Recently, the Shanghai municipal government issued the pilot implementation plan for business environment innovation in Shanghai, which put forward 172 reform measures from 10 aspects: market environment, government environment, investment environment, foreign business environment, innovation environment, regulatory environment, enterprise life cycle service, innovation leading highland, regional cooperation and legal environment, It covers the tasks and all reform measures specified in the opinions on carrying out pilot work of business environment innovation issued by the State Council, and adds two tasks of “striving to build an innovation led business environment highland” and “striving to build a collaborative and efficient business environment cooperation demonstration area” and 71 measures reflecting local characteristics.
Hua Yuan, Deputy Secretary General of Shanghai municipal government and director of Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, introduced at the press conference that the reform of optimizing the business environment in Shanghai has developed from version 1.0 to version 5.0. Since 2017, aiming at the highest standard and the best level, Shanghai has issued work arrangements for optimizing the business environment for four consecutive years, and has steadily implemented 584 reform measures. The implementation plan specifies that we should focus on the pilot of business environment innovation, make greater efforts to promote the overall optimization of the city’s business environment, pay more attention to improving the perception of market subjects, and further promote exploration and innovation, so as to build Shanghai into a first-class business environment benchmark city with the most convenient trade and investment, the highest administrative efficiency, the most standardized government services and the most perfect legal system, Enhance Shanghai’s urban soft power and core competitiveness.
Huayuan pointed out that the implementation plan will make greater efforts to ensure the development vitality of market players. In terms of market environment, the implementation plan clearly focuses on facilitating market access, equal access to resource elements, orderly and efficient market clearing, and maintaining fair competition and market order. For example, improve the withdrawal mechanism of market subjects and fully implement simple cancellation; Remove the hidden barriers and barriers set in the field of bidding and government procurement.
In terms of investment environment, the implementation plan clearly requires deepening the reform of investment project approval system and optimizing the whole process and all fields of approval management services. For example, deepen regional assessment and promote the reform of “land list system”; Comprehensively deepen the reform of multi measurement and measurement; Fully implement “one-stop services” such as joint review, joint supervision and inspection and comprehensive completion acceptance; We will promote the reform of intermediary services involving trial.
In terms of foreign-related business environment, the implementation plan specifies that it is necessary to improve the relevant institutional arrangements for foreign trade and opening up, so as to further enhance the attraction of Shanghai to foreign investment. For example, improve the “single window” function of international trade, simplify the import and export procedures of equipment and samples for R & D purposes, and explore the establishment of an international vocational qualification certificate recognition list system.
In terms of innovation environment, the implementation plan emphasizes the integration of focus innovation Shenzhen New Industries Biomedical Engineering Co.Ltd(300832) chain, strengthening intellectual property protection, creating a good ecological environment for talent innovation and supporting the innovation and development of enterprises. For example, we should improve the rights and interests sharing mechanism of service invention achievements of scientific researchers, and improve the risk sharing mechanism of intellectual property pledge financing and pledge handling mechanism.
The implementation plan puts forward higher requirements for strategic functional areas such as Pudong New Area, Lingang New Area, Yangtze River Delta integration demonstration area and Hongqiao International Central Business District, encourages these areas to boldly try, boldly break through and take the initiative to change, play a leading role in demonstration and create a highland of business environment system.
In order to implement the work of the pilot implementation plan of Shanghai business environment innovation, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, together with Shanghai Customs and other 9 departments, jointly formulated several measures for deepening the reform of cross-border trade business environment at Shanghai port in 2022, including optimizing the whole chain and process of customs clearance, cleaning up and standardizing charges, improving port service capacity We will further strengthen reform measures in four aspects: improving the overall service environment of cross-border trade.
According to Shen Weihua, deputy director of Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, in the first 11 months of 2021, the total import and export volume of Shanghai Port reached a record high, and the status of the world’s largest trade port city was more stable. In 2021, Shanghai port is expected to complete a container throughput of 47 million TEUs, ranking first in the world for 12 consecutive years. In the evaluation of China’s business environment, Shanghai’s cross-border trade index ranks first in China for two consecutive years. Shanghai has promoted a number of practices such as early declaration and smart port construction as advanced cases in the country.
Shen Weihua said that the “several measures” issued this time extended the reform of cross-border trade business environment to the field of air and railway transportation for the first time. In terms of air transport, we will pilot electronic air waybills and charge one-stop 7 fees at pilot airport stations × 24-hour online payment, the pilot airport supervises the online reservation system of pick-up trucks in the storage area, and further improves the facilitation level of Shanghai air port. In terms of railway transportation, we will promote the improvement and upgrading of China EU train infrastructure and ensure the high-quality development of China EU trains.
Next, Shanghai plans to form a batch of replicable experience and practices every year to contribute to the construction of the national business environment. In addition, Shanghai strives to use three to five years to promote the international competitiveness of the business environment to rank among the top in the world, comprehensively improve the efficiency of government governance, significantly improve the market activity and development quality, and take the lead in building a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, legalized and internationalized.
(Zhang Xiaozhen)
(International Business Daily)
