On March 27, Qingdao West Coast New District and Qingdao Local Financial Supervision Bureau innovated the "regional bureau linkage" mechanism, and successfully signed 18 modern financial industry key projects with a total investment of 38.1 billion yuan in the form of video connection cloud signing. Among them, Ping An Bank and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank respectively set up branches in the Pilot Free Trade Zone, which will focus on supporting the development of the blue economy and providing services in areas such as cross-border finance. The external environment for the development of foreign investment is becoming more complex and severe, and the work of stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment is facing new challenges. The Qingdao area of Shandong Free Trade Zone has shown its responsibility at the forefront of opening up and development.
Among the three areas in the Shandong Free Trade Zone, the entire area is located in the Qingdao area of the West Coast New Area of Qingdao, covering an area of 52 square kilometers, accounting for about 43.3% of the Shandong Free Trade Zone, and the largest area; it undertakes 106 reform and innovation pilot tasks, accounting for all pilot tasks 94.6%, the largest number... "The superimposition of the four districts of the Free Trade Pilot Zone, the National New Area, the Bonded Port Area, and the National Development Zone has made the Qingdao area the best testing ground for opening up and forcing reforms, and it is also regarded by Qingdao City The "explosion point" of the city's new round of great development. We must fulfill our mission and promote the Qingdao area to become a pilot area for Qingdao to deepen reform and expand opening up, a leading area for a new platform for international cooperation under the "Belt and Road Initiative", and a place for promoting high-quality development. Pioneering area, a demonstration area for building a modern international metropolis.” Said Sun Yonghong, Member of the Standing Committee of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee, Secretary of the Working Committee of Qingdao West Coast New Area, Secretary of the District Party Committee, and Secretary of the Working Committee of Qingdao Qianwan Bonded Port Area (Qingdao Free Trade Zone).
"Expanding opening up", "new platform for international cooperation", and "international metropolis". From these keywords, we can see that the attribute of "open window" is particularly prominent in the current construction of the Qingdao area.
The construction of the "International Living Room" gives people the most intuitive impression: On November 28 last year, the Qingdao German "International Living Room" with a total area of about 78,000 square meters was unveiled in the Qingdao area for the first time. On the day of the unveiling, 10 German-funded projects with a total investment of 1.07 billion euros were signed.
In accordance with the spirit of the Provincial Party Committee's instruction that "Qingdao should boldly explore cooperation with Japan and South Korea", the construction of Qingdao Japan's "International Living Room" has started in the Qingdao area, and it will be opened in the first half of the year. The China-Japan Industrial Park and the China-Korea Industrial Park are also stepping up planning and construction in accordance with the goal of "China-Japan-Korea Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Area".
Relying on an open carrier such as the "International Living Room", the Qingdao area has tasted the sweetness in the past six months: as the main body of the "International Living Room" construction, the Qingdao International Economic Cooperation Zone, before the listing of the free trade zone, less than 100 newly registered companies each year , and in the six months after listing, 248 new registered companies were registered.
"Since it was approved in August last year, there have been 2,494 newly registered market entities in the Qingdao area, including 80 foreign-funded enterprises." Sun Xiaohui, director of the Commerce Bureau of Qingdao West Coast New Area, told reporters, "To overcome the current unfavorable factors of the epidemic, we will continue to innovate investment forms, Set up the "Double Recruitment and Double Introduction Meeting Room" on the Internet, change the "face-to-face" communication to "screen-to-screen" communication, move the investment promotion services in the early stage of project negotiation and the later stage of project signing to the Internet, and vigorously promote online investment promotion and cloud signing to ensure By the end of the year, 15,000 new market entities will be added, and by 2022, there will be no less than 30,000 business entities in the region."
Simultaneously with the rapid expansion of the number of business entities, relying on a higher platform that is fully open, five high-end industries such as modern ocean, international trade, shipping logistics, modern finance, and advanced manufacturing play the leading role here, and the new and old growth drivers have strong momentum.
On March 18, overcoming the impact of the epidemic, the international semiconductor industrial park with a total investment of 300 million US dollars completed the signing through video connection. The project will introduce upstream and downstream high-end industrial chain enterprises from Japan, Singapore and other countries, and integrate with Sien (Qingdao) previously established The projects of Circuit Co., Ltd. jointly constitute the semiconductor "Big Mac" R&D and production base, and the situation of "lack of cores and faces" in the integrated circuit industry of our province has been rewritten in one fell swoop. Am Saad, the senior vice president of the US-based Wright Group, the investor of the project, said in the video: "Relying on these two projects, this place will surely become a high-end cluster of the integrated circuit industry, forming the largest semiconductor, robotics industry cluster.”
The influx of projects brought about by the opening up is certainly gratifying, but the Qingdao Free Trade Zone places more emphasis on institutional innovation—it is the foundation for the Qingdao area to seek advantages through opening up to force reform.
"The core of the construction of the Pilot Free Trade Zone is institutional innovation. The Qingdao area has gathered the 'national team' of functional areas and has corresponding policies." Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Commerce and Deputy Director of the Office of China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone Zhang Xingcheng told the reporter, “Qingdao area should be based on serving the national strategy, straighten out the system and mechanism as soon as possible, and maximize the superimposed advantages of each functional area, especially in the fields of marine economy, port trade, modern finance, etc., to create Qingdao Features, break out of Qingdao experience."
In February of this year, the country's first bonded crude oil blending and blending business was launched in the Qingdao area. The benefits of this new exploration of specialization cannot be underestimated: In the past, local refining enterprises in our province, which accounted for more than 60% of the country's production capacity, generally used crude oil blended in Malaysia and Singapore at high prices; after business innovation, the enterprise Mixing and reconciliation can be carried out at Qingdao Port, which can reduce huge comprehensive costs. What's more strategic is that this innovation will increase the port's foreign trade import and export volume by about 900 million yuan this year, and drive and realize the development of a full logistics supply chain integrating oil trade, finance, and shipping. At the same time, with the subsequent implementation of another exploration similar to this - the pilot project of bonded fuel oil blending and reconciliation, it will attract a large number of ships to use Qingdao Port as a port of destination or a stopover port, thus effectively promoting the status of Qingdao Port as an international hub port. Established early. "It is no exaggeration to say that these two pilot projects can add powerful chips to the comprehensive opening up of Qingdao and Shandong." Deputy District Governor of Qingdao West Coast New Area, Member of the Working Committee of Qingdao Qianwan Bonded Port Area (Qingdao Free Trade Area) Sui Bin, deputy director of the committee, said.
There are real money in the reform, and we will do our best to promote the early and full release of the reform dividend. The Qingdao area is waiting for no one. At present, 24 nationally leading innovative policies have been implemented in the Qingdao area of the free trade zone, including the classified supervision of warehoused goods by status and the international transit and consolidation business. Meanwhile, 50 policies are being explored. Sun Xiaohui introduced: "The 106 pilot tasks undertaken by the Qingdao area have been fully launched. The state stipulates that 50% of them will be completed within a year. We will press ourselves, head on the ground, and rush forward to ensure that 70% of the projects will be completed."
While accelerating the implementation of pilot tasks on the "book figures", what is even more expected is to fully tap the "empowerment" connotation of the free trade zone. "We can't stick to these 106 pilot tasks, but also make full use of the system innovation space and pilot power endowed by the state, eliminate the biggest shortcoming of insufficient supply of effective systems, and compare with the best and most advanced schools in the country. , dig out a batch of "Qingdao experience" that can be replicated and promoted across the country, and make the Qingdao area truly a development highland with integrated innovation achievements."——Sun Yonghong explained.
In order to create a "free trade"-level business environment, the administrative examination and approval department of the Qingdao area has implemented a one-stop service of "acceptance, review, and certificate issuance" for 117 administrative examination and approval service items, and all of them can be processed immediately. During the epidemic, in order to facilitate the resumption of work and production, a series of measures such as online declaration, WeChat Q&A, telephone guidance, and free two-way express delivery were implemented, and the processing time limit was 98% faster than the statutory time limit, achieving extremely fast "second approval". "This kind of approval speed is at the forefront of the whole country." said Hu Ying, director of the Administrative Approval Service Bureau of Qingdao West Coast New Area.
The epidemic will inevitably have a far-reaching impact on economic development, especially foreign investment and foreign trade. "Qingdao area should create a legalized business environment, explore in advance to find deficiencies in a timely manner, and after forming mature practices, solidify the norms through provincial legislation and local normative documents." Deputy Director of the Personnel Representative Working Committee of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, the provincial party Qingdao Ming Ming, head of the "Four Entry" Working Group of the General Office of the Municipal and Provincial People's Congress, told reporters.
The integrated reform of "approval-supervision-law enforcement" that is being launched in the Qingdao area is such a "self-revolution" - through the seamless connection and interaction of approval, supervision, and law enforcement information, it is interconnected with platforms such as investment promotion, credit, and public resource transactions. Interoperability, while introducing new technologies based on the Internet of Things and blockchain, establishing a "full life cycle" information platform for enterprises from investment promotion to operation and production, the system automatically generates the annual inspection of operating entity licensing items, regulatory authorities and relevant business partners, You can learn about your business anytime, anywhere. In this way, "one-chain overall planning, coordination among all parties, information sharing, and whole-process supervision", honest enterprises enjoy real "dividends", and untrustworthy enterprises or individuals "distrust in one place and be restricted everywhere", economic entities and regulatory departments will be free from I was freed from a large number of related affairs, and truly realized "more flexible management and better management".
"The degree of free flow of people, goods, and capital is the fundamental criterion for testing the quality of a free trade zone. The key to our reform is to grasp the core of 'management', so we will naturally dare to 'live'" This concept is also at the forefront of the current reforms in the country. As long as it is implemented well, the requirement of "freedom" in the free trade zone will become a reality and form a real soft environment advantage." Director of Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Zhao Shiyu, deputy secretary of the working committee and deputy director of the management committee of Qingdao Qianwan Bonded Port Area (Qingdao Free Trade Zone), said. (Reporter Zhang Zhongde, Bai Xiao, Song Tao, correspondent Wang Wenhui)
