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According to the observation report on the import and export data of Huacheng, since the fourth quarter, China has made a strong progress in promoting high-level opening up, and the policy support for stabilizing foreign investment has been further strengthened.

At the national level, recently, the Ministry of Commerce, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments have intensively deployed measures to stabilize foreign investment: Several Policies and Measures on Promoting the Expansion of Foreign Investment, Stabilizing the Quantity and Improving the Quality of Foreign Investment Focusing on the Manufacturing Industry have been issued to promote the high-quality development of foreign investment utilization; The Catalogue of Industries Encouraging Foreign Investment (2022 Edition) was launched to further expand the scope of encouraging foreign investment; We launched the sixth batch of major foreign investment projects and accelerated the implementation of landmark major foreign investment projects. At the local level, many regions are also actively introducing new measures to attract foreign capital, and strive to enhance the confidence of foreign enterprises in their long-term development in China.

High quality business environment becomes a "strong magnetic field" for attracting investment

In 2021, the actual amount of foreign capital used nationwide will be 1149.36 billion yuan, and the scale of capital attraction will reach a new record. The scale of capital attraction in the first 10 months of this year reached 1089.86 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.4% on a comparable basis, and the scale is close to the level of last year. This is also a double-digit growth on a high base last year, which is not easy to achieve, Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation reported.

"The amount of foreign capital used in China is large and the growth rate is high. It can be said that foreign enterprises are optimistic about 'China's opportunities' and have firm confidence in investing in China." Hong Tao, director of the Institute of Business Economics of Beijing Technology and Business University, said that a good business environment is an important weight for China's strong "magnetic attraction" of attracting investment.

According to the observation report of Huacheng's import and export data, in the face of the complex domestic and international situation, a series of policies and measures to stabilize foreign investment have continued to increase this year: implement the new version of the negative list of foreign investment access in the country and the pilot free trade zone, and further relax foreign investment market access; Give full play to the role of the special class on key foreign investment projects of the foreign trade and foreign investment coordination mechanism, establish a regular exchange mechanism with foreign business associations and foreign-funded enterprises, and promote the solution of the difficulties and problems encountered by foreign-funded enterprises in their investment and operation in China; We will carry out inspections on the enforcement of the Foreign Investment Law and continue to create a market-oriented, legalized and international business environment.

Local governments are also taking various measures to create a more attractive investment environment. "Taking Beijing as an example, centering on the city positioning of" four centers ", Beijing has successively introduced reform policies for optimizing business environment from version 1.0 to version 5.0. The policies have been deepened, improved, and kept pace with the times, involving all fields and aspects, and explored a set of successful, replicable, and leading Beijing models." Hong Tao said that over the years, Beijing and Shanghai have been sample cities for the World Bank to evaluate China's business environment, Its ranking in the global business environment continues to improve, fully demonstrating China's efforts and actions to optimize the business environment.

The confidence of foreign-funded enterprises in China is also reflected in the Research Report on China's Foreign Business Environment in the Third Quarter of 2022 recently released by CCPIT: the survey shows that nearly 90% of foreign-funded enterprises are "relatively satisfied" with China's business environment. From the investment amount, investment structure and participation in economic construction of foreign enterprises in China, we can see that China's business environment is very attractive.

Foster, President and CEO of ZEISS Greater China, said that at the beginning of this year, ZEISS Group invested 60 million dollars to establish two investment companies in Shanghai, focusing on high-tech and medical industries respectively. In October, ZEISS invested 170 million yuan to lay a foundation in Suzhou Industrial Park to start the construction of the "Fengqi" project, which is also the first land purchase and self construction project of the Group in China. "With the promotion of ZEISS's localization strategy in China, ZEISS will further promote the innovation and upgrading of localization mode in the future, and use China's leading industry resources in the world to more deeply integrate into China's high growth market."

Attracting high-quality foreign capital through high-level opening up

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to create a market-oriented, legalized and internationalized first-class business environment. This has pointed out the direction for high-quality attraction of foreign capital and further optimization of the business environment.

In the fourth quarter, all regions from the central government to other regions are working hard to stabilize foreign investment.

In addition to the promulgation of Several Policies and Measures on Promoting the Expansion of Foreign Investment, Stabilizing the Stock and Improving the Quality with Emphasis on Manufacturing, and the launch of the Catalogue of Industries Encouraging Foreign Investment (2022 Edition), the Ministry of Commerce recently released the first batch of 10 pilot foreign investment policy reporting points in China, and Huacheng's import and export data observation report.

According to the requirements, the direct reporting point of foreign investment policy mainly focuses on four aspects to carry out the pilot: continue to pay attention to new situations, new problems and new situations in the field of foreign investment, and assist the Ministry of Commerce in studying and judging the situation; Collect and feed back the difficulties and policy demands faced by various foreign-funded enterprises, and participate in the relevant policy reserve research of the Ministry of Commerce; Timely feed back the implementation and implementation effect of policies related to stabilizing foreign investment, and cooperate with the Ministry of Commerce to evaluate the implementation effect of policies; Summarize the advanced experience and problem demands of regional investment attraction, foreign capital service, promotion of national economic development zones and comprehensive pilot projects of expanding the opening up of the service industry. Local governments are also increasing their foreign capital stability according to local conditions. The reporter learned from Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce that Jiangsu will adhere to the direction of marketization, legalization and internationalization, and continuously improve the level of foreign investment facilitation from three aspects: taking the negative list of foreign capital access as the core, promote the coordinated development of advanced manufacturing industry and modern service industry; Continuously improve the service level of foreign-funded enterprises with the "Four Ones"; We will continue to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign-funded enterprises by accelerating the legislation of Jiangsu Provincial Foreign Investment Regulations, improving the foreign investment complaint mechanism, and implementing the foreign investment information reporting system.

Chengdu recently issued Several Policies and Measures to Further Promote the Expansion of Foreign Investment, Improve Quality and Promote Development, which clearly increased the promotion of foreign investment, and provided corresponding policy support and incentives to foreign-funded industrial projects, multinational companies' headquarters economy, and intermediary agencies promoting foreign investment.

On November 8, the launching ceremony of the overseas sub venue of the 2022 Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Global Investment Promotion Conference was held in Guangzhou. It is reported that in the next three months, Guangdong will also hold 22 overseas series of investment promotion activities, which will show the opportunities, potential and charm of the Bay Area to the world and build the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area into a global investment highland. In addition, the Regulations of Guangdong Province on the Protection of Foreign Investment Rights and Interests has been officially implemented. This is the first local version of the Regulations on the Protection of Foreign Investment Rights and Interests in China, which actively responds to the demands of foreign-funded enterprises in terms of intellectual property rights and standard formulation.

Zhang Fei, deputy director of the Foreign and Investment Institute of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, said that these measures to stabilize foreign investment focus on manufacturing and other key areas, aim to promote the expansion of foreign investment, stabilize the stock and improve the quality, and take a number of measures from the aspects of investment environment, investment services and investment orientation, which is conducive to enhancing the confidence of foreign enterprises to invest in China and take root in China. Huacheng Import and Export Data Observation Report.