The reform and opening up has set the tide. In April 2017, South Sichuan Port Area of China (Sichuan) Pilot Free Trade Zone (hereinafter referred to as "South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone") was inaugurated.
Over the past five years, South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone has always adhered to the principle of bold exploration, bold trial and independent reform. Relying on its own characteristics of "inland water port", it has formed a number of unique and first try institutional innovation achievements, gathered a number of open platforms connecting the international and domestic markets, built a port opening industrial system with complete chain and strong competitiveness, and fully played the role of "pilot field" to deepen reform and expand opening.
The reform nurseries are full of flowers and fruits, which compose a new chapter.
Focus on deepening reform
Continuous optimization of open development of business environment
Reform and innovation are the foundation of the pilot free trade zone. Over the past five years, South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone has closely focused on customs, maritime affairs, finance, taxation, government services and other key areas and made bold exploration, forming 414 system innovation achievements, of which 7 reform and innovation achievements have been replicated and promoted nationwide, 23 achievements have been replicated and promoted throughout the province, and batch of innovative "seeds" have sprouted and grown in "experimental fields".
"The liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment has always been the main direction of the pilot free trade zone in deepening reform and opening up." Pan Yunhai, Deputy Director of the Government Affairs Center of the Comprehensive Service Center of the South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone, said that since its listing and operation, the South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone has promoted the formation of an institutional innovation system characterized by inland water transport ports through a series of innovative reforms, and focused on building a first-class business environment in the west and the country.
At about 10:00 a.m. on September 28, a container truck slowly drove into Luzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and the whole process did not exceed 1 minute.
Efficient transportation benefits from institutional innovation.
Zhang Zhongqi, Deputy Chief of the Third Supervision Section of Luzhou Customs, introduced that "Luzhou Comprehensive Bonded Logistics Zone mainly relies on Luzhou Port and Yangtze River water transportation to do bonded logistics business for some bulk goods, often with a large logistics transportation volume. However, bulk goods need to gather multiple vehicles to enter and exit at a time, and there are also difficulties in enterprise vehicle transportation." Luzhou Customs optimizes the verification and release process of vehicles entering the area after passing the card through the innovative mode of "reporting and entering immediately", which can solve the problem of vehicles entering the area, improve the efficiency of customs clearance, and reduce enterprise declaration and logistics costs.
The dividend of reform is the most intuitive for enterprises.
Wang Shuncheng, the general manager of Luzhou Yunxin Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., directly calculated an account: "If the whole batch of goods enters the checkpoint at the same time, the queuing time of cargo vehicles will be too long, and the daily pressing fee will be about 800 to 1000 yuan. However, after the implementation of the" report and enter "mode, the waiting time of vehicles entering the area will be saved by 1 day on average, and each vehicle can save 600 to 800 yuan of transportation costs, while improving the efficiency of cargo customs clearance."
The innovation model of "reporting and advancing immediately" is just a microcosm of many reforms and innovations in South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone.
Before the implementation of enterprises, South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone innovatively launched a series of reform measures, such as the "hourly list system" and the "permit upon admission" list system, which reduced the time from 20 working days to less than 1 working day. After the implementation of the enterprise, the port area in southern Sichuan of the Free Trade Zone innovatively launched reforms such as "pre service of export tax rebate for production oriented export enterprises" and "refund upon reporting of value-added tax increment". The average time for enterprise export tax rebate was reduced from more than one month to less than five working days. In 2021, 47 production oriented export enterprises in the city will enjoy export tax rebate of 181 million yuan.
Focus on platform construction
The level of regional opening up has been significantly improved
Over the past five years, the South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone has insisted on taking the improvement of port level as the basic support for construction and development, and constantly promoted the upgrading of open platforms. The "six" national platforms, including the pilot free trade zone, the comprehensive bonded zone, the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive test zone, the designated regulatory site for imported grain, the designated regulatory site for imported meat, and the national temporary water transport open port, have been successfully assembled, and the radiation, influence, and driving force of the open platforms have multiplied.
"Go to the left, OK!" "Fixed position, installation completed." Recently, at the construction site of the 1.5 million ton imported grain deep processing project of CITIC in Luzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone, the imported grain processing and production equipment is being intensively installed and commissioned.
As a key project relying on the development of the comprehensive bonded area and the designated supervision site for imported grain, "zone port linkage", it settled in the port area in southern Sichuan of the Free Trade Zone, and its focus is on the benefits brought by the convergence of open platforms here.
Fu Tongjiu, the general manager of Sichuan Xinte Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd., said, "We import wheat and corn from Central Asia, Eastern Europe, North America and other places through the designated regulatory site for imported grain here, and produce and process 1.5 million tons of mixed fodder and compound fodder annually in the Comprehensive Bonded Area. The finished products radiate the western market. After putting into production, the annual output value will reach 3.5 billion yuan, the annual import and export volume will reach 2.8 billion yuan, and 100 jobs will be created."
The platform convergence not only facilitates enterprises, but also brings benefits to people's lives.
Recently, Ms. Wang, a citizen, bought an imported product at the "Yangtao Port" cross-border e-commerce experience store located in Luzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone. It took less than 10 minutes from the time of placing an order to receiving the product. This is thanks to the innovative introduction of the new mode of cross-border e-commerce "bonded speed matching" import consumption in the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zone, which has brought a new experience for consumers to buy cross-border e-commerce products.
According to the relevant person in charge of the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot area, in order to solve the problems of consumers' inability to pick up goods offline and lack of shopping experience under the traditional cross-border e-commerce bonded retail import mode, the south Sichuan port area of the Free Trade Zone actively gives play to the platform advantages of the "three zones in one" of the free trade pilot area, the cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot area and the comprehensive tax protection area, and innovatively introduces the new mode of cross-border e-commerce "bonded speed matching" import consumption, The cross-border e-commerce goods purchased online by consumers are quickly distributed from the comprehensive bonded area to the store, and consumers can pick up the goods in about 10 minutes.
On January 25, 2022, with a crisp train whistle, Luzhou's first China Europe train starts slowly from Luzhou Port, making Luzhou the first city in the province to open a dual channel for international land transport and international water transport. So far, the advantages of the open platform and the China Europe train corridor are superimposed in the south Sichuan port area of the Free Trade Zone. Driven by several favorable factors, in 2021, the import and export volume of Luzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone will increase by 16.3% year on year, accounting for 31% of the city's proportion. The performance evaluation ranks the third among the six comprehensive protection zones in the province, and the city's export-oriented economy will move forward rapidly with 1 square kilometer of land.
Focus on open industries
Regional economy is on the road of high-quality development
Over the past five years, South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone has always focused on the cultivation of kinetic energy, adhered to the development concept of "project first, service foremost", closely focused on the five major industries of electronic information, high-end textiles, new materials, food and medicine, and international trade, accelerated the layout of upstream and downstream industrial chains, expanded and strengthened industrial clusters, and continued to improve the quality of regional economic development.
Since the beginning of 2022, the first phase of the textile project of Hengli (Luzhou) Industrial Park has entered the prosperous season of production and marketing. Eight workshops have been put into operation, and more than 14000 production equipment such as double twister and loom have been installed. The warp treated by the warping machine enters the loom. The loom alternates with high-pressure water flow to interweave the warp and weft, realizing the production from "one piece of silk" to "one piece of cloth".
Wang Maokai, the deputy general manager of Hengli Group Co., Ltd., said, "Our daily production capacity has reached 2.6 million meters, and the number of workers in the entire industrial park now exceeds 4000. The whole production and operation is in an orderly process."
At Luzhou Port in late autumn, the water and the sky are the same color. A bulk carrier carrying 4000 tons of Brazilian soybeans is slowly berthing, and the goods will be transported to the bonded warehouse of Luzhou Zhonghai Grain and Oil Industry Co., Ltd. As an imported grain processing enterprise, Luzhou Zhonghai Grain and Oil Industry Co., Ltd. uses imported soybeans as its raw materials, which are mainly transported from the bonded warehouse at Zhenjiang Port to the bonded warehouse of Luzhou Factory in the form of bonded goods circulation through river sea intermodal transportation. 60000 tons of materials are required for monthly production.
"The South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone is the first in the country to innovate and implement the supervision mode of bonded virtual warehouse capacity of imported grain, which has saved our enterprises' production and operation costs, guaranteed the continuity of foreign trade orders and production and processing, and realized the full release of production capacity. At the same time, the convenient water transport channel also allows our enterprises to use materials and sell goods without worries." Wang Daijun, Executive Vice President of Luzhou Zhonghai Grain and Oil Industry Co., Ltd. said.
Since its listing, the South Sichuan Port Area of the Free Trade Zone has made full use of the designated supervision site of Luzhou Port for imported grain, which faces the golden waterway of the Yangtze River and backs on the advantages of the large grain market in the southwest, and has persistently promoted the industrial agglomeration of imported grain processing trade, forming a benign development trend of platform driven industrial chain development and industry driven stable operation of the platform. In 2021, the import of grain will be 771000 tons, with a year-on-year growth of 81.4%. The annual business volume will always rank first among the ports in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The import grain trading distribution center has begun to take shape.
Driven by the rapid growth of imported grain, the shipping capacity of Luzhou Port continues to improve. In 2021, the cargo throughput of Luzhou Port will be 3.4792 million tons, an increase of 32.19%, the container throughput will be 172100 TEUs, and the foreign trade container throughput will be 55700 TEUs.
based on a new era and facing a new journey. In the next five years, the port area in southern Sichuan of the free trade zone will actively seize the major opportunities of "the Belt and Road", the construction of the Yangtze River economic belt and the Chengdu Chongqing economic circle, try to establish systems, smooth trade, fast logistics and develop industries, speed up the construction of a shipping and Trade Center Demonstration Area in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and strive to become an important growth pole of the open economy of the Chengdu Chongqing economic circle.
