General

From August 22nd to 24th, the Yellow River Basin Pilot Free Trade Zone Alliance Launch and Opening-up High-Quality Development Conference was held in Jinan. During this conference, the Yellow River Basin Pilot Free Trade Zone Alliance was also officially launched. This means that under the promotion of the Pilot Free Trade Zone Alliance, the nine provinces of Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia will usher in new opportunities for opening up and development, which will benefit international trade companies.

Wang Wentao, Minister of Commerce, said in his speech that the launch of the Yellow River Basin Pilot Free Trade Zone Alliance, which combines the construction of the Free Trade Pilot Zone with the promotion of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, is an in-depth implementation of the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and serves major national strategies. The innovative measures are also vivid practices to better play the radiating and leading role of the Pilot Free Trade Zone. The Ministry of Commerce will work with the nine provinces and regions in the Yellow River Basin and relevant departments to give full play to the role of the Yellow River Basin Pilot Free Trade Zone Alliance, solidly promote cross-regional cooperation and collaborative innovation, and demonstrate greater achievements in serving and integrating into the new development pattern. Play a greater role in ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin, and jointly sing the strongest voice of the Yellow River chorus in the new era.

Zhou Naixiang, Governor of Shandong Province, said that Shandong Province is willing to join hands with other provinces and regions to seize development opportunities, promote complementary advantages, expand new space for industrial cooperation, upgrade new energy levels of open platforms, jointly build new channels for trade and logistics, and share regional cooperation. New dividends, jointly develop the vast world of open economic development in the Yellow River Basin, and paint the "most beautiful picture" of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin.

The total population of the nine provinces along the Yellow River reaches 420 million, the regional GDP is 28.7 trillion yuan, and the total import and export volume is 5.6 trillion yuan, accounting for 29.8%, 25.1% and 14.3% of the national total. Each province has its own The characteristics and advantages of the pilot free trade zone and the synergy effect of the pilot free trade zone will inject new impetus into the development of the region. It is understood that the members of the Yellow River Basin Pilot Free Trade Zone Alliance include 12 areas of the 4 provinces (Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi), and 15 economic functional zones in the 5 provinces (autonomous regions) of Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia. Involves Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai, Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Luoyang, Chengdu, Luzhou, Xi'an, Xianyang, Taiyuan, Jinzhong, Hohhot, Ordos, Bayannaoer, Lanzhou, Jinchang, Xining, Golmud, Yinchuan, Shizuishan and other cities.

In recent years, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, four provinces that already have pilot free trade zones, have aligned with international rules and standards, accelerated investment and trade facilitation reforms, strengthened collaboration and innovation in key areas, and strengthened system integration, so as to attract and gather global high-quality elements. institutional mechanisms and regional growth poles. Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia 5 provinces (regions) economic functional zones can give priority to copying and promoting the innovation achievements of the pilot free trade zone. Institutional obstacles encountered in the development can be carried out in the pilot free trade zone to carry out innovation experiments, and the innovation results are mutually beneficial shared.

As a representative of the business community, Li Fengli, general manager of Shandong Port Group, said that Shandong Port Group will join forces with other key enterprises in the eight provinces and regions along the Yellow River to provide strong support for promoting the construction of a major logistics channel, maintaining the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain, and promoting high-quality development. , to make new and greater contributions. He also put forward three initiatives for the better development of enterprises in the eight provinces:

The first is to build a new pattern of two-way mutual aid between the east and the west and the linkage and opening up of international trade between the mainland and the mainland. Give full play to the advantages of the eastern Yellow River Basin and the new highland opening of the central and western inland areas, continue to develop sea-rail intermodal transport, river-sea intermodal transport and container multimodal transport, promote the linkage of seaports, river ports, dry ports and airports, and speed up the inland port construction, develop the enclave economy, create a fully functional, three-dimensional interconnection, efficient and convenient logistics channel along the Yellow River; improve the two-way normal operation mechanism of the China-Europe freight train, and improve the transportation efficiency and service level along the Yellow River and the “Belt and Road” major channel, Jointly build a major international trade and logistics channel connecting Japan and South Korea in the east, Asia and Europe in the west, ASEAN in Nantong, and Mongolia and Russia in the north.

The second is to enhance the innovation of economic and social development to drive high-quality development. Deeply integrate into the open highlands such as the Pilot Free Trade Zone, and make good use of the preferential policies of the Pilot Free Trade Zone such as the "one order system" model, tax rebates at the port of departure, and blending and blending of bonded crude oil; build a convenient, intelligent, green and safe logistics channel; give full play to the "Internet + The role of the "port + business" supply chain public service platform and the advantages of the digital ecosystem of bulk commodities provide enterprises with more convenient logistics, finance and trade services, and promote industrial chain extension, supply chain integration, and value chain creation.

The third is to deepen the coordinated development of regional economic integration. Give full play to the resource endowment and industrial characteristics of the Yellow River Basin, strengthen cross-regional cooperation in energy and chemical industries, agriculture, emerging industries, and advanced manufacturing industries, cultivate new forms of business such as shipping, trade, logistics, and port-industry-city integration, and promote the complementary advantages of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. , integrate and interact, accelerate the construction of a modern logistics operation system of "channel + hub + network", improve regional development capabilities, and create a high-quality development power system and new growth poles in the Yellow River Basin.

"The Yellow River Basin has superior resource endowments and huge potential in the international trade market. It plays a pivotal role in serving the domestic cycle and promoting the mutual promotion of the domestic and international dual cycles. It will inject new impetus into the construction of the Free Trade Pilot Zone along the Yellow River and drive the formation of a large integrated market." Ma Ling, director of the Planning and Guidance Office of the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce, said that through the innovation of the free trade system, market connection, policy reciprocity and industrial cooperation will be formed. It can promote the interconnection of major infrastructures and open platforms in an orderly manner, and gradually build large-scale and characteristic cross-regional industrial clusters for national experiments, for opening up, for service and building new development. Pathfinder pattern.

At this meeting, along the Huangjiu provinces and regions, they worked together and discussed together, and jointly launched 56 high-quality service items to promote the development of enterprises, covering "integrated" regional collaborative government services, cross-border international trade facilitation feature platform services, commerce and trade. There are five aspects: logistics access characteristic platform service, industry-university-research integration characteristic platform service, finance and data empowerment characteristic platform service.