General

Investment promotion is the lifeline of economic development and the necessary option to expand opening up.

This year's government work report specifically made specific arrangements on "attracting and utilizing foreign capital more vigorously". Among them, "expanding market access", "steadily expanding institutional openness" and "promoting the implementation and construction of landmark projects for foreign investment" are the key work that Hainan Free Trade Port is currently striving to promote, which makes the representative members of Hainan Province very excited.

Everyone agreed that Hainan should, in accordance with the deployment made in the government's work report, strengthen its efforts to attract foreign investment, embrace investors from all over the world with a broad mind of embracing all rivers, invite them to come to Hainan to share the new opportunities of the era, build a new highland of openness, and achieve a more brilliant future for Hainan Free Trade Port.

The enthusiasm for investment promotion of "fight" and "grab" is surging

At the end of the year and at the beginning of the year, a passion of "fight" and "grab" is surging in Hainan.

New forces in international trade! With the continuous progress of the construction of the free trade port, the epidemic prevention and control policy has been adjusted, and Hainan is scrambling for time and progress, opening up to the outside world and attracting investment are becoming stronger and stronger, with more and more achievements.

Miao Yanhong, member of the CPPCC National Committee in Qiong, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee and head of the United Front Work Department, introduced that in the past year, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee has launched a number of new policies from the aspects of policy support, platform services, and project implementation, promoting the establishment of the Overseas Chinese Youth Entrepreneurship Park and the Hong Kong and Macao Youth Innovation and Innovation Service Center, which are linked with the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Overseas Chinese Service Workstations in six key free trade ports, We have built a full-chain service system to support the development of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in Hainan, attracting 581 enterprises from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to settle in major parks, with a total registered capital of 61.21 billion yuan.

Miao Yanhong said that this year, the united front departments at all levels in the province will continue to improve the policy support system, improve the platform service capacity, increase the publicity and promotion efforts, and attract talents and enterprises from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to develop in Hainan. At the same time, in cooperation with the Provincial Department of Business Environment Construction and other functional departments, we will carry out a series of face-to-face activities between government and enterprises such as "100 people and 1000 enterprises" and "business dad tea", give full play to the advantages of the platform resources of the Provincial Association of Industry and Commerce, deepen the application of the results of private enterprises' evaluation of business environment, and enhance the "body feeling" of private enterprises in business environment construction.

  The openness of foreign investment access in Hainan Free Trade Port remains the best in the country; In the list of industries that encourage foreign investment, the total number of encouraged items in Hainan Province remains the highest in the country. Hainan continues to expand publicity, promote the preferential policies of the free trade port, and vigorously carry out investment promotion. Take advantage of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, China International Consumer Goods Expo and other internationally renowned exhibition platforms to negotiate cooperation with enterprises and constantly transform participating enterprises into investors. In the middle of February this year, the main leaders of the Provincial Party Committee led a delegation to visit Hong Kong, Indonesia and Vietnam, China, to discuss key foreign investment projects, to promote exchanges and cooperation pragmatically, and to release the signal of high-level opening of Hainan Free Trade Port to the outside world.

New forces in international trade! Hainan has continued to make efforts in optimizing the environment for foreign investment. With the approval of the central government, Hainan has set up the first provincial business environment construction department in the country, which will comprehensively promote the "four in one" work of business environment, government services, data sharing and social credit, and accelerate the construction of a legal, international and convenient business environment. From 2018 to 2021, Hainan's actual use of foreign capital increased by nearly 80% annually, and the average annual growth rate of foreign-funded enterprises was nearly 120%; In 2022, the scale and quality of the utilization of foreign capital in Hainan Province will be improved. The actual utilization of foreign capital will exceed US $4 billion, with a growth rate of 15% on a high basis. The proportion of the actual utilization of foreign capital in the modern service industry will increase from 61% in 2018 to 92% in 2022. A large number of internationally renowned enterprises will settle in South China.

"The results of overseas investment promotion in the field of education in Hainan are also gratifying." Cao Xiankun, deputy to the National People's Congress and secretary of the Party Committee of the Department of Education of Hainan Province, said that in the past year, Hainan Province took advantage of the visit of provincial leaders, and the Department of Education of Hainan Province held the signing ceremony and special investment promotion meeting with the University of Applied Sciences of Bielefeld in Germany, and overseas high-level universities took substantial steps to independently run schools in Hainan; Give full play to the advantages of the joint examination and approval mechanism of the departments and provinces of Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools, and six Chinese-foreign cooperatively-run schools (projects) including the University of Electronic Science and Technology and the University of Glasgow were approved for enrollment; Make good use of international exhibition platforms such as the Consumer Expo, fully display the advantages of the free trade port education policy, strive to attract more overseas high-level universities to run schools in Hainan, inject strong momentum into the construction of the international education innovation island, and carry out beneficial exploration for the national education reform and opening up.

Strive to create a new situation of attracting foreign investment with high quality

New forces in international trade! Today's investment supports tomorrow's projects, and today's investment determines future development. Representatives of Hainan Province have suggested that Hainan should put overseas investment attraction in a more important position and strive to achieve breakthroughs in total amount, quality improvement and structural optimization.

Ni Qiang said that this year, Hainan Province will focus on building a new highland of opening up, attracting high-energy business entities to gather, integrating high-level service systems, and making every effort to create a new situation of attracting high-quality foreign investment. First, promote all-round and high-level opening-up, fully release the overlapping effect of RCEP and Hainan Free Trade Port policies, first try international high standard economic and trade rules such as CPTPP and DEPA, and strive to create the preferred place for foreign investment. The second is to implement the major international investment promotion action, focus on promoting the landing of a number of landmark foreign investment projects in line with the development direction of Hainan Free Trade Port, strive to achieve a 10% increase in the actual use of foreign capital, continue to be at the forefront of the country, and build a high-quality foreign capital gathering place. Third, we should strengthen the air and sea international transportation network and expand the international trade and economic cooperation network, and actively build the headquarters base for Chinese enterprises to go international and the headquarters base for foreign enterprises to enter China. Fourth, create an international first-class investment environment and a good atmosphere for business safety and stability.

New forces in international trade! At present, Haikou is deeply integrated into the domestic and international double cycle and building "two headquarters bases". Ding Hui, deputy secretary of the CPC Haikou Municipal Committee and mayor of Haikou, said that focusing on the overlapping advantages of the free trade port policy, Haikou will continue to promote the high-level opening up, actively carry out the global investment promotion campaign, and constantly improve the quality and effectiveness of overseas investment promotion around the industrial demand. First, use the "Foreign Affairs+Park" and "Foreign Affairs+Industry Department" to strengthen the normal contact with foreign embassies and consulates in China, business (association) institutions and relevant international organizations, and attract more overseas investors to settle in Haikou; Second, use the resources of international sister cities to strengthen economic and trade ties with international sister cities, and strive to introduce more investment resources of sister cities; The third is to focus on the countries along the "the Belt and Road", arrange the overseas official visit groups in a planned and step-by-step manner, and deepen the cooperation with the regional partner countries of RCEP; Fourth, amplify the spillover effect of the exhibition, make full use of international exchange platforms such as the Consumer Expo, and do a good job in urban and industrial publicity and promotion and investment attraction.

"In the next step, the Hainan education system will continue to focus on the construction of the international education innovation island, vigorously attract overseas high-level universities to run schools in Hainan, and continue to consolidate the talent and intellectual foundation of the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port." Cao Xiankun said that the Provincial Department of Education will vigorously promote the enrollment and opening of overseas high-level universities such as Hainan Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, and strive to introduce 2 to 3 world-class universities to run schools, To strengthen and expand the brand of "studying in Hainan=studying abroad" and comprehensively promote the return of education consumption. Promote the continuous expansion of the scale of students in the Lingshui Li'an International Education Innovation Pilot Zone in Hainan, and carry out multi-level international student education for Southeast Asian countries and regions, so that education can play a greater role in linking and unblocking the domestic and international double cycle and building a new development pattern.