China News Service, Zhuhai, September 5th, title: "Qin" and siblings "Ao" stand upright and Hengqin plays a new prelude to Guangdong-Macao cooperation
China News Agency reporter Deng Yuanwen
On September 5, the "Overall Plan for the Construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone" was publicly released, and Hengqin played a new prelude to Guangdong-Macao cooperation.
It is understood that since the development and construction of the Hengqin New Area, it has focused its efforts on promoting Macao's full integration into the overall national development and enriching the practice of "One Country, Two Systems" with Macao characteristics. The industrial development has achieved remarkable results. It is in order to deepen the comprehensive cooperation between Qin and Macao and support Macao The moderately diversified economy and the creation of the core engine for the development of Australia-Zhuhai Pole integration provide strong support.
As of the end of August 2021, Hengqin has registered more than 55,000 commercial entities with a registered capital of more than 3 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below). Among them, more than 4,500 Australian-funded enterprises and registered capital of more than 130 billion have become Mainland Australia. The most concentrated area of investment enterprises.
Qin-Ao industrial cooperation continues to deepen
More and more Macau youths are pursuing their dreams in Hengqin. Among them, the Hengqin Macau Youth Entrepreneurship Valley accumulatively incubates more than 500 Macau entrepreneurial enterprises (projects), which has developed into the first choice for Macau youth entrepreneurship in the Mainland.
The Hengqin Science and Technology Innovation Competition for the world has been held for two consecutive years, allowing many young entrepreneurs from Macau to become attached to Hengqin through the competition.
Among them, the first prize winner of the Macau artificial intelligence company Puqiang Times received 100 million yuan in free funding.
The second competition was jointly held in conjunction with Macau and set up a special "Macau Track". A total of 2278 entries were registered, including 186 entries for the Macau Track. Xinyaohui Technology Co., Ltd. led by the Macau R&D team won the special prize of the competition. Six Macau projects including Rui Biotech won the prizes.
In terms of health care, Hengqin gave full play to the role of the Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Industrial Park platform, and established the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Traditional Chinese Medicine Policy and Technology Research Center" and "Guangdong-Macao Traditional Chinese Medicine Preparation Center" and other R&D and transformation platforms.
At present, the industrial park has accumulatively registered more than 200 enterprises and cultivated 50 Macau enterprises.
Hengqin is actively building a new form of cross-border finance. Currently, there are more than 5,500 financial enterprises in the district.
The Guangdong-Macao Cross-border Financial Cooperation (Zhuhai) Demonstration Zone was inaugurated and operated, and 33 cross-border financial enterprises or service institutions related to Australia, including Leida Lianma (Zhuhai) Equity Investment Management Co., Ltd. and Atlantic Bank Hengqin Branch, were introduced.
Hengqin innovative measures to optimize business environment
Focusing on Qin Ao's "cross-border" theme, Hengqin launched a series of innovative measures to optimize processes, shorten time, and save costs, greatly optimizing the business environment.
In Hengqin, cross-border office work is more convenient for enterprises.
Hengqin pioneered a commercial registration and notarization cooperation mechanism, realizing "one acceptance, one completion" for Australian-funded enterprises' notarization certification and commercial registration.
Commercial registration and cross-border tax processing services have been extended to Macau, and Macao residents can handle commercial registration and tax-related businesses remotely.
Wu Huanyu, the supervisor of Zhuhai Yuanmiao Medical Technology Co., Ltd., said that beforehand, the commercial registration required not only frequent trips between Qin and Macao for notarization and certification, but also waiting 30 to 90 days for results.
These innovative measures of Hengqin have helped Macau enterprises significantly reduce the time cost and economic cost of commercial registration.
Hengqin also pioneered a cross-border office pilot policy. Macau companies only need to provide the Macao SAR government's commercial entity registration documents to apply for settlement and rental subsidies. A total of more than 300 cross-border office companies have settled in, and more than 60,000 square meters of office space have been rented.
The cross-border practice of professional talents is more convenient. Hengqin adopted legislation to implement one-way recognition of the qualifications of Macao professionals, and took the lead in confirming the qualifications of qualified enterprises and professionals in the construction field. 158 professionals in the construction field of Macao and 35 Macao enterprises passed the record Practicing in Hengqin.
The country's first local regulations supporting the cross-border practice of tourism practitioners in Hong Kong and Macau were voted and passed by the Standing Committee of the Zhuhai Municipal People's Congress. 495 Macau tour guides passed the assessment and obtained the special tour guide certificate for Hengqin New District.
Facilitate the cross-border life of Macao residents
With the improvement of public facilities in Hengqin, more and more Macau residents live, study and work here.
At present, Macau residents have purchased more than 11,000 residential and commercial properties in Hengqin, covering an area of more than 800,000 square meters. More than 7,000 people have applied for residence permits. There are more than 1,000 Macao employees working in Hengqin, and more than 40,000 person-times. Macau residents seek medical treatment in Hengqin.
Among them, a comprehensive livelihood project integrating elderly care, housing, education, medical care and other functions-Macau New Neighborhood will be fully launched at the end of 2020 and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2023. After completion, it will provide approximately 4,000 housing units.
The Hengqin Comprehensive Service Center of the Guangdong Office of the Macau Neighbourhood Federation was inaugurated in 2019. It brought Macau social workers to Hengqin for the purpose of helping Macau residents and local residents of Hengqin who start their own businesses, obtain employment, study, live, travel, and provide for the elderly in Hengqin. Residents provide services.
Accumulatively, it has provided services to more than 60,000 Qin-Ao residents who have started a business, employed, and lived and lived in Hengqin.
The policy of entering and exiting Hengqin for single-plate vehicles in Macao has been implemented and the application conditions have been continuously relaxed. The total quota has been increased to 10,000 and the conditions have been relaxed to Macao residents who have reached 18 years of age. In addition, the Hengqin Port has achieved 24-hour customs clearance and implemented the "cooperative inspection, one-time clearance" customs clearance model, and Qin'ao has entered the era of "second customs clearance". (over)