About Qingdao Free Trade Zone
China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone - Qingdao Area
China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone-Qingdao area has a total of 52 square kilometers (including 9.12 square kilometers of Qingdao Qianwan Bonded Port Area and 2.01 square kilometers of Qingdao West Coast Comprehensive Bonded Zone), four areas: east to Qianwan Port, south to Jialingjiang Road, West to Wangtai Town Park 1st Road, north to Longmenhe Road. The Qingdao area focuses on the development of modern marine, international trade, shipping logistics, modern finance, advanced manufacturing and other industries, to build an international shipping hub in Northeast Asia, an important innovation center along the eastern coast, and a demonstration area for marine economic development, helping Qingdao to become an important central city along the coast of my country.
Main tasks and measures
(1) Accelerate the transformation of government functions.
1. Create a world-class business environment. Deepen the reform of the commercial system, and promote the full coverage of the reform of "separation of business licenses". All the economic and social management powers that can be delegated in Shandong Province are delegated to the Pilot Free Trade Zone. Carry out "simplified examination and approval" and "non-face-to-face examination and approval (service)", and deepen the reform of "one-time success". Comprehensively carry out the reform of the approval system for construction projects. Apply artificial intelligence technology to improve the level of social governance. Establish and improve an interim and ex post supervision system with credit supervision as the core and compatible with the negative list management method. Strengthen the fundamental position of competition policy. Cooperate with foreign investment security review work.
(2) Deepening the reform in the investment field.
2. Further promote investment liberalization and facilitation. Fully implement the pre-entry national treatment plus negative list management system for foreign investment. Explore the establishment of a foreign investment information reporting system. Support foreign-invested enterprises to participate in the formulation of hydrogen energy vehicle standards. Support the establishment of wholly foreign-owned business education and training and vocational skills training institutions. Support foreign investment in establishing air transport sales agency enterprises. The qualification requirements for investors of domestic and foreign talent intermediary institutions shall be unified, and the management agency of the pilot free trade zone shall be responsible for the examination and approval, and shall be reported to the provincial human resources and social security department for the record. Qualified foreign travel agencies registered in the Pilot Free Trade Zone are allowed to engage in outbound tourism business other than Taiwan.
3. Improve investment promotion and protection mechanisms. Establish and improve the foreign investment service system, and improve the foreign investment promotion, project tracking service and complaint working mechanism. Pilot free trade zones are encouraged to formulate foreign investment promotion policies within their statutory authority. Pilot the construction of a two-way investment promotion public service platform for small and medium-sized enterprises. Improve the comprehensive service system for enterprises to "go global". Support "going out" enterprises to obtain loans by using overseas assets and equity, mining rights and other rights as collateral.
(3) Promote the transformation and upgrading of trade.
4. Improve the level of trade facilitation. Explore the international mutual recognition mechanism for inspection, quarantine and traceability standards for food and agricultural products, and expand the scope of products and institutions that can be trusted with third-party inspection results. Innovate the way of guarantee release for export goods patent disputes. Vigorously develop transit trade. Focus on domestic and overseas cargo transfer, consolidation and international distribution and distribution business. Comprehensively implement the classification and supervision of goods status in the special customs supervision area. For the import and export of aircraft, ships, marine engineering structures and other large-scale equipment by financial leasing enterprises registered in the special customs supervision area of the FTZ involving cross-customs areas, the customs shall implement the customs on the premise of ensuring effective supervision and the implementation of the current tax policy. Outsourced supervision. Explore the cancellation of business licenses for enterprises engaged in trade brokerage and agency in the areas under special customs supervision of the FTZ or change them to filing, unless otherwise stipulated by laws and regulations. For the import, processing and re-export of old mechanical and electrical equipment such as high value-added CNC machine tools, engineering equipment, electronic equipment, and communication equipment that are allowed to be imported in accordance with national environmental protection requirements, the customs will facilitate customs clearance. Support the establishment of comprehensive bonded zones in eligible areas of the Pilot Free Trade Zone.
5. Cultivate new trade formats and new models. Support enterprises in the Pilot Free Trade Zone to carry out cross-border e-commerce import and export business, and gradually realize the comprehensive application of the cross-border e-commerce retail import policy in the Comprehensive Bonded Zone in the Pilot Free Trade Zone in accordance with laws and regulations. Under the premise of controllable risks and compliance with laws and regulations, actively carry out the recycling and remanufacturing of aircraft parts and components. Support the construction of vehicle import ports in the Pilot Free Trade Zone. Support the Qingdao area to increase the number of pilot enterprises for parallel import of automobiles in a timely manner. Accelerate the development of digital trade. Promote the storage and display of cultural relics and cultural artworks in the comprehensive bonded area of the FTZ.
6. Continue to optimize the trade structure. According to the reform process of the oil and natural gas system and the needs of the industry, study and grant crude oil import qualifications to qualified enterprises in the Pilot Free Trade Zone. Companies registered in the Pilot Free Trade Zone are allowed to carry out blending and blending of bonded oil products under different tax numbers. Support ship oil supply enterprises with relevant qualifications to carry out bonded oil supply business for ships on international voyages. Support to rely on existing trading venues to carry out cotton and other bulk commodity trading in accordance with laws and regulations. Support the establishment of designated supervision sites for the import of food and agricultural products, and build a distribution center for the import and export of food, agricultural products and wine. Bonded supervision shall be implemented for qualified enterprises outside the special customs supervision area to carry out high-value-added, high-tech, environmental-friendly "two-outside" inspection, maintenance and remanufacturing.
(4) Deepen opening and innovation in the financial sector.
7. Expand the cross-border use of RMB. Exploring the way of returning through the export trade under the RMB capital account, focusing on promoting the cross-border use of RMB in the field of trade and investment. Support qualified multinational companies to carry out cross-border RMB fund pool business in accordance with regulations. Support banks in FTZs to issue overseas RMB loans in accordance with regulations. Explore the use of RMB denominated and settled by financial institutions in the FTZ when conducting cross-border asset transfer and other businesses in accordance with regulations, and include it in the macro-prudential management of full-scale cross-border financing.
8. Promote cross-border investment and financing facilitation. Carry out the pilot reform of capital account income payment facilitation. The income from trade in goods of enterprises whose foreign exchange management classification for trade in goods in the FTZ is classified as Class A can directly enter the current account settlement account. Research and carry out the pilot work of qualified domestic limited partners (QDLP). Support the establishment of foreign-invested financial institutions in the Pilot Free Trade Zone in accordance with laws and regulations. Explore the establishment of fund companies specializing in domestic equity investment. Support foreign equity investment management institutions and foreign venture capital management institutions to initiate and manage RMB equity investment and venture capital funds in the Pilot Free Trade Zone.
9. Explore and implement financial innovation. Under the premise of strict supervision, the pilot program of comprehensive financial operation shall be carried out in a prudent and orderly manner. Support local corporate banks to carry out pilot projects of joint stock-debt linkage business. Explore the development of private equity investment secondary trading funds. Encourage innovation in intellectual property insurance business, and carry out special reform and innovation in fund management services. Insurance legal person institutions in the Pilot Free Trade Zone shall be supported to carry out overseas investment in accordance with laws and regulations. Support qualified financial leasing companies to set up specialized subsidiaries in the Pilot Free Trade Zone. According to the needs of futures bonded delivery business, it is allowed to expand the function of warehouse receipt pledge financing, and promote the improvement of warehouse receipt pledge financing related to warehouse receipt confirmation and other work. Strengthen the identification of major risks and the prevention of systemic financial risks. Strengthen anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing, anti-tax evasion work.
(5) Promote innovation-driven development.
10. Strengthen innovation capacity building. Support the construction of innovation platforms such as overseas innovation incubation centers and offshore innovation and entrepreneurship bases for overseas talents. Support enterprises to build industrial innovation platforms in conjunction with financial institutions, universities, and scientific research institutes. Support the construction of Shandong Industrial Technology Research Institute. Encourage famous foreign universities to come to China to carry out cooperative education. Promote the development of dual-system vocational education, and set up a college of intelligent manufacturing technicians. Support the Qingdao area to carry out high-level Sino-German cooperation in running schools.
11. Promote the development of the medical and pharmaceutical industry. Under the framework of relevant institutional arrangements, Hong Kong and Macao service providers are allowed to set up wholly-owned medical institutions as required. Support the development of industries such as plastic surgery and beauty, advanced medical technology research and development and incubation. Medical institutions in the Pilot Free Trade Zone may carry out research on stem cell clinical cutting-edge medical technology in accordance with relevant regulations. Accelerate the approval and listing of innovative drugs, and implement priority review and approval of innovative drugs that are urgently needed in clinical practice, such as anticancer drugs and drugs for rare diseases. Optimize the quarantine inspection process of special items for global collaborative research and development of biomedicine. Carry out the pilot program of the medical device registrant system, allowing medical device registrants in the FTZ to entrust medical device manufacturers in Shandong Province to produce products. To allow the introduction and creation of international medical organizations, to host international medical conferences. Give priority access to medical talents and advanced medical technology. Encourage qualified personnel to take the lead in the provision of TCM treatment services in medical institutions, and the promotion of professional titles of TCM full-time doctors in medical institutions.
12. Improve the intellectual property protection and utilization system. Establish a mechanism for intellectual property dispute resolution and rapid rights protection. Support the establishment of intellectual property operation centers. Improve the intellectual property evaluation mechanism, the pledge financing risk sharing mechanism and the convenient and fast pledge disposal mechanism. Explore the evaluation mechanism of talent and technology capitalization, realize that intellectual property can be valued, the transformation of achievements can be valued, and the talent team can be valued. Relaxation of conditions for shareholders and partners of patent agencies.
13. Optimize the development environment for foreign talents and talents from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Support professionals from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and qualified foreign professionals to work in the Pilot Free Trade Zone. Further facilitate entry and exit for foreigners conducting business, tourism and other activities in the Pilot Free Trade Zone. Carry out a pilot program of the "All-in-One Card" service for foreign high-end talents. For matters that need to be reviewed and approved, such as international conferences, foreign invitations, and envoy visits, a through-train system for foreign affairs review and approval has been established.
(6) High-quality development of the marine economy.
14. Accelerate the development of marine characteristic industries. Build a Northeast Asian aquatic product processing and trade center. Promote the construction of marine engineering equipment research institutes and major research and development, test and verification platforms and smart terminals, and develop industries such as research and development, manufacturing, maintenance, and services of marine-related equipment. Support the exploration and construction of a modernized transfer base for the introduction of marine seed resources, and speed up the quarantine access of high-quality aquatic fry. Optimize the import licensing procedures for marine biological germplasm and its biological products, and strengthen the research and industrial application of marine biological germplasm and genetic resources. Promote the construction of national marine drug pilot test bases and blue drug storage R&D and production bases, and include marine drugs in the national medical insurance catalogue according to regulations. Support qualified financial institutions in the Pilot Free Trade Zone to provide various types of sea-related financial services.
15. Improve the level of international marine cooperation. Give full play to the role of the East Asian maritime cooperation platform, link up within and outside the region, and deepen open cooperation. Support marine-related universities, research institutes, national laboratories, enterprises and domestic and foreign institutions to jointly build marine laboratories and marine research centers. Support international marine organizations to set up branches in Shandong Province. Build an international marine genomics alliance to carry out global marine biological gene sequencing services. Support sea-related enterprises to participate in the formulation of international standards.
16. Improve shipping service capabilities. Build a comprehensive information platform for shipping big data. Explore relying on existing trading venues to carry out the trading of shipping elements such as ships in accordance with laws and regulations. Support the Qingdao International Marine Property Exchange Center to carry out international ship transactions on a pilot basis. Support the establishment of multi-functional warehouses for international transfer and consolidation of goods. Gradually open up the classification inspection of Chinese ships on international voyages. Support the development of foreign cruise ship repair business. Give full play to the advantages of port functions, establish a multimodal transport service system centered on the "one order system", improve the operation platform of China-Europe freight trains in Shandong Province, and build a large east-west interconnection channel connecting Japan and South Korea in the east and Eurasia in the west. Strengthen the linkage between the pilot free trade zone and seaports and airports, and promote the coordinated development of sea, land, and airmail.
(7) Deepen China-Japan-ROK regional economic cooperation.
17. Explore local economic cooperation among the three countries. Strengthen complementary advantages and explore joint development of third-party markets. Build China-Korea (Yantai) Industrial Park with high standards, and innovate the cooperation model of "two countries and two parks". Support the cooperative construction of medical care and health centers. Promote the establishment of an international platform for the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements. Support the development of RMB overseas fund business in accordance with regulations. Foreign exchanges are allowed to set up offices in the Pilot Free Trade Zone.
18. Promote the facilitation of regional cooperation and exchanges. Strengthen the mutual recognition and cooperation of "Accredited Operators (AEO)" between the customs of China, Japan and China and South Korea, and build an efficient and smooth cooperation mechanism for information exchange, mutual recognition of supervision, mutual assistance in law enforcement, inspection and quarantine, and standard measurement. Cooperate with Japan and South Korea to determine the list of fresh agricultural and sideline products, and speed up the opening of green channels for quick customs clearance. Innovate the supervision model of "telecom declaration, epidemic-free passage" for liner health and quarantine between the parties to the free trade agreement
