The level of opening up to the outside world has been steadily improved
        ●In six years, the total amount of actually utilized foreign capital has been 4.33 billion U.S. dollars, and the cumulative foreign trade import and export volume has been 785.94 billion yuan.
        ●SK hynix's acquisition of Intel's NAND flash memory and storage business major project landed.
        ●Chery Automobile's new model and auto parts supporting industrial park project was launched.
        ●The country's first RCEP international business district opened

        Dalian Free Trade Zone has always adhered to the new development concept to lead the new pattern of opening up to the outside world, implemented new trade business promotion actions, and completed the "three free trade articles" of financial leasing, new offshore trade, and international automobile trade. The scale of foreign investment continued to expand. The quality of foreign trade has been steadily improved, the structure has been continuously optimized, and remarkable achievements have been made in creating a new highland for high-level opening up.
        The role of foreign capital has increased significantly

        The Dalian Free Trade Zone actively connects, provides advanced services, builds carriers, and innovates mechanisms, attracting a number of major foreign investment projects to settle down. SK hynix acquired Intel's NAND flash memory and storage business for US$9 billion and launched a major project; innovatively launched a new model of "tailor-made, bag-in" project implementation, and promoted the investment scale of Taixing Energy's lithium battery project for vehicles year by year; taking advantage of bulk commodity trade , attracting the world's top 500 enterprises Singapore Trafigura Group and Liaoning Port Group to cooperate in landing oil and chemical products trade projects.
        Over the past six years, the Dalian Free Trade Zone has accumulatively completed a total of US$4.33 billion in actual utilization of foreign capital, with an average annual growth rate of 148%. There will be 546 new foreign capital market entities, and the annual number of new foreign capital market entities will increase from 21 in 2017 to 190 in 2022, with an average annual growth rate of 55%.
        The level of foreign trade has leapt to a new level

        Relying on the area's mature energy storage and transportation and oil product trading system, accelerate the construction of an international energy trading center, promote oil product trade and increase transaction volume, and attract Russia's Elgar Coal and other bulk energy projects to land. Create a Northeast Asian ore distribution center and a mixed ore base, enhance the status and functions of the Northeast Asian ore distribution center and a mixed base; accelerate the construction of a "Northeast Asian grain central port"; start the construction of a cold chain "global central warehouse" to create an international "One-stop" cold chain logistics platform and cold chain food trading center; improve the commodity vehicle hub center, open up new routes for foreign trade export liners and new channels for commodity vehicle transportation.
        Since 2017, the Dalian Free Trade Zone has achieved a cumulative foreign trade import and export volume of 785.94 billion yuan. Among them, the import and export volume of the area in 2022 will be 112.34 billion yuan, accounting for 23.4% of the total import and export volume of Dalian; the import and export volume of the Dalian Free Trade Zone will be 82.35 billion yuan, accounting for 17.2% of the total import and export volume of Dalian. The structure of import and export trade is more reasonable.
        Fruitful results in domestic investment promotion

        Since 2017, the Dalian Free Trade Zone has introduced a total of 37.35 billion yuan of foreign capital, achieving year-on-year growth.
        In terms of investment promotion projects, in the past six years, a total of 956 projects have been reserved, 249 projects have been signed, and 176 projects have been implemented. Promote the signing of a number of major projects worth more than 1 billion yuan, such as the Chery Automobile New Model and Auto Parts Supporting Industrial Park, Hualu Guozheng Digital Energy North Industrial base, ZWZ Wind Power Spindle Bearing Intelligent Production base, and Sinopec Hydrogen Energy Equipment Industrial Park. In 2022, the Dalian Free Trade Zone will realize 438 reserve projects, a year-on-year increase of 236.9%; 114 contracted projects, a year-on-year increase of 128%; 73 landed projects, a year-on-year increase of 97.3%; domestic capital from outside the province is 10 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.8%, The completion of the indicators has reached the highest level in the history of the area.
       RCEP achieves high-standard implementation

        Seizing the opportunity of RCEP, Dalian Free Trade Zone took the lead in formulating the "Three-Year Action Plan for High-Quality Implementation of RCEP" and promulgated 15 special support policies. Renovate and revitalize idle buildings, build and use the first RCEP international business district in the country, focus on building an enterprise service and carrying platform that meets RCEP's international, high-end, and professional standards, and attract trade, settlement, finance, R&D, and design for RCEP member countries and other high-end service industry headquarters gather. A number of professional service agencies, such as foreign-funded foreign trade enterprise service center and enterprise overseas service center, have been introduced to sign contracts. Signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Kunming Free Trade Zone in Yunnan to jointly build the Japan-Korea-ASEAN RCEP trade corridor. In 2022, there will be 104 foreign-invested enterprises newly settled in RCEP countries in the Dalian Free Trade Zone, a year-on-year increase of 23.8%; 1,840 foreign trade enterprises will be newly established, a year-on-year increase of 12%.
        Source: Dalian Daily