Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, as a joint innovation zone of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, has continued to enrich and expand the connotation and extension of free trade work since its inception in August 2021, promote the realization of "global free trade" in Binhai New Area, and strive to contribute more replicable Scalable pilot experience.
Innovative scenarios breed innovative cases
Not long ago, the eco-city introduced the first cross-border e-commerce entity operator and established an eco-city cross-border export e-commerce operation center to promote the aggregation of cross-border e-commerce industries in the eco-city. At the same time, the fishing port in the center of the eco-city will be approved as a national backbone cold chain logistics base in 2022, and in 2023, the city's first bonded warehouse for frozen goods trading will be promoted to land in the eco-city.
based on the superimposed advantages of the eco-city's "free trade linkage + China-Singapore cooperation", the first Southeast Asian cross-border talent service center in the north was established in the eco-city, and the construction of a Southeast Asian industrial policy research center was solidly promoted. At the same time, the Eco-City released the Chinese-English, Chinese-Vietnamese, and Chinese-Thai language versions of the "Guidelines for International Enterprise Investment Services", completed the first draft of the compilation of industrial policies for the medical industry in Thailand and Vietnam, studied and interpreted the latest foreign investment policies in Thailand, and helped enterprises make good use of them. RCEP international economic and trade rules to expand the Southeast Asian market; promote it to build a cross-border biomedical technology and talent service platform in Southeast Asia with biomedical companies, promote exchanges and cooperation with Tianjin Foreign Studies University, and use the advantages of talents who speak foreign languages to jointly carry out development planning and industrial policies for Southeast Asian countries Research.
The introduction of innovative scenarios has also brought about the continuous emergence of innovative cases. It is understood that the eco-city pioneered the innovation of the whole chain model of the cold chain industry, and around the main links of the cold chain industry, it launched bonded warehouses for frozen products, innovations in processing trade models in the field of frozen products, bonded display and trading centers for frozen products, and trusted warehouse receipt pledges in the field of frozen products The four city-wide initiatives, including the financing pilot project, have promoted the transformation of the cold chain industry from a channel economy to a port economy. Not only that, based on the advantages of China-Singapore cooperation, the eco-city has created a comprehensive trade and investment service platform for ASEAN under the RCEP project, expanded channels for talents, markets and technical elements in Southeast Asia, developed international standards for live e-commerce transaction guarantees, and created a "Beijing-Tianjin Hebei-ASEAN International Economic and Trade Corridor" fulcrum.
Sino-Singapore cooperation continues to deepen
Combined with the development direction of the eco-city industry, China and Singapore jointly compiled the "Three-Year Action Plan for Sino-Singapore Cooperation in Eco-City", continued to polish the "golden brand of Sino-Singapore cooperation", and accelerated the construction of an international cooperation demonstration zone for eco-city. Set up a Singapore center in the eco-city, set up an eco-city service contact window in Singapore, use the onshore and offshore platforms as carriers, strengthen the introduction of international industries, and land in Asia's largest logistics real estate giant GLP Group, Singapore's largest photovoltaic power generation company Sunseap, etc. There are 47 high-quality enterprises with a total investment of 2.29 billion US dollars, playing a fulcrum role in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and ASEAN economic and trade corridors. Since the beginning of this year, the eco-city investment promotion group has gone to Singapore twice with the city delegation to attract investment, exchanged and negotiated with many Singaporean enterprises and institutions, and reached a number of cooperation intentions.
At the same time, introduce Singapore's intellectual property management experience, cooperate with the Singapore Intellectual Property Office to carry out "one-to-one" intellectual property strategic diagnosis for enterprises before going overseas, and flexibly use China-Singapore Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) and ASEAN member states' patent cooperation plans for enterprises (ASPEC) provides a channel to facilitate enterprises to take advantage of Singapore to quickly implement patent layout in Southeast Asia.
In terms of experience replication and promotion, the eco-city is one of the first batch of "Sustainable Development Standardization Demonstration Cities" in the world. With the strong support of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of National Development of Singapore, China and Singapore jointly established the Urban Sustainable Development Research and Promotion Center. Integrate the resources of the whole industry chain such as sustainable development research, development and practice, summarize the sustainable development experience of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, form knowledge products that can be replicated and promoted, and replicate and promote the sustainable development experience of the Eco-city to cities around the world. Effectively improve the domestic and international influence and exemplary leading role of the eco-city.
Docking with the International Organization for Standardization to compile 4 international standards, among them, the "Guidelines for the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Management System of Small and Medium-sized Cities" (ISO37111) was successfully approved in 2021. This is the first international standard independently led by China in the field of sustainable development. In 2022, the project "Datasets and Data Processing Methods of Urban Management Information" (ISO37114) was successfully established, and won the title of "Global Standardization Demonstration City for Sustainable Development". Connect with the National Standardization Management Committee, issue and implement five national standards including the "Guidelines for Establishing Smart City Operation Models for Sustainable Cities" (GB/T41150), and form a template that can be used for reference and promotion.
