Source: new Beijing News (Beijing)
On December 12th, Premier Li Keqiang chaired a State Council executive meeting, decided to set up three free trade zone in Guangdong, Tianjin, Fujian region specific. This will free trade experience extended to Guangdong, Tianjin and Fujian, is to expand the experimental field of reform and opening up more areas of new.
To the Shanghai FTA plus "test" two words
In September this year, Li Keqiang in Shanghai free trade zone evaluation results, mainly to listen to the latest progress of the negative list management mode, he also invited the enterprises as the FTA scoring. Why should we set up a free trade zone in Shanghai? With 10 Chinese and foreign entrepreneurs forum, said Li Keqiang, is to explore the relationship between a deal with the government and the market, the two is to explore the relationship between development and opening up, the three is to promote financial reform and innovation.
In 2013 March, Li Keqiang held a forum in Shanghai that the enterprise will, some multinational companies want to set up research and development, sales, logistics center in Shanghai, found the need to build more than 100 chapters in Beijing, Shanghai. Li Keqiang immediately to actively support the establishment of a free trade in Shanghai test area. 6 months later, China (Shanghai) free trade area formally test.
Li Keqiang said at a forum on recalls, determine the name Shanghai FTA, he advocated joined the test word. The changes on the surface is to free trade division of a frame, but in fact to the reform provides more space. He said: since it is a test, trial and error is allowed in the area of 28 square kilometers, allowing further emancipate the mind, to try and go into.
Many places that Shanghai took advantage of many. Li Keqiang said, in fact, the state did not give any financial support, tax preferential free trade zone. Shanghai Free Trade Zone self cut down a large number of power, the system and mechanism innovation, promote the reform to develop in depth.
Li Keqiang September in Tianjin held the eighth annual summer Davos forum more concise stressed, Shanghai FTA policy is not depression, but the reform of highland.
To implement in the country three list
Compared to the three of the new free trade area, the three list of the transformation of government functions, is Li Keqiang value more reform achievements.
Li Keqiang at the executive meeting of the State Council held 12 of the said, to promote the replication of free trade zone, is a major transformation of government functions. The core work of Shanghai Free Trade Zone promote pilot experience, is not only to expand the three area, but in the implementation of the national three Zhang Qingdan: no law prohibited all can be a negative list method without authorization, not for the power list, law has a regulation must be a list of responsibilities.
Listing a year later, explore the reform of Shanghai FTA is entering the Deepwater area. Executive meeting pointed out that to deepen Shanghai free trade test area of reform and opening up, further compressed the negative list in the service industry and advanced manufacturing and other fields to launch a number of initiatives to expand open.
The experience of the pilot FTA explores, also is to more local radiation and promotion. Executive meeting decided that the radiation part open measures Shanghai FTA to Pudong New Area, in Guangdong, Tianjin, Fujian three additional free trade zone, at the same time, except for those involving legal amendments to such things, investment, trade, financial and other aspects of the 28 reform pilot experience to the national promotion.
