On April 21, 2015, taking advantage of the spring breeze of comprehensively deepening reforms, the China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially established. As the first free trade pilot zone established in northern China, Tianjin shoulders the important task of being a pioneer zone of reform and opening up and a test field for system innovation. Eight years of tides, marching forward, hard work, and fruitful results, 119.9 square kilometers, 581 institutional innovation measures, 38 pilot experience and practical cases replicated and promoted nationwide, the world's second largest aircraft leasing gathering place, bonded maintenance business category No. 1 in the country, parallel imported cars accounted for more than 70% of the country's total imports, and entered the top three in the "China Free Trade Zone Institutional Innovation Index" for three consecutive years... Now, this hot land by the Bohai Bay is full of momentum and vitality.
Seek a Domain from the Global
Striving to serve the national strategy "vanguard"
As a new highland of reform and opening up in the new era, Tianjin Free Trade Zone actively demonstrates Tianjin's actions in serving the national strategy, gives full play to the leading role of the Pilot Free Trade Zone in opening up, and becomes an important support for serving the national strategy.
Focusing on the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Tianjin Free Trade Zone continues to promote the coordination of regional development policies, promote the institutionalization of inter-provincial handling of government services, promote the integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei financial services, and do a solid job in undertaking non-capital functions in Beijing. Continue to promote the implementation of the results of the first Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Free Trade Zone Joint Conference, cooperate with the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce to draft and issue opinions on promoting the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Free Trade Zone; initiate the establishment of a joint government service mechanism for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Free Trade Zone Jointly launched 179 items of "colleagues with the same standard"; implemented the first government financing guarantee exchange rate hedging business in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei; successively replicated and promoted reform pilot experience in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, a total of 118 items in 5 batches, and 7 innovative practice cases , 135 special financial innovation cases, promoting the maximization of institutional innovation demonstration effect.
Actively integrate into and serve the "Belt and Road" construction, deepen trade cooperation with countries along the route, actively promote the normal operation of China-Europe Railway Express, and China-Singapore cooperation has reached a new level. Cross-border linkage with overseas parks of countries along the "Belt and Road", and cooperation with the China-Africa TEDA Egypt Suez Cooperation Zone on the export of second-hand cars and the construction of overseas warehouses; create a "Tianjin goods separate warehouse" model and a "bonded special train + China-Europe train" model , the China-Europe Railway Express "Tianjin" resumed normal operation; the role of the Sino-Singapore Eco-city linkage Innovation Zone was played, and the "Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Free Trade linkage Singapore Promotion Center" was established in Singapore to initially build from an offshore promotion center to an onshore promotion center. The incubation and induction mechanism of the Singapore center.
While serving the national strategy, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone seeks new breakthroughs in the "six freedoms" such as investment freedom, trade freedom, and transportation freedom, creating a more open level, a better business environment, and a stronger radiation effect. Open up new heights.
Accumulate kinetic energy with industry
Enhance the "gold content" of advantageous industrial clusters
Cultivating advantageous industries has made the differentiation exploration of Tianjin Free Trade Zone steady. Over the past eight years, Tianjin Free Trade Zone has boldly tried, boldly ventured, and independently reformed. Taking the industry as the core, it has opened up the chain of policies, talents, technologies, and innovations, amplified the "magnetic field effect" of industrial development, and integrated into and served the domestic cycle. It has shown greater achievements in the domestic and international dual cycles.
The leasing industry continues to lead the country. Released the "Dongjiang Leasing Industry Theme Park Construction Plan" and was approved as a pilot area for green leasing service procedures; established a "white list" mechanism for aircraft and ship offshore operating leasing business; built a high-standard Tianjin Leasing Assets Trading Center, and promoted the transaction scale to exceed 1 billion yuan. By the end of 2022, the scale of leasing assets in the region will exceed 1.4 trillion yuan, accounting for about 15% of the country, of which cross-border leasing assets will be US$110 billion, accounting for about 80% of the country.
The rise of commercial factoring is strong. Formulate the country's first systematic support plan specifically for the commercial factoring industry; realize the continuous expansion of the efficiency of the new model of "financial commodity transfer" financing cost deduction, and implement the country's first digital RMB factoring business and the first cross-bank refactoring business. As of the end of 2022, there are nearly 500 factoring companies in the region, with total assets exceeding 250 billion yuan and total loans issued exceeding nearly 220 billion yuan.
The auto industry is booming. In 2022, Tianjin Port will have a cumulative customs clearance of more than 33,000 parallel imported cars, with a value of more than 29 billion yuan, accounting for more than 70% of the country's total imported parallel cars; the country's first free trade zone second-hand car export service center will be established to build a trade center , spare parts supply, testing, finance and other integrated second-hand car export chain. In 2022, the scale of second-hand car exports in the free trade zone will rank third in the country.
Bonded business, biomedicine, digital freight, and cold chain industries all played a "symphony". It took the lead in establishing a relatively complete legal system in the country, and the import and export value of aircraft bonded maintenance increased by more than 20% respectively; it built the first cell ecological biomedical supply chain service platform in the country, and was selected as a demonstration project for improving quality and efficiency by the Ministry of Commerce of the Ministry of Commerce; drop-and-hook transportation The upstream and downstream industrial chains of digital freight for equipment, insurance, oil products and bulk trade are gathering; the oil and gas industry is making breakthroughs, building a bonded oil and gas supply base for international sailing ships in North China, and accelerating the construction of a "single window" for bonded fuel oil; Sino-Singapore Eco-city linkage The innovation zone was approved as the city's first national backbone cold chain logistics base, forming the largest cold chain industry storage cluster in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei...Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone is fully committed to writing a new chapter in the construction of advantageous industrial clusters.
To innovation for the future
Press the "fast forward button" for institutional integration innovation
Innovation is the core task of the free trade zone. As a new highland of reform and opening up in the new era, the free trade zone not only acts as a pioneer for domestic reform, but also shoulders the pressure test of opening up. Over the past eight years, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has been the first to try, dare to act, and has continuously improved the breadth, depth and strength of institutional innovation, effectively playing the demonstration, leading, and supporting roles of reform and opening up pilot zones and institutional innovation experimental fields.
Accelerate the transformation of government functions, deepen the reform of "decentralization, management and service" , and continuously optimize the legal business environment; actively apply for the establishment of an international commercial trial institution, and establish a "2+N" free trade judicial service through-train mechanism; do a good job in foreign investment projects One-stop service, successively implemented 15 investment facilitation "one thing" integrated service reforms such as "acquisition of overseas equity".
Actively promote the implementation of international economic and trade rules, and promote the high-quality implementation of the RCEP action plan. Print and distribute the "Action Plan for High-Quality Implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) in the China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone" and establish an RCEP cross-departmental collaboration promotion mechanism; start the construction of RCEP service centers in the government service centers of each area, throughout the year Over 6 billion yuan of imported and exported goods under RCEP at Tianjin Port enjoy preferential tariffs; actively promote the innovative development of offshore trade, and innovate to form a "foreign exchange management department + territorial administrative department + commercial bank + offshore trade enterprise" four-party joint on-site office " Tianjin model”, the current business settlement amount exceeds 93 million US dollars.
Consolidate institutional guarantees, continue to optimize mechanisms and systems, and steadily expand institutional opening-up, forming a batch of advanced experience in institutional innovation. Set up a cross-border investment and financing comprehensive service center in the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone to promote the initial success of supply chain finance and promote the five-in-one supply chain finance of "digital warehouse + credible warehouse receipt + pledge financing + bulk commodity market + off-site risk management" Increase the volume of innovation and promotion; carry out innovations in green finance and carbon finance, develop new voluntary carbon emission reduction trading varieties, promote variety approvals, and form I-REC varieties of off-exchange transactions.
"Planning to promote the construction of a free trade pilot zone linkage innovation zone is to use a larger scope and coordinate more resources as a national trial system, further expand the depth and breadth of policy and industrial innovation, and carry out risk stress tests in more scenarios and fields. , give full play to the role of the national institutional innovation 'experimental field', and strive to contribute to the output of more reform pilot results." The relevant person in charge of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone Management Committee said.
The spring tide is surging, and it is time to set sail. 2023 is the eighth anniversary of the official establishment of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, and it is also the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Standing on a new journey and a new starting point, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone will surely take advantage of the momentum and move forward with courage, serve the overall situation of the party and the country with greater efforts, support the new development pattern of domestic and international dual cycles at a higher level, and better More pioneering and reproducible institutional innovation results have been achieved through practical measures, and the acceleration of reform practice and opening up has been continuously achieved!
