Comprehensive pilot expansion of service industry expansion and opening up Tianjin, Shanghai, Hainan, and Chongqing are included

Every reporter: Li Keyu Every editor: Jia Yunke

After a lapse of six years, the comprehensive pilot program for expanding the opening up of the service industry has “expanded” again.

April 20th. China government website issued the "State Council's Reply on Approving Comprehensive Pilots for Expanding and Opening up Service Industries in Tianjin, Shanghai, Hainan, and Chongqing". This document stated that it agreed to expand and open up service industries in Tianjin, Shanghai, Hainan Province, and Chongqing City. Comprehensive pilots, the pilot period is 3 years from the date of approval, and the four provinces and municipalities agree in principle to expand and open up the comprehensive pilot comprehensive pilot program.

The "Daily Business News" reporter noted that in May 2015, the State Council agreed to launch a comprehensive pilot project for expanding the opening up of the service industry in Beijing. Some analysts pointed out that six years later, the State Council agreed that four provinces and cities would join the team of comprehensive pilot projects for expanding the opening up of the service industry, which means that my country's high-level opening up to the outside world has reached a new level.

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The scope of pilot exploration will be more comprehensive

When will the comprehensive pilot of expanding and opening up the service industry be "expanded" on the basis of the previous Beijing , Has always been a topic of great concern. In the government work report released during the National Two Sessions in March this year, clear arrangements were made for this. The report pointed out: "Promote the orderly opening of the service industry, and set up a comprehensive pilot program for expanding the opening up of the service industry." This statement means that the expansion of the comprehensive pilot "expansion" of the service industry in 2021 can be said to be a matter of course.

After more than a month, four new members of Tianjin, Shanghai, Hainan, and Chongqing were added to the comprehensive pilot project of expanding the opening up of the service industry, which enabled the rapid implementation of the tasks set out in the government work report.

Bai Ming, deputy director of the International Market Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, told the "Daily Business News" reporter in an interview that previously, only Beijing was "finalized" in the comprehensive pilot program for expanding the opening up of the service industry, because Beijing has always served The trade field is in the forefront of the country, and there is also the "blessing" of holding the China International Trade in Services Fair (Service Trade Fair). Beijing takes the lead in launching a comprehensive pilot program for expanding the opening up of the service industry, which is in line with Beijing's urban positioning.

When talking about the importance of "capacity expansion", Bai Ming pointed out to reporters that at this stage,To expand the opening up of the service industry, it is not enough to rely on a pilot in one city in Beijing. It requires comprehensive exploration in different places. This will also have more value in promoting replication.

Liu Tao, a researcher at the Institute of Market Economy of the Development Research Center of the State Council, previously analyzed that the new pilot program will comprehensively consider three conditions: one is the development foundation of the service industry and service trade, the other is institutional innovation and governance capabilities, and the third is demonstration and driving. effect. The core cities of some important urban agglomerations that meet these three conditions will assume the important task of piloting.

Forces the innovation and development of the domestic service industry

From the previous Beijing, to Tianjin, Shanghai, Qiongyu and Chongqing, it has been included in the scope of the comprehensive pilot program for expanding the opening up of the service industry. What will happen to the newly added pilot areas? Features?

In this regard, Bai Ming analyzed to the reporter of "Daily Economic News" and pointed out that from the perspective of the positioning of these four places, Shanghai's goal is to build an international economic, financial, trade, and shipping center; Tianjin is the industrial center of the north; Hainan is Explore the construction of a free trade port; Chongqing is an important representative of the central and western provinces. The comprehensive pilot projects for expanding the opening up of the service industry in these places and the types of service trade that can be developed will be more comprehensive than Beijing.

For example, in the field of producer services, these four regions have more room for development relative to Beijing. In other platforms and application scenarios, these four regions may also develop more supporting facilities based on their own resources. Features.

The "Daily Economic News" reporter noted that Zhang Yong, deputy director of the Shanghai Finance and Development Laboratory, previously analyzed and pointed out that China will further establish comprehensive pilots for expanding the opening up of the service industry, so that institutional innovation can better serve the expansion of the service industry. This measure will encourage foreign capital to provide more and better service industry content in the form of "commercial presence", which is conducive to forcing the domestic service industry to develop innovatively and supply-side structural reforms.

In fact, the State Council also emphasized in its reply that the pilot project should be based on the new development stage, implement new development concepts, and build a new development pattern in accordance with the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, with the theme of promoting high-quality development, and deepening the supply-side structure. Reform and innovation as the main line, with reform and innovation as the fundamental driving force, and meeting the people’s ever-increasing needs for a better life as the fundamental goal, focusing on the development positioning of the region, further promoting the reform and opening up of the service industry, accelerating the development of modern service industry, and shaping international cooperation and cooperation. New competitive advantage,Promote the construction of a new system for a higher level of open economy and make contributions to accelerating the construction of a new development pattern.

With the upgrading of information technology and the development of digital trade, my country's emerging producer service trade has a bright future. In the past ten years, the average annual growth rate of revenue and expenditure of my country’s emerging producer service trade was 8%, of which the average annual growth rate of revenue and expenditure of computer services and intellectual property royalties was 17% and 13%, while that of the United States, Germany and Japan The average annual growth rate of the balance of trade in productive services was 4.6%, 5.5% and 6.6%.

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