Hong Kong people and Hong Kong enterprises go north to the mainland to develop the "first stop" for international enterprises to enter the Chinese market
Qianhai: Create a new highland of reform and opening up in the new era
Shenzhen Special Zone News reporter Wu Xumei Intern Hu Qingwen
In April, Qianhai is windy and tidal. Mawan Smart Port autonomous trailer shuttles back and forth, loading and transporting goods continuously; The Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Dream Factory South District project site is lined with tower cranes, and the pile foundation project has been completed ahead of schedule; High-end office buildings such as Qianhai Kerry Centre and Qianhai Hongyi Building are warm, and international institutions such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young have settled in...
Logistics "run", construction "hot", production "busy", popularity "boom". On April 4, the 27th anniversary of the establishment of the Qianhai Shekou Free Trade Area, as a major national strategic platform personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, Qianhai adheres to institutional innovation as the core, boldly experiments, boldly enters, and independently reforms, and actively takes the lead in various fields such as Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation, trade, investment, finance, and business environment, and constantly enriches and expands the "Qianhai Model". In the past eight years, the number of customs registered enterprises here has exceeded 8,8, the total import and export value of foreign trade has increased by 1% per year, and the import and export volume of Qianhai Comprehensive Bonded Zone has exceeded 23 billion yuan. In the first quarter of 2300, the Qianhai Shekou Free Trade Area imported and exported 2023.642 billion yuan, writing a new chapter in the new era of reform and innovation test platform, accelerating high-level opening up to the outside world, and building a new highland of international development.
●More innovation to accelerate the construction of a major platform in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area
From April 4 to 10, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Guangdong and gave the Greater Bay Area a new positioning: to make it a strategic fulcrum of the new development pattern, a demonstration place for high-quality development, and a leading place for Chinese-style modernization.
Global vision, national strategy, Guangdong overall situation, Qianhai responsibility. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions provide a fundamental basis for Qianhai to take the road of high-quality development and solidly promote Chinese-style modernization in the new journey, and also point out the way forward for in-depth platform construction.
Shenzhen-Hong Kong liquor only needs "two places and one inspection", Hong Kong people can bring specific drugs when entering the country, and biological substances for scientific research will be given "priority" for customs clearance... Recently, enterprises engaged in cross-border trade, as well as Hong Kong people travelling between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, have clearly felt that the flow of factors between Shenzhen and Hong Kong is becoming more and more convenient.
This is since the "18 measures" proposed by the General Administration of Customs to support Qianhai in the "Several Measures to Support the Comprehensive Deepening of Reform and Opening Up of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone" last year, Qianhai has pressed the "accelerator button" of a number of measures to actively promote the docking of cross-border trade regulatory rules between Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
In the Qianhai Shekou Free Trade Area, goods are boarded and gone to sea. It will build new logistics models such as the country's first "1+4 global traceability and release" of imported commodities, global central warehouse, MCC Qianhai, and international shipping transit distribution and consolidation center, promote the "multiple ports as one port" of the combined port in the Greater Bay Area, open 25 combined port lines, pilot "one test, one certification, integrated passage" between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and give Qianhai a leading role in promoting import and export, serving industries and enhancing consumption demonstration. Qianhai Shekou Free Trade Area was selected as a national import trade promotion innovation demonstration zone, becoming an important source of institutional innovation.
The gaze is firm and the steps are not stopped. The "Plan for Comprehensively Deepening the Reform and Opening Up of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone" has given Qianhai a pilot platform for comprehensively deepening reform and innovation, with a total of 765 institutional innovation achievements launched and 76 replicated and promoted nationwide, and the institutional innovation index ranks in the forefront of the national free trade zone.
A good seed, pregnant with spring hope; A new seedling that grows into a towering tree. The Qianhai Shekou Free Trade Area has achieved leapfrog development, with the total import and export value of foreign trade rising from 2015.712 billion yuan in 2022 to 3046.23 billion yuan in 2022, with an average annual growth of 55%. In 8, the actual used foreign capital will be US$3.3 billion, an increase of <>.<>%, accounting for more than half of Shenzhen, injecting a steady stream of new momentum into the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
●Closer together, Hong Kong people and Hong Kong enterprises "first stop" for mainland development
"Post-90s" Hong Kong youth Guo Weiqiang has been busy these days almost without touching his feet. Receiving alumni of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Alumni Association", holding lectures to share lectures, participating in the market to display entrepreneurial achievements... The busy and fulfilling entrepreneurial life is his daily footnote in Qianhai for 7 years.
"Riding on the Qianhai policy, the enterprise I founded has obtained more than 50 intellectual property rights and patents, completed three rounds of financing, and has become a national high-tech enterprise and one of the top <> scientific and technological innovation enterprises in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao." The real entrepreneurial feelings and development results make Guo Weiqiang full of confidence.
To promote "hard connectivity" of infrastructure, "soft connectivity" of rules and standards, and "heart-to-heart connectivity" of the people of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, Qianhai has always been at the forefront.
The "Former Port Macao e-Station Connect" was established in Hong Kong and Macao, providing 238 free government services for Hong Kong and Macao investors; Qianhai Shekou Free Trade Zone Hospital opened a service center for Hong Kong and Macao residents, and was approved as a pilot of "Hong Kong and Macao Drug and Equipment Exchange"; The Qianhai cross-border bus to Hong Kong was officially launched to facilitate the movement of people between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Today, 18 types of Hong Kong and Macao professionals can practice on record, more than 500 Hong Kong and Macao professionals have completed cross-border practice registration or filing, and more than 7500,<> Hong Kong residents work in former Hong Kong-funded enterprises.
Check in to Qianhaishi Park and board the Bay Area Light Ferris Wheel... In February this year, with the full resumption of customs clearance at the Shenzhen-Hong Kong land port, Hong Kong tour guide Wen Kwok-wei led the first Hong Kong and Macao inbound tour group to Qianhai, which was his first cross-border practice tour after obtaining the Hong Kong and Macao Tour Guide Practice Certificate in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone. "The guests praised the beautiful scenery of Qianhai, which is a good start, and I hope to bring more Hong Kong tourists to Qianhai to take a look and share the development dividends of Qianhai." Wen Guowei said.
Hong Kong tax agent Cheng Kangxiang, who obtained his qualification in Qianhai, talked about his experience of developing in Qianhai and detailed the favorable policies after settling in Qianhai. "The corporate income tax rate has been reduced from 25% to 15%, the individual tax for Hong Kong nationals and overseas talents is also levied at 15%, and Hong Kong-funded enterprises enjoy special industry support compared with the 20% increase of domestic enterprises, which will provide great help for our future development in Qianhai."
Relying on Hong Kong, serving the Mainland and facing the world. Data show that in 2022, Qianhai will actually use Hong Kong capital of US$56.1 billion, an increase of 3.4%, with nearly 416,<> Hong Kong-funded enterprises. Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Dream Works has incubated <> Hong Kong entrepreneurial teams, becoming the "first stop" for Hong Kong people and Hong Kong enterprises to develop in the mainland.
● More open, opening a window to the world from Qianhai
The picture is always new. Since the issuance of the Opinions on Financial Support for the Comprehensive Deepening of Reform and Opening Up in the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, the first "dual-license" bank in China and the first wholly foreign-owned fund sales company in the Greater Bay Area have settled down; Qianhai took the lead in opening up cross-border two-way bond issuance and realizing cross-border two-way equity investment, and cross-border financial innovation continued to deepen from "six cross-border" to "N cross-border". At present, the cross-border income and expenditure of the Qianhai Free Trade Account has exceeded 4000 billion yuan.
Strive for the future. PwC Qianhai Innovation Centre headquarters moved into Hony Tower, and EY Greater Bay Area Service Centre of Excellence was launched at Qianhai Kerry Centre. "More international financial customers have taken root in Qianhai, updated special support policies have been continuously introduced, and Qianhai has a wider development space, a better business environment and greater attractiveness." Yin Huang, EY South China Managing Partner, said.
The rule of law is the best business environment. The golden signboard of Qianhai rule of law is particularly eye-catching.
As the only pilot Sino-foreign joint venture law firm in the province, 14 of the 7 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao joint venture law firms in China have been established in Qianhai. The Qianhai Court has become the grassroots court with the largest number of cases adjudicated under Hong Kong law in the country. The total amount of cases in dispute accepted by the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration was RMB1272.<> billion, ranking first in Asia and top three in the world.
Openness is the only way to development. Qianhai insisted on "eating reform and taking the road of openness", and vitality surged with vitality.
Shenzhen-Hong Kong international venture capital and venture capital agglomeration area, natural gas trade agglomeration area, financial leasing agglomeration area, cross-border e-commerce agglomeration area, tax-related service industry agglomeration area, high-end think tank agglomeration area... Qianhai issued a blockbuster invitation to "global service providers", providing industrial support funds of not less than 10 billion yuan and industrial space of not less than 20,2022 square meters every year. In 30, Qianhai will land 500 Fortune 497 investment projects with a total investment of 1.1 billion yuan, and there are <>,<> foreign-funded enterprises, which has increasingly become the "first choice" for international enterprises to enter the Chinese market.
Starting from the spring, the marketization, rule of law and international business environment have been formed here, the "first in the country", "first in the country" and "first in the country" reform exploration have appeared here, new industries, new formats and new models have gathered here, Qianhai is making every effort to build a new highland of reform and opening up with closer docking between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, wider institutional innovation, higher level of openness and stronger radiation effect, and become a demonstration and leader of high-quality development. (Shenzhen Special Economic Zone News)