Recently, the Administrative Committee of China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone issued a document approving the construction of a demonstration base for joint innovation in Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone at Tianjin Emission Right Exchange and Tianjin (Binhai) Overseas Talents Offshore Innovation and Entrepreneurship base. This is another key step for Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone in expanding the spillover of free trade policies and promoting the linkage innovation mechanism.
In fact, behind the frequent "expansion" of the demonstration base of linkage innovation, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone plays the role of "experimental field" of national institutional innovation, actively explores the path of differentiated innovation development, and "innovation" and "linkage" become development keywords. In the Regulations on China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations), which was recently revised and released for implementation, encouraging and supporting innovation systems and mechanisms and establishing linkage innovation mechanisms were explicitly written into the provisions.
Since then, with strong legal endorsement, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has made greater strides on the road of innovation driven high-quality development.
Solidify implementation policies and innovative measures
"As the 'basic law' of the pilot free trade zone, the newly revised Regulations shoulder many important tasks of innovation. The new Regulations further clarify the management system of the pilot free trade zone, leaving room for subsequent reform, and pointing out the direction for the next innovation." Cao Zhengqing, deputy director of the Policy and Industrial Innovation Development Bureau of Tianjin Free Trade Zone, believes that the introduction of the Regulations is to solidify the implemented policies and innovative measures in the form of legal provisions, In particular, it will provide more perfect legal protection for the reform and innovation work of the Innovation and Development Bureau of the Free Trade Zone.
As the department leading the implementation of the revision of the Regulations, the Innovation and Development Bureau of the Free Trade Zone was born in response to the reform of the legal institutions of the Free Trade Zone and should innovate the system and mechanism. It is understood that the reform of the pilot free trade zone into the deep-water zone requires a professional team to act hard. As a new type of organization with legal authorization, statutory institutions effectively exercise the role of government public management and service platform through government authorization, and promote the formation of more innovative achievements with greater influence and more practical value.
In this context, in 2019, the city issued the Opinions on Promoting the Innovation of the System and Mechanism of the Administrative Committee of China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone. The first reform measure was to approve the establishment of the legal institution of the Free Trade Zone - the Innovation and Development Bureau of the Free Trade Zone. In June 2020, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone "took the first step" in the country, broke the barriers of system and mechanism, and established the Innovation and Development Bureau of the Free Trade Zone, gathering the backbone for accelerating the system, policy, function and industrial innovation and upgrading of the Free Trade Zone.
"One organization, one legislation". It is a necessary condition for the establishment of a statutory body to define its scope of responsibilities, legal status and other important contents through laws (regulations, rules). The Regulations clearly stated that the Administrative Committee of the Pilot Free Trade Zone should be encouraged and supported to innovate the system and mechanism, and a statutory body should be set up in the Administrative Committee of the Pilot Free Trade Zone to undertake corresponding administrative functions and implement enterprise management, specifically responsible for the system and policy research, industrial innovation and development of the Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Cao Zhengqing explained that after the revision of the Regulations, the functions and positioning of the Innovation and Development Bureau of the Free Trade Zone were clarified from the perspective of local laws and regulations to provide legal guarantee for better promoting system innovation and industrial development in the future. "In addition to the innovative measures that have already been implemented, we still have many innovative practices that are being promoted. With the implementation of the Regulations, more innovative measures will continue to be implemented."
It is understood that since its establishment for more than two years, the Innovation and Development Bureau of the Free Trade Zone has actively performed its responsibility of system innovation, steadily promoted the system innovation and industry promotion of the Tianjin Free Trade Zone in the whole process and chain, organized the preparation and release of the "Fourteenth Five Year Plan" for the development of the Tianjin Free Trade Zone, completed the evaluation of the achievements of system innovation in the past five years, held the first joint meeting of the Beijing Tianjin Hebei Free Trade Zone, and promoted the establishment of the linkage innovation zone, The construction mode of linkage innovation demonstration base in the pilot free trade zone was first created in China, which promoted the competitive development of supply chain finance, "bonded+" and other emerging forms of business. The innovation work achieved remarkable results, and gradually grew into an important source of institutional innovation in Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Expand the "circle of friends" of linkage and innovation
In addition to encouraging and supporting the innovation of the system and mechanism, the Regulations also made it clear that the city should establish a linkage innovation mechanism for the pilot free trade zone, strengthen the linkage between the reform of the pilot free trade zone and the relevant reforms of the city, and all reform pilot tasks that meet the conditions should be fully implemented within the Binhai New Area, or promoted in the city.
In fact, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has already taken solid actions to explore the way and innovate. In April 2021, the National Supercomputing Tianjin Center will build China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone linkage Innovation Demonstration base, which is also the first linkage innovation demonstration base in China. Soon after, the National Stem Cell Engineering Product Industrialization base was approved to establish the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone linkage Innovation Demonstration base.
Thanks to the continuous appearance of free trade effect, these two linkage innovation demonstration bases are now carrying out innovative exploration in the fields of data industrialization, gene and cell therapy, and have achieved good stage results. Taking the National Stem Cell Engineering Product Industrialization base as an example, the recent convening of the kick-off meeting of the clinical research project on acute graft versus host disease means that the three clinical research projects of cell therapy selected by the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone Joint Innovation Demonstration base (gene and cell therapy) have all been launched, officially opening the full closed loop pilot of clinical research on cell therapy.
Now, with the approval of Tianjin Emission Rights Exchange and Tianjin (Binhai) Overseas Talents Offshore Innovation and Entrepreneurship base to build Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone linked Innovation Demonstration base, the number of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone linked Innovation Demonstration bases has increased to 4.
At the same time, last year, China Singapore Tianjin Eco City and Binhai Hi tech Zone were officially listed as the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone linkage Innovation Zone, which extended and expanded the free trade innovation scenarios and application fields. "In the past two years, in order to expand the spillover of the free trade policy, strengthen the linkage with the city's reform and innovation, in a larger scope, coordinate more resources for the national trial system, and carry out risk stress tests in more scenarios and more fields, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has promoted the establishment of a free trade pilot zone linkage innovation mechanism. At the regional level, it has built a free trade pilot zone linkage innovation zone in regions with good industrial foundation, rich application scenarios, and broad cooperation space." Cao Zhengqing introduced.
It is understood that the Binhai Hi tech Zone linkage Innovation Zone focuses on "double self linkage" and accelerates the construction of "China's Information Innovation Valley", "Beijing Tianjin Hebei Cell Valley" and Binhai Science and Technology City; The China Singapore Eco city linkage Innovation Zone highlights China Singapore cooperation, speeds up the building of a free trade service platform for the ASEAN region, a national benchmark for ecological civilization construction, and a modern health care and sea friendly tourism destination for Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
"The eco city linkage innovation zone will strive to realize the superposition of advantages, policy interaction, linkage development and two-way spillover of the construction of the pilot free trade zone and bilateral cooperation between China and Singapore, enable the construction of international cooperation demonstration zones, green development demonstration zones, industry city integration demonstration zones and smart city demonstration zones, and strive to contribute more replicable and promotable pilot experience." said the relevant person in charge of the Sino Singapore Tianjin Eco city Free Trade linkage Innovation Bureau.
Encourage innovation and optimize the environment
From the demonstration base of linkage innovation to the linkage innovation zone, from point to line to surface, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has formed a greater spillover effect, opening up a new situation of high-level and comprehensive opening up.
"Through linkage innovation, we take the initiative to reform within the scope of local authority, take the lead in carrying out institutional innovation practices in key regions, so that the reform experience can spill over, and also lay the foundation for the expansion of the Free Trade Zone. At the same time, the package of innovation incentive policies in the linkage innovation zone let enterprises in the region burst out more vigorously." Cao Zhengqing said that the linkage innovation zone created a new situation of linkage innovation work in the Tianjin Free Trade Zone, The next step will be to establish new linkage innovation zones in other regions of the city in due time.
At the same time, with the continuous promotion of linkage innovation, the pilot free trade zone undertakes a more arduous task of reform and innovation, and also ushers in new development opportunities and construction climax. However, innovation is not achieved overnight.
The Regulations specify that the innovation free trade zone encourages innovation and tolerates failure, protects the initiative and enthusiasm of institutional innovation, and creates an environment of independent reform and initiative. The person in charge of the Innovation and Development Bureau of Tianjin Free Trade Zone said frankly: "Promoting linkage innovation is a process of crossing the river by feeling the stones. With legal protection, we can boldly go ahead and try, support linkage innovation demonstration bases and linkage innovation zones to give play to their own advantages, and explore more reform and innovation experiences that reflect Tianjin's characteristics."
The reporter noticed that the linkage development of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone is constantly speeding up and shifting gears. In addition to promoting the construction of linkage innovation demonstration bases and linkage innovation zones, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has recently set up innovation practice bases in six town parks in Binhai New Area to further expand the spillover of free trade policies and play a leading role in innovation. "At present, the Implementation Plan for the Management System Reform of Binhai New Area Street Town Industrial Parks has been officially released, becoming the first reform plan for the free trade pilot zone to serve the street town economy in China. According to the plan, by covering the street town parks with the legal institution management system of the free trade pilot zone, we will explore ways to enable the economic development of the street towns through the innovation of the free trade system, so as to release the development vitality of the street town parks to the greatest extent." said the above responsible person.
Hundreds of barges compete for the current and thousands of sails compete. The tide is flat and the shore is broad. A new journey begins. In the future, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone will gather potential energy with openness and cooperation, release potential with linkage development, deliver continuous opening strength for high-quality development, and open a better future for Tianjin, which is deeply rooted in reform and innovation genes.
