China News Service, Beijing, September 24 (Reporter Du Yan) On the 24th, the China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone was inaugurated, marking the official establishment of the China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Proposed more than 110 open innovation policy measures
The State Council recently issued the "China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone Overall Plan" (referred to as the "Overall Plan"), pointing out that the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone takes institutional innovation as its core, reproducibility and promotion as its basic requirements, and fully implements the central Implement innovation-driven development and promote the coordinated development strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, help build a scientific and technological innovation center with global influence, accelerate the creation of a pioneering zone for the expansion of the service industry and a digital economy pilot zone, and strive to build a high level of coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Open the platform to the outside world.
Yang Jinbai, deputy mayor of Beijing, stated at a press conference held on the 24th that the “Overall Plan” clarified that the total area of the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone is 119.68 square kilometers, including 31.85 square kilometers for the technological innovation zone and 48.34 square kilometers for the international business service zone (including Beijing Tianzhu Comprehensive Bonded Zone (5.466 square kilometers), high-end industrial area 39.49 square kilometers.
He said that the "Overall Plan" focuses on the main characteristics of technological innovation, service industry opening, and digital economy, and proposes more than 110 open innovation policy measures in seven aspects, including more than 30 policy measures pioneered by China.
Optimize the supply of talents, explore the recommended model of talent introduction
What are the highlights of open innovation measures?
Yang Jinbai said that in terms of promoting innovation-driven development, measures will help build a technological innovation center with global influence, focusing on optimizing talent supply, intellectual property protection and the creation of an innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
For example, exploring the recommended talent introduction model; optimizing the approval process for work permits and residence permits for foreigners in China; exploring the establishment of past qualification recognition mechanisms; exploring the construction of international digital product patents, copyrights, trade secrets and other intellectual property protection systems; exploring the implementation of comprehensive land use Mode; explore the implementation of industrial chain land supply.
Enhance the international competitiveness of China's service industry and service trade
In terms of high-quality development of competitive industries, through the development and opening of Beijing's competitive industries, the international competitiveness of China's service industry and service trade will be enhanced.
For example, in the financial sector, we will explore pilot projects for the integration of domestic and foreign currencies in cross-border capital pools.
In the field of business services, a fully functional group exhibition complex will be built around the Capital International Airport.
In the cultural field, encourage the return of overseas cultural relics, actively study and adjust the current import tax policy; explore and innovate the international high-end art exhibit guarantee supervision model in the comprehensive bonded area.
In the field of aviation services, promote Beijing Capital International Airport and Beijing Daxing International Airport to expand air rights arrangements including fifth freedom rights; for aviation-specific parts and components that comply with the listing rules, study the establishment of separate national sub-items.
Explore the development rules of digital trade in line with national conditions
In terms of innovating the development environment of the digital economy, a series of high-level digital economy pilot reforms have opened up new paths and contributed new wisdom for China's in-depth participation in a new round of global economic and trade governance.
The "Overall Plan" proposes to benchmark international advanced levels, explore digital trade development rules that meet national conditions, strengthen cross-border data protection regulatory cooperation, and promote international mutual recognition of digital certificates and electronic signatures; explore the construction of an international information industry and digital trade port, Pilot projects such as software real-name authentication, data origin label identification, data product import and export, etc.; explore the establishment of a website filing system that meets the needs of overseas customers and other pilot tasks.
Encourage groups in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Pilot Free Trade Zone
In exploring a new path for the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, through the construction of the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone, we will promote the formation of new advantages for high-quality development in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
The "Overall Plan" proposes to explore the implementation of relatively centralized administrative licensing pilots in the city's sub-centers, establish national voluntary emission reduction and other carbon trading centers, support qualified financial institutions to set up franchised institutions; deepen the industrial chain coordination of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Pilot Free Trade Zone Develop, explore the establishment of diversified industrial docking cooperation models such as headquarters-production bases, joint construction of parks, and overall relocation. Encourage the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei free trade pilot zones to participate in the “Belt and Road” construction, adhere to the principles of stability and order, and jointly build, Sharing a series of innovative measures such as domestic and foreign cooperation parks.
Open and innovative content in the financial sector accounts for nearly 25%
In terms of deepening open innovation in the financial sector, this part of the "Overall Plan" accounts for nearly 25%.
Beijing is the country's financial management center.
The "Overall Plan" proposes to allow more foreign banks to obtain the custody of securities investment funds; promote the facilitation of cross-border RMB business and foreign exchange business in key industries; explore to give Zhongguancun science and innovation enterprises more cross-border financial options, and gradually realize non-financial in the region Fully convertible under the external debts of enterprises; carry out one-time registration of foreign debts of enterprises in the zone instead of registering one by one; allow financial leasing parent companies and subsidiaries registered in the zone to share the corporate external debt quota; confirm pilot domestic-funded financial leasing enterprises registered in the zone The work is entrusted to the competent authority of Beijing.
Trial implementation of the negative list management model for cross-border trade in services
In terms of promoting the liberalization and facilitation of investment and trade, and accelerating the transformation of government functions, the "Overall Plan" proposes to try out the cross-border service trade negative list management model; to carry out the pilot work of cross-border e-commerce retail imports of drugs; to allow well-known overseas arbitration institutions and Dispute resolution agencies provide arbitration services in compliance with regulations; make full use of existing trial resources to provide policies such as green channels for financial litigation.
The opening up policy of the service industry is piloted in the free trade zone
Yang Jinbai said that some high-gold policies in the "Deepening Beijing's New Round of Service Industry Expansion and Comprehensive Pilot Program for Building a National Service Industry Expansion and Opening Comprehensive Demonstration Zone" issued by the State Council will be prioritized in the relevant areas of the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone. Try first.
For example, for enterprises engaged in integrated circuits and other fields in Beijing to identify high-tech enterprises, those eligible to implement "approval upon filing" can enjoy income tax incentives and other relevant policies; launch corporate venture capital corporate income tax preferential policies; implement preferential income taxes for technology transfer Pilot policies; study and implement preferential policies on personal income tax for overseas high-end talents.
Yang Jinbo pointed out that Beijing will carefully implement various policies and measures, make good use of the free trade pilot zone and the national service industry expansion and opening comprehensive demonstration zone policy, go all out to promote the construction of the Beijing pilot free trade zone, and sincerely invite investors at home and abroad. Come to Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone to invest and start a business.
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