Economic Daily, Chongqing, February 19th (Reporter Wu Lumu) Recently, 500 fire trucks from SAIC Hongyan Automobile Co., Ltd. located in Liangjiang New District of Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone were successfully exported to Kazakhstan. "Thanks to the convenient logistics and the improvement of customs clearance efficiency, the pace of enterprises' going global" is constantly accelerating." Xiong Zhu, director of the International Business Department of SAIC Hongyan, introduced.
Since its establishment more than five years ago, the Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone has continued to spur innovation through innovative measures such as accelerating institutional opening up, improving the level of trade supervision, improving the efficiency of trade operations, and reducing corporate costs. According to customs statistics, the total import and export value of Chongqing will reach 815.84 billion yuan in 2022, a record high and an increase of 2% over the previous year.
In April last year, Chongqing introduced 18 targeted measures around five aspects including improving trade and investment convenience. At present, Chongqing has established a leading open platform system in the central and western regions of "1 free trade pilot zone + 6 comprehensive bonded areas + 4 bonded logistics centers", providing strong support for the construction of inland open highlands.
Liangjiang New Area is the core carrier of Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone. In recent years, Liangjiang New Area has promoted trade facilitation and high-quality development of foreign trade by comprehensively optimizing the business environment. According to Zheng Hang, director of the Free Trade Office of Liangjiang New Area, Liangjiang New Area took the lead in piloting the customs management model of "one guarantee with multiple uses". Cost savings.
Bai Can, director of the Chongqing Customs Free Trade Zone and Special Area Development Division, introduced that Chongqing took the lead in the western region to carry out the work order write-off of processing trade outside the zone, which solved the difficulty of unit consumption verification and declaration due to the complicated materials used by electronic information enterprises and technological changes. question. In 2022, the import and export of Chongqing's electronic information industry will be 495.12 billion yuan, accounting for 60.7% of the total value of foreign trade import and export in the same period.
Chongqing Customs and Chengdu Customs are actively exploring the integration and innovation of cross-regional and cross-departmental customs supervision systems in Chengdu and Chongqing. Last year, Chongqing Customs and Chengdu Customs promoted 34 innovative measures to be implemented simultaneously in the two places. In order to further unblock the channels, Chongqing and Chengdu took the lead in implementing the "convenient supervision mode for equipment spare parts in the comprehensive bonded area", shortening the customs clearance time by 25%, facilitating the enterprises in the two places to carry out business such as spare parts allocation, replacement, and maintenance, and helping the integration of Sichuan and Chongqing's electronic information industry develop.
