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In May ten years ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Tianjin in person and put forward the important requirements of "three efforts". "Strive to improve the quality and efficiency of development, focus on ensuring and improving people's livelihood, and focus on strengthening and improving the leadership of the party." The general secretary's earnest entrustment has injected strong political, spiritual, and work motivation into Tianjin's development; the general secretary's concern Great love has always inspired the children of Haihe to work hard and move forward with courage.
Today, Tianjin Daily grandly launched the column "Keep in mind the entrustment to start a new chapter - a series of reports on the 10th anniversary of General Secretary Xi Jinping's inspection of Tianjin". The general secretary entrusted, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the new development concept, actively serve and integrate into the new development pattern, concentrate on promoting the "ten actions" of high-quality development, and strive to create an all-round construction of socialism A new situation in a modern metropolis.
Completed the country's first urban subway customized leasing innovation business, landed the country's first digital RMB factoring business, the first cross-bank refactoring business, and took the lead in exploring the pilot of aviation bonded maintenance and remanufacturing... A few days ago, China (Tianjin) Free Trade Pilot The district has ushered in the 8th anniversary of its listing. Through bold ventures, bold trials, and independent reforms, "Tianjin's firsts" have been born here, and "Tianjin experiences" have spread from here to the whole country.
As the first free trade pilot zone in the north, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone not only shoulders the important task of testing the system for the country and seeking development for the local area, but also undertakes the important mission of serving the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. On May 14, 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the important requirements of "three efforts" when he inspected Tianjin. When he inspected Binhai New Area, he pointed out that "it is necessary to take Binhai New Area as the leader, actively adjust and optimize the industrial structure, and accelerate the transformation of economic development mode. Promote the development of industrial integration and intensive clusters. At the same time, we must accelerate the development of the service industry and form a service economic system that is compatible with the status of a modern metropolis."
The warm words of the general secretary have always echoed in the ears of the people in the new district, and this trust and expectation is engraved in the hearts of the people in the new district. Over the past 8 years, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has braved the wind and waves, insisted on institutional innovation as the core, implemented a total of 581 institutional innovation measures, and replicated and promoted 38 pilot experience and practical cases across the country. It has become a "test field" for institutional innovation and industrial agglomeration The "growth pole" and the "new highland" for expanding opening up.
Innovation stimulates vitality
Leading the country in multiple industries
Where does the "fruit of innovation" come from? In recent years, Tianjin has carried out in-depth pilot reforms in key areas such as investment, trade, and finance, giving the pilot free trade zone greater reform autonomy, and a variety of new formats and models have been activated. At present, business cards for characteristic industries such as leasing, commercial factoring, automobiles, and "bonded +" have been created, and the system innovation index of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has been ranked among the top in the country for three consecutive years.
Sun Jiannan, Director of the Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, introduced that taking our city's bonded maintenance and remanufacturing industry as an example, the business scope has gradually expanded from the initial aircraft to ships, construction machinery, offshore platforms, communication equipment, In many fields such as containers and security inspection equipment, Tianjin has become the region with the most comprehensive bonded maintenance and remanufacturing business categories, the most abundant business models, and the most innovative related standards, policies and systems.
Under the guidance of institutional innovation, the import and export business of automobiles is also booming in Tianjin. In 2022, more than 70% of the country's parallel-imported cars will land at Tianjin Port, and more than 50,000 people will be employed in related industries, and the industrial scale will exceed 100 billion yuan. Last year, the country's first second-hand car export service center in the pilot free trade zone was put into operation in Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, and the city's second-hand car export volume ranks first in the country.
In addition, the city's characteristic industries such as financial leasing, commercial factoring, cross-border e-commerce, bonded display transactions, and biomedicine have a strong momentum of development. Among them, the Dongjiang area is a gathering place for leasing in my country. The scale of leasing assets has exceeded 1.4 trillion yuan by the end of last year, and the total amount of aircraft leasing business has exceeded 2,000.
release open "magnetism"
The number of business entities has tripled
As the forefront of opening up to the outside world, over the past eight years, the level of trade and investment facilitation in the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has been continuously improved, and the region has burst into a strong "magnetic force".
Zhao Qianmiao, deputy head of Binhai New Area and full-time deputy director of the Management Committee of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, said that the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has implemented more than 8,700 reforms of the registration and confirmation system for business entities, further relaxing market access for frontier industries. At the same time, explore cross-border facilitation measures for talents, carry out innovations in the recognition of international professional qualifications; establish a full-process assistance service mechanism for foreign investment, and implement 15 "one thing" integrated service reforms for investment convenience.
In addition, Tianjin also performed well in improving the level of cross-border trade facilitation. According to Liu Hui, Deputy Commissioner of Tianjin Customs, Tianjin took the lead in implementing the reform of "direct pick-up at the ship's side" and "direct loading at arrival" in the country and applied it on a large scale. Practice case. The customs department has also joined forces with Tianjin Port Group to build a "Smart Platform for Customs and Port Collection and Distribution", which has realized the integration of customs supervision and port operations. According to statistics, in 2022, the overall customs clearance time for exports at Tianjin Port will be 0.57 hours, and the overall customs clearance time for imports will be 34.3 hours, ranking among the most efficient among major ports in the country.
To break down market barriers and optimize the business environment, the choice of enterprises reflects the results. "As of the end of last year, there were actually 82,000 business entities of various types in the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, more than three times that before the establishment of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, and nearly 4,000 foreign-invested enterprises of various types were introduced, with a registered capital of nearly one trillion yuan. 1% of the city's land attracts 5% of business entities, contributing 14% of the city's tax revenue and 30% of its import and export volume." Zhao Qianmiao said.
Financial Precision Assistance
Service enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency
Not long ago, under the support and guidance of foreign exchange management and other departments, the country's first offshore engine financial leasing business landed in Dongjiang, realizing the further expansion of offshore financial leasing business in terms of commodity categories, and also accelerating the deployment of domestic leasing companies in the international market. The market breaks a new path.
Li Yunshan, vice president of the Tianjin Branch of the People's Bank of China and deputy director of the Tianjin Branch of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, said that in order to support the steady and rapid development of the offshore leasing business in our city, relevant departments and units should improve their business on the basis of implementing authenticity review responsibilities. The review and management process has solved many problems that were "dare not to do or unwilling to do it" in the past. In 2022, the city's leasing companies will pay US$3.34 billion in foreign exchange for the purchase of offshore leasing objects, and the rental income will be US$410 million, a year-on-year increase of 1.6 times and 69.1% respectively. In the first quarter of this year, this business continued to grow, with a year-on-year increase of 1.1 times and 35.4%.
Serving the construction of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, the continuous iterative upgrade of policies in the financial field such as foreign exchange management and cross-border RMB has created favorable conditions for enterprises to improve capital management efficiency and reduce transaction costs. In April 2019, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially approved to copy FT accounts. A total of 1,175 companies opened 1,194 FT master accounts, and the settlement volume of FT accounts reached 690 billion yuan. At present, 18 reform and innovation policies, such as higher-level cross-border RMB trade and investment facilitation and capital account income payment facilitation, have been replicated and promoted to the whole country.