In his speech, Fang Xu, secretary of the party group and director of the Anhui Provincial Department of Commerce, and director of the Provincial Free Trade Office, said that Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui are geographically close, culturally close, and have frequent exchanges. On May 10, 2021, the Yangtze River Delta Pilot Free Trade Zone Alliance was established in Shanghai, bringing new opportunities for the joint development and collaborative innovation of the three provinces and one city free trade pilot zones. In the past two years, the alliance has thoroughly implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on the integration of the Yangtze River Delta and the pilot free trade zone, and has continuously strengthened the exchanges and interactions between the three provinces and one city free trade pilot zone, sincerely cooperated and operated efficiently, and played a role in serving the national strategy. Forge ahead bravely while closely following the pulse of the times, and jointly promote the integrated high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta Pilot Free Trade Zone to make important progress.

In the future, it is hoped that the Yangtze River Delta Pilot Free Trade Zone will follow the deployment of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, benchmark international high-standard economic and trade rules, promote the co-construction and sharing of resources in the Yangtze River Delta Pilot Free Trade Zone, deepen integrated reforms and institutional opening, and contribute to high-level reforms. Open up to explore the way first, and together draw the "most beautiful picture" of the integrated high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta, so as to better serve the overall situation of the country's modernization drive.

Yang Chao, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Pudong New Area District Committee, deputy head of the district, and deputy director of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone Management Committee, said that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the construction of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone. The ten-year-long pilot free trade zone has adhered to benchmarking against the highest international standards and best levels, with system innovation as the core, replicability and promotion as the fundamental requirements, bold experiments, bold breakthroughs, and independent reforms, and achieved fruitful results in all aspects results.

The Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone and the Lingang New Area have participated in the construction of the Yangtze River Delta around the "Double Self-linkage". On the one hand, they focus on breaking the institutional bottlenecks that restrict industrial development, and the "Dual-Self-linkage" effect continues to emerge. On the other hand, focus on collaborative research in key industries and build a community of scientific and technological innovation in the Yangtze River Delta.

In the next step, efforts will be made to enhance the ability to connect international rules and build a new higher-level open economic system; efforts will be made to enhance the ability to allocate global factor resources to serve the construction of a new development pattern; efforts will be made to enhance the leading ability of high-end industries and enhance the resilience of industrial chains and supply chains.

Tang Dajun, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Free Trade Office, said that the Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone has thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on the construction of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, focusing on "pioneering areas for open economic development, innovative development of the real economy, and industrial transformation." Upgrading the demonstration zone" strategic positioning, insisting on institutional innovation as the core, boldly experimenting, boldly breaking through, and independently reforming, guiding the area to carry out pioneering practices and differentiated explorations.

Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone actively explores the development path of joint development, cooperation and co-construction, supports the superposition of advantages and joint development between the Pilot Free Trade Zone and 57 key open platforms including the independent innovation demonstration zone in southern Jiangsu, and initially forms a "pilot free trade zone" District + key open platform" linkage development model. He also made some reflections on the promotion of the strategic work of the Pilot Free Trade Zone. The first is to enhance the influence of opening up and development; the second is to enhance the competitiveness of core industries; the third is to enhance the agglomeration of high-quality resource elements; Better coordinate openness and security.

Hu Bin, the second-level inspector of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce, pointed out that the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone has continued to create five major functional positioning landmark achievements, accounting for less than 1/400 of the province's area, contributing 6.5% of newly registered companies in 2022, With 9.2% of tax revenue, 20.6% of import and export volume, and 18.1% of actual utilization of foreign capital, it has become a pioneer area and growth pole leading the high-quality development of an open economy. The key word of this meeting is "Double Self-linkage". The Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone has effectively promoted the in-depth superposition and organic integration of the investment and trade facilitation policy of the Free Trade Pilot Zone and the scientific and technological innovation functions of the National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone, and empowered industrial development through digitalization. , Promoted the high-quality construction of the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone.

In the next step, the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone will fully promote the eight major improvement actions, strengthen joint innovation, joint reform, and joint opening up with the pilot free trade zones of brother provinces and cities, and explore the formation of a new high-quality integrated development model with complementary advantages.

Liu Guang, deputy director of the Anhui Provincial Department of Commerce and executive deputy director of the Provincial Free Trade Office, pointed out that since the construction was approved in 2020, the Anhui Pilot Free Trade Zone has fully relied on the unique advantages of "technological innovation + industry" and insisted on promoting scientific and technological achievements through institutional innovation. Transform and empower industrial development, continue to strengthen the guarantee of innovation elements, and accelerate the development of first-in-first-out trials. The first is that the institutional innovation of the science and technology innovation industry has achieved initial results; the second is that the gathering of innovation subjects in the science and technology innovation industry has accelerated;

In the next step, Anhui Pilot Free Trade Zone will focus on the implementation of the Pilot Free Trade Zone promotion strategy proposed by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, actively benchmark international high-standard economic and trade rules, further enrich and enhance the characteristic brand of "Science and Technology Innovation Free Trade", and focus on key leading industries , strive to break through the institutional barriers that restrict industrial development, continue to strengthen the "four linkages" of policy linkage, industry linkage, element linkage, and platform linkage between the pilot free trade zone and the independent innovation demonstration zone, and strive to achieve freedom of technological transformation, freedom of investment and trade, and scenarios The "four freedoms" of application freedom and element flow freedom contribute more to the realization of high-level technological self-reliance and the construction of a technologically powerful country.