The theme is "Global Financial Opening and Cooperation: A New Driver for Economic Recovery""The 14th LujiazuiForum (2023) will be held on June 8. Export-import Bank of ChinaChairman Wu Fulin said that as an important strategic measure to promote high-level opening up in the new era, my country's free trade zone has experienced ten years of hard work and has formed several characteristics.
One is incremental deployment. In terms of geographical layout, starting from the coast, from south to north, from east to west, a pattern gradually formed, step by step, solid progress in stages. Looking back at history, this is also a country's accumulation of experience.
The second is diversified functions. International free trade zones focus more on one aspect, for example, Rotterdam focuses on shipping, Hong Kong and New York are good at finance, China Taiwan and South Korea pay more attention to export processing, while the design of China's free trade zone is trade investment, advanced Manufacturing, finance, and government functions are promoted in multiple dimensions to realize the superposition of functions. China's free trade zones are more comprehensive.
The third is based on the layout of prefectures and cities. At present, the 21 free trade zones are dotted and contiguous. The traditional inland hinterland is strategically elevated to open frontier, which is a revolutionary change.
He said that under the new structure of the free trade zone, the next step is to properly handle three pairs of relationships: one is the coordinated response of the government and the market. The development of pilot free trade zones requires top-level design, and the role of the government must be better played. But it must be made clear that the main body is the market, and the role of the government lies in strategic guidance, system construction and environment creation. The second is to exert force at both ends of agglomeration and radiation. In the new stage of spatial layout and functional improvement of the free trade zone, it is necessary to emphasize the full manifestation of the aggregation and radiation effects. The third is the three-dimensional promotion of system, technology and culture.