leading industries, explore and build an institutional system and regulatory model that are connected with high-standard economic and trade rules, and explore new paths and accumulate new experience for comprehensively deepening reform and expanding opening up.
On March 1, the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone officially implemented separate line management and closed customs operations.
"Zhuhai proactively aligns with high-standard international economic and trade rules, relies on the policy advantages of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone, and uses infrastructure 'hard connectivity' and institutional rules 'soft connectivity' to allow more innovative elements to converge and superimpose in Hengqin, promoting global Optimizing the combination of industrial chain and supply chain." Representative Huang Zhihao, deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, said that in the next step, Zhuhai will accelerate the construction of a new economic and trade channel for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, expand the platform function of the China Airshow global cooperation, and use high-level Openness promotes high-quality development.
Deeply participate in global industrial division of labor and cooperation and promote the construction of an open world economy
Representative members stated that we must strive to promote high-quality development of foreign trade, deeply participate in global industrial division of labor and cooperation, maintain a diverse and stable international economic structure and economic and trade relations, and allow more win-win cooperation results to benefit the people of all countries.
Promote high-quality joint construction of the “One Belt, One Road” to become more in-depth and practical.
"For more than 10 years, the joint construction of the 'Belt and Road' has achieved fruitful results and has become the most popular international public product and the largest international cooperation platform in the world today." Gong Fuwen, deputy president of the Shaanxi Provincial Higher People's Court, said that we must do a good job in high-level We have implemented the eight actions for quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, steadily promoted cooperation on major projects, implemented a number of "small but beautiful" people's livelihood projects, and actively promoted cooperation in digital, green, innovation, health, cultural tourism, poverty reduction and other fields.
Deepen multilateral, bilateral and regional economic cooperation.
Negotiating high-standard free trade agreements and investment agreements with more countries and regions, advancing negotiations on version 3.0 of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, and fully and deeply participating in the reform of the WTO... my country has made rapid and steady progress in building an open world economy.
"ASEAN has become my country's largest trading partner for four consecutive years, and bilateral trade and investment have continued to grow. With the in-depth implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) and the advancement of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 negotiations, the potential for economic and trade cooperation It is expected to be further explored." Wei Zhaohui, Party Secretary and Director of the International Expo Affairs Bureau of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said that Guangxi will continue to hold the China-ASEAN Expo with high quality and deepen and expand cooperation with ASEAN countries in the fields of commerce, industry, labor, science and technology, education and other fields , and demonstrate new achievements in serving the construction of a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future.
(Our reporters Chang Qin, Li Gang, Jiang Xiaodan, Yuan Taoxiong, Zhu Jiaqi, and Xie Weiqun participated in the reporting)
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