According to the Reply of the Leading Group for the Construction of China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone on the Establishment of the Second Batch of linked Innovation Zones in China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone, the provincial government approved the establishment of Huainan linked Innovation Zone in China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone. On September 29, Huainan linkage Innovation Zone was inaugurated, marking that Huainan City has officially become a member of Anhui Pilot Free Trade Zone.
What is the positive significance of Huainan's joining the "circle of friends" in the pilot free trade zone? Where is the linkage innovation zone implemented? What are the specific construction contents? Recently, the Information Office of the Municipal Government held a press conference, and the person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce gave a detailed explanation on the construction of Huainan linked Innovation Zone in China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone.
The person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce clearly said: "This is a 'golden signboard', which will share the reform achievements and spillover effects of the Free Trade Zone to a greater extent, marking that the construction of Huainan's opening up platform has entered a higher stage, and will certainly drive Huainan's export-oriented economy to achieve more and better results."
The construction of China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone Huainan linkage Innovation Zone is an important support for building a new highland of inland reform and opening up. The pilot free trade zone represents the highest standard of China's reform and opening up, and also represents the development direction of an open highland. The establishment of the pilot free trade zone linkage innovation zone in Huainan will not only help Huainan expand the scale of foreign trade, improve the level of foreign capital utilization, and promote the accelerated development of existing industries in Huainan, but also further stimulate the power and vitality of reform and innovation in Huainan, promote the construction of an international first-class business environment, attract more international capital, advanced technology and high-end talents, and comprehensively improve the level of opening up and the quality of industrial development in Huainan.
The construction of Huainan linkage Innovation Zone of China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone is an important platform to promote regional integration and coordinated development. We can firmly grasp the integrated development opportunity of Hefei Metropolitan Area, give full play to the advantages of politics, finance, information, scientific research and education close to Hefei and Huainan's advantages in industry, energy foundation, elements, etc., take the initiative to connect with Hefei area, deepen cooperation and resource sharing in platform, industry, projects, talents, etc., build a high-energy platform for opening up to the outside world, build a sub central city of Hefei Metropolitan Area, and become an active growth pole of Hefei Metropolitan Area.
The construction of Huainan linkage Innovation Zone in China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone is an important measure to practice innovation driven high-quality development. Huainan has a national development zone and a high-tech zone. The number of colleges and universities is in the forefront of prefecture level cities in Anhui Province. Huainan has national scientific research platforms such as coal mining engineering technology and new energy technology, and has a good foundation for joint innovation of industry, education and research. The establishment of the linkage innovation zone is conducive to improving the scientific and technological research and development, business incubation and transformation capabilities, speeding up the building of a technological innovation highland in northern Anhui, a comprehensive national science center energy technology research and development base, and an important node city in the Yangtze River Delta National Big Data Comprehensive Pilot Zone, leading the high-quality economic and social development of Huainan.
The construction of Huainan linkage Innovation Zone of China (Anhui) Pilot Free Trade Zone is an important means to realize the transformation and development of resource-based cities. Huainan is the cradle of China's electric power industry, the national hundred million ton coal base, and the main battlefield of "power transmission from Anhui to the east". The construction of a pilot free trade zone linkage innovation zone is of great significance for resource-based cities to explore a low-carbon circular development path and achieve green transformation and development demonstration, It is also an important step to earnestly implement the deployment requirements of "accelerating the construction of green transformation and development demonstration cities and national important new comprehensive energy bases" made by Zheng Zhajie, secretary of the provincial party committee, during his research in Huainan.
Huainan linkage Innovation Zone covers an area of 60 square kilometers, covering 20 square kilometers of Huainan Economic and Technological Development Zone and 40 square kilometers of Shouxian Economic and Technological Development Zone. Focusing on industrial development and functional layout, four functional areas have been set up, namely, scientific and technological research and innovation zone, industry city integration demonstration zone, airport economic core zone and radiation driven development zone. Strive to make the reform pilot experience of the national free trade pilot zone that can be replicated in the Huainan linked Innovation Zone be repeated and comprehensively promoted through about three years of reform exploration; Basically form the system and mechanism for the development of Huainan linked Innovation Zone, try out a number of major opening and innovation initiatives in accordance with the law and regulations, and strive to independently explore and form a number of innovative cases and pilot experience in the province and even the country; We will basically form an international and domestic leading business environment with convenient investment and trade, standardized legal environment, perfect financial services, and a new generation of information technology, new materials, new energy vehicles and parts, high-end equipment manufacturing, life and health, green food and other fields to create a number of integrated development platforms, cultivate a number of strategic emerging industrial clusters, gather a number of high-quality functional institutions, and create new advantages in international economic cooperation and competition, Efforts will be made to build a high-quality linkage innovation zone that demonstrates and drives the city to share the reform dividend and develop a higher level open economy.
There are 9 major projects and 31 minor projects in the construction of Huainan linked Innovation Zone. From nine aspects: copying and promoting the reform and innovation experience of the pilot free trade zone, cooperating in exploring cross regional linkage, cooperation, innovation and development, building a market-oriented, legal and international business environment, expanding reform and innovation in the investment field, promoting trade transformation and upgrading, promoting openness and innovation in the financial field, in-depth implementation of innovation driven development, linkage to promote industrial optimization and upgrading, and grasping major regional development strategic opportunities, Efforts will be made to build Huainan linkage Innovation Zone into an important power source leading the city's high-quality development and high-level opening up, and a new highland of reform and opening up in the new era.