Since the establishment of Shenzhen, the state has temporarily adjusted and implemented administrative regulations in Shenzhen for the first time.
On March 17, the reply of the State Council on agreeing to temporarily adjust and implement the provisions of relevant administrative regulations in Shenzhen (hereinafter referred to as the reply) was officially released on the Chinese government website.
The reply proposes to temporarily adjust and implement the relevant provisions of four administrative regulations in Shenzhen, namely, the regulations of the people’s Republic of China on customs affairs guarantee, the regulations of the people’s Republic of China on import and export tariffs, the regulations of the people’s Republic of China on ship registration and the regulations of the people’s Republic of China on the prevention and control of geological disasters.
It is worth noting that this is the first time that the state has temporarily adjusted and implemented administrative regulations in Shenzhen since the establishment of Shenzhen. It is an important measure to implement the CPC Central Committee’s decision to support the implementation of comprehensive reform pilot in Shenzhen. It is conducive to better combine reform decision-making with legislative decision-making and ensure that all reform measures of comprehensive reform pilot in Shenzhen have legal basis.
The Reform Office of Shenzhen Municipal Party committee said that this is a new exploration of reform methods and methods, which will be conducive to promoting the comprehensive deepening of reform in Shenzhen and opening a new Bureau.
national regulation in Shenzhen for the first time
According to the Chinese government website, the State Council recently issued an official reply on agreeing to temporarily adjust and implement the provisions of relevant administrative regulations in Shenzhen.
The reply points out that according to the pilot implementation plan for comprehensive reform of building a leading demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics in Shenzhen (20202025), it is agreed to temporarily adjust and implement the regulations of the people’s Republic of China on customs affairs guarantee, the regulations of the people’s Republic of China on import and export tariffs and the regulations of the people’s Republic of China on ship registration in Shenzhen from now to December 31, 2025 Relevant provisions of the regulations on the prevention and control of geological disasters.
The relevant departments of the State Council, the people’s governments of Guangdong Province and Shenzhen Municipality shall, in accordance with the adjustment, timely adjust the relevant rules and administrative normative documents formulated, and establish a management system suitable for the pilot work of comprehensive reform of building a leading demonstration area of socialism with Chinese characteristics in Shenzhen.
The Shenzhen Municipal Party committee and the Shenzhen municipal government attach great importance to the regulation adjustment. Led by the Reform Office of the Shenzhen Municipal Party committee, together with the legal working committee of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress, the Municipal Bureau of justice and various reform related units, and in accordance with the requirements of the national development and Reform Commission on starting the adjustment of laws and regulations, a list of suggestions for adjusting administrative regulations has been formed after full research and several rounds of solicitation of opinions. On this basis, the national development and Reform Commission, together with Guangdong Province and the Ministry of justice, has repeatedly solicited the opinions of relevant central ministries and commissions, repeatedly demonstrated and coordinated.
Clarify that the adjustment of administrative regulations in the first batch of authorization list involves three reform matters, four regulations and five articles, and finally promote the State Council to officially issue the reply. The implementation time of administrative regulations is temporarily adjusted from the date of issuance of the reply to December 31, 2025.
The Reform Office of the Shenzhen Municipal Party committee said that it would immediately carry out the connection and adjustment of the city’s relevant regulations and administrative normative documents and the contents of the regulation, and establish a management system suitable for the pilot work of comprehensive reform of building a leading demonstration area of socialism with Chinese characteristics in Shenzhen.
At the same time, the implementation of the first batch of authorization list adjustment administrative regulations will lay a solid foundation for the rolling introduction of the “second batch of list”, and also provide the “Shenzhen experience” for the replication and promotion of the pilot of comprehensive reform in Shenzhen.
regulation covers 3 reform matters, 4 laws and regulations, including 5 articles
Specifically:
Shenzhen yacht free travel is guaranteed free:
The reply temporarily adjusts and implements the provisions of Article 5 of the regulations of the people’s Republic of China on customs affairs guarantee and Article 42 of the regulations of the people’s Republic of China on import and export tariffs on the need to provide corresponding guarantee for the temporary import of goods and articles, which is a specific measure to implement the first authorization list of Shenzhen comprehensive reform pilot site on “expanding the opening of port and shipping business to the outside world”.
The adjustment will implement the guarantee free policy for yacht free travel in Shenzhen, improve the timeliness of yacht customs clearance and reduce the customs clearance cost, which will further promote the rapid development of yacht industry and related upstream and downstream industries, and effectively stimulate relevant investment and residents’ consumption.
international ship registration with unrestricted foreign share ratio
The reply temporarily adjusts and implements the provisions of Article 2 of the regulations of the people’s Republic of China on ship registration on restricting the proportion of foreign capital shares of enterprises whose ships are mainly operated in China, which is a specific measure to implement the first authorization list of Shenzhen comprehensive reform pilot on “deepening the reform of the international ship registration system”.
The adjustment allows enterprises legally established in Shenzhen to register all their ships in Shenzhen. The proportion of foreign shares of enterprises is not limited, which enhances the attraction of international navigation ships (including Chinese funded foreign ships) to register in China. It will further expand the scale of the “five-star flag” Chinese fleet, establish the international ship registration Hangzhou Xzb Tech Co.Ltd(603040) , and promote the construction of Shenzhen as a global marine center city, And promote the development of shipping economy in the port city agglomeration of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
improve approval efficiency and optimize business environment
The reply temporarily adjusts and implements the provisions of Articles 22 and 36 of the regulations on the prevention and control of geological disasters that the competent department of land and resources of the people’s government at or above the provincial level is responsible for the qualification examination of geological disaster prevention and control units, which is a specific measure to implement the “optimization of ecological environment management mechanism” in the first batch of authorization list of Shenzhen comprehensive reform pilot.
By adjusting the provisions of relevant administrative regulations, the Shenzhen Municipal Department of planning and natural resources shall be responsible for the examination, approval and management of the class A and class B qualifications of units engaged in geological hazard risk assessment and undertaking the exploration, design, construction and supervision of special geological hazard control projects in Shenzhen.
The adjustment has improved the approval efficiency, effectively curbed the problems of personnel affiliation and performance fraud in the process of qualification application and employment, and will further optimize the business environment and stimulate the vitality of market players.
Shenzhen comprehensively deepened reform with fast and steady steps and bright spots
The pilot of comprehensive reform in Shenzhen has achieved important phased results; We have completed 46 reform tasks deployed in 2021 with high quality, issued 22 important reform documents, comprehensively deepened the reform and opening up of Qianhai Shenzhen Hong Kong modern service industry cooperation zone, and successively implemented national strategies such as the construction of a leading demonstration city for the rule of law with Chinese characteristics. Leading reform documents such as Shenzhen’s construction of a leading demonstration zone for socialism with Chinese characteristics and some special measures to relax market access have been issued and implemented, Shenzhen Special Economic Zone data regulations and other pioneering legislation were successfully launched; The national development and Reform Commission issued a document to promote 47 innovative measures and experience and practices in Shenzhen
Recently, the meeting of the Municipal Committee for comprehensively deepening reform held in Shenzhen listened to the report on the reform work, and studied and considered the summary of Shenzhen’s comprehensively deepening reform in 2021 (hereinafter referred to as the work summary).
The work summary mentioned that last year, Shenzhen focused on the first batch of 40 authorized items of the comprehensive reform pilot, and systematically summarized the effectiveness of the first batch of list items according to the general requirement that “except for the adjustment and application of legislation, laws and regulations and major national powers, the first batch of list items of the comprehensive reform pilot should be implemented before the end of 2021”.
A number of important economic and social management authorities were smoothly delegated. The Central Committee of the people’s Republic of China will actively introduce 24 measures to liberalize the market access of Guangdong Province and Shenzhen in key areas such as the reform of the Central Committee of the people’s Republic of China, and give more support to the Central Committee of the people’s Republic of China in six key areas.
Breakthroughs were made in a number of key areas and key links. The Shenzhen Stock Exchange resumed the issuance function of the main board, the merger of the main board and the small and medium-sized board was officially implemented, and the first batch of enterprises under the gem registration system were successfully listed; Take the lead in implementing the non competitive and competitive dual track scientific research investment mechanism, and explore giving researchers the ownership or long-term use right of post scientific and technological achievements; It took the lead in issuing RMB 5 billion offshore local government bonds in Hong Kong.
A number of landmark and leading reform programs and measures have been actively implemented. It took the lead in carrying out the domestic and foreign currency integrated capital pool business of multinational corporations, settled in the first batch of infrastructure REITs projects, took the lead in promoting punitive compensation for intellectual property infringement, and introduced overseas funds to invest in China’s climate projects.
A number of important achievements in practice and system innovation have been continuously formed. Formulate special economic zone data regulations, implement the country’s first personal bankruptcy regulations, and rule on the entry into force of the first personal bankruptcy case in China.
According to the comprehensive reform pilot implementation plan for building a leading demonstration area of socialism with Chinese characteristics in Shenzhen (20202025) , by 2022, Shenzhen will make important progress in institutional construction in all aspects, form a number of major institutional achievements that can be replicated and popularized, and the pilot has achieved phased results. In 2025, the reform in important fields and key links will achieve landmark results, basically complete the pilot reform task, and make an important demonstration for the national system construction.
According to the work summary, last year, the city focused on taking the lead in building a “Shenzhen sample” of the modernization of super large urban governance system and governance capacity. Focusing on the central work of the municipal Party committee and the deployment of comprehensively deepening reform tasks, the city promoted the high-quality completion of 46 reform tasks deployed by the municipal Party committee’s Shenzhen Reform Commission in 2021, laying a solid foundation for Shenzhen to take the road of catching up with the examination in the new era.
According to the work summary, in the past year, Shenzhen’s reform work has made a number of historic breakthroughs, including the issuance of documents supporting Shenzhen’s reform by the central government, the replication and promotion of Shenzhen’s reform experience throughout the country, and the participation of Shenzhen reform cases in national case selection.
