On April 21, 2015, China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone, the first free trade pilot zone in northern China approved by the State Council, was officially launched. In the past eight years since its listing, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has deepened systematic and integrated institutional innovation, and made new progress and breakthroughs in various tasks. On April 28, the Tianjin Municipal Government Information Office held a press conference, inviting Yang Bing, vice mayor of Tianjin and director of the Tianjin Free Trade Zone Management Committee, to attend and deliver a speech. The Tianjin Free Trade Zone Management Committee and Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Commerce , Tianjin Customs, and the responsible comrades of the Tianjin Branch of the People's Bank of China introduced the relevant situation and answered questions from reporters.
Yang Bing, deputy mayor of Tianjin and director of the Management Committee of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, said that over the past eight years, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has made bold breakthroughs, bold experiments, and independent reforms. Integrating with services, opening up to force reform, becoming a "testing field" for system and mechanism innovation, a "growth pole" for industrial agglomeration, and a "new highland" for expanding opening up. Focusing on key areas such as investment, trade, finance, and transformation of government functions, carry out in-depth pilot reforms. Relying on the advantages of factor resources, we will take advantage of both domestic and international markets and resources to lead the development of new industries and new models. Promote coordination in areas such as the policy systems of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, strengthen trade exchanges with countries along the "Belt and Road", and better serve the overall strategic layout of opening up. At present, Tianjin is deeply implementing the "Ten Actions" to promote the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China into action, concreteness, and practice. Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone will continue to expand the breadth and depth of institutional innovation, and carry out cross-regional, cross-department, and cross-field collaborative innovation. Benchmark international high-standard economic and trade rules, optimize the structure of foreign capital utilization, and accelerate the cultivation and growth of new momentum for foreign trade. Deepen the reform of the administrative system, introduce measures to facilitate cross-border talent, and attract capital, talent, technology and other factors to gather. Promote the opening up of rules, regulations, management, standards and other systems, promote the institutional innovation of "five freedoms, one safe and orderly flow" and realize the high-quality development of the free trade pilot zone.