The Fujian Free Trade Zone Will Be Listed At The End Of March.

The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to deliberate and adopt the general plan of the free trade pilot area of Guangdong, Tianjin and Fujian, and further deepen the reform and opening up plan of the free trade pilot area in Shanghai. This means that the pilot reform of China's large-scale free trade area has been officially rolled out. Next, the construction of the free trade area will go to a new stage.

According to the reporter's multi-channel understanding, the Fujian free trade zone will be formally launched at the end of March. For specific details of the program, officials have been keeping a low profile, from the Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce to the various areas, have maintained a quiet attitude toward the media.

"Before listing, I don't know what to say, and the relevant plan can only be known after listing." Xu Jianmin, deputy director of Xiamen Xiangyu Free Trade Zone, told reporters.

According to the listing process of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, the general plan will be released before listing, and it is believed that the major FTA will refer to this way. The reporter learned from people familiar with the matter that at present, the Fujian FTA has submitted a total of 18000 words to the version of the State Council, which is divided into four parts, namely, the overall requirements, regional layout, main tasks and measures, and safeguard mechanisms, totaling 63.

"We still take the final announcement as the criterion, because in the approval of the State Council, we do not know which reservations and which have been deleted." An official of the Fujian provincial government's economic department told reporters.

Although there is no official listing, the related work in various areas of the Fujian free trade zone has already been pushed forward. There are 29 pilot projects in Xiamen to promote the experience of China's (Shanghai) free trade pilot area, and 24 of them have successfully landed in Xiamen, which means that more than 80% items have been completed. Fujian three free trade area area now has 637 enterprises 779 projects landing, the total investment of 8 billion 840 million dollars, and new projects continue to declare.

"These will be completed by the end of June this year. We must combine these efforts with the construction of the free trade area to ensure that they are implemented after the listing of the free trade area." A Xiamen government official involved in the FTA said to reporters.

On the second day of the Fujian free trade zone's approval, on March 25th, Fan Liqing, a spokesman for the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, told reporters that "the construction of Fujian free trade zone will facilitate the liberalization and facilitation of cross-strait economic and trade exchanges and cooperation."

Because with the natural advantages of Taiwan across the sea, how to integrate it with Taiwan's economy and culture and establish the core area of the maritime Silk Road has become the special mission of Fujian free trade area.

From the initial declaration scheme, the Fujian free trade zone's clear positioning is Taiwan. Xiamen, Fuzhou and other three areas of peace pond have also made efforts to do enough articles on "Taiwan issue". As a window city to Taiwan, Xiamen has proposed to increase institutional innovation in attracting Taiwanese investment and investment in Taiwan. Fuzhou, the provincial capital, also proposed that Fuzhou should play a unique role in Taiwan's economic and trade cooperation. As an integrated experimentation area in Pingtan, which is set up by Taiwan, its task is to explore the issue of comprehensive integration on both sides of the Strait.

According to the reporter's understanding, 2/3 of the FTA programmes submitted by Fujian province have highlighted the "first try" for Taiwan, including the opening of Taiwan's industries, trade in goods, trade in services, financial cooperation and personnel exchanges.

"Taiwan is the largest feature of the Fujian free trade area, which is consistent with its development orientation and advantages, only in promoting the integration of trade and relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits to carry out innovation and development, the effect of the Fujian free trade area can be reflected." Ding Changfa, associate professor of Economics School of Xiamen University and member of China (Fujian) Research Institute of free trade area, told reporters.

In his view, this is directly related to the expectations of the new central government for Fujian. According to the Eleventh Plenary Meeting of the ninth Committee of Fujian Province, by 2020, the total economic volume of Fujian will exceed Taiwan. The approval of the FTA or the schedule of the plan is greatly advanced.

"In the past China Economic development Although Fujian has the advantage of "five margins" to Taiwan, there still exist some differences in attracting Taiwanese businessmen compared with Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. Therefore, if we want to use the free trade area to attract Taiwanese investment and Taiwan investment, this means that Fujian should also increase institutional innovation, highlighting the central Taiwan's work strategy and the positive role of the "one belt and one way" strategy. Ding Changfa said.

According to Chinese customs statistics, Fujian's trade with Taiwan reached 76 billion 410 million yuan (hereinafter referred to as "Yuan") in 2014, down 4.2% from the same period in 2013. Among them, exports of 23 billion 470 million yuan, an increase of 17.4%; imports of 52 billion 940 million yuan, down 11.5%. The cumulative trade deficit was 29 billion 470 million yuan.

Fujian province shows a growth trend in Taiwan trade, which is gradually supported by the central government. policy Interwovenness. In recent years, more than 70 state ministries and commissions and enterprises and institutions have issued specific measures to support the construction of Fujian and Taiwan. The state's policy tilt and investment in the Economic Zone on the west side of the Straits have allowed major central enterprises to enter.

It is precisely by virtue of policy and geographical convenience that Fujian's Mawei, Pingtan, Meizhou Bay and other major ports and ports and Taiwan's economic and trade exchanges are more convenient. At present, there are 6 international investment zones for Taiwanese businessmen in Fujian, and the largest cross-strait agricultural cooperation pilot area has been established, including 6 state-level Taiwan farmers' pioneering parks such as Zhangpu, attracting more than 500 Taiwan funded agricultural enterprises to enter.

According to statistics, by the end of 2013, Fujian The province has introduced 13524 Taiwan funded projects, ranking third in mainland provinces and municipalities, and the total import and export volume of Fujian and Taiwan is US $114 billion 514 million, ranking fifth in mainland provinces and cities. In 2013, Taiwan became the fourth largest trading partner of Fujian province.

However, according to the increments of foreign investment introduced in Fujian in 2014, Taiwanese investment is not outstanding, but on the contrary, it is growing from Hongkong and Macao. According to the data released by the Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce, 395 new investment projects in Fujian and Hong Kong in 2014 were increased by 17.6% over the same period last year. The actual investment in Hong Kong and Macao was 4 billion 560 million US dollars, an increase of 8.25% over the same period last year, accounting for 64.1% of the total utilization of foreign capital in the province.

In order to highlight the demand for Taiwan's industrial opening, the Fujian free trade area has also made bold first in terms of institutional innovation. For example, Fujian province has increased 4 foreign merchants' admittance negative list proposals, including 3 of the mainland holding requirements, 1 from the prohibition class to the restricted category, as a special provision for Taiwan.

In other areas, it has made great breakthroughs, including allowing Taiwanese proprietorship or holding the manufacturing and repair of offshore engineering equipment (including modules), allowing Taiwan funded enterprises to invest in the processing technology of important pieces such as steaming, stir frying, moxibustion and forging, and the production of confidentiality prescription products of free Chinese patent medicines for Taiwanese businessmen.

In addition, the Fujian Free Trade Zone hopes to take the lead in implementing the "cross strait service trade agreement" and the mainland's commitment to Taiwan's opening up. On the basis of reference to Guangdong and the newly liberalized agreement on trade in services, it has also proposed 61 projects in the 12 areas of the free trade area's opening measures to Taiwan's trade in services.

When Taiwan's main competitor, South Korea and China completed the FTA negotiations, this means that Taiwan must seize the "straw" of the Fujian free trade zone. Compared with the Shanghai free trade area, Fujian has integrated the system innovation, opening up, function expansion and policy guarantee. It hopes to have greater improvement and breakthrough in strength and scope than Shanghai. Instead of simply pursuing policy preferences, it is more prominent in institutional and institutional innovation. Half of the pilot tasks are classified as institutional innovations, such as administrative management system, investment management system, and clearance mechanism innovation.