Strengthening The Rule Of Law In Foreign Countries And Enhancing Our International Competitiveness

The rule of law in foreign affairs involves continuous improvement of foreign laws and regulations. The core of this system is to manage and adjust foreign-related economic and trade activities in China in the light of international rule of law thinking and international rule of law in external affairs. In the fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, from the strategic height of deepening and ensuring the opening to the outside world in accordance with the law, the overall layout of China's foreign-related rule of law has been carried out in the future. The decision puts forward requirements for strengthening the rule of law in seven aspects.

1, to build and improve the foreign-related laws and regulations that suit the needs of the open economic system. First, we need to solve the problems that many foreign related economic and social fields can not comply with and legislation is imperfect, and formulate relevant laws and regulations.

If we introduce and formulate overseas investment law, formulate and promulgate uniform foreign investment law, improve the foreign investment safety review system, implement a unified foreign investment access system, set up a foreign-related legal norm system to serve and support the new open economy system, promulgate the law of port management and trade zone as early as possible, strengthen the legal protection and management of citizens' rights and interests under the open conditions, formulate foreigner management law and consular law, and ensure the effective implementation of China's international rules.

2. International institutionalization Power game, actively participate in the formulation of international rules, and use legal means to safeguard China's sovereignty, security and development interests.

3, enhance our legal service capacity in foreign countries and safeguard the legitimate interests of both parties.

4, deepen judicial International cooperation in the field and the perfection of international justice in China Assistance system We should strengthen international cooperation in anti-corruption, strengthen overseas pursuit of stolen goods, repatriate, and safeguard the effective exercise of our foreign judicial sovereignty.

5, use international law to carry out international cooperation in law enforcement and security, to combat three forces (violent terrorist forces, ethnic separatist forces, religious extremist forces) and spannational organized crime.

6, innovate the training mechanism for the rule of law talents, and build a team of foreign law personnel who are familiar with international legal rules and are good at handling foreign affairs related legal matters.

7, strengthen inter regional judicial assistance and inter regional judicial cooperation between our mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, crack down on cross-border criminal activities, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots in accordance with the law.

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According to China Customs General Administration 12, bilateral trade between the mainland and Macao reached 3 billion 360 million US dollars in the first 11 months of 2014, an increase of 3.7% over the same period last year, which is 0.3 percentage points higher than the overall growth rate of China's foreign trade in the same period.

Since the return of Macao in 1999, the growth rate of trade between the mainland and Macao has been higher than that of China's foreign trade as a whole.

According to customs statistics, from 1999 to 2013, the mainland imported and exported 30 billion 290 million US dollars to Macao area, an average annual growth of 11.9%. Among them, exports to Macao amounted to 27 billion 130 million US dollars, an average annual growth of 12.1%, and the total import from Macao area was 3 billion 160 million US dollars, with an average annual growth of 10%.

From the customs data, we can see that the financial crisis which began in 2008 has a significant impact on the trade between the mainland and Macao. From 1999 to 2007, the volume of trade between the mainland and Macao increased year by year, and the value of imports and exports expanded from US $740 million in 1999 to US $2 billion 920 million in 2007. In 2008 and 2009, trade between the mainland and Macao suffered negative growth due to the financial crisis. Since 2010, the mainland's trade with Macao has resumed growth. Trade growth has increased from 8% in 2010 to 18.7% in 2012. In 2013, the import and export value reached 3 billion 570 million US dollars, an increase of 19.4%, and the growth rate was significantly higher than the overall growth rate of foreign trade in the same period of 7.6%.

In the past 15 years since the return of Macao, the customs have made frequent moves in promoting bilateral trade, including promoting customs clearance, deepening the implementation of the arrangement for closer economic and trade relations between the mainland and Macao, and building a "Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao close cooperation demonstration zone" based on Zhuhai Hengqin, and innovating customs supervision services.