good morning guys! It is a great pleasure to participate in the first press conference of the Pilot Free Trade Zone this year, and I would like to thank all friends from the media for your attention and support. On November 15 last year, the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone High-Quality Improvement and Development Conference was held, emphasizing the need to fully implement the strategy for upgrading the Pilot Free Trade Zone. At the beginning of the new year, the Provincial Party Committee convened a meeting to implement the "Eight-Eight Strategy" in the province to vigorously promote innovation deepening, reform and opening up, and proposed to implement the "sweet potato economy" to improve energy and upgrade the "No. 1 Opening Project". Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone will fully implement the "Eight Major Improvement Actions" in accordance with the deployment of the "First Meeting of the New Year", and accelerate the creation of a high-level opening-up pilot zone and a high-quality development growth pole. Next, I would like to focus on three aspects.
first Highlights of the 2022 Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone Construction Achievements First, the ability to serve the national strategy has been significantly enhanced The world's longest crude oil pipeline began to supply oil, and China's bonded fuel oil price index system in Zhoushan basically took shape. The first Global Digital Trade Expo was an instant success, building Zhejiang Data International Trading Platform, Hangzhou International Digital Trading Platform, Data Security Laboratory, Data Intellectual Property Public Deposit Platform and other service platforms, gathering a group of network security, data supply, and digital demand fields leading enterprises. Ningbo Zhoushan ranks among the top ten international shipping center cities for two consecutive years. Ningbo Zhoushan Port has become the largest port in the country for oil and gas throughput for the first time, and the fifth largest refueling port in the world. ; Cargo and mail throughput of Xiaoshan International Airport reached the fifth place in the country. Ningbo was approved to build the first national-level intellectual property operation center in the field of magnetic materials in China; 7 manufacturing clusters including digital security and new materials have entered the national key cultivation list, ranking third in the country. Second, the leading role of an open economy is highlighted In 2022, the free trade pilot zone will contribute 20.6% of the province's foreign trade and 18.1% of the province's foreign investment with less than 1/400 of the province's area. Specifically, the total import and export volume for the year was 966.96 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.4%, of which imports accounted for 41.2% of the province. The actual use of foreign capital in the whole year was 3.484 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 37.6%, which was 32.4 percentage points higher than that of the whole province. There were 36 new foreign investment projects of more than 100 million US dollars in the whole year, and the high-quality promotion and development conference of the free trade pilot zone newly signed the world's top 500 projects 5. The driving effect of radiation is evident . The comprehensive evaluation ranking of five national economic development zones in Hangzhou, Ningbo and Jiaxing ranks among the top 30 in the country, and the number ranks second in the country; trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.8% and 23% respectively. Zhejiang has been encouraged by the State Council to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment for four consecutive years. Third, the construction of the institutional system centered on investment and trade liberalization and facilitation continued to advance Revised the "China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone Regulations"; approved national-level reform pilots such as fifth navigation rights, digital renminbi, local and foreign currency accounts, and high-level opening up of cross-border trade and investment, and added institutional innovations throughout the year 143 items, 36 items are the first in the country. Among them, 6 cases including Zhoushan's "maritime sanitation" working mechanism were replicated and promoted by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment; the mobile inspection individual integrated intellectual property rights trademark intelligent identification application was filed and promoted by the General Administration of Customs. second aspect Since November 15 last year Since the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone High-Quality Improvement Development Conference + "Ten Progresses" in Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone First, on December 7, 2022, the Sinopec and Zheneng Zhoushan Liuheng LNG project was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission and officially launched, with a total investment of nearly 20 billion yuan. It will effectively ensure the safe and stable supply of natural gas in Zhejiang Province and surrounding areas, and promote the energy structure Optimization, "double carbon" goal achieved. Second, from December 11th to 14th, 2022, the only national and global professional expo with the theme of digital trade in the country - the world's first digital trade expo was successfully held, attracting more than 800 domestic and foreign companies to participate in the exhibition, signing projects on and off the site 89, with a total investment of about 110 billion yuan. The third is that on December 12, 2022, five new pilot areas will be added to the local and foreign currency integrated bank settlement account system in Zhejiang Province, realizing full coverage of the free trade pilot area. Fourth, on December 20, 2022, the State Council approved a comprehensive pilot program for expanding the opening up of the service industry in Hangzhou. The Ministry of Commerce issued the "Overall Plan" to further promote the relaxation of market access, the reform of the regulatory model and the optimization of the market environment. Fifth, on December 22, 2022, the Zhejiang Bonded Commodity Registration System of the National Warehouse Receipt Registration Center for Bulk Commodities will be launched in order to build "futures and spot goods, on-site and off-site, domestic and overseas, offline and online" in the Yangtze River Delta The interconnected multi-level commodity trading market system provides effective support. Sixth, on December 30, 2022, the National Standardization Management Committee approved the launch of a national-level digital service standardization pilot for bulk commodity transactions in the Jinyi Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and officially listed the Zhejiang China Small Commodity City "Standard Entering the Market" service standardization pilot as a national-level Service industry standardization pilot project. Seventh, on January 6 this year, the General Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the General Office of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued a document stating that Hangzhou was approved to carry out a pilot program for the identification of foreign "high-end, high-tech and top-notch" talents, and further expand the scope of foreign high-end talents and professional talents. Key industries such as the digital economy, high-end equipment manufacturing, and life and health in the pilot zone will recruit talents. Eighth, the high-level opening-up pilot program of cross-border trade and investment in Ningbo has achieved remarkable results. All 13 measures have been implemented, and the efficiency of cross-border fund settlement has increased by more than 50%. . Ninth, the digital renminbi cross-border trade and social consumption scenarios have been further expanded. On the eve of the first China-Arab States Summit, the cross-border RMB payment service between Yiwu and the Middle East was officially launched; the Hangzhou Asian Games digital RMB hardware wallet was officially released.