Chinanews.com, Guangzhou, August 18 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The Guangdong Provincial People's Government Information Office held a press conference on the 18th. Zhang Jinsong, director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Commerce and director of the Free Trade Office, said that the portal hub function of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone is more prominent , In 2021, the import and export will be nearly 400 billion yuan. In the first half of this year, the import and export will exceed 200 billion yuan, an increase of 24.9%, far exceeding the average growth rate of 2.8% in Guangdong Province.

According to reports, according to third-party evaluations, the four indexes of investment, trade, cross-border finance, and shipping in the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone in 2021 will increase by 9.2%, 10.38%, 8.79%, and 22.4% respectively compared with 2020. A good institutional environment It has effectively promoted the high-quality development of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Zhang Jinsong said that the overall economic indicators of the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone have grown steadily. In 2021, the investment in fixed assets will be 137.599 billion yuan, and the tax revenue will be 104.8 billion yuan. A total of 88 Fortune 500 companies have been introduced to invest in 449 projects, and 261 headquarters-type enterprises have been identified. In the first half of this year, Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone completed investment in fixed assets of 61.831 billion yuan and tax revenue of 56.776 billion yuan.

At the same time, in 2021, the actual utilization of foreign capital in the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone was 8.241 billion U.S. dollars, and the actual utilization of foreign capital in the first half of this year was 4.045 billion U.S. dollars, attracting 1/4 of the province's total foreign capital with 6/10,000 of the province's land area; in 2021, The number of international liner routes in the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone reached 332, which further increased to 338 in the first half of this year.

Zhang Jinsong said that focusing on open and innovative development, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has shown "continuous optimization of the international business environment", "innovative development of new formats of international trade", "a new level of international shipping development" and "further improvement of the level of financial facilitation". Closer cooperation with Hong Kong and Macau", "speeding up the construction of a modern industrial system" and other "six major" highlights.

Among them, the negative list of foreign investment in the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has been further reduced, and the restrictive measures have been reduced to 27 items, and the manufacturing projects on the negative list have been cleared; The time required from application to obtaining official water supply, official power supply, and Internet access has reached the international frontier level.

In addition, in 2021, the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone actually attracted 52.4 billion yuan of investment from Hong Kong and Macau, and 2,656 Hong Kong and Macau-funded enterprises were newly established; in the first half of this year, the actual investment from Hong Kong and Macau was 25.47 billion yuan, and 721 Hong Kong and Macau-funded enterprises were newly established. (over)