Recently, fDi magazine of the Financial Times, an international authoritative evaluation institution, released the 2022 global annual free trade area ranking. Dalian Free Trade Zone stands out from nearly 70 free trade zones in the world, defending its title in the Asia Pacific region and achieving the second place in the global comprehensive ranking, one place ahead of last year. In the individual evaluation, Dalian Free Trade Zone has won many awards, such as serving SMEs first in the world, serving large enterprises first in the Asia Pacific region, infrastructure investment excellence award, supply chain problem solution and infrastructure construction honorary nomination award.
It is understood that the fDi Global Annual Free Trade Zone Selection focuses more on the strategies and measures of service enterprises in the park, their sense of gain, sustainable development strategies, park governance and infrastructure construction level. It has been held for nearly ten consecutive years and has strong authority and influence in the industry. Among the top ten free trade zones this year, Dalian Free Trade Zone is the only free trade zone selected in China, ranking the second, and the champion in the Asia Pacific region, and Dubai Multi commodity Trading Center (DMCC) ranks the first in the world.
Dalian Free Trade Zone has been highly recognized by the jury due to its outstanding investment attraction, scientific and technological development potential and management system innovation initiatives. FDi magazine commented: "With the service and support of Dalian Free Trade Zone, semiconductor, automobile, new energy and other industries have developed rapidly in the zone. SK Hynix, Taixing Energy, Chery Automobile and other domestic and foreign heavyweight enterprises have increased their capital and production, and their core industrial chain has been constantly improved."
Dalian Free Trade Zone has customized various professional services for small and medium-sized enterprises, including opening "enterprise salon" and inviting experts to provide development suggestions for enterprises; Adopt cluster development strategy and introduce policies to attract relevant high-quality enterprises to gather; Provide support measures to help small and medium-sized enterprises reduce operating costs and fight against the COVID-19 epidemic and the uncertainty of the global economy. The district has formulated a five-year plan for the development of hydrogen energy industry, built a hydrogen energy industrial park, built a rich application scenario for the hydrogen energy industry, and improved the energy supply and supply system. The region has continuously improved the level of financial services, worked with the foreign exchange management department and the Bank of China to provide customized offshore trade financial services for the investment project of Singapore multinational energy trading company Trafigura Group, and achieved remarkable results. We introduced special policies for industrial innovation zones, focused on cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial enterprises, promoted the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, and effectively improved the overall effectiveness of the innovation chain.
In addition, the jury also believed that through integrated innovation in market access, market supervision, infrastructure construction guarantee and other aspects, Dalian Free Trade Zone has truly achieved "barrier free approval and no interference from supervision", and the investment environment has been continuously optimized. Thanks to these innovative measures, the number of new domestic and foreign registered enterprises in Dalian has achieved a rapid growth even when the epidemic situation has a serious impact and the global economic uncertainty has increased significantly, which has also become an important factor for the region to achieve good results in the 2022 global annual free trade zone selection.
