Old Place New Starting Point

Zheng Hongjie stood at the site of reclamation in Qianhai and gazed at the boiling land ahead.

The 53 year old director of the Qianhai administration of Shenzhen said that she should "take the courage to come up", take yukou spirit as an example, Yuan Geng as a model, and spend 10 years to build Qianhai into an international modern service industry demonstration area with a regional output value of 150 billion yuan.

Zheng Hongjie's heroic force was due to the 15 square kilometers at his feet, which was entrusted with the important mission of "China's reform experimental field".

In August 26th, when the Shenzhen Special Administrative Region was founded 30th anniversary, the State Council sent a "birthday gift" to Shenzhen, which was officially approved.

More than 10 days later, in September 6th, general secretary Hu Jintao delivered a speech at the 30th anniversary celebration conference of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, and put forward the comprehensive reform of the economic system, political system, cultural system and social system, and strive to make breakthroughs in the reform of important areas and key links.

Prior to this, from August 20th to 21, Premier Wen Jiabao inspects Shenzhen and calls for unswervingly advancing reform and opening up.

He stressed that "not only to promote economic restructuring, but also to promote political restructuring, without the guarantee of political restructuring, the results of economic restructuring will be lost."

Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao to Shenzhen

Qianhai, as a new chess piece for the layout of Shenzhen's deepening reform, is a pitional area that is fully integrated with Hongkong in terms of system and management. It may carry the role of Shekou before and bear the burden of breaking through the institutional barriers.

Macro affirmative, micro to be determined

The State Council's reply to Qianhai stressed that under the framework of "one country, two systems", we should make full use of the legislative power of the Special Economic Zone granted by the National People's Congress to create an excellent legal environment for Qianhai.

At the same time, people have also noticed that approval requires that the legislation beyond the scope of authorization be submitted for approval according to the regulations.

"This is a very live reply, macro affirmed, micro to be determined."

Lezheng, Deputy Secretary General of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee, director of the Institute of constitutional reform and director of the political research office, said.

Since the end of 2009, Shenzhen has started organizing various municipal departments to start preparations for the Qianhai planning approval.

In this process, multiple rounds of communication with Hongkong led to a more detailed planning text submitted to the central government.

In the meantime, Shenzhen gradually increased the Qianhai area to a strategic height, taking logistics as the core, and became a modern service industry as the core of the planning.

In June 2010, Guangdong formally submitted the plan to the State Council.

The financial and national weekly has obtained exclusive planning documents submitted to the central government by Guangdong province.

Among them, Shenzhen put forward "creating a commercial legal environment to support the development of modern service industry in Qianhai: making full use of the legislative power granted by the state legislature to the special economic zones, drawing on the laws of Hongkong, formulating laws and regulations to promote the development of modern service industry in Qianhai", and supporting the establishment of Hongkong's laws and the mechanism for identifying the mainland's laws.

In addition to business law, it is more extensive to explore the legal system of planning and planning: "encourage Shenzhen to draw lessons from international experience in areas where policies and regulations are not clearly specified, and try ahead of the test, standardize management through the legislation of the Special Administrative Region, and encourage Shenzhen to formulate corresponding implementation rules and explore development in areas where the state only provides principles."

The idea of reform has a framework and the roadmap to achieve it has become the most concerned issue.

Yue Zheng said that the exploration of Qianhai's legal system should follow the project, instead of setting up the law and attracting investment. Instead, we should use the "forced mechanism" to determine the spatial planning of the region first, then attract foreign investment, and then, according to the actual needs, we should complete the application and exploration of specific policies.

Wang Jinxia, director of the general office of the Qianhai administration, told the "finance and economics weekly" reporter that Guangdong hopes that the central authorities will provide Shenzhen with the convenience of first trial in three aspects.

First, the tax issue.

Qianhai draws on the practice of low taxes in Hongkong, and controls personal income tax below 20%.

This is 25% lower than the highest level in the mainland of China.

Two, in the financial field, a long-term goal is that RMB can be freely convertible in the region, for example, the establishment of offshore RMB center.

According to Lezheng, the idea of Shenzhen and Hong Kong was whether to promote equity cooperation between the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong stock exchange, or even set up a new independent trading institution to conduct an offshore trial.

"The development of Qianhai cooperation zone, in which finance is the most concerned industry, and also a core content of future development, and attracting Hongkong institutions and drawing on Hongkong experience is the foothold."

Xiao Zhijia, deputy director of Shenzhen Municipal Finance Office, said.

Three is the most concerned judicial system.

Wang Jinxia said that at least 10 years, Hongkong's arbitration agencies will be allowed to set up branches in Qianhai.

This means that enterprises and individuals who invest in Qianhai will have an option when disputes arise, or choose the judiciary in the mainland or choose the arbitration organization in Hongkong.

In addition, a special civil and commercial tribunal will be set up in the Qianhai cooperation area. Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents and foreigners will be invited to serve as jurors.

Old place, new starting point

Qianhai is located in the Pearl River Estuary, the east side of the Ling Dong ocean, west of Shekou peninsula.

Qianhai had a long history of snow.

In the late 70s of last century, when Shekou industrial zone was under the leadership of Yuan Geng, Qianhai was still a tidal flat.

There are some fishing villages around. The oyster industry has been booming for a while.

Since the beginning of 80s, this area has started the reclamation and reclamation.

The fishermen moved away and the farming industry moved along.

In the middle of 80s, Qianhai entered the government's planning and became the government's reserve land.

Le Zheng is standing in front of a picture of Shenzhen, telling Shenzhen's development of the geographical map of the country from the newspaper of "financial and Economic Weekly", from the earliest Shenzhen, Luohu, Futian and Nanshan all the way to the west, and back to the starting point of Shenzhen's development, near Shekou.

31 years of development, Shenzhen has returned to the West.

"This is an old place, but a new starting point. It is the departure of Shenzhen."

He said.

Mai Qingquan, who participated in the early business of Shenzhen, was first taught in Shenzhen. He worked in the Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese for a long time and later served as deputy district head of Longgang District, Shenzhen.

As one of the 5 representatives of the National People's Congress in Shenzhen, he called on Qianhai for many years to develop and revoke Shenzhen's "second line" within and outside the special zone.

"The experiment we are going to do now is to rebuild an experiment in Hongkong."

Mai Qingquan said, "since 80s, Hongkong has chosen to take the lead in the development of Shenzhen. By the early 90s, when Xiaoping proposed to rebuild a Hongkong in the mainland, if you connect these historical nodes, you can see the Qianhai now."

In 2008, after the global financial crisis, bottlenecks in the development of cities in Qianhai and Shenzhen began to emerge, and the development of the city was put on the agenda.

In June 17, 2009, Liu Jianghua, vice chairman of the Hongkong Democratic Alliance for the betterment of the people's Republic of China (DAB) and member of the Legislative Council of Hongkong, proposed a motion calling on the Hongkong government to "jointly negotiate with Shenzhen to plan and develop Qianhai area in Shenzhen to explore the possibility of co operating the deep cooperation area of Hong Kong".

In April 17, 2010, Guangdong and the Hongkong SAR government formally signed the framework agreement on Guangdong and Hong Kong cooperation in Beijing, and the cooperation between Shenzhen and Qianhai was listed as the top priority area for Guangdong and Hong Kong cooperation.

On the eve of the 30th anniversary Shenzhen Special Administrative Region, Xu Qin, mayor of Shenzhen, went to Hong Kong to pay a visit to the chief executive, Donald Tsang, of the Hongkong Special Administrative Region of the Hongkong.

During the meeting, Donald Tsang talked about the development of Qianhai in Shenzhen. "Qianhai's development needs Shenzhen's first step."

Donald Tsang said that in 2010, the 30th anniversary place of the Shenzhen Special Administrative Region was established, and hoped that the central government would provide more conditions for the development of Shenzhen.

"The significance of Qianhai's experiment lies not only in the development of the 15 square kilometers, but in the expansion of its experience. First, it can radiate the whole of Shenzhen, further expand to the Pearl River Delta, and further expand to the whole country. This is the central vision that I understand."

Mai Qingquan said that Hongkong was "visible and invisible". With Qianhai, we could see and touch.

Yue Zheng said that after the completion of Qianhai, Shenzhen will truly become a seashore city.

In his view, Qianhai's greatest significance for Shenzhen is industrial upgrading and institutional innovation. Qianhai's splendor should be between 2020 and 2030. "The day of Qianhai's mature development is Shenzhen's successful pformation from industrialization to industrialization."

"Special zones in the Special Administrative Region", "special zones between the special zones"

Before 2008, the prototype of the Qianhai area was mainly owned by China Merchants Group. The main development was the "Tai Wan Wan pier". Later, with the progress of reclamation, 15 square kilometers had been filled, and China Merchants still accounted for 6.3 square kilometers.

Ma Yuhua, President of China Merchants Bank and chief executive officer, received an interview with the reporter of the financial state weekly in the headquarters building.

From his 48 floor office to the west, Qianhai and Shekou are in the field of vision. The entrepreneur with a deep Shekou gene is, in a word, "the development of Qianhai is simply the land of Shenzhen and the system of Hongkong."

"Qianhai exploration" has attracted wide attention, and its related nodes are undoubtedly "drawing lessons from Hongkong institutional factors". Shenzhen Hong Kong cooperation is not a new exploration. The real docking of the following laws and other related systems is the key to Qianhai's advancement.

"What we need now is a seamless connection with Hongkong."

Mai Qingquan said, "otherwise, we have expanded the scope of the Special Administrative Region to the whole city. Why should we set out another" special zone "in it?

"Seamless" is a tentative plan, and there are many cases in the Shenzhen Hong Kong system.

For the direct docking of Hong Kong Shenzhen two systems, the "Hetao area" and "Shenzhen Hong Kong West Corridor" can be used as control.

In 2007, the jurisdiction of the bridge on the Shenzhen Hong Kong West Corridor Bridge was opened to the Hongkong side. At the end of the bridge, a port management area in Hongkong was set up at the end of the bridge. In this way, the people of Shenzhen entered the jurisdiction of Shenzhen, and the power of Hongkong extended to Shenzhen.

The establishment of the Hong Kong jurisdiction in the Shenzhen area has also caused some controversy. For example, if there is a case in the jurisdiction overlapping area, where should the law be executed? If pregnant women produce, should the child be born in Hongkong or in the mainland?

Some people have suggested that if someone breaks the law of the Hongkong on the bridge deck, but the behavior in the mainland is not illegal, and if the person escapes to the bridge, who should enforce the law? The regional scholar Kim Xin said that because the sea surface of the western corridor bridge is under the jurisdiction of Shenzhen, it has produced a joke: "if a person falls on the bridge to Hongkong, people will jump into the sea and return to Shenzhen."

The docking in Hetao area is another scene.

Hetao area belongs to a region of about 1 square kilometers formed after the straightening of the Shenzhen river. Because Hongkong and Shenzhen stipulate the Shenzhen River as the boundary, therefore, from this principle, it should belong to Hongkong, but jurisdiction has always belonged to Shenzhen.

Later, the central authorities ruled that the jurisdiction of the region belonged to Shenzhen, and that the right of ownership still belonged to Shenzhen, while the right of management and development belonged to Hongkong.

Now the area is being developed after Hongkong has improved its planning, so the area is also known as the "special zone in the SAR" or "the special zone between the special zones".