& shy; Fuzhou Free Trade Area implements administrative examination and approval institution reform.
& shy; The standing committee of the Provincial People’s Congress held a press briefing on the regulations on China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone yesterday, the relevant departments of the province and the heads of each area of the Free Trade Zone attended the meeting to introduce the highlights and related work of this regulation. Straightening out the mechanism, system innovation, local characteristics and convenience for people and enterprises are the four highlights of the regulation.
& shy; Convenience enterprises
& shy; Increase the sense of enterprise people
& shy; In terms of rationalizing the management system, Fujian free trade zone management system is different from Shanghai, Tianjin and Guangdong. The regulations stipulate the management system with the characteristics of our province. The provincial government, the municipal government and relevant departments divided into districts will delegate the economic and social management authority to the district management agencies, the work of promoting the development, reform and innovation of free trade zones will be incorporated into government performance management, giving each area the largest development space.
& shy; In the aspect of highlighting the system innovation, the regulations stipulate that the pilot free trade zone should establish a commercial registration system that connects with international practices, the equal status and development rights of all kinds of market entities in the region are protected by law and enjoy fair treatment in supervision, taxation and government procurement, improve the intellectual property management system and protection system in line with international standards, etc. The regulations also encourage reform and innovation, establish an innovation fault tolerance mechanism, and reduce improper pressure on innovation.
& shy; In terms of reflecting local characteristics, cooperation with Taiwan and the construction of Haisi core area are the two major characteristics of Fujian free trade experimental zone. The regulations set up special chapters to stipulate exchanges and cooperation between Fujian and Taiwan. In terms of the sea silk core area, it stipulates to support enterprises to expand their investment in countries and regions along the 21th Century Maritime Silk Road, the free trade zone strengthens cooperation with these countries and regions along the route to improve the level of trade.
& shy; In order to make enterprises and ordinary people have a real sense of acquisition, the regulations added the cancellation of inspection and evaluation of enterprises during the revision process, and the provisions of exemption from administrative fees. It also supports enterprises in FTZ to carry out bonded display transactions, and qualified enterprises can extend bonded display transactions to the whole province. In other words, people in the province are expected to enjoy bonded goods in the free trade zone at their doorstep.
& shy; More innovative measures will be taken
& shy; Included in the national replicable scope
& shy; According to the introduction of Fujian pilot free trade zone office, by the end of March this year, 186 key test tasks in Fujian pilot free trade zone had been implemented 145 and 41 were being promoted; 160 innovative measures have been implemented, and 63 of them have been evaluated as the first in the country. There were more than 26,000 new enterprises in the pilot free trade zone, an increase of more than 4 times; The registered capital was more than 400 billion yuan, an increase of more than 5 times.
& shy; In the next stage, in accordance with the requirements of the regulations, the Office of Fujian pilot free trade zone will create more leading advantages. Through “integrating a batch, upgrading a batch, expanding a batch, and promoting a new batch”, we will promote the quality and efficiency of innovative achievements, and strive for investment, trade, finance, Taiwan, there are typical measures in the field of post-event supervision and so on, and more influential and top-grade innovative measures will be included in the scope of national replication and promotion. It is also necessary to strengthen risk prevention and control. In accordance with the requirements of the regulations, through speeding up the construction of departmental information sharing platform, strengthening the linkage supervision and joint punishment of market subjects, and building an effective supervision system after the event. Strengthen talent guarantee through multiple channels to provide intellectual support for the accelerated development of FTZ. Further play the role of the free trade zone prosecutor’s office, the court, the International Commercial Arbitration Institute and the International Commercial Mediation Center, to protect the construction of the free trade zone. (Reporter Li bailei)