On November 15, Zhang Chaochao, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, presided over the ninth meeting of the Leading Group for Promoting the Zhengding Area of the China (Hebei) Pilot Free Trade Zone. The spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee fully implements the deployment of the National Pilot Free Trade Zone Construction Work Site Meeting. In accordance with the requirements of the Provincial Party Committee, straighten out the system and mechanism, deepen reform and innovation, strengthen project leadership, and strive to build a national first-class free trade pilot zone with distinctive characteristics. District, to contribute to accelerating the construction of a modern, international and beautiful provincial capital city. Deputy Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Ma Yujun attended the meeting.

Zhang Chaochao pointed out that the establishment of the Zhengding area of the Pilot Free Trade Zone is a major decision-making arrangement made by the Party Central Committee and the State Council based on comprehensively deepening reform and expanding opening up. The Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government's "Opinions on Vigorously Supporting the Construction of the Provincial Capital and High-quality Development" clearly stated that it is necessary to speed up the construction of the Zhengding Free Trade Pilot Zone. Relevant departments at all levels in the city should further improve their political positions, thoroughly study, publicize and implement the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, fully implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on the construction of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, and the spirit of the National Pilot Free Trade Zone The construction work site meeting requires further emancipating the mind, updating concepts, insisting on jumping out of Shijiazhuang, jumping out of Hebei to see Shijiazhuang, standing in the whole country, reviewing the development of the free trade pilot zone, benchmarking against domestic advanced free trade zones, and solidly promoting the positive determination of the free trade pilot zone Area construction, and strive to build the most open, active and dynamic free trade pilot area.

Zhang Chaochao emphasized that it is necessary to intensify reform and innovation and strive to create a new benchmark for the development of free trade zones. We must establish a strong sense of benchmarking, focus our energy and work on testing the system for the country and seeking development for the local area, boldly try, boldly break through, and make independent reforms, and strive to be among the best in the province and even in all regions of the country. It is necessary to strengthen institutional innovation, increase the intensity of institutional innovation in key areas, and try first in market access, project approval, financial supervision, and opening up to the outside world, and strive to form a batch of institutional innovation achievements. It is necessary to straighten out the system and mechanism, accelerate the construction of a streamlined and efficient management system with clear rights and responsibilities, select and introduce outstanding talents to enrich the management organization, and ensure that all tasks are carried out in an orderly manner. It is necessary to strengthen scientific and technological innovation, encourage enterprises in the pilot zone to increase investment in research and development, overcome a number of key core technologies, and continuously enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises. It is necessary to strengthen platform cultivation, vigorously support the construction and development of makerspaces in the pilot zone, cultivate and expand technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises and high-tech enterprises; improve port functions and enhance port service guarantee capabilities. It is necessary to strengthen intellectual support, implement various talent policies, ensure that talents come, stay, and use them well, and build Shijiazhuang, especially the Zhengding area of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, into a highland of talents.

Zhang Chaochao pointed out that it is necessary to speed up the construction of project attraction and give full play to the effect of industrial agglomeration. It is necessary to make great efforts in attracting investment, focusing on the development of an export-oriented economy, highlighting chain extension, supplementary chain, and strong chain, insisting on precise investment, professional investment, small team investment, and investment attraction, attracting foreign capital and foreign trade market players to settle down, and improving the city's foreign trade. open level. It is necessary to work hard on project construction, race against time, do everything possible to grasp the progress, and rush forward what can be rushed forward to ensure that it can be put into production as soon as possible and contribute to the overall economic development of the city.

Zhang Chaochao emphasized that it is necessary to create a first-class business environment and fully stimulate the vitality of market players. We must adhere to the concept of marketization, organically combine "promising government" and "effective market", the government will concentrate on improving services, and let enterprises focus on development. It is necessary to build a new type of relationship between government and business that is friendly and clean, to firmly establish the awareness of serving the development of enterprises and project construction, and to carry out regular government-enterprise exchange activities to create a strong atmosphere of being pro-business, emphasizing business, and securing business. It is necessary to strengthen the support of resource elements, improve the platforms of science and technology innovation, investment and financing, guarantee, municipal administration, etc., continuously improve the strong supporting capabilities, and create a high-level, low-cost opening-up pilot zone. It is necessary to consolidate the cornerstone of safety and environmental protection, implement safety production responsibilities to every post and every link, correctly handle the relationship between development and pollution prevention, and realize the organic unity of economic and ecological benefits.