Polish the 'Chinese Characteristics' of Free Trade Port Construction (Online Commentator)

Dialogue person:

Li Zheng, commentator for this newspaper

Zhang Chenglin, commentator for Hainan Daily

Li Zheng: General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "building Hainan Free Trade Port is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee to comprehensively deepen reform and opening up in the new era." Recently, Hainan Free Trade Port officially launched the island wide closure. What does this mean for implementing a higher level of openness?

Zhang Chenglin: The island wide lockdown is to establish a special customs supervision area for the entire island of Hainan. The 12 words "opening up the 'first line', controlling the 'second line', and allowing freedom within the island" clarify the regulatory requirements for the entry and exit of goods between Hainan Island and overseas, Hainan Island and the mainland, as well as the flow within the island. On the premise of effectively preventing and controlling risk transmission, it maximizes the convenience of exchanges between Hainan and the world, and between Hainan and the mainland.

On the day of the lockdown, a company in Hainan imported 3558 tons of calcite. In the past, a customs declaration required 105 items of data to be declared, but now it is less than 70 items and can be reviewed in just a few minutes. In the first week of the lockdown, Hainan added 1972 newly registered foreign trade enterprises. It can be said that now customs clearance is faster, access is wider, factors are more active, and tax burden is lower, making Hainan's connection with the world more convenient and close.

Li Zheng: The construction of Hainan Free Trade Port is closely related to the overall development of the country. How can Hainan find its position in the overall development of the country?

Zhang Chenglin: In Hainan, there is a saying that is often mentioned - to be the "first move" for the Party Central Committee to grasp the initiative of future development. This indicates that the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port is not a one-time event, but a strategic measure that serves the overall situation and focuses on the long term. To serve the needs of the country to the best of Hainan's ability, these two keywords highlight Hainan's achievements and advantages.

One is the 'experimental field', where Hainan boldly tries and ventures, and currently cultivates 21 batches of 173 institutional integration innovation cases, many of which are promoted nationwide. One is the "intersection point", where 86 countries can enter Hainan without a visa, 176 countries and regions have invested in Hainan, and breakthroughs have been made in independent overseas education. Hainan has gradually become a strategic intersection point for domestic and international dual circulation, helping to accelerate the construction of a new development pattern.

Li Zheng: Building Hainan Free Trade Port is not only an opportunity for Hainan's development, but also has a driving and radiating effect on the development of various parts of the country.

Zhang Chenglin: Only by adding color to the overall situation with one domain can we demonstrate the leading effect of "promoting reform and development through opening up". Modern agricultural enterprises in Henan, through the sales network of Qiongbu Bureau, are using policies such as "processing value-added tax exemption" to promote the expansion of foreign markets for livestock and poultry products and pre packaged vegetables; Sichuan enterprises have established an international smart goods trade cloud port in Hainan, building a new channel for Sichuan Chongqing goods to go global... Hainan has become a pivot for more and more mainland enterprises to integrate into the new development pattern.

At the same time, Hainan has strengthened its coordinated development with the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, deepened cooperation with regions such as the Beijing Tianjin Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Yangtze River Economic Belt, and established cooperative industrial parks one by one in Hainan. The policy advantages and location advantages make Hainan a springboard for other provinces to "borrow ports and go global". It can be seen that the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port is not an "isolated island" opening up, but a deep integration with the development of various parts of the country, which can produce an amplification effect of "one child falling and the whole being revitalized".

Li Zheng: "In the past, our openness was about 'following', but now our openness is about 'leading'. The operation of closed doors is a typical institutional opening. How to leverage institutional openness to play a leading role in the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port?

Zhang Chenglin: Hainan has nurtured an industrial forest led by institutional openness. By utilizing the pilot measures for temporary inbound repairs, Hainan has completed nearly 200 aircraft maintenance and painting operations, occupying a place in the global aviation maintenance industry chain; Taking full advantage of the free trade port policy, Boao Lecheng has introduced 530 licensed drugs and equipment, benefiting over 200000 patients and becoming a highly regarded "medical special zone".

Practice has shown that promoting institutional openness is also a process of promoting institutional innovation. Hainan has systematically and comprehensively "tested the system for the country", initially establishing a policy system of institutional openness, and becoming one of the most open regions in the domestic market. Taking the closure of customs as an opportunity, we should not only take the lead in connecting with existing international high standard economic and trade rules, but also actively expand independent opening up, and shine the "Chinese characteristics" and play a leading role in the construction of global free trade ports.

Li Zheng: Since the new era, China has successively deployed and established 22 pilot free trade zones, forming an open pattern covering the east, west, north, south, and central regions, and coordinating coastal, inland, and border areas. The operation of Hainan's customs clearance is an important milestone in expanding the efforts to continue high-level opening-up to the outside world. From a global perspective, in the face of anti globalization and rising protectionism, China has given a resounding answer to the world by building the Hainan Free Trade Port, demonstrating its commitment to multilateralism, openness, and inclusiveness, demonstrating its great power and strategic determination.

Taking the closure of the entire island as a new starting point, we will continue to accelerate the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, and build it into an important gateway leading China's opening up in the new era. We will make Hainan a beautiful business card showcasing China's style, image, and image, further highlighting the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and promoting deep level reform and high-quality development through high-level opening up.