Li Youhuan, director of the Comprehensive Research and Development Center of Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, said that from the characteristics of the whole Guangdong Free Trade Zone, one of the highlights is Hong Kong's financial status. From the analysis of China's economic system reform, finance will be the field that will release the greatest motive force for economic development in the future, and it will also be the key area of the next round of reform.
Jiang Ning, director of the Industrial Research Office of Tianjin Binhai Comprehensive Development Research Institute, said that Tianjin Port is not only a leading role in the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, but also located at the connection point of the Belt and Road Initiative, so Tianjin Free Trade Zone will have a great impact on the trade of goods. At present, many manufacturing enterprises in China need to import parts from abroad. Investment facilitation and trade facilitation will bring strong impetus to enterprise innovation and attract more enterprises from Beijing and Hebei to settle down.
For Fujian FTZ, Yi Cong, vice president of School of Economics, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, believes that it will mainly develop trade across the Taiwan Strait and promote economic cooperation between the mainland and Taiwan Province. "Fujian mainly plays the role of a bridgehead to Taiwan, especially Xiamen, which is located in Haixi, will become an important experimental window for cross-strait cooperation; At the same time, it will also build a better policy platform for its trade with ASEAN countries. "
Cai Yusheng thinks: "Guangdong is chosen for its Pearl River Delta, while Fujian is intended for cross-strait economic and trade cooperation, with Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei behind Tianjin. Although the pilot of the Free Trade Zone is in Tianjin, with the development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei integration, many policies of the Tianjin Free Trade Zone will be extended to Beijing and Hebei one after another, which will play a strong driving role in the economic development of the three places. "
A bigger game
The three free trade zones of Guangdong, Tianjin and Fujian are closely behind Shanghai, but because the three areas are larger than Shanghai, more projects are launched. Previously, the first approved Shanghai Free Trade Zone had a total area of 28.78 square kilometers.
The latest application scheme of Tianjin Free Trade Zone mainly covers three functional areas: Central Business District, Dongjiang Bonded Port Area and Tianjin Port Bonded Zone (including Airport Economic Zone), with a total area of about 26 square kilometers, which is only 1/1 of the total area of Binhai New Area and nearly 9 times that of Shanghai Free Trade Zone.
according to the plan declared by Guangdong, Guangdong FTZ consists of four regions, of which Nansha New District in Guangzhou has the largest area, and the other three regions are Hengqin in Zhuhai, Qianhai in Shenzhen and Guangzhou Baiyun Airport Bonded Zone. The total planned area of these four areas exceeds 93 square kilometers, which is more than 32 times the area of Shanghai Free Trade Zone.
the implementation scope of the policies circulated on the Internet in Fujian Free Trade Zone was 452.78 square kilometers. However, Gong Xiaowei, the proponent of the overall plan of Xiamen Free Trade Zone, told the reporter of China Times: "The general direction has been set and the area may be reduced."
it is understood that the Fujian free trade zone will adopt the mode of one zone and multiple parks, and Xiamen, Pingtan, Fuzhou and Quanzhou have been basically identified (see the newspaper's November 3 application plan for expansion of Fujian free trade zone will adopt the mode of one zone and multiple parks), but the distribution and functional subdivision of specific parks are still under consideration.
"Basically, the mode of one zone and multiple parks is adopted, and Tianjin, Guangdong and Fujian Free Trade Zones are basically composed of several parks (new zones). In a provincial free trade zone, it may include industrial parks, financial zones, other trade zones and other forms. " Li Hongjie, vice president of Fujian Academy of Social Sciences, said that the pilot of Shanghai Free Trade Zone is mainly based on the service industry, and the second batch of free trade zone pilots will reflect the joint development of free trade zones and industries, cities or related trade.
in addition, each free trade zone will also have its own characteristics.
"The design of Shanghai FTZ is led by the International Department of the Ministry of Commerce, and the design of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone is led by the Foreign Investment Department, which shows that the state is positive about the utilization of foreign capital in Tianjin Binhai New Area centered on TEDA." Liu Enzhuan, executive director of the Tianjin Free Trade Zone Research Institute, who participated in the drafting of the Tianjin Free Trade Zone plan, said.
cooperation with Taiwan Province's "six seas and one air" free economic demonstration zone is a major demand of Fujian Free Trade Zone. As Taiwan Province's "Legislative Yuan" has not passed the Regulations of Taiwan Province Free Economic Demonstration Zone, and Tianjin, Guangdong and Fujian approved by the State Council this time are all "free trade zones" outside China, namely FTZ (English abbreviation: Free Trade Zone); However, it still needs a lot of research and practice to establish cross-strait FREE TRADE AREA cooperation, that is, cross-border "free trade area", that is, FTA (English abbreviation: free trade area).
"The docking of cross-strait free trade zones needs a process, and some of them are still under study." Li Hongjie said. In the positioning setting of the whole Guangdong Free Trade Zone, although each has its own emphasis, the general direction is to serve and connect Hong Kong and Macao.
Among them, Qianhai has the biggest mission, mainly supporting the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong through the modern service industry with cross-border RMB innovation as its core. On the eve of the approval of Guangdong Free Trade Zone, Qianhai just announced 5 Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation policies. As a modern service industry, Qianhai plans to exceed 1 billion yuan in the scale of Hong Kong-funded service industry by 22.