Shanghai: The cumulative actual use of foreign capital exceeds 350 billion US dollars, and more than 70,000 foreign-funded enterprises are booming.

　　China News Service, March 28. The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 28th on "Focusing on the 'Five Centers' and Accelerating the Construction of a Socialist Modern International Metropolis with World Influence". Hua Yuan, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor, was present at the meeting. It is said that at present, the cumulative actual use of foreign capital in Shanghai has exceeded 350 billion US dollars, and more than 70,000 foreign-funded enterprises have flourished here.

　　At the meeting, a reporter asked, Shanghai has always been a highland for foreign investment, and Shanghai has proposed to become the first choice for global investment. May I ask what other sincere measures Shanghai has taken to attract foreign investment?

　　In this regard, Huayuan said that Shanghai has always attached great importance to attracting and utilizing foreign investment. In recent years, Shanghai has revised and improved its headquarters policies for multinational companies, formulated and implemented a plan to improve foreign-invested R&D centers, and introduced a series of policies and measures to stabilize foreign investment, such as the "20 Measures". The city's actual use of foreign investment has exceeded 20 billion for four consecutive years. Dollar. Especially last year, Shanghai exceeded US$24 billion, setting another historical high. There are a new batch of regional headquarters of multinational companies and foreign-funded R&D centers in Shanghai every year. Last year, 65 and 30 were added respectively, bringing the total to 956 and 561 respectively. Shanghai has also become the city with the highest concentration of regional headquarters of multinational companies in mainland China. At present, the cumulative actual use of foreign capital in Shanghai has exceeded 350 billion US dollars, and more than 70,000 foreign-funded enterprises have flourished here. These data fully prove that Shanghai has always been one of the most popular investment destinations for foreign businessmen and one of the first choice destinations for multinational companies to lay out their global industrial chains.

　　Huayuan believes that the reason why foreign investors are optimistic about Shanghai is largely because they are optimistic about Shanghai’s continuously optimized business environment and Shanghai’s expanding opening-up advantages. Last year, the world-renowned pharmaceutical company Moderna settled in Shanghai. It only took more than three months from signing the contract to starting construction, creating a "Modena speed" and setting a new benchmark for the construction of key foreign-invested projects in Shanghai. Shanghai will implement the national version of the negative list for cross-border trade in services and the new version of the negative list for foreign investment access in accordance with the State Council's "24-point" decision-making and deployment of greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment, and accelerate the replication and promotion of "Modena Speed" throughout the city. Let more foreign-invested projects have guaranteed space, efficient approval, and zero-time service lag. Focus on further efforts around the "three improvements":

First, efforts should be made to improve the level of opening up to the outside world.

Align with international high-standard economic and trade rules, steadily expand institutional opening-up, implement the country's comprehensive lifting of foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector, further implement the comprehensive pilot program for expanding opening-up in the national service industry, and embrace global enterprises and enterprises with a more open mind. Talent.

The second is to focus on improving investment promotion.

Persist in giving full play to the role of foreign investment global partners and other institutions and organizations, organize a series of activities of the "Invest in Shanghai, Share the Future" overseas trip, and support foreign-invested enterprises to invest more in key areas such as green development, digital transformation, and technological innovation.

The third is to focus on improving the capabilities of service enterprises.

We will further improve the special class and specialist service mechanism for foreign-invested projects, improve the service package system for key enterprises, continue to organize government-enterprise roundtable meetings for foreign-invested enterprises, solve practical difficulties and problems for foreign businessmen, and implement various measures to optimize the business environment in order to More accurate and high-quality services further enhance the sense of gain for foreign-funded enterprises.