Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, June 8 (Reporter Li Jianguo) The reporter learned from a press conference held by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government Information Office that since the eighth anniversary of the establishment of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone, the economic aggregate has reached a new level, and fixed assets The cumulative investment has exceeded 1 trillion yuan, driving the GDP of the three platforms of Hengqin, Qianhai and Nansha to more than double. In addition, a total of 696 institutional innovation achievements have been formed.
According to Zhang Jinsong, director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Commerce, this year marks the eighth anniversary of the establishment of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone. Over the past eight years, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has fully played its role as a "test field" for reform and innovation, a high-level open door hub, and a major platform for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
To deepen the reform of "decentralization, regulation and service", the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has implemented the shortest foreign investment negative list in the country and the first commercial registration system in the country in terms of enterprise access. Since its establishment, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has accumulatively established more than 260,000 new enterprises, and actually utilized foreign capital of nearly US$50 billion. 91 of the world's top 500 companies have invested in 465 projects in the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone, gathering 272 headquarters enterprises .
To create an efficient and convenient customs clearance system, the average customs clearance time in the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has been reduced by 80%. In the past three years, the total import and export volume of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has exceeded 200 billion, 300 billion and 500 billion yuan in succession, with an average annual growth rate of more than 25 billion yuan. %. In 2022, container throughput will exceed 32 million TEUs, and cargo throughput will reach nearly 500 million tons, accounting for 45.4% and 24.4% of the province's total respectively.
Focusing on building a major cooperation platform in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has expanded its opening up in the service industries such as finance, legal services, tourism, and construction. A total of 24,000 Hong Kong and Macao-funded enterprises have been established, and the actual use of Hong Kong and Macao capital is 47.377 billion yuan. It has attracted more than 30% of the total investment from Hong Kong and Macao in the province.
The Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has also formed a total of 696 institutional innovation achievements, replicated and promoted 216 reform and innovation experiences in Guangdong Province, and released 301 institutional innovation cases.