On the morning of August 19, at the Third Anniversary Construction and Development Conference of the Qingdao Free Trade Zone, the International Trade and Economic Cooperation Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce released the "Comprehensive evaluation Report on the Third Anniversary of the Qingdao Free Trade Zone". The report shows that in the past three years, the institutional innovation achievements of the Qingdao Free Trade Zone have been outstanding. Among the 226 institutional innovation achievements, 79 are the first in the country, and 5 institutional innovations have landed the first business in the country. level.
Cui Weijie, deputy director of the International Trade and Economic Cooperation Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, said that from the perspective of three-year construction and operation, the first launch of the Qingdao Free Trade Zone and the leapfrog effect are obvious. Achievements: It is in a leading position at home and abroad in terms of gene technology, commodity digital trade ecology, comprehensive bonded area, green and low carbon, etc.
The report shows that the Qingdao Free Trade Zone continues to carry out stress tests and reforms around institutional opening-up, and benchmarks CPTPP, USMCA and other high-standard international economic and trade rules. Has been at the forefront of the world.
In the past three years, the Qingdao Free Trade Zone has added 25,000 new business entities, which is 1.4 times the total amount before its establishment; 12,300 new taxpayers, which is 1.1 times the total amount before the establishment; it has introduced a total of the world's top 500 domestic and foreign investment projects 149. Cui Weijie said that in the past three years, the Qingdao Free Trade Zone has achieved remarkable results, and it is in the first echelon among 67 areas in 21 free trade pilot zones across the country. (Reporter Bai Xiao)