On September 6, the Provincial Government Information Office held a press conference to introduce the fifth anniversary construction of the China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone. Since its establishment in August 2019, the Shandong Pilot Free Trade Zone has taken institutional i

Improve the level of trade and investment with high-level institutional openness

Over the past five years of construction and development, Qingdao Free Trade Zone has adhered to institutional innovation as the core, created "district customs and port" and other linkage innovation mechanisms, deepened trade and investment facilitation reform and innovation, and built enterprises The full life cycle service system has explored and formed 326 institutional innovation achievements with Qingdao characteristics, 79 of which have been recognized and promoted at the national and provincial levels.

Empowered by institutional innovation, the cumulative foreign trade import and export volume has exceeded 800 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 22%; the sales volume of the wholesale industry has reached 1.7 trillion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 41%; it has attracted Orix, , Itochu and other 72 A number of Fortune 500 Chinese and foreign investment projects have entered the area for development; creating 117,600 new jobs, with an average annual growth rate of 36.7%, accounting for 0.46% of the city’s area, contributing 4.7% of employment, and continuously improving the function of the comprehensive experimental platform for reform and opening up.

"On the new journey, Qingdao Free Trade Zone will use a high level of institutional opening to enhance trade and investment levels, and 'take the lead and be a pioneer' in improving shipping facilitation, improving port service levels, and enhancing domestic and foreign trade integration." Gao Shanwu, deputy secretary of the West Coast New Area Working Committee and director of the Qingdao Free Trade Area Management Committee, said.

It is reported that the Qingdao Free Trade Zone will amplify the effect of the tax refund policy at the port of departure, optimize and improve the logistics supervision model, and promote the extension of port functions to the inland. Strive to use Shandong Port Qingdao Port as an international transit port for coastal piggyback business, and continue to build a trade logistics channel facing Japan and South Korea and connecting Asia and Europe. Actively strive to carry out customs clearance facilitation reforms such as the "One Port Link" in the Yellow River Basin to further improve the comprehensive shipping service level.

creates an "artificial intelligence + port" demonstration area to empower the high-quality development of ports with artificial intelligence. Accelerate the integration of the third phase of the automated terminal and related bonded logistics areas into the Qingdao Qianwan Comprehensive Bonded Zone to realize the integrated operation of the automated terminal in the port area. Optimize the public service ecology of bonded ship supply and further consolidate the status of Northeast Asia's shipping hub.

strengthens the functions of new trade service platforms such as "Offshore Delivery", "Barter Delivery", and cross-border e-commerce comprehensive service platform, in terms of offshore trade data verification, barter trade process standardization, cross-border e-commerce ecological optimization, etc. Explore and form a number of innovative results, promote the integrated and innovative development of shipping trade finance, and build a "shipping trade finance" integrated innovation base with high standards. Build an international energy free trade port on the west coast, explore the bonded blending business of biodiesel and low-sulfur fuel oil under different tax numbers, implement comprehensive bonded marine fuel supply services, accelerate the construction of a green and low-carbon fuel filling platform for international sailing ships, and create a trillion-dollar Level trade industry cluster, build a new energy trade ecology integrating domestic and foreign trade, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the province's energy industry.

Contribute the power of free trade to the construction of a strong manufacturing province and a strong manufacturing country

Developing advanced manufacturing is one of the important missions assigned by the country to the Qingdao Free Trade Area. In the past five years of construction and development, the area has adhered to the establishment of project areas and strong industrial areas, focusing on building three thousand-acre industrial parks for smart home appliances, integrated circuits, and genes and cells. It has implemented "one park, one policy, one chain, one policy" to form a distinctive industrial park. New industrialization development model and path. In the past five years, 175 industrial enterprises above designated size have been gathered, with an annual output value of more than 83.9 billion yuan, an average annual growth rate of 7.7%; R&D investment has exceeded 3 billion yuan, an average annual growth rate of 71.4%.

In terms of smart home appliances, the dominant industry, 9 complete machine production projects and 12 supporting projects have been settled, with an investment of approximately 11 billion yuan completed.“There are two outstanding features. First, it has built a park with the largest concentration of smart home appliance interconnection factories in the country. Three smart interconnection factories, the world’s first magnetic levitation central air conditioner, the world’s largest drum washing machine, and an extra-large refrigerator, have been selected as World Economic Forum (wef) cases. The first "Lighthouse Factory" cluster has been built. Secondly, it has opened up a new track for the water ecological industry. It has gathered 8 industrial projects with a total investment of about 7.2 billion yuan. The gathering of these projects will jointly create the world's leading water ecological industry. A new highland for intelligent manufacturing," introduced Gao Shanwu.

In terms of integrated circuits, an emerging industry, Qingdao Integrated Circuit Industrial Park will be constructed. Up to now, the industrial park has gathered 30 projects in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, with an investment of 58 billion yuan, and has formed a complete industrial chain from design to materials, equipment, manufacturing to packaging and testing, and modules. It is planned to complete an investment of more than 100 billion yuan by 2025, have more than 12,000 integrated circuit professionals, and build an important integrated circuit industry cluster in China.

In terms of future industrial genes and cells, we will comprehensively target the "two major directions" of equipment and raw material production and gene technology application services, and "three arrows" of basic research, applied research, and industrial transformation, and accurately deploy marine life interpretation and gene sequencing. The industrial park created in the five major fields of equipment and reagents, molecular biology breeding, genetic precision health and synthetic biology has been successfully selected as the future industrial cluster of Shandong Province and included in the core area of ​​Qingdao's gene and cell industry. At present, the park has introduced 44 enterprises with core competitiveness, such as MGI, Qingyuan Biotech, Guoxin Pharmaceutical, etc., with a total investment of more than 12 billion yuan. It has initially formed a basic research, technology research and development, people's livelihood health, and high-end equipment. , the ecosystem of industrial funds.

"In the next step, Qingdao Free Trade Zone will strengthen and specialize the industrial chain, make the industrial park bigger and better, and introduce a number of industrial chain projects with strong driving ability, high industrial relevance and high technical level to continue to make the province a strong manufacturing province. , and contribute to Qingdao’s free trade efforts in building a manufacturing power,” Gao Shanwu said.

(Popular News·Qingdao West Coast News reporter Liu Teng)