my country newly established 3 free trade zones in Beijing, Hunan and Anhui
On September 21, the State Council issued a notice on the overall plan for the Beijing, Hunan, and Anhui Pilot Free Trade Zones and the expansion plan of the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone. Among them, the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone helps build a technological innovation center with global influence, accelerates the creation of a pioneer zone for the expansion and opening of the service industry, a digital economy pilot zone, and strives to build a high-level opening platform for the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. The Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone covers an area of 119.68 square kilometers, covering three areas: 31.85 square kilometers of science and technology innovation area, 48.34 square kilometers of international business service area (including 5.466 square kilometers of Beijing Tianzhu Comprehensive Free Trade Zone), and 39.49 square kilometers of high-end industrial area.
The State Council Information Office is scheduled to hold a press conference at 3 pm on September 21, 2020 (Monday). Wang Shouwen, Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative for International Trade Negotiations, Yang Jinbai, Deputy Mayor of Beijing Municipal People’s Government, and Deputy Mayor of Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government Governor Zhu Congjiu, Vice Governor of Anhui Provincial People's Government Zhang Xi, Vice Governor of Hunan Provincial People's Government He Baoxiang introduced the overall plan of Beijing, Hunan, Anhui Pilot Free Trade Zone and the expansion plan of Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone, and answered reporters’ questions .
In 2015, Beijing became the country's only comprehensive pilot city for expanding the opening up of the service industry, focusing on the opening up of service trade and the first trials of related management measures, laying a solid foundation for Beijing to build a pilot free trade zone.
Driven by the pilot policy, the development of the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone will, on the one hand, make better use of the synergistic advantages of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, promote the efficient flow of various factors and resources, and promote reform and development through opening up; on the other hand, it will also help to explore The linkage and coordination between the pilot free trade zones will give play to the joint force of open policies to promote the sustained and healthy development of the regional economy.
In fact, the signal for the addition of pilot free trade zones in the central and western regions has been clearly released. This year's government work report proposes to establish a pilot free trade zone in the central and western regions. The local level is taking active actions. Since the beginning of this year, many central and western provinces have been actively preparing for the declaration of the pilot free trade zone. Among them, Hunan proposed that the pilot free trade zone is an important platform to seize the opportunity of "the rise of central China". The construction of the pilot free trade zone is an inevitable choice for Hunan to respond to the new pattern of opening up in central China, and is an important measure to give play to the location advantages of the "One Belt, One" area. In the first half of the year, experts in the pilot free trade zone application plan were held successively, inviting authoritative experts, responsible comrades in Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian and other pilot free trade zones, and leaders of relevant ministries and commissions responsible for the work of the pilot free trade zones to guide the plan.
Anhui will also promote the innovation of open economic systems and mechanisms, and actively apply for the creation of China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone in the provincial government work report. News from the Department of Commerce of Anhui Province also showed that the free trade zone plan has been reported to the State Council. Wang Xiaohong, deputy director of the Information Department of the China International Economic Exchange Center, pointed out that the pilot free trade zone is a landmark carrier for my country to promote high-level opening up. In the "14th Five-Year" opening-up planning system, supporting the central and western regions to set up open platforms such as pilot free trade zones is an important measure to build a more balanced opening up pattern, and will also strongly promote regional economic development to a higher level.