On February 15, 2023, the Provincial Free Trade Office held a seminar on "Implementing the Pilot Free Trade Zone Improvement Strategy" at Xi'an Jiaotong University, inviting relevant experts and scholars in the province's free trade field to implement promotion actions for the Shaanxi Pilot Free Trade Zone and help Shaanxi's economy Development advice and suggestions.
The participating experts and scholars, the management committees of the free trade test zone, and the heads of functional areas conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions on implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and fully implementing the upgrading strategy of the free trade test zone. Experts pointed out in their speeches that in recent years, the construction of the Shaanxi Pilot Free Trade Zone has closely followed the strategic positioning, insisted on system innovation as the core, and achieved remarkable results in deepening reform, expanding opening up, promoting industrial development, and serving national strategies. , The role of new highlands continues to emerge. The implementation of the free trade pilot zone upgrading strategy has pointed out the direction and road for the future construction and development of my country's free trade pilot zone. The Shaanxi Pilot Free Trade Zone should take the initiative to connect with international high-standard economic and trade rules, carry out in-depth exploration of differentiation, replicate and promote more and better institutional innovation achievements, and explore innovative paths for deepening reforms in related domestic fields. On the promotion path, it is necessary to enhance the systematic integration of institutional innovation, enhance the level and depth of institutional opening, enhance the level of investment and trade liberalization and facilitation, enhance the level of integration and development of open platforms, enhance the attractiveness of the business environment, and increase the scale and scale of industrial agglomeration. Quality, improve the level of regional coordinated development, and improve the level of element resource guarantee services. In terms of work, it is necessary to focus on building a new development pattern and jointly building the "Belt and Road", fully relying on Shaanxi's resource endowment and location advantages, focusing on the construction of "Silk Road Free Trade, Science and Technology Free Trade, and Agricultural Free Trade" to promote integrated circuits. Open and innovative development of the entire industry chain in key fields such as biomedicine, high-end equipment manufacturing, and agricultural germplasm resources, creating a highland for high-tech industries, cultural exchanges, and modern agricultural development. It is necessary to give full play to the demonstration and leading role of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, be a good vanguard of reform and opening up, and make positive contributions to writing a new chapter of high-quality development in the new era for Shaanxi.
Zhai Beiqin, deputy director of the Provincial Department of Commerce and deputy director of the Provincial Free Trade Office, attended the meeting and expressed his gratitude to think tanks and experts such as Xi'an Jiaotong University Free Trade Research Institute for their suggestions. He pointed out that in the first year of comprehensively implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, this seminar is of great practical significance. "Trade" is practical and detailed, with characteristics, and contributes to the high-quality development of Shaanxi free trade.
More than 60 people including all the staff of the Provincial Free Trade Office, the management committees of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, the heads of functional areas, and the staff of the Free Trade Research Institute of Jiaotong University attended the meeting.
