□ our reporter Meng Ni
Under a series of measures to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, Beijing’s business environment has continued to improve and its attractiveness has continued to increase.
Recently, the implementation plan of Beijing Municipality on cultivating and stimulating the vitality of market players and continuously optimizing the business environment issued by the Beijing municipal government pointed out that Beijing will create a fair, transparent and predictable international business environment, actively connect with international free trade rules and promote the development of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. Therefore, it puts forward 12 aspects and 362 tasks.
This is known as Beijing business environment reform version 5.0. Prior to this, Beijing successively issued the regulations on optimizing the business environment and a series of reform policies of Beijing business environment reform version 1.0 ~ 4.0, which provided a rich policy gift package for the majority of market subjects. With the in-depth implementation of the plan, Beijing will build a more market-oriented, legal and international business environment.
The relevant person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce said that in recent years, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce has continued to optimize the level of investment and trade facilitation and achieved remarkable results.
In terms of foreign investment, in 2021, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce revised and issued the measures for the administration of complaints by foreign invested enterprises in Beijing, which further widened the scope of complaints, improved the complaint working mechanism and improved the complaint acceptance process, which is more conducive to promoting the benign interaction between the government and foreign investors and better protecting the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investment. Several measures of Beijing Municipality on Further Strengthening the work of stabilizing foreign investment include further opening to the outside world, gathering global high-end and high-quality resources, optimizing the development environment of foreign-invested enterprises, optimizing foreign living services, promoting the combination of attracting investment and attracting talents, optimizing foreign investment promotion services, and strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of foreign-invested enterprises, Further improve the level of investment facilitation and promote foreign investment.
According to statistics, from January to November 2021, 1713 foreign-funded enterprises were newly established in Beijing, a year-on-year increase of 53.2%; Contractual foreign investment was US $37.5 billion, an increase of 1.3 times; The actually utilized foreign capital was US $15.16 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9.7%.
In terms of cross-border trade, in 2021, led by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Beijing customs, together with the administrative committee of Tianzhu comprehensive bonded area and capital airport group, the “100 day hard work” campaign to optimize the business environment of cross-border trade at Beijing airport port was carried out. Major breakthroughs were made in the business environment of cross-border trade at airport port, mainly in four aspects, namely, major breakthroughs were made in the informatization of airport port Port services were further standardized and unified, enterprises’ sense of acquisition was further improved, and freight forwarding service charging behavior was further standardized. For example, the above person in charge said that capital airport group has formulated more than 60 freight service quality standards in 8 categories for inbound, outbound, transit and other scenarios. The average time of import pick-up in and out of the area at the airport port is 24 minutes, which is more than 50% lower than the original traditional mode.
Beijing will continue to improve its business environment. The relevant person in charge of the Beijing Bureau of Commerce said that in the next step, we will give full play to the advantages of the “two regions”, try to connect high-level international free trade rules, promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, and create a fair, transparent and predictable international business environment. To this end, we will start from three aspects:
In terms of improving the internationalization level of investment and trade management, first, promote the implementation of negative list management of cross-border service trade, and explore the construction of a national demonstration area for innovative development of service trade; Second, take the opportunity of signing and joining the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) to build “one zone and one center”; Third, promote institutional innovation in the regulatory system, business model and supporting services in the import field.
In terms of improving the foreign investment promotion and service system, first, create a “one-stop” service for foreign investment. Set up a “foreign service zone” on the capital window website to integrate the entry and guide of high-frequency matters of foreign-funded enterprises, such as enterprise establishment, foreign exchange registration, project approval and filing, etc. Second, strengthen information sharing among government departments and facilitate the access of foreign-funded enterprises. Third, establish the list system of international practice certificate recognition and the identification standard of foreign “high-quality and top-notch talents”, and strengthen the introduction of foreign high-end talents.
In deepening the reform of international trade facilitation, first, formulate the implementation plan for the whole link reform of cross-border trade facilitation. By building a trade promotion platform, promoting the reform of port customs clearance supervision, improving the port’s comprehensive service capacity, promoting the upgrading of port facilities, standardizing the charging behavior of port service enterprises, and improving the policy support system, we will continue to create a market-oriented, legalized and international port business environment. Second, carry out actions to optimize and improve the business environment of cross-border trade at double hub airport ports. Further optimize and improve the business environment of airport ports by optimizing logistics operation processes, improving the information construction of double hub airports, optimizing and improving service quality standards, and improving the coverage of airport charging publicity enterprises.
(International Business Daily)
