Pilot Free Trade Zone accelerates the cultivation of key industrial clusters

Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone focuses on key areas such as biomedicine, value-added telecommunications and automatic driving to carry out open stress tests; Yingkou District of Shandong pilot free trade zone has formulated an action plan for institutional innovation of the whole marine industry chain around marine engineering equipment, marine fishery and blue carbon economy; Jiangsu pilot free trade zone will build a bio pharmaceutical industry cluster with world influence... Recently, the reporter of economic reference learned from the visit and investigation that many pilot free trade zones are frequently deployed around the cultivation of key industries, not only clarifying the industrial development goals, but also conducting more targeted institutional innovation and opening pressure tests around industrial development and enterprise needs. Among them, biomedicine, advanced equipment manufacturing, marine economy, value-added telecommunications and other fields have been mentioned repeatedly.
Frequent deployment in multiple places
Promote the development of advantageous industries
We will explore new open development models for the development and application of stem cells, gene diagnosis and treatment technologies, implement major projects such as tackling key core technologies and improving clinical transformation capabilities, and accelerate the building of world-class industrial clusters. In the special promotion plan for investment freedom and convenience in China (Beijing) pilot free trade Zone recently issued by Beijing, the cultivation of biomedical industry has become the focus.
Recently, Shanghai issued several policies and measures on supporting the construction of an independent and comprehensive coastal city in the new port area of China (Shanghai) pilot Free Trade Zone, proposing to speed up the construction of the "source of power" and focus on the development of the core equipment, high-end power components and high-value added links of the equipment.
The reporter of economic reference also learned from the visit and investigation that many pilot free trade zones are frequently deployed around the cultivation of key industries.
For example, as the birthplace of "Blue Whale 1" and "blue whale 2", Yantai area of Shandong pilot Free Trade Zone vigorously implements the action of strengthening the foundation of marine science and technology innovation. By introducing 29 marine related scientific and technological innovation platforms such as the Research Institute of Harbin Engineering University and the education center of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the output value of marine related industries has exceeded 30 billion yuan.
For the next step of development, Yantai District proposes to formulate an action plan for system innovation of the whole marine industry chain, copy and promote Yantai's innovation experience, work together with Weihai, Dongying, Rizhao and other places to create an industrial brand of "Shandong marine engineering", build a "deep blue granary" in Shandong, and provide more "Shandong plans" for the national strategic ocean.
In addition, Shenyang area of Liaoning pilot Free Trade Zone focuses on the positioning of building an internationally competitive advanced equipment manufacturing base, and focuses on accelerating the cultivation of emerging industries; Suzhou area of Jiangsu pilot Free Trade Zone proposes to strive to build a bio pharmaceutical industry cluster with world influence, while Lianyungang area promotes the establishment and physical operation of energy trading center in combination with the construction of petrochemical industry base.
Strengthening institutional supply
Carry out targeted innovation exploration
While carrying out industrial layout, supporting institutional innovation is also being strengthened. The bio pharmaceutical industry in Jiangsu pilot free trade zone has formed a scale effect. Among them, more than 2000 biomedical enterprises have gathered in one area of Suzhou. Biopharmaceutical is also known as the "No. 1 industry" in Suzhou area, and its comprehensive industrial competitiveness ranks first in the country.
It is also an important goal of Jiangsu pilot free trade zone to build a bio pharmaceutical industry cluster with world influence. The relevant person in charge of Jiangsu Provincial free trade office told the reporter that in the next step, efforts will be made to explore the opening and innovation of the whole industrial chain, sort out the blocking points, pain points and difficulties existing in the enterprises in the area, carry out policy design based on the demand, further increase the efforts to report to the superior, and actively promote the implementation of the pilot of the opening and innovation development of the whole industrial chain of biomedicine.
Shanghai Lingang New District has also strengthened its efforts in system innovation around industrial development, and proposed to build a leading area for scientific and technological insurance innovation, and establish a comprehensive insurance compensation mechanism for major technical equipment and key parts in civil aviation, high-end equipment manufacturing, artificial intelligence, intelligent new energy vehicles and other fields.
The Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone proposes to focus on key areas such as biomedicine, value-added telecommunications and automatic driving to carry out open stress tests.
Zhang Wei, vice president of the Research Institute of international trade and economic cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce, said in an interview with the reporter of economic information that the mission of the pilot free trade zone is to "test the system for the country and seek development for the local". After nearly nine years of construction and exploration, the pilot free trade zone has made certain achievements in the first trial. At present, the construction of the pilot free trade zone has reached the stage of targeted innovation around industrial development.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, in 2013, China established the first pilot Free Trade Zone in Shanghai, and now it has expanded to 21 pilot free trade zones, replicating and promoting 278 institutional innovation achievements to the whole country. At the same time, the 21 pilot free trade zones account for less than four thousandths of the national territory, contributing 18.5% of foreign investment and 17.3% of import and export.
Zhang Wei also pointed out that in the process of institutional innovation, the pilot free trade zone has achieved rapid economic development and laid a certain foundation in cultivating advantageous industries. "Based on this, the next development of the pilot free trade zone will pay more attention to the combination of institutional innovation and local industrial development, make more targeted breakthroughs, and break through the blockage of industrial development."
Play a leading role
Leading high-quality development
According to the analysis of insiders, from the current deployment, the construction of pilot free trade zone will focus more on leading high-quality development.
At the beginning of this year, when deploying the development direction of the pilot Free Trade Zone, the Ministry of Commerce clearly proposed that the pilot free trade zone should further lead high-quality development. Promote the pilot free trade zone to carry out integrated innovation of the whole industrial chain based on the local actual situation, attract global production factor resources of the industrial chain, cultivate characteristic leading industries, and create more world-leading industrial clusters.
Du Guochen, associate researcher of the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, told the reporter of the economic information daily that high-quality development is the theme guiding China's reform and opening up in the coming period, and the pilot free trade zone should continue to play a leading role in the reform and opening up.
"From the central government to the local government, we have generally emphasized the core position of high-quality development in the construction of the pilot Free Trade Zone, and strengthened the support for high-quality development." Du Guochen said that carrying out deep-level reform pilot projects around key areas, key links and basic systems, and putting more emphasis on the integration and systematization of institutional innovation and the combination of institutional innovation and industrial development, have become the common characteristics of the current central and local policies to promote the development of the pilot Free Trade Zone, and also the natural reflection of the pilot Free Trade Zone entering the "deep-level" development stage.
In Zhang Wei's view, focusing on industrial development to carry out more targeted institutional innovation can promote the high-quality development of the local economy on the one hand, and will also play a leading role in promoting the development of the same type of industries in the country on the other. With the launch of more breakthrough innovation measures, the advantages of the pilot Free Trade Zone in cultivating key industries will be better brought into play, which will help to improve the overall development quality of China's industries and create new competitive advantages in the global industrial chain supply chain.