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The press conference of Ningbo area of China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone was held

2020-12-21

At 10:30 on the morning of December 9, the Information Office of Ningbo Municipal Government held a press conference. Zhang Yan, Director of the Municipal Free Trade Office, Director of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, and Party Secretary, Wang Haijun, Member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Ningbo Economic and Technological Development Zone, Du Weihao, Member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Meishan Logistics Industry Cluster Area, Xia Qun, member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Ningbo Free Trade Zone, and Wang Zhirong, member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Daxie Development Zone, introduced the construction of Ningbo area of China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone and answered reportersquestions.

 

 

 

    Director Zhang Yan made the announcement and notified the implementation plan of the Ningbo area, and introduced the system innovation ideas, development advantages and opportunities of the Ningbo area. He said that building a pilot free trade zone is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and an important strategy for promoting reform and opening up in the new era. Since the establishment of the Ningbo Free Trade Zone, it has focused on the missions and tasks assigned by the state and the overall plan of the Zhejiang Free Trade Pilot Zone, based on Ningbos unique advantages, benchmarking against the highest international standards, speeding up the planning of construction plans, launching system exploration and innovation, and building work System, various tasks have made positive progress.

 

    Positive progress has been made in Ningbo area

 

    Since the opening of the Ningbo area of the Pilot Free Trade Zone on September 24, Ningbo has closely focused on the mission and tasks assigned by the state and the overall plan of the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone, based on Ningbos unique advantages, benchmarking against the highest international standards, speeding up the planning and construction of plans, and launching the system Explore innovation, establish a work promotion system, and make positive progress in various tasks.

 

 

 

    01. Actively explore policy system innovation

 

    At present, the construction plan of Ningbo area is mainly centered on the strategic function positioning of "one hub, three centers, and one demonstration zone". A total of 18 innovative policy systems have been sorted out and 10 of which were first proposed by Ningbo based on actual needs. At the same time, speed up the reproduction of the first five batches of 202 pilot free trade zones in the country, and 172 of them have been successfully replicated and promoted; the sixth batch of 37 pilot experiences in the countrys sixth batch of reproducible and popularized pilot experiences is in the process of task matching, decomposition and replication.

 

    02. Accelerate the promotion of project attracting reserves

    At the Provincial Free Trade Pilot Zone Promotion Conference, Ningbo area has signed 7 projects with a total investment of over 25 billion yuan. At the signing ceremony for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta and the major project of the "246" trillion-level industrial cluster demonstration park, 18 projects in the Ningbo area were signed with a total investment of nearly 14 billion yuan. At the upcoming city-wide construction promotion conference, a number of projects will be signed with a total investment of tens of billions. At that time, business licenses will be issued for the first batch of enterprise representatives in Ningbo area.

 

    03. Focus on planning a new type of international energy trade center

    Focusing on the functional positioning of Ningbo area to build an internationally influential oil and gas resource allocation center, the overall plan for the construction of Ningbo to build a new international energy trading center has been drawn up, and the functional positioning of "one hub and three centers" has been determined, that is, an international energy collection and distribution hub, supply chain Innovation center, financial and legal service center, high-end think tank and talent center. At the same time, four lists of key policy breakthroughs, key project construction, key platform construction, and key enterprise cooperation were sorted out, and implementation was accelerated in batches and classifications. Strive to achieve 25.16 million tons of oil and gas reserves, 50 million tons of oil refining capacity per year, and 431 billion yuan of oil and gas transactions by 2025.

 

    04. Accelerate the promotion of efficient coordination among various areas

    At present, the three areas of Daxie, Meishan, and Comprehensive Insurance have held working conferences on the free trade pilot zone at different levels to comprehensively deploy and promote planning and project construction. Among them, the Daxie area is accelerating the construction of the second phase of the CNOOC Zhejiang LNG receiving station, planning key projects such as the Ningbo Guangming LNG project and the third phase of the Zhejiang LNG receiving station; Ningbo has been approved for second-hand car export business, and the Meishan area will superimpose the import of complete vehicles The triple policy of parallel import of automobiles and export of second-hand cars has expanded the scope of import and export of whole vehicles in Ningbo area; the comprehensive insurance area has continued to deepen the construction of cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot areas, and continue to cultivate and develop "cross-border e-commerce + bonded exhibition". "Cross-border e-commerce + bonded processing" and other new trade formats. The work pattern of the city's overall linkage and joint efforts to promote the construction of the free trade zone is taking shape.

 

    Ningbo will issue two important documents

 

    In the early stage, the Municipal Free Trade Office and relevant municipal departments drafted the "China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone Construction Plan for Ningbo Area (Draft for Comment)" and the "CPC Ningbo Municipal Committee and Ningbo Municipal People's Government on Supporting China (Zhejiang) Free Trade" Policy Opinions (Draft for Soliciting Opinions) on the Innovation and Development of Ningbo Area of the Pilot Zone (hereinafter referred to as "Construction Plan (Draft for Soliciting Opinions)" and "Policy Opinions (Draft for Soliciting Opinions)"). Two important documents serve as the top-level design of the Ningbo area and systematically arrange the long-term construction direction.

 

    "Construction plan (draft for comments) has four characteristics

 

    Fully implement the relevant spirit of the State Council and the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government

    In accordance with the overall requirements, main tasks, institutional measures, and guarantee mechanisms of the State Councils Regional Expansion Plan and Zhejiang Provinces Construction Plan, we absorbed and incorporated one by one, forming the corresponding construction measures for the Ningbo area and clarifying the focus of the future development of the Ningbo area. Content and roadmap.

 

    Fully run through the concept of high-quality development and construction

    Highly positioned on the target. The goal is to strive for the growth rate of GDP, import and export, use of foreign capital, and R&D expenditures in the administrative area where the district is located to be 2 to 3 percentage points higher than the average of the province, and become a pioneer and growth pole leading the high-quality development of an open economy.

 

    Strong innovation in the system. Grasp the core requirement of institutional innovation, and strive to make positive progress in institutional innovations such as the port of departure tax rebate, the opening of the fifth freedom rights, and the utilization of collective land underground space, so as to create a market-oriented, legalized, and international first-class business environment.

 

    Seek agglomeration in industry. Focusing on the entire "131" oil and gas industry chain, it proposed to expand oil and gas reserves, strengthen oil and gas trade, and build an international oil and gas resource allocation center. Aiming at focusing on new materials and intelligent manufacturing, it proposes to attract high-end elements such as global technology, talents, and capital, promote the development of high-end equipment, electronic information, industrial Internet, 5G+ and other industrial clusters, and strive to build a global new material science and technology innovation center And a demonstration zone for high-quality development of intelligent manufacturing.

 

    Re-upgrade the format. It is proposed to further promote the construction of the pilot 9710/9810 of cross-border e-commerce export, strive to give priority to the implementation of the national digital service export policy, create a national digital service export base, strive to create a pilot service trade innovation development, and develop information services, cultural trade, technology trade, etc., Support the innovative development of new trade formats.

 

    Fully reflects the integration and linkage development requirements

    Strengthen the overall planning and promotion of the pilot free trade zone, and strive to build an integrated development pattern of "core area + linkage area + radiation area". The core area is a 46 square kilometers area determined by the State Council's expansion plan, including three areas of Daxie, Meishan, and Comprehensive Protection. The Linkage Zone is the Ningbo Linkage Innovation Zone of Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone approved by the provincial government, covering an area of 119.87 square kilometers, including Lingang, Lingong, Yongjiang, and Qianwan. The radiation area includes the entire city of Ningbo, which is an area where the functions of the Ningbo area are expanded, projects are implemented, and industries are radiated.

 

 

 

    Fully reflects the bottom line of building a new open and safe system

 

    For example, it is proposed to explore the establishment of a cross-border capital flow risk monitoring mechanism; explore the "sandbox" supervision model, establish a full-chain credit supervision mechanism; carry out regional quantitative risk assessment and emergency capacity assessment systems.

 

    The "Policy Opinions" will be a program document to mobilize relevant forces and resources across the city to support the development of Ningbo area. At present, the draft for soliciting opinions mainly focuses on empowerment, fiscal and taxation, finance, talent, land, management and other aspects to formulate relevant measures with strong operability and high gold content, which mainly reflects the characteristics of "the best benchmarking and becoming better".

 

    For example, in the reform and innovation, it is proposed to "explore the establishment of a more reasonable fault-tolerant error correction mechanism, and implement the'first violation without penalty' list management for the first minor violations and no obvious harmful consequences."

 

    The fiscal and taxation support proposed "encourage and support technology enterprises in the area to participate in the identification of high-tech enterprises, optimize the identification process, and actively implement policies such as high-tech enterprise income tax incentives and additional deductions for research and development expenses.

 

    Talent support proposes encourage foreign graduates who have obtained a bachelors degree or above from high-level universities at home and abroad to innovate and start businesses in the area, and provide high-quality and efficient residence and entry-exit services for foreign talents who invest in entrepreneurship.

 

 

    In terms of land security, it is proposed to "support the construction of infrastructure in the area, and explore and implement the innovative industrial land (M0) policy and the policy of mixed land use for the secondary and tertiary industries" in the area.

 

 

    Relevant support policies are dynamic. According to the actual needs of Ningbo area, we will continue to plan and introduce a series of highly targeted and highly targeted support policies.

 

    Questions to reporters

 

    Q1. The Ningbo area is already planning a batch of innovative policy systems. Can you tell us in detail what benefits it will bring to the enterprises or people in the area?

 

    At present, Ningbo focuses on the strategic positioning of "one hub, three centers, and one demonstration zone". It has sorted out and put forward 18 innovation policies and systems in advance, of which 10 are first initiated by Ningbo and 8 are for learning. Here, through a few examples, I will introduce the benefits that these policies and systems will bring to the enterprises and people in the region.

 

 

    On November 9th, the Ministry of Transport filed and approved the 6 vessels of Ningbo Ocean Shipping to carry out the pilot coastal piggybacking business for Chinese-funded non-five-star international sailing vessels. This is the first policy breakthrough achieved in the Ningbo area. After filing, non-five-star flag ships owned by Ningbo COSCO can engage in the coastal piggyback business of foreign trade import and export containers between domestic coastal ports and free trade zones. Coastal piggybacking business, as a shipping innovation policy in the free trade zone, can better serve the coastal areas, give better play to the role of Ningbo Zhoushan Port as a hub port, and attract goods that transit through a third place to return to Ningbo Zhoushan Port. Chinese-funded shipping Enterprises can optimize the allocation of resources, improve the efficiency of the use of ships, and reduce overall logistics costs.

 

 

 

    In addition, for example, in terms of international shipping and logistics hubs, it has proposed "the pilot project of "double-high" container transportation on the Yongjin Railway", which is the initiative of Ningbo. Ningbo will explore and promote the completion of the design and modification of the Yongjin Railway in accordance with the "double-deck high-container" standard. Double-deck container trains use special undercarriage with stronger carrying capacity. Compared with ordinary single-deck freight trains, the transportation volume can be increased by more than 30%. , Will effectively improve Ningbo's railway freight capacity and efficiency, and further reduce the logistics and transportation costs of enterprises.

 

    For example, in the International Oil and Gas Resource Allocation Center, it has proposed innovative measures to explore the use of underground space in collective land, allowing the separation of requisitions and transfers and processing planning permits, layered transfers, construction permits, environmental protection permits, and confirmation and registration procedures. Space construction of oil and gas storage facilitiesis also the first in Ningbo. According to statistics, the current development and construction land in the area is only 7.16 square kilometers, accounting for 15.6% of the planned area of the area, and the development and construction land is very limited. The use of underground space to build oil and gas storage facilities can effectively break through the land use bottleneck of the development zone and realize the intensive use of land. It will effectively meet the storage needs of large-scale projects such as CNOOC's 3 million cubic meters of crude oil and Baidi Nian LPG underground cavern in Daxie area. Ensuring my country's energy security is also of great significance.

 

    For example, in the demonstration zone for high-quality development of intelligent manufacturing, it is proposed that the domestic sales of whole vehicles assembled in the comprehensive insurance zone can enjoy the parallel import policy of automobiles, which is also the first in Ningbo. According to the original policy, cars that enjoy the parallel import policy need to be transported from abroad to the zone, and cars assembled in the zone are not directly applicable. The entire vehicle must be transported overseas before being re-transported back to the comprehensive bonded zone. If the New Deal can be implemented, it will greatly reduce the transportation and logistics costs of domestically sold vehicles for companies engaged in automobile manufacturing and assembly in the region. For example, the US Special Vehicle Company (USSV) Custom Industrial Park has signed a contract to settle in the Meishan Comprehensive Bonded Zone, with an estimated annual output of 2,000 vehicles, of which 50% will be sold domestically. For this company, this policy is a big plus.

 

    In the next step, it will further strengthen its counterparts with relevant departments of the central government, strive for more institutional innovations in the Ningbo area, and continue to amplify the superimposed effects of institutional innovations, bringing more benefits to Ningbo enterprises.

 

    Q2. The main body of the Ningbo Pilot Free Trade Zone is Beilun. Beilun is also a strong manufacturing area. How can I seize the opportunity of expansion of the Free Trade Zone and accelerate the high-quality development of Beilun's manufacturing industry?

 

    In the functional positioning of one hub, three centers, and one demonstration zoneundertaken by the Ningbo area, Beilun proposed to create a global new material science and innovation center, high-quality development demonstration zone for intelligent manufacturing, which is a high-quality development belt for Beilun's manufacturing industry. There are new development opportunities and motivations. Beilun will give full play to its role as a pilot field in the free trade zone, strengthen innovation drive, reform drive, and governance drive, so that Beilun manufacturing will take off again.

 

    First, high-level innovation drives the upgrade of the industrial chain. For example, benchmarking "building a global advanced manufacturing base", vigorously grasping the "246" industrial demonstration park, the chip port town "million acres and hundreds of billions" platform construction, aiming at key infrastructure parts, intelligent manufacturing and intelligent equipment, "5G+" industry, industry In fields such as the Internet and industrial robots, we will accelerate the gathering of global innovation resources, expand the industrial chain with international competitiveness, and promote the development of world-class advanced manufacturing clusters such as green petrochemicals, automobiles and parts.

 

    The second is to reform with high standards to promote the agglomeration of high-end elements. For example, grasp the pilot free trade zone, an important carrier for accelerating the opening of the high-end factor system, and build and play a good role in the interconnection of high-end factors, integration and efficiency of the system and functional platform.

 

 

 

    The third is to promote the optimization of industrial ecology with high-efficiency governance. For example, accelerating the transformation of digital government, deepening the reform of "run at most once", and promoting cross-department, cross-level and cross-regional process reengineering, business collaboration, and system integration

 


 

    Q3. What new measures and actions will Meishan introduce in the next free trade pilot zone construction?

 

 

 

    Meishan will follow the strategic functional positioning of Ningbo's "one hub, three centers, and one demonstration zone", and give full play to Meishan's five distinctive advantages, including "port, bonded, open, innovative, and coastal", to help Ningbo build a higher-quality open economy. system.

 

 

    The first is to build a world-class strong port hard core fulcrum. Meishan Port Area is the core port for container and commodity truck transportation in Ningbo Zhoushan Port. Meishan will strengthen the docking and cooperation with the International Port Alliance, support Maersk, Amazon and other internationally renowned companies to build a global distribution system in Meishan, carry out industrial cooperation with Dubai, Singapore and other countries' free trade parks, and take the lead in exploring the global networking function of the free trade zone. Create a platform that better serves the "Belt and Road" interconnection. Meishan will take the construction of the pilot free trade zone as an opportunity to expand and strengthen Meishan Ports global cargo consolidation, international transit, transit transportation and other businesses, and build a storage, transportation and processing base for agricultural products, cold-chain food, and bulk materials, and strive to become a link between internal and external Radiating the global resource allocation hub.

 

    The second is to build an international supply chain innovation center. Meishan will focus on building an international supply chain industrial system integrating international trade, modern logistics, and supply chain finance, and strive to become.

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