"Shaanxi is guided by deep integration into the big pattern of co-construction of the 'Belt and Road', insists on building channels and platforms together, promoting trade industries together, and opening up both internally and externally. The province's opening up to the outside world has achieved positive results." On March 5, members of the CPPCC National Committee, Guo Shaomin, deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Commerce, said that Shaanxi has established all-round cooperative relations with more than 40 countries and regions and more than 400 institutions, and its international circle of friends has continued to expand.
Data show that in 2022, Shaanxi's imports and exports to countries along the "Belt and Road" will reach 112.893 billion yuan, an increase of 41%; among them, exports will be 83.048 billion yuan, an increase of 50.3%.
"The 'Belt and Road' initiative has become a 'catalyst' for Shaanxi enterprises to go global." Guo Shaomin said that with the deepening of international production capacity cooperation, the "Belt and Road" has injected new momentum into the development of countries and regions along the route.
In recent years, Shaanxi has established 24 national-level and 124 provincial-level international scientific and technological exchange and cooperation bases; a number of international cooperation industrial parks such as the Sino-Russian Silk Road Innovation Park and the Sino-Kazakh Modern Agriculture Demonstration Park are competing to develop; Xi'an International Aviation Hub, Shanghai Cooperation The organization of agricultural technology exchange and training demonstration bases and the Silk Road University Alliance have become new business cards for Shaanxi's opening up to the outside world, expanding the depth and breadth of Shaanxi's opening up to the outside world.
A large number of enterprise groups such as Shaanxi Construction, Yanchang, Fast, Shaanxi Auto, Shaangu, and Shaanxi Coal participated in the construction of the "Belt and Road", demonstrating the power of Shaanxi in international cooperation.
Attracting investment is an important way to expand opening up and stabilize investment. Shaanxi continues to make efforts to carry out precise investment promotion in the industrial chain, and vigorously attracts high-end industries, leading enterprises, core supporting facilities and advanced elements. A group of Fortune 500 companies such as Samsung, Micron and Schneider have invested and established 154 foreign-funded enterprises in Shaanxi.
The kinetic energy of the open platform accelerates the accumulation. Since the inauguration of the Shaanxi Pilot Free Trade Zone, it has made bold explorations in institutional innovation, industrial agglomeration, coordinated development, "Belt and Road" economic cooperation and cultural exchanges, and has achieved remarkable results: 33 reform and innovation achievements have been replicated and promoted nationwide, 83 Replicated and promoted in the whole province, the number of new enterprises was 3.78 times that before the establishment.
At present, Shaanxi has 5 national-level economic development zones and 24 provincial-level economic development zones. There are 7 comprehensive bonded zones, ranking sixth in the country and the first in the central and western regions. Cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zones, processing trade industrial parks, National-level pilot projects such as import trade promotion and innovation demonstration zones and service export bases have been approved one after another, with 8 designated ports and 13 national-level foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative. How to promote the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" initiative?
"Top-level design and overall planning should be strengthened, and policy integration should be used to promote the integrated development of trade and industry, foreign trade and domestic trade, trade and investment, and various open platforms." Guo Shaomin said that it is necessary to improve the "one-to-one" of key foreign trade enterprises , list-style services, support enterprises to create their own export brands, develop high-quality, high-tech, high value-added trade, and cultivate export-leading industries and superior products.
Guo Shaomin suggested that we should steadily expand institutional opening, give full play to the carrier function of open platforms, improve the scale and quality of industrial agglomeration, and improve the level of investment and trade liberalization and facilitation. Support Shaanxi in building an imported commodity distribution center that serves the domestic and international dual cycles, organize "Belt and Road" national government agencies and multinational companies to enter China, support the western region to accelerate the transfer of domestic industries, and better serve the domestic cycle.
