The reporter of the economic information daily learned that recently, several pilot free trade zones in Zhejiang, Henan, Shandong, Guangxi and Anhui have deployed one after another, made a list of objectives and tasks for 2022, and promoted the implementation of policies by means of wall chart operation and tackling difficulties against tables. Among them, strengthening the policy supply of advantageous industries for key projects and cultivating characteristic leading industries have become an important driving point. The analysis points out that the common characteristics of the central and local governments in promoting the development of the pilot free trade zone are to carry out in-depth reform around key areas, key links and basic systems and strengthen the support of the system to the industry. In the future, the pilot free trade zone will undertake the task of docking more high-level international rules, continue to be the "vanguard" of the first test, and inject new momentum into local economic development. Multiple successive deployment New year's construction is hot A policy breakthrough was made in the construction of the new international trade center, and Ningbo Beilun was approved to carry out a high-level opening-up pilot of cross-border trade and investment; Over the past month, 109 enterprises have been listed and 51 sub biomedical enterprises have raised 9.2 billion yuan; A number of major industrial projects such as Zhongsheng LNG cold energy comprehensive utilization project in Zhoushan area and Jintang new material Park project have been signed and started successively, with a cumulative investment of more than 125.8 billion yuan... Since the beginning of the year, the construction of Zhejiang pilot free trade zone has made a "good start". The reporter of economic information daily noted that in recent days, intensive deployment has been made in many places, setting out new objectives and tasks for the construction of the pilot Free Trade Zone in 2022, and promoting the introduction of new measures. On February 18, the regulations on the New Lingang area of China (Shanghai) pilot free trade zone was voted and adopted at the meeting of the Standing Committee of Shanghai Municipal People's Congress and will come into force on March 1. As the first comprehensive local regulation of Lingang New Area, the regulation will further improve the "four beams and eight pillars" of the construction of special economic functional areas. On February 17, the Zhejiang provincial government held a press conference, identified 2022 as the year of deepening the construction of version 2.0 of Zhejiang pilot Free Trade Zone, and proposed to focus on key areas such as bulk commodities such as oil products and cross-border e-commerce and carry out institutional innovation. Previously, Hangzhou has formulated "three lists" for the construction of the pilot Free Trade Zone in 2022, namely, the task list, the initiative list and the responsibility list, and proposed to promote the high-quality development of the pilot Free Trade Zone in a list and project-based manner. On February 9, Henan organized a survey and Symposium on the pilot free trade zone and proposed to deeply implement the institutional opening strategy, build the version 2.0 of the pilot free trade zone at a high level, boldly break through, boldly try and reform independently, and make every effort to build a highland of innovation, openness, talents and development. In addition, Shandong, Guangxi, Anhui and other places have also made systematic arrangements for the development of the pilot Free Trade Zone in 2022, proposing to establish and improve mechanisms such as "information release, evaluation and promotion, project promotion", promote integrated innovation in trade, investment, international opening, finance, rule of law services, deepen regional cooperation, build linkage innovation zones and other specific measures, and fight with wall charts We will promote the implementation of policies by tackling difficulties on the table. Du Guochen, an associate researcher of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, told the reporter of the economic information daily that under the principle of "bold test, bold breakthrough and independent reform", based on the high-level opening-up, the respective pilot trade zones have strengthened the overall planning in the task deployment at the beginning of the year, carried out systematic planning around new technologies, new formats and new models, and made efforts to crack institutional obstacles, It will provide new impetus for the opening-up and development of all localities. Strengthen institutional tackling Strong support for the development of advantageous industries In the deployment of all localities, cultivating characteristic leading industries has become an important starting point. For example, Zhoushan area of Zhejiang pilot Free Trade Zone proposed to intensify reform in the oil and gas field, explore the introduction of international strategic investors in the oil and gas trading center, carry out marine LNG filling business, and make every effort to overcome a number of high "gold content" support policies. Henan pilot free trade zone takes attracting investment and talents as an important breakthrough, vigorously introduces and cultivates "chain owner" enterprises and "specialized and special new" enterprises, and expands and strengthens the main body and leading industries of foreign trade and foreign investment. Guangxi pilot free trade zone will focus on accelerating the construction of cross-border industrial chain clusters. The person in charge of Guangxi Free Trade Office said that it would open up the bottleneck of industrial development by comparing the key enterprises and target enterprises corresponding to each chain one by one, promote the agglomeration and open development of intelligent terminals, new energy vehicles, new chemical materials, ASEAN characteristic agricultural products processing and other industries in the pilot Free Trade Zone, and accelerate the construction of China ASEAN cross-border industrial chain cluster. At the ministerial level, Tang Wenhong, director of the port Department of the free trade zone of the Ministry of Commerce, said recently that next, the pilot free trade zone will promote the integrated innovation of the whole industrial chain based on the local actual situation, attract the industrial chain and global production factor resources, cultivate characteristic leading industries, and create more world-leading industrial clusters. Du Guochen said that carrying out deep-seated reform pilot around key areas, key links and basic systems, emphasizing the integration and systematicness of institutional innovation and the combination of institutional innovation and industrial development has become a common feature of the current central and local policies to promote the development of the pilot Free Trade Zone, and it is also a natural reflection of the pilot Free Trade Zone entering the "deep-seated" development stage. Nie Pingxiang, a researcher at the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, told the reporter of Economic Information Daily that on the basis of years of reform, opening up and innovation, during the "14th five year plan" period, the development of the pilot free trade zone has increasingly focused on areas and industries with local characteristics, advantages or potential, focused on the shortcomings and obstacles existing in the upstream and downstream development of key industries, and strengthened reform, opening up and innovation, Promote the creation of industrial agglomeration development advantages. This will also effectively drive the high-quality and even leapfrog development of the local economy. Continue to be the "vanguard" Explore the way for a higher level of openness With the entry into force of the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) on January 1 this year, the acceleration of accession to the comprehensive and progressive trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (cptpp) and the digital economy partnership agreement (depa), as well as the negotiation and signing of more high-level free trade agreements, the pilot free trade zone will undertake more pilot tasks. Guo Tingting, director of the comprehensive Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said that next, we will promote the pilot docking of international high-standard economic and trade rules in conditional pilot free trade zones and free trade ports, and promote high-level institutional opening-up. Promote the introduction of the negative list of cross-border service trade in the pilot free trade zone. Ni Yuefeng, director of the General Administration of customs, proposed at the 2022 national customs working conference that it would actively promote the construction of the opening-up platform, promote the integration, innovation, replication and promotion of the customs supervision system in the pilot Free Trade Zone, and try some rules of cptpp in some pilot free trade zones. As for the specific arrangements, Chen Zhenchong, director of the Department of free trade zones and special regional development of the General Administration of customs, said in response to a reporter's question from the Economic Information Daily recently that the customs is strengthening supervision and optimizing services in combination with reality, benchmarking international high-level economic and trade rules, and guiding the customs in their respective pilot trade zones to speed up the exploration and form a higher-level customs supervision system, Improve the level of trade facilitation. Nie Pingxiang believes that the pilot free trade zone is the highest level open platform in all regions, and naturally undertakes the task of exploring a higher level of openness. Therefore, the pilot free trade zone is duty bound to take the lead in implementing relevant opening-up measures of RCEP and benchmarking high standard rules such as cptpp and depa. Du Guochen further analyzed that the current economic globalization presents a series of new characteristics, and a new generation of trade and investment rules are rapidly taking shape. China actively promotes the signing and implementation of RCEP and submits the application for joining cptpp, depa and other free trade agreements, which is a specific action to promote a higher level of opening-up. This requires the pilot free trade zone to give better play to the role of "pilot field" and "vanguard", increase stress testing, strengthen the exploration of rules in investment, trade, finance and other fields, and explore the way for a higher level of opening up. (Xinhua News Agency)