● From the time of listing to December last year, there were a total of 192000 newly established enterprises in the whole region, with a registered capital of more than 1.9 trillion yuan, 494 projects of more than 100 million yuan, 3.2 billion dollars of foreign capital actually paid in, and 351.58 billion yuan of imports and exports
● Over the past five years, more than 800 institutional innovations have been formed through bold exploration. Among the recent 4 batches of 104 pilot experiences promoted at the national level, Sichuan has contributed 12, promoting 278 national level and 5 batches of 81 provincial reform experiences
Report from our newspaper (Chen Bihong, an all media reporter of Sichuan Daily) On April 1, Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone ushered in its fifth anniversary. The reporter learned from the Sichuan Free Trade Office that since the establishment of the Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone in December last year, there have been a total of 192000 new enterprises, with a registered capital of more than 1.9 trillion yuan, 494 projects of more than 100 million yuan, 3.2 billion dollars of foreign capital actually paid in, and 351.58 billion yuan of imports and exports. In particular, in the face of the challenges brought by the global new pneumonia epidemic, Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone has shown more resilience and vitality. In 2021, 55635 new enterprises will be set up, an increase of 24% year on year; Foreign direct investment reached US $1.51 billion, up 69.7% year on year; The proportion of foreign direct investment in the province increased from 4.3% at the beginning of listing to 44.9%.
On April 1, 2017, Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially established as the third batch of national pilot free trade zones. Over the past five years, the Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone has closely focused on high-level opening up and high-quality development, accelerated the release of reform dividends, and continued to burst out innovation vitality. While smoothly promoting various reform experiments to a new level and leading the province's transformation from opening up to institutional opening, it has delivered a "Sichuan answer sheet" to the social and economic sectors at home and abroad.
The basic system will be improved. In the past five years, Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone has given full play to the role of five integrated tackling groups, including management system innovation, two-way investment, port logistics, financial openness and innovation, and legal protection, to focus on tackling and make integrated breakthroughs in major reform tasks. The Regulations on China (Sichuan) Pilot Free Trade Zone, which is closely linked with the Foreign Investment Law, has been formulated and implemented, 45 measures have been introduced to support Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone in deepening reform and innovation, and the first court and procuratorate named after the provincial free trade zone in China has been established.
The system innovation is fully developed. Over the past five years, Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone has made bold efforts to explore and form more than 800 institutional innovations through benchmarking, benchmarking, comprehensive and progressive Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP), Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) and other international high-level economic and trade rules, the World Bank's business environment indicator system and domestic advanced regional experience. Among the recent 4 batches of 104 pilot experiences promoted at the national level, Sichuan has contributed 12, promoting 278 national level and 5 batches of 81 provincial reform experiences.
Highlights of differentiation test results frequently appear. Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport has opened 131 international (regional) routes; Chengdu International Railway Port has connected 69 overseas cities and 25 domestic cities; The policy of "tax refund for departure port+dry port" of Luzhou Port has been applied in a coordinated way, and the golden waterway of the Yangtze River has been seamlessly connected with the new land and sea channel in the west and the China Europe train. Over the past five years, Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone has closely adhered to the strategic positioning of "four zones and one highland", focusing on giving play to the overlapping advantages of "airport, railway and river", forming a strong trend of integrated development of "transportation, trade and production", and promoting Sichuan's opening up to the outside world to a higher level.
High level opening leads to high-quality economic development. In the past five years, Sichuan Pilot Free Trade Zone has innovatively promoted the development of the first foreign-funded value-added telecommunications business in the west, put into operation domestic and foreign bonded maintenance bases for aeroengines and other projects, and led high-quality economic development with the help of a number of major open platform carriers.
Regional coordination and opening-up have been deepened. The construction of the Sichuan Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone Collaborative Opening Demonstration Zone has made many important breakthroughs: jointly launching the first China Europe Express (Chengdu Chongqing), jointly creating the first China Europe Express brand in China, and the courts of Chengdu Chongqing Free Trade Zone have achieved cross regional case filing, cross regional trial, cross regional mediation, and cross regional implementation coordination of disputes
