Recently, at the Qingdao Free Trade Zone Open Cooperation Project Landing Conference, 48 key projects with a total investment of 50.3 billion yuan were settled in Qingdao Free Trade Zone, including China’s bulk commodity shipping logistics and procurement base, international seafarer center, and international ship supply center. The platform is unveiled simultaneously.
The signed projects cover the five leading industries of modern ocean, international trade, shipping logistics, modern finance and advanced manufacturing. Among them, there are 10 foreign-funded projects, which are expected to achieve foreign investment of 103 million US dollars within the year, and create foreign trade imports and exports within the year of up to 40.8 billion yuan; 35 marine and related industry projects, with a planned total investment of 38.07 billion yuan. Among the marine and related industry projects, the Qianwan Port Intelligent Empty Rail Collection and Distribution System Project is the world's first intelligent air rail collection and distribution system. It is the first time to integrate air rail technology with terminal container business. , Railway intermodal transport "zero transfer" to promote the upgrading of port container collection and distribution from platform traffic to three-dimensional traffic.
Since its inauguration in August 2019, the Qingdao Free Trade Zone has further promoted 106 pilot tasks, and 92 innovative cases have been promoted nationwide in the province; a total of more than 40,000 new market entities have been added, and 113 projects of the world's top 500 have been introduced and constructed. (Reporter Bai Xiao)