Original title: 203 reform and innovation experience replication and promotion! The latest report card of Guangdong Free Trade Zone is released

"Last year, we replicated and promoted 13 reform and innovation experiences across the province. This year, we deployed 13 joint development zones of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone, and replicated and promoted 62 of the latest reform and innovation achievements. So far, we have replicated and promoted 13 innovations across the province. Promoted 203 reform and innovation experiences, and released 245 system innovation cases." On August 18, at the press conference on the phased results of reform and innovation in the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone held by the Information Office of the Guangdong Provincial Government, Director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Commerce , Zhang Jinsong, director of the Free Trade Office.

According to third-party evaluation, the four indexes of investment, trade, cross-border finance and shipping in Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone in 2021 will increase by 9.2%, 10.38%, 8.79% and 22.4% respectively compared with 2020. High-quality economic development in the Pilot Free Trade Zone.

In the first half of the year, the growth rate of import and export reached 24.9%

In recent years, the overall economic indicators of Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone have grown steadily. In 2021, the fixed asset investment in Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone will be 137.599 billion yuan, an increase of 6.5%; tax revenue will be 104.8 billion yuan, an increase of 2.8%; a total of 88 Fortune 500 companies will be introduced to invest in 449 projects, and 261 headquarters-type enterprises will be identified. From January to June this year, Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone completed investment in fixed assets of 61.831 billion yuan; tax revenue was 56.776 billion yuan.

At the same time, the function of the portal hub is more prominent. In 2021, the import and export of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone will be nearly 400 billion yuan, exceeding 200 billion yuan in the first half of this year, with a growth rate of 24.9%, far exceeding the province's average growth rate of 2.8%.

In 2021, the actual utilization of foreign capital in the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone will be US$8.241 billion. In the first half of this year, the actual utilization of foreign capital was 4.045 billion US dollars, attracting 1/4 of the province's total foreign capital with 6/10,000 of the province's area.

In 2021, the number of international liner routes in the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone will reach 332, and the number will increase to 338 in the first half of this year. The annual container throughput will exceed 30 million TEUs, exceeding 1/10 of the country's total.

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Focusing on open and innovative development, the construction of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has many highlights, and the international business environment has been continuously optimized. Zhang Jinsong said that with the continuous advancement of the "delegation, regulation and service" reform, the negative list of foreign investment in the pilot free trade zone has been further reduced, and the restrictive measures have been reduced to 27 items, and the negative list of manufacturing projects has been cleared. At the same time, the third batch of 68 provincial-level management authorities was delegated to each area.