In April in Yangchun, the tide rises from the Bohai Sea.
Eight years ago, also in the spring, an unprecedented change was ready to go in Jingu. On April 21, 2015, China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone (hereinafter referred to as "Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone") was officially established, sounding the clarion call for a new round of reform and opening up.
Over the past eight years, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has firmly shouldered the new missions and tasks entrusted by the new era, insisted on system innovation as the core, boldly tried, boldly ventured, and independently reformed, and achieved fruitful development: as the first free trade pilot zone in northern China , implemented a total of 581 institutional innovation measures, replicated and promoted 38 pilot experiences and practical cases across the country, and more "Tianjin Models" have become familiar "National Models"... Right now, this hot land by the Bohai Bay is moving towards construction An important resource element allocation hub for domestic and international dual cycles, a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei modern industrial cluster, and a strategic pilot zone for the China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Zone, the goal of building a world-class free trade zone is steadily moving forward.
Focus on the national strategy and deepen the experimental field of reform
Where does the confidence come from to create a free trade "Tianjin model"? Institutional innovation is the answer.
In the past eight years, the spirit here has been vigorous, and the dividends of institutional innovation have been released at an accelerated pace.
"The core task of the Pilot Free Trade Zone is institutional innovation. We insist on combining the process of crossing the river by feeling the stones and strengthening top-level design, deepening reforms in important areas and key links, and blazing a trail of pioneering and innovative free trade reform and development." The relevant person in charge of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone said that the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has explored new paths and accumulated new experience for institutional innovation to empower industrial development.
By the end of 2022, there are actually 82,000 market entities in the region, three times the number before the establishment of the Pilot Free Trade Zone; nearly 4,000 foreign-invested enterprises have been newly established, with a cumulative actual use of foreign capital of 14.425 billion US dollars; tax revenue increased by 2015 35.4 billion yuan in 2022 to 51.2 billion yuan in 2022.
Over the past eight years, the petals and petals have been concentric here, and the synergistic effect has further emerged.
As the earliest free trade pilot zone established in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, building a high-level opening-up platform for the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei has become an important topic for the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone.
In recent years, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has provided in-depth services to the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei: promoting the synergy of regional development policies, initiating the first Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Pilot Free Trade Zone Joint Conference, releasing the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei collaborative innovation results, and establishing a think tank alliance; The inter-provincial general handling of government services has been institutionalized, and the establishment of a linkage mechanism for government services in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Pilot Free Trade Zone has been initiated, and 179 "colleagues with the same standard" items have been jointly launched.
"This year, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone will also strengthen the linkage of free trade policies, promote the integrated development of the business environment, support the construction of key regions, strengthen cooperation and exchanges between the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and make good use of the joint meeting platform of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Pilot Free Trade Zone. Promoting the joint development of industry, innovation and other fields.” said the relevant person in charge of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Over the past eight years, it has been open to cooperation and actively integrated into the service of the "Belt and Road" construction.
Not long ago, a China-Europe train carrying second-hand cars successfully departed from China Railway Tianjin Container Central Station, and Tianjin’s first innovative business of “export of second-hand cars + bonded + China-Europe train” landed in the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone. The China-Europe Railway Express, which operates more and more lines and has a wider coverage, is expanding the "Belt and Road" circle of friends in the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone.
In recent years, Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has deepened its trade cooperation with countries along the “Belt and Road” and established cross-border linkages with overseas parks of countries along the “Belt and Road”. Provide one-stop service; cooperate with China-Africa TEDA Egypt Suez Cooperation Zone on the export of second-hand cars, overseas warehouse construction, etc.; open more than 40 "Belt and Road" container routes, and the container throughput of Tianjin Port has increased steadily, of which more than 60% Foreign trade goods come from countries along the "Belt and Road"; actively promote the normal operation of China-Europe Railway Express, create a "Tianjin goods distribution warehouse" model, and complete the first "bonded train + China-Europe Railway Express" business in Tianjin.
Over the past eight years, the "fast forward button" has been pressed here to continuously promote the reform of trade facilitation.
A number of international economic and trade rules have been continuously implemented: the RCEP action plan has been issued, the RCEP inter-departmental coordination promotion mechanism has been established, and the construction of the RCEP service center has been launched.
Accelerate the construction of a number of major platforms: set up a service platform in the pilot free trade zone, and promote innovative policies such as the "FT branch model" and "full-function cross-border RMB capital pool".
based on regional advantages , create a unique development pattern
Where does resilience come from to build a free trade "Tianjin model"? Joint innovation is the answer.
Over the past eight years, the characteristics of this place have been outstanding, and the development roads of the three major areas have become more and more open.
"The three areas of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone have their own advantages. Their development positioning and resource endowments are misplaced, and they also have their own emphasis on system innovation and industrial cultivation. For example, the Dongjiang area focuses on the development of financial leasing, international trade and shipping. For logistics, the Tianjin Airport Area focuses on the development of advanced manufacturing and producer services, and the central business area focuses on the development of modern service industries represented by innovative finance." The relevant person in charge of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone said.
It is worth mentioning that the three districts are not "beautiful alone", but based on their own advantageous industrial resources and policy innovation achievements, forming a joint innovation force. Previously, the "China (Tianjin) Pilot Free Trade Zone Dongjiang Area, Central Business Area, and Tianjin Airport Area Support Strategic Cooperation framework Agreement for Tianjin Aerospace Industry Supplement and Strengthen Chain" was successfully signed, which is the first free trade pilot area in the country An example of cooperation formed around a specific industrial chain.
Enterprises feel more directly. Under the support of the free trade policy, Tianjin Haite has vigorously developed the bonded maintenance and remanufacturing business. In 2022, overseas business will account for more than 60% of the total revenue, realizing an innovative business model combining bonded maintenance of aircraft with domestic re-lease.
Over the past eight years, the strong alliance here has driven the "big opening up" with "small blocks".
In October 2019, the establishment of a statutory institution dedicated to institutional innovation, the Free Trade Zone Innovation and Development Bureau, was approved here to be responsible for the regulation of foreign economic and trade rules and free trade zone (port) policy research, the formulation of major reform plans, the pursuit of innovative pilot projects, and joint innovation Waiting for work. In August 2021, the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city and the Binhai High-tech Zone, two free trade zone linkage innovation zones, were approved for construction. Joint innovation, for the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone, is not a simple "area expansion", but "deepening reform and opening up and upgrading".
Today, the construction of the joint innovation zone has enabled Binhai High-tech Zone to have dual policies of self-innovation zone and free trade zone, which complement and promote each other in terms of innovation policies. Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city has deepened Sino-Singapore cooperation and established the "Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city Free Trade linkage Singapore Promotion Center" in Singapore, initially establishing an incubation mechanism from an offshore promotion center to an onshore Singapore center.
Not only that, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has also set up joint innovation demonstration bases in four innovation platforms with wide industry influence and strong demand for innovation, such as the National Supercomputing Tianjin Center, and set up free trade pilot zones in six street town parks including Zhongtang Industrial Park. Innovation practice base. Taking the data industrialization linkage innovation demonstration base as an example, in just two years, the base has pioneered in data development, application and commercialization, data industry ecology, and data cross-border flow, and has explored the "Tianhe" model of data industrialization development .
"From the joint innovation zone to the joint innovation demonstration base and then to the innovation practice base, it can be said that they are connected in one vein, which is more in line with the positioning of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone as a national trial system and the requirements of 'replication and promotion'." Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone The relevant person in charge of the district said that so far, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has formally formed an organizational structure system of "1 Office , 1 Bureau , 3 Areas, 2 linkages and 6 bases", which has created a new situation in the collaborative innovation work of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, and will continue to do so in the future. Expand the spillover effect of policy innovation achievements in the pilot free trade zone, realize the benign interaction between the experiment in the region and the replication outside the region, and build a new highland for reform and opening up.
Integrate into international rules and build a characteristic industrial system
Where does the strength come from to build a free trade "Tianjin model"? Industrial development is the answer.
In the past eight years, the spring has been full of gardens here, the advantageous industries have grown bigger and stronger, and the development of new formats and models has accelerated.
——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.
——Commercial factoring has a strong upward trend. 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.
——Innovative development of offshore trade. Innovatively formed the "Tianjin model" of "foreign exchange management department + territorial administrative department + commercial bank + offshore trade enterprise" joint on-site office.
- The auto industry is booming. The parallel imported automobile industry continues to lead the country. In 2022, Tianjin Port will import about 35,000 parallel cars, accounting for more than 70% of the country's import scale; build a second-hand car export base, and export 5,500 second-hand cars in 2022, ranking third in the country.
——The bonded business, biomedicine, digital freight, and cold chain industries are developing rapidly. Bonded maintenance and remanufacturing pilot enterprises expanded to 13, and related business income exceeded 200 million yuan; the country's first cell ecological biomedical supply chain service platform was built, and was selected as a demonstration project for improving quality and efficiency in foreign trade and economic cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce; drop-and-hook transportation equipment, The upstream and downstream industrial chains of digital freight for 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; the eco-city linkage innovation zone has been approved The city's first national backbone cold chain logistics base, forming the largest cold chain industry storage cluster in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.
Over the past eight years, the place has been full of vigor and vitality, and more "stories of spring" have been written.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to implement the strategy of upgrading the free trade pilot zone. Standing at a new starting point, the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone has firm confidence.
"Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone will closely focus on building the institutional policy system of 'five freedoms and one safe and orderly flow', strengthen institutional integration and innovation, promote institutional opening, and better serve the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. Breakthroughs have been achieved in link reforms, the innovation and upgrading of advantageous industries such as 'bonded +' 'leasing +' 'factoring +' has been promoted, and a number of system innovation experiences that can be replicated and promoted have been introduced to make new and greater contributions to comprehensively deepening reform and expanding opening up ” Said the relevant person in charge of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone.
