China.com Guangdong News, August 27 (Reporter Han Lin) How has the Guangdong Free Trade Pilot Zone been developing since it was listed on April 21, 2015? The reporter came to the Nansha area of the Free Trade Zone yesterday and got a set of numbers: In the first half of this year, there were 6,843 newly registered enterprises in the Nansha area of the Guangdong Free Trade Pilot Zone, an increase of 180% year-on-year; the container throughput is 5.77 million TEUs, an increase of 2.2% year-on-year; the port cargo throughput is 142 million tons, an increase of 4.1% year-on-year; 50 Fortune 500 companies have invested in and settled in the Nansha Free Trade Zone...
As one of the series of activities of the "Eleventh Pan-Pearl River Delta Regional Cooperation and Development Forum and Economic and Trade Negotiation Conference", the large-scale field trip event "Economic vitality looks at Guangdong·Open Development-Pan-Pearl River Online Media Visits the Free Trade Zone" reporter team set off from Guangzhou yesterday and drove to the Nansha Free Trade Zone.
After entering the Nansha Free Trade Zone, the reporter saw that there were high-rise buildings on both sides of the highway, and a modern new town had taken shape; in the distance, large factory facilities poked out the white walls and gray roofs in large green areas. Officials from the Nansha Free Trade Zone, who were on board, told reporters that the construction of the Free Trade Zone is fast and has achieved remarkable results. The newly registered enterprises have exceeded the total of the previous ten years since the establishment. Driven by the effect of the free trade pilot zone, projects such as China Communications Construction International Headquarters, China Railway Construction Southern Headquarters, Sinochem Group Regional Headquarters, and COSCO Shipping Bulk Cargo Headquarters have been moved in, and the L'Oreal production and R&D base in France has been put into operation. 50 Fortune 500 companies have invested and settled, and more than 50 headquarters-type companies of various types have entered, forming an industrial agglomeration trend in the fields of shipping logistics, innovative finance, financial leasing, cross-border e-commerce, etc.
Pan Yuzhang, director of the Nansha District Free Trade Office and chief economist, provided a lot of numbers to reporters. For example, there are 16 key construction projects in Guangzhou led by Nansha District, with a total investment of 4.205 billion yuan in the first half of the year, completing 65.5% of the annual investment plan. In the first half of this year, there were 6,843 newly registered enterprises in the Nansha area of Guangdong Free Trade Pilot Zone, an increase of 180% year-on-year; the container throughput is 5.77 million TEUs, an increase of 2.2% year-on-year; the port cargo throughput is 142 million tons, an increase of 4.1% year-on-year, and so on.
Director Pan Yuzhang particularly emphasized that the construction of Nansha is not only high-end hardware construction, but more importantly, software construction focuses on institutional innovation, focuses on promoting investment and trade facilitation, actively connects with international common rules, strengthens research on new international investment and trade agreements such as TPP and TTIP, and has formed a total of 142 innovative achievements, and basically established an investment management system with a negative list as the core. For example, implement the new model of "one-double acceptance" and "one license and one code" to realize the joint operation of "thirteen certificates and three chapters". Enterprise applicants only need to go back and forth to the government affairs center window twice and submit the materials at one time, and can complete all the procedures for starting a business within 1 day (24 hours). In terms of tax processing, landmark reforms such as the full process "Electronic Taxation Bureau" and the "one-stop service" of national and local taxes have been implemented to achieve tax refunds for a type of export enterprise with complete documents within 2 days.
reporter saw in the Nansha Port Area of Guangzhou Port that tall cranes stood in rows of shore, with containers piled up in the port area and a large container cargo ship was unloading. The reporter learned that Guangzhou Port Group is making great efforts to promote the construction of port infrastructure in Nansha Port Area, the port's comprehensive service capacity has been greatly improved, and the collection and distribution system has become more sound. At present, Nansha Port Area has a total of 75 international liner routes, 16 "waterless port" business points, 53 "shuttle buses", and 3 international cruise routes. In the first seven months of this year, the throughput of Guangzhou Port reached 233 million tons, ranking among the top 12 in the world in a single port, and more than 70% of its business volume is in the Nansha Port Area. In the next five years, Guangzhou Port Group also plans to invest more than 20 billion yuan in construction in Nansha Port and add 100 million tons of new pass capacity.
In Nansha, the reporter heard this statement: "Nansha must take advantage of the policy advantages of the free trade zone, make its own advantages and key industries well and strengthen, and form a agglomeration effect, so as to attract outstanding domestic and foreign enterprises to invest and form an industrial scale." What the reporter saw in Nansha was talking about such a prosperous scene.
Focus on scientific and technological innovation to lead industrial development, which is also a feature of Nansha’s development. The reporter team came to the Ho Ying-Tong Institute of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.In this green and quiet place like a countryside, the reporter has seen many world-leading new technologies and new materials. The picture shows visitors carefully inspecting a piggy bank made of new ultra-light materials.
