China News Agency, Guangzhou, June 7 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The Guangdong Provincial People's Government Information Office held a press conference on the 7th. Zhang Jinsong, Director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Commerce, introduced that since its establishment in 2015, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has accumulatively established new enterprises. There are more than 260,000 companies, and the actual use of foreign capital is nearly 50 billion US dollars. 91 of the world's top 500 companies have invested in 465 projects and gathered 272 headquarters companies.
This year marks the 8th anniversary of the establishment of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone. According to reports, in the past 8 years, the investment in fixed assets in the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has exceeded 1 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below), with an annual average of more than 130 billion yuan. Tax revenue has increased from 57.4 billion yuan in 2015 to 95 billion yuan in 2022. .
Zhang Jinsong said that the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone is focusing on building a modern industrial system, vigorously developing advanced manufacturing industries and strategic emerging industries such as automobiles, artificial intelligence, medical health, integrated circuits, modern finance, and professional services. 211 national and provincial scientific and technological innovation platforms, including the National Engineering Laboratory, continue to gather scientific and technological innovation resources and new momentum for high-quality development.
At the same time, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone is benchmarking against international advanced free trade zones to create an efficient and convenient customs clearance system. In the past three years, the total import and export volume of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has continuously exceeded 200 billion yuan, 300 billion yuan and 500 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of more than 25%. 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.
In addition, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone is based on creating a demonstration window for the opening of the financial industry to the outside world, taking the lead in carrying out pilot investment and financing reforms such as cross-border capital pools, cross-border asset transfers, and cross-border investment in equity investment funds, and establishing a free trade (FT) account system. By 2022, a total of 55,000 new financial institutions will be added, including 245 licensed financial institutions; the accumulated FT account capital business will exceed 2 trillion yuan. (over)