The second China pilot Free Trade Zone Development Forum was held in Hangzhou

The second China pilot Free Trade Zone Development Forum was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province on the 27th. With the theme of "new pattern, new mission and new responsibility", the forum focused on important issues such as promoting the construction of a new development pattern in the pilot Free Trade Zone, promoting the high-quality development of the pilot Free Trade Zone, and enabling the development of the pilot free trade zone by digital economy, so as to make suggestions for the construction and development of China's pilot free trade zone. Leaders in charge of the Ministry of Commerce, representatives of their respective pilot trade zones, experts and scholars in the field of pilot free trade zones, and representatives of well-known Chinese and foreign enterprises attended the forum.

Wang Shouwen, Vice Minister of Commerce and deputy representative of international trade negotiations, introduced that in the first nine months of 2021, 21 pilot free trade zones achieved 16.5% of the country's foreign trade scale with less than four thousandths of the country's land area, and the proportion of actually utilized foreign capital reached 18.1%, which played an important role in stabilizing foreign trade and foreign capital.

He believes that the development and success of the pilot free trade zone is inseparable from the attention and support of local governments, the participation and investment of Chinese and foreign entrepreneurs, and the suggestions of think tanks, experts and scholars. "It is valuable for the government, enterprises and think tanks to gather together to discuss the development plan of China's pilot free trade zone."

On the spot, Tang Wenhong, director of the port Department of the free trade zone of the Ministry of Commerce, Sheng Qiuping, director of the Free Trade Office of Zhejiang Province, party secretary and director of the Department of Commerce of Zhejiang Province, Gu Xueming, President of the Institute of international trade and economic cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce, and other guests delivered keynote speeches on the theme of promoting the high-quality development of the pilot free trade zone and the characteristic development road of the pilot free trade zone of Zhejiang Province.

Tang Wenhong said that this year is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party and the opening year of the 14th five year plan. Standing at a new starting point, we should make greater efforts to plan and promote the high-quality development of the pilot Free Trade Zone, continue to make efforts in improving the level of opening up and promoting institutional innovation, and promote the connection of domestic and international markets, industrial integration, innovation and rules, Strive to build a pilot free trade zone with international influence and competitiveness, give full play to the leading role of reform and opening up, and build an important hub for mutual promotion of domestic and international double cycles.

Looking at China's pilot Free Trade Zone, Zhejiang pilot free trade zone has been a relatively special existence since its birth. In 2017, Zhejiang pilot free trade zone was established. Since then, it has embarked on a characteristic development road of making things out of nothing and developing gas accumulation.

Sheng Qiuping introduced that 2020 can be described as a turning year for Zhejiang pilot Free Trade Zone, which has made two historic breakthroughs in empowerment and expansion, and opened a new round of characteristic development of version 2.0 of Zhejiang pilot free trade zone.

Sheng Qiuping said that the "14th five year plan" period is a key period for expanding the opening-up and deepening the reform of Zhejiang pilot free trade zone. It will deepen the construction of five functional positioning and strive to create the golden card of "three free trade zones", namely digital Free Trade Zone, oil and gas free trade zone and hub free trade zone.

In the special forum, Zhu Keli, founding president of the National Institute of new economics and chief researcher of the new economy think tank, Lu Jing, Professor of economics, deputy director of the Department of international economics and trade and doctoral supervisor of Zhejiang University, Wang Jun, member of the Party group and deputy director of the Department of Commerce of Henan Province, deputy secretary of the working committee of Qingdao xihai'an new area and China (Shandong) University Zhao Shiyu, director of the Qingdao Area Management Committee of the pilot Free Trade Zone, Wei Xuebin, deputy director of the Management Committee of Zhengzhou airport pilot zone, and other guests respectively discussed the future development of the digital economy and the pilot Free Trade Zone, the docking of high-standard free trade agreements to promote the construction of the pilot Free Trade Zone, the exploration and practice of accelerating institutional opening under the guidance of the construction of the pilot Free Trade Zone, and the green and low-carbon development of the pilot free trade zone Exchange and discussion were held on topics such as integrating into the high-level construction of the "air Silk Road" in the free trade zone.

In the subsequent round table forum, representatives of pilot free trade zones such as Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Xiamen and Hangzhou shared their views on building a "digital free trade zone"; One belt, one road, Zhang Yong, President of the Silk Road Research Institute, the Secretary General of the "one area" international science and Technology Industrial Park, and Yang Yi, vice president of the the Great Wall Enterprise Strategy Institute. Professor of Zhejiang University of Technology, Prof. Xuan Qi, Professor of cyberspace safety research Institute, and other guests have carried out in-depth discussions on data industry development and information security in the new digital era.

The forum also released the China pilot Free Trade Zone Development Report 2021. It is reported that the report systematically combs and summarizes the construction process and achievements of China's pilot Free Trade Zone in 2020.

(source: people.com original title: the second China pilot Free Trade Zone Development Forum was held in Hangzhou)