Yunnan 15 measures to promote trade and investment facilitation in pilot Free Trade Zone

Recently, the Yunnan provincial government issued the implementation plan for promoting the reform and innovation of trade and investment facilitation in the pilot free trade zone of Yunnan Province, which puts forward 15 specific measures from five aspects: improving trade facilitation, investment facilitation, cross-border logistics facilitation, financial service real economy facilitation and exploring legal protection for trade and investment facilitation. In order to comprehensively promote and improve the trade and investment facilitation level of China (Yunnan) pilot Free Trade Zone, help build the pilot free trade zone with high standards, high quality, high efficiency and high level, and lead the demonstration Yunnan Province to comprehensively deepen reform and expand opening-up.

In terms of improving trade convenience, the implementation plan proposes four measures: carrying out import trade innovation, releasing the potential of new trade methods, promoting "two ends out" bonded maintenance business, and improving the import convenience of pharmaceutical products. Among them, it is clear to encourage enterprises to import bulk commodities such as oil, natural gas, metal ore, yellow soybean and natural rubber, as well as advanced technology, equipment and parts, so as to boost industrial transformation and upgrading; Expand the high-quality Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) import of seafood, meat, fruit and corn, and promote the upgrading of consumption quality; We will accelerate the implementation of the policy on the source of imports from the border people of the 10 ASEAN countries, and innovate the import of "food and medicine from the same source"; Speed up the establishment of vehicle import ports in Hekou and other places, and carry out pilot projects for parallel vehicle import; Support the ports in Ruili, Hekou and other pilot free trade zones to become ports for imported drugs and biological products, innovate the supervision mode and expand the import of medicinal materials, drugs and biological products: give a one-time financial support of 10 million yuan to the pilot free trade zones that have been successfully approved to be the ports for imported drugs and biological products.

In terms of improving the convenience of investment, the implementation plan puts forward three measures, including increasing the opening of investment to Hong Kong and Macao, carrying out the pilot of territorial management of online games, and improving the efficiency of land resource allocation. Among them, it is clear that the industrial chain land supply will be implemented in the pilot Free Trade Zone, and the overall supply of multiple lands involved in key links of the industrial chain and core projects will be implemented. Priority shall be given to the allocation of land for national and provincial major projects and industrial projects.

In terms of improving the convenience of cross-border logistics, the implementation plan proposes two measures to promote the construction of open channels and accelerate the "one order system" of multimodal transport. Among them, it is clear that, relying on the China Laos railway and the new China Myanmar Indian Ocean channel, it will study and promote the standardized multimodal transport documents such as sea rail and highway rail, explore the multimodal transport organization mode, and improve the whole process seamless transport service on the basis of "one order system".

In terms of improving the convenience of financial services to the real economy, the implementation plan puts forward four measures, including innovating the management of account system, carrying out the pilot of foreign debt facilitation of financial leasing companies, carrying out the pilot of intellectual property securitization, and improving the regulatory policy of bonded delivery of futures. It is clear that the pilot of domestic and foreign currency integrated bank account system will be carried out in the pilot free trade zone to realize the unification of standards, rules and processes in the opening, change and cancellation of local currency accounts and foreign currency accounts; Strive to establish futures bonded delivery warehouses in special customs supervision areas and bonded supervision places in the pilot Free Trade Zone, and explore the bonded delivery of bulk commodities such as natural rubber and non-ferrous metals, warehouse receipt pledge financing and other businesses.

In terms of exploring judicial protection and trade and investment facilitation, the implementation plan proposes two measures: exploring the function of giving the document of title of multimodal transport documents and improving the judicial review of arbitration. Among them, it is clear to support the conditional pilot free trade, innovate and carry out the pilot of "one-stop" dispute resolution mechanism of foreign-related commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation, and provide "one-stop" legal services for Chinese and foreign parties.

The implementation plan also lists the list of key projects of the implementation plan for promoting the reform and innovation of trade and investment facilitation in the pilot Free Trade Zone in the form of an annex, including the establishment of a national import trade promotion innovation demonstration zone, the development of a new business form of "Internet of ten thousand + border trade", and the expansion of the "single window" service function of international trade.

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