Our newspaper, Guangzhou, June 7th (Reporter Li Gang) The reporter learned from the press conference on the 8th anniversary of the establishment of the China (Guangdong) Pilot Free Trade Zone on June 7th: Up to now, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has accumulated 696 institutional innovation achievements, 216 reform and innovation experiences were replicated and promoted throughout Guangdong Province, and 301 institutional innovation cases were released.
According to reports, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone vigorously develops advanced manufacturing industries and strategic emerging industries such as automobiles, artificial intelligence, and medical health. The value will increase from 224.39 billion yuan in 2015 to 466.3 billion yuan in 2022.
Give full play to the role of a high-level investment platform, benchmark international high-standard rules, and deepen the reform of "decentralization, regulation and service". In terms of enterprise access, implement the shortest negative list of foreign investment in the country and the first commercial registration system in the country. In terms of enterprise access, implement innovative measures such as "one-stop service", "separation of certificates and licenses", and "starting construction after handing over the land", and have established coverage in terms of service enterprises. Broad and high-value industrial and talent policies, “Double 15%” income tax preferential policies for enterprises and individuals, and efficient and convenient cross-border taxation services. Since its establishment in 2015, Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has accumulatively established more than 260,000 new enterprises, and actually utilized nearly US$50 billion of foreign capital. 91 Fortune 500 companies have invested in 465 projects and established 272 headquarters enterprises.
The function of the international trade gateway hub is becoming more and more prominent. The Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has created an efficient and convenient customs clearance system. The average customs clearance time has been reduced by 80%, the number of regulatory documents has been reduced from 86 to 46, and the paperless declaration rate has reached 99.6%. Established a large shipping system for sea, land and air transport, increased the number of international liner routes from 204 to 352, launched the "one port" and "combined port" business connecting 9 cities in the province, and built three major international airports connecting Shenzhen and Hong Kong The air cargo center of Nansha Port Railway "China-Europe Railway Express" has been opened. Nansha and Qianhai have been approved as national import promotion innovation demonstration zones, and new business forms such as cross-border e-commerce, transit and consolidation, offshore trade, and bonded refueling have developed rapidly, forming bulk commodities such as airplanes, automobiles, electronic components, natural gas, and grain. Distribution centers and import platforms. In the past three years, the total import and export volume of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has successively exceeded 200 billion, 300 billion and 500 billion yuan.
Focusing closely on the expansion of institutional opening-up, breakthroughs have been made in cooperation with Hong Kong and Macau. It is the first bank, securities, and fund institution that is wholly-owned or controlled by Hong Kong and Macao to implement innovative measures such as Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao cross-border payments, cross-border wealth management links, cross-border auto insurance and medical insurance, and cross-border housing mortgages. Established 11 Hong Kong-Macau-funded travel agencies, 14 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau joint-venture law firms, established the first wholly-owned medical institution in Mainland China, and more than 1,000 Macau professionals in architecture, design, tourism, and medical treatment have obtained cross-border practice qualifications in Hengqin, Hong Kong and Macau The Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship base has incubated a total of 1,442 entrepreneurial teams. Since the establishment of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, a total of 24,000 Hong Kong and Macao-funded enterprises have been established, attracting 47.377 billion yuan of investment from Hong Kong and Macao.