The reporter learned from the press conference on the theme of "Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone Innovation Promotes High-level Opening Up" held on April 28 that the parallel imported automobile industry has become a bright spot in the innovation and development of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone. At the same time, It has also formed its own characteristics in terms of financial support for the construction of the National Leasing Innovation Demonstration Zone. In the next step, the Tianjin Free Trade Zone Management Committee and relevant participating departments will fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, further promote the implementation of the Pilot Free Trade Zone upgrading strategy, and fully realize the "double improvement" of institutional innovation and industrial development in the Pilot Free Trade Zone. ".
Parallel imported cars become featured business cards
Since the launch of Tianjin Automobile Parallel import Pilot Program in October 2015, as an important part of policy and system innovation in the Pilot Free Trade Zone, the degree of industrial agglomeration has increased significantly. At present, there are 50 pilot enterprises in our city, and a total of 600,000 parallel cars have been imported, with a total amount of more than 200 billion yuan. Among them, 35,000 vehicles will be imported in 2022, accounting for more than 70% of the country's total. The number of employees in related industries exceeds 50,000, and the industrial scale exceeds 100 billion yuan. It has become a characteristic business card of policy and system innovation in Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone.
According to Sun Jiannan, Director of the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, the excellent results achieved in the pilot program of parallel import of automobiles in Tianjin are mainly due to the adoption of three major measures: First, improve the policy guarantee system. By establishing a multi-department joint meeting mechanism and building a supervision service platform, the standardization and convenience of management and services will be realized. This model was promoted nationwide by the Ministry of Commerce as an innovative achievement of Tianjin. The second is to deepen and innovate the trade system. Yujiabao Forum will be built into the most authoritative development forum in the parallel vehicle industry. Actively promote the development of new trade formats such as modified exports, entrepot trade, and bonded warehouse display transactions. At present, the largest parallel car complex in China - Dongjiang Fengchi Automobile Bonded Exhibition Center has been put into operation. The third is to create a high-quality service system. The number of imported automobile testing laboratories has reached 6, ranking first in the country; the first domestic parallel car pre-sale testing center has also settled in the bonded area; at the same time, through the release of the "Parallel The "co-insurance system" service platform has been put into operation, and the after-sales "three guarantees" service quality has been greatly improved.
In order to consolidate and enhance the industrial advantages, we will continue to improve service convenience in the future. By issuing the "Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone Parallel import Automobile Pilot Management Measures", we will further realize the integrity, healthy and orderly development of the industry; at the same time, we will continue to optimize the structure and do a good job in the pilot project Enterprise assessment and selection, cultivate more parallel car companies with large scale and good service guarantee, and promote the integration and agglomeration of more industrial chain enterprises; in addition, actively promote innovation, explore new models of parallel car bonded display transactions, and enrich and extend the industry In addition, we will make every effort to create new consumption scenarios, develop the online live broadcast sales model of parallel cars, hold parallel car safe and high-end shopping festivals and professional forums, and continue to polish the business card of the parallel car industry in Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Financial support for the construction of the National Leasing Innovation Demonstration Zone has formed three major highlights
Since the establishment of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, it has attached great importance to promoting high-level opening up through financial reform and innovation, and actively strived for a series of pilot policies to support the development of leasing, providing powerful financial policies for the construction of a high-level national leasing innovation demonstration zone support.
In recent years, there have been three highlights in terms of financial support for the construction of the National Leasing Innovation Demonstration Zone: First, support for the steady and rapid development of offshore leasing business. In 2022, leasing companies within the jurisdiction will pay US$3.34 billion in foreign exchange for purchasing offshore leased 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 2023, this business will continue to grow, and the foreign exchange payment and rental income for the purchase of offshore leased objects will increase by 1.1 times and 35.4% year-on-year, respectively. At present, it has completed the offshore leasing business of 138 ships and 9 aircrafts. In order to support the development of offshore financial leasing business, domestic financial leasing companies are supported to successfully recover overseas rent without setting up overseas project companies, which reduces operating costs. At present, the city has handled a total of 132 registrations of foreign creditor's rights for aircraft and ship offshore financial leasing, involving a capital of 2.45 billion US dollars. The second is to support the expansion of the use of cross-border RMB in leasing business. Actively promote the use of cross-border RMB policies to empower the development of the leasing industry, and explore the cross-border RMB closed-loop settlement leasing model. In May 2021, guide banks to handle 200 million yuan of financial leasing business for a shipping leasing company, and use RMB cross-border in the entire business process Settlement avoids fund exchange and saves financial costs. In March 2022, guide the bank to successfully build a free trade version of the cross-border two-way RMB fund pool with a quota of 2 billion yuan for a financial leasing company, which greatly facilitates the adjustment and collection of surplus funds among domestic and foreign member companies. The third is that leasing companies use FT accounts to realize cross-border investment and financing. Support leasing companies to make full use of the advantages of FT accounts for cross-border investment and financing exchange. At present, 105 leasing companies have opened FT accounts, with a revenue and expenditure of nearly 100 billion yuan. In response to the actual needs of leasing companies for transnational business operations, Tianjin Branch of the People's Bank of China guided banks to build the first FT full-function fund pool for leasing companies, which met the requirements of cross-leasing businesses such as procurement, leasing, maintenance, and repair of SPV companies in multinational groups. life cycle" cross-border capital transfer needs.
"In the next step, the Tianjin Branch of the People's Bank of China will continue to increase support for the National Leasing Innovation Demonstration Zone, further strengthen policy publicity and guidance, and provide more high-quality and efficient services for various market entities." Member of the Party Committee and Deputy Bank of the Tianjin Branch of the People's Bank of China Long, said Li Yunshan, deputy director of the Tianjin Branch of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.
Further promote the implementation of the Pilot Free Trade Zone Upgrade Strategy
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a major deployment to implement the strategy of upgrading the pilot free trade zone and expand the network of high-standard free trade zones facing the world. Zhao Qianmiao, member of the Standing Committee of the Binhai New Area Party Committee, deputy head of the district, and full-time deputy director of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone Management Committee, said: Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone will deepen the systematic and integrated institutional innovation of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, and strive to create an innovative demonstration leading highland .
Zhao Qianmiao said that the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone will insist on planning a region from the overall situation, serve the overall situation with one region, strengthen the awareness of "adding scales" and "delivering accounts", and consciously put the construction of the Pilot Free Trade Zone in serving major national strategies and the city's Systematic planning and overall promotion in the high-quality overall situation, benchmarking against international first-class and domestic advanced, continue to deepen pioneering, integrated, and differentiated reforms, accelerate the release of institutional innovation dividends, and strive to improve the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the construction of a new development pattern The degree of embedding and contribution to promote high-quality development supports the solid implementation of leading actions. At the same time, strengthen the original system innovation. Benchmark the standards and rules of the free trade port, steadily expand the institutional opening up of rules, management, and standards, and systematically build an innovative system of "five freedoms, one safe and orderly flow". Adhere to bold trials, bold breakthroughs, and independent reforms, carry out stress tests in key industries such as biomedicine, leasing factoring, and automobile trade, launch a batch of pilot experience and practical cases that can be replicated and promoted across the country, and accelerate the creation of a number of landmark achievements . Strengthen the benchmarking implementation of international economic and trade rules, benchmark CPTPP, and accelerate the establishment of an adaptive policy system in terms of expanding foreign investment access, promoting the development of service trade, and improving the level of trade facilitation. Deepen the application of RCEP, speed up the construction of RCEP enterprise service centers, and improve facilitation service measures such as tax rate coordination, port cargo release before inspection, etc. Promote joint innovation in the pilot free trade zones, accelerate the establishment of an institutional innovation cooperation mechanism of "information sharing, innovation co-promotion, and model co-construction" in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei pilot free trade zones, and jointly carry out major institutional innovation experiments and share innovation results. Pilot projects will be carried out to promote the deep integration of finance, technology, trade and other fields. In addition, all-round industrial empowerment will be strengthened. Adhere to institutional innovation as the driving force for cultivating new formats and models, and consolidate and expand the leading advantages in the country in financial leasing, commercial factoring, and parallel imported cars. Vigorously develop financial leasing, consolidate leasing businesses such as automobiles, power equipment, and rail transit, explore leasing fields such as new energy batteries, and intangible assets, and build three world-class leasing centers for aircraft leasing, marine engineering leasing, and offshore leasing. Accelerate the construction of the capital of "commercial factoring" in the north, and support the development of cross-border factoring and international factoring business. Promote the bonded display business of imported commodities such as electromechanical equipment and medical equipment, and expand innovative formats such as bonded leasing, bonded distribution, and bonded remanufacturing. Improve the level of cross-border e-commerce, accelerate the implementation of the "overseas warehouse + domestic collection warehouse" model, and promote the construction of cross-border e-commerce pilot areas. Promote the improvement of quality and efficiency of offshore trade, and support qualified foreign trade companies to be included in the "List of Enterprises under the Self-Regulatory Mechanism for Cross-border Trade Formats". Relax the market access of cutting-edge industries and promote the expansion of biomedicine
As the main department involved in the construction of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, in 2023, Tianjin Customs will conscientiously implement the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee on promoting the construction of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, and build a multi-level, all-round innovation matrix. Liu Hui, member of the Tianjin Customs Party Committee and deputy head of the customs, said that Tianjin Customs will continue to carry out the "Party Building Leads Joint Innovation" activity with the Free Trade Zone Management Committee, and effectively transform the party's political and organizational advantages into a powerful driving force for deepening free trade innovation. We will make every effort to promote the implementation of the pilot free trade zone's upgrading strategy, and contribute to the construction of a new higher-level open economic system and the acceleration of the establishment of a new development pattern in which the domestic cycle is the mainstay and the domestic and international dual cycles promote each other. At the same time, strengthen collaborative innovation, and further improve the cross-regional, cross-department, and cross-field joint innovation mechanism. Implement the "Free Trade Innovation Negotiation Plan" of the customs, boldly set up a national trial system for high-standard international economic and trade rules, focus on integrated innovation with the industrial chain as a unit, actively serve and accurately determine innovative projects, and realize free trade innovation from "single-point breakthroughs" " to "integrated innovation" to help the high-quality development of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone. In addition, research and enable the development of industries, actively focus on the "Ten Actions" of Tianjin, carry out a large-scale research activity of "answering the same questions together to improve efficiency, helping enterprises to bail out and promote development", further exerting the advantages of customs functions, and striving for a larger General Administration of Customs Policy support, the implementation of the full life cycle management of the free trade innovation system, continuous iterative innovation, the formation of a number of major leading innovation achievements with high gold content and wide application, and the "double improvement" of system innovation and industrial development in the free trade pilot zone.