On August 24th, Wu Qingwen, member of the Standing Committee of Suzhou Municipal Committee and secretary of the Party Working Committee of Suzhou Industrial Park, said that Suzhou Free Trade Zone is an important node of the "double cycle" pattern. In the next step, the district will focus on the difficulties and pain points of enterprises, carry out more innovative systems, and promote real high-quality development through better global resource allocation.
"The same city of Shanghai and the Soviet Union is a major historical opportunity for the Suzhou Free Trade Zone. The district will further strengthen the coordinated development with Shanghai, actively undertake the spillover effect of Shanghai, and explore the differentiated development model of' A Tale of Two Cities'. " Wu Qingwen said.
"In the next step, Suzhou Free Trade Zone will continue to adhere to the problem orientation, further optimize our system design around the needs of market players, make system innovation more targeted and accurate, and give enterprises more and stronger sense of gain." Lin Xiaoming, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Suzhou Industrial Park and director of Suzhou Free Trade Zone Management Committee, said.
International economic and trade rules of elevation standard
The Suzhou area of China (Jiangsu) Pilot Free Trade Zone, which was established nearly two years ago, is 60. 15 square kilometers (including 5.28 square kilometers of Suzhou Industrial Park Comprehensive Bonded Zone), all of which are located in Suzhou Industrial Park.
Sun Yangcheng, member of the Party Working Committee of Suzhou Industrial Park, deputy director of the Management Committee and deputy director of the Suzhou Free Trade Zone Management Committee, said that the Suzhou Free Trade Zone should look at the international economic and trade rules of elevation standards and identify the focus of policy innovation. Looking inward, we can deeply participate in regional coordinated development. The integration of the Yangtze River Delta and "the same city of Shanghai and Soviet Union" are the biggest historical development opportunities for Suzhou at present.
"Next, I hope that through open cooperation, Suzhou Industrial Park can jointly undertake the task of reform and opening up with Shanghai Pudong New Area and Lingang New Area to create a world-class business environment." Sun Yang Cheng said.
Suzhou Industrial Park, as an important cooperation project between the Chinese and Singapore governments, is sorting out related fields that need to be broken through, and promoting institutional innovation through its own unique Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Joint Coordination Council.
Singapore is a member of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP), and the China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement was signed in June 2008. On June 5438+February, 2020, China and Singapore announced the launch of follow-up negotiations on upgrading, and promised to conduct negotiations on liberalization of service trade and investment in the form of negative list, so as to further enhance the level of liberalization and facilitation of bilateral trade and investment.
Signing more free trade agreements and upgrading existing ones are important components of opening up. At the press conference of the State Council Office held on August 23rd, Wang Shouwen, Vice Minister of Commerce and Deputy Representative of International Trade Negotiations, said that in the next stage, the existing free trade agreements, including the New China Free Trade Agreement and the China-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, should be further upgraded. At the same time, we should speed up the negotiation of new free trade agreements, including China, Japan and South Korea, China and GCC, Israel and Norway.
"We are actively considering joining CPTPP." Wang Shouwen said.
Sun Yangcheng said that by combing RCEP and CPTPP, including the China-Singapore Free Trade Zone, Suzhou Industrial Park has put forward some directions for institutional innovation. For example, in terms of domestic and international mutual recognition, it is necessary to promote mutual recognition of talents and occupations and mutual recognition of key industries. In terms of investment and trade liberalization, we hope that China and New Zealand will cooperate more in medical and health services and research and development of biological resources. In the fields of telecommunications services, financial services, and productive services, the requirements for foreign shares ratio and capital will be further reduced. We hope to further reduce the customs clearance time of goods trade and let enterprises carry out more high value-added services such as cross-border research and development. In the field of R&D, Suzhou Free Trade Zone aims to provide better intellectual property protection and legal protection, based on the economic and trade rules at altitude.
"In terms of cross-border circulation of talents, capital and data, Suzhou Free Trade Zone hopes to give enterprises a more competitive environment in the most cutting-edge elements." Sun Yangcheng said that he hopes to work with enterprises to conduct high-level research on international economic and trade rules, find the right point of strength, and strive for innovative achievements that enterprises applaud.
Shanghai and the Soviet Union promote institutional innovation in the same city
A few days ago, the Opinions of the State Council Central Committee on Supporting Pudong New Area's High-level Reform and Opening-up and Building a Pioneer Area of Socialist Modernization was released. Among them, it is proposed to strengthen the division of labor and cooperation with industrial clusters in the Yangtze River Delta region, break through a number of core components, launch a number of high-end products, and form a number of China standards. Relying on the advantages of industrial clusters in the Yangtze River Delta, a number of pilot incubation bases for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements will be established.
Sun Yangcheng said that building Pudong into a pioneer area of socialist modernization will also provide new historical opportunities for Suzhou Industrial Park to further open up, reform and innovate, and build a first-class high-tech park, a first-class free trade pilot zone and a new Suzhou city center.
"Shanghai's GDP plus Suzhou's GDP is equivalent to the GDP of the entire Tokyo metropolitan area. Shanghai's industrial structure and Suzhou's industrial structure will become a very competitive industrial structure internationally. " Sun Yang Cheng said.
How to realize the docking of Shanghai and Soviet Union in system innovation and then build a world-class industrial cluster? "Our department has done some combing and made a list." Sun Yang Cheng said.
For example, in terms of interconnection, it is hoped that the functions of Shanghai Airport and Shanghai Port International Port will be further substantially promoted to Suzhou Industrial Park to implement more efficient statutory supervision and coordination; In terms of governance coordination, it is hoped that Suzhou Industrial Park will connect with Shanghai's "one network management" and "one network management" platforms, and Shanghai's urban terminals, digital freight terminals and other functions will land in Suzhou Industrial Park.
Since the establishment of Suzhou Free Trade Zone two years ago, it has completed more than one national leading institutional innovation 100. However, in the "free trade conference room" that day, many multinational companies with simultaneous layout in Shanghai and Suzhou put forward further demands.
Liang Yi, chief commercial officer of Zaiding Medicine and president of Greater China, said that the core R&D hub of the biomedical industry is the hospital, but the medical R&D resources in Suzhou are far from those in Shanghai. In the future, can Suzhou and Shanghai break the boundary, let Shanghai's excellent medical R&D resources radiate to Suzhou, and let the Shanghai-Soviet biomedical industry cluster move to a higher level?
Que Fei, vice president of Johnson & Johnson Co., Ltd. also suggested that Suzhou could use its own public hospital resources to put some clinical trials in Shanghai in Suzhou.
As more than 90% of the goods in Suzhou Industrial Park are imported and exported through Shanghai, Wei, vice president of Danaher Group in China, expressed the hope to strengthen the coordination between Shanghai and Soviet customs.
Yang Ning, Director of Government Affairs of Microsoft China Company, expressed the hope to facilitate the cross-border flow of data on the premise of compliance with regulations. Due to the requirements of regulatory policies, some new cloud services operated by Microsoft in China have not landed in China.
In terms of industrial synergy, Sun Yangcheng said that relevant industrial departments have begun to take action. In the fields of biomedicine, nano-new materials, artificial intelligence, etc., Suzhou should connect with Shanghai's powerful science and technology innovation center. "Part 0~ 1 was completed in Shanghai, and 1~ 10 to 100 was implemented in Suzhou."
Taking biomedicine as an example, Suzhou Industrial Park has taken the lead in promoting the opening and innovation pilot of the whole biomedical industry chain, achieved policy breakthroughs such as segmented production of biological products, established a special project risk assessment center, and gathered more than 1800 biomedical enterprises. The number of innovative leading enterprises, the scale of innovative talents, the number of clinical approvals of innovative biopharmaceuticals, the total production capacity of biomacromolecules and the total financing of enterprises all account for more than 20% of the country.