The State Council issued the China (Liaoning, Zhejiang, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan and Shaanxi) free trade test area overall program

The day before, the State Council issued separately "China (Liaoning) free trade zone overall plan", "China (Zhejiang) free trade zone overall plan", "China (Henan) free trade zone overall plan", "Chinese (Hubei) free trade zone", "general plan Chinese (Chongqing) the free trade zone overall plan", "China (Sichuan) free trade zone overall plan", "Chinese (Shaanxi) overall program test free trade zone" (hereinafter referred to as "the general").

The "master plan" pointed out that the establishment of Liaoning, Zhejiang, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi free trade zone is a major decision, the Party Central Committee and the State Council, is a strategic measure under the new situation of comprehensive deepening reform and opening up, to accelerate the transformation of government functions, and actively explore the management mode, innovation to promote trade and investment facilitation, financial liberalization and innovation, to deepen reform and expand opening up to explore new ways to accumulate new experience, has important significance.

The "master plan" proposed FTA test area should be the vanguard of reform and opening up, innovation and development of the forerunner to institutional innovation as the core, to copy can be extended to the basic requirements in the construction of the new system of open economy, inland open economy new development pattern and the construction of rule of law in the international business facilitation environment. The first mining reform potential reforms to crack the problem. Efforts should be made to deepen the reform of the administrative system, improve the efficiency of administrative management and enhance the ability and level of supervision after the event, and further promote the integration of decentralization and management, and optimize the service reform. In order to promote the development of the western region, Northeast China, central China and the Yangtze River Economic Development Zone, The Belt and Road "for the construction of national strategy implementation.

The "master plan" stressed, must resolutely implement the Party Central Committee and the State Council to deploy, insist on maintaining stability in the general work guideline, further emancipate the mind, reform and innovation, bold practice, and actively explore the overall planning, strengthen coordination and support free trade pilot test area. To improve the understanding of the work of the FTA test area, strengthen organizational leadership, clear the responsibility of the main body, and carefully organize the implementation of the overall program, grasp the implementation of reform measures, effective prevention and control of various risks. The office of the State Council, the inter ministerial joint conference Free Trade Zone 7 provincial and municipal people's government and relevant departments to innovative ideas and look for patterns, solve problems and experience; to give full play to the enthusiasm of local conditions, highlighting the characteristics of comparative test and complementation test well; to sum up the pilot assessment tasks in a timely implementation, strengthen the pilot experience in system integration. Continue to form the reform experience can be copied to promote, give full play to the positive role of demonstration and service to the whole country.

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Department of Commerce: seven FTA features

The Information Office of the State Council on March 31st in the afternoon held a press conference, Vice Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen and Liaoning, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other 8 provinces of the person in charge of the situation the construction of the test area of free trade, and a reporter asked.

Wang Shouwen, Vice Minister of Commerce, said in a new conference press conference in the afternoon that the new layout of the seven free trade zones was designed to promote the experience of replication reform throughout the country and to conduct an open risk test throughout the country. The overall program also takes into account the differentiation, and carried out three-dimensional exploration. For example, in Liaoning, the focus of reform deepening of state owned enterprise; Zhejiang is the important content of international maritime oil base; Henan: build international logistics corridor traffic, reduce transportation costs; Hubei: focus on promoting the development of innovation driven strategic docking and industrial upgrading; Chongqing: "The Belt and Road" of the Yangtze River Economic Belt strategy; Sichuan: the coordinated development of the inland and coastal border; Shaanxi: expand and The Belt and Road along exchanges and cooperation. Source: Xinhua News Agency