Nanjing seize new opportunities for RCEP cooperation

In order to seize RCEP's effectiveness to implement the major opportunities brought about by my country's new round of opening up, deepen the regional industrial chain supply chain cooperation, and promote high -level opening to the outside world. Hosted at the Taihu International Conference Center in Suzhou.

It is reported that the forum is one of the ASEAN -China, Japan and South Korea (10+3) Industrial Chain Supply Chain Forum and East Asian Entrepreneurs Taihu Forum Branch forum. , Co -sponsored by Nanjing Customs, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Commerce and Nanjing Municipal People's Government.

The forum focuses on "high -quality promotion of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation development", and invites ASEAN countries, Japan -Korea embassies and consulates in China, government departments, economic and trade promotion agencies, and key enterprise representatives, as well as well -known experts and scholars in the field of RCEP research. Discuss and study how to seize new policies, use the RCEP rules to help the integration and development of the industrial chain supply chain, and promote the continuous release of enjoying the dividends.

The "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP) is initiated by ASEAN and the regional free trade agreement jointly participated in China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and ASEAN. It is understood that RCEP signed on November 15, 2020. It was officially implemented on January 1 this year. It is currently the world's most populous free trade zone covering the most population, the largest trade volume, the most diverse and most developed vitality. RCEP covers the contents of cargo trade, service trade, investment, e -commerce, intellectual property rights, economic and technical cooperation, competition, SMEs, government procurement and other fields. It aims to promote regional investment and trade growth. Quality, mutual benefit free trade agreement.

For more than half a year after RCEP, Nanjing has gathered innovation, and has taken advantage of openness to conscientiously implement performance measures. The opportunity of RCEP will take effect to speed up services to build a "dual -cycle" new development pattern demonstration zone.

Taking trade facilitation as a breakthrough, continuously improving service capabilities. Nanjing has built a benefit enterprise service platform, and the nation's first RCEP and other international free trade agreements are united in the "FTA -Wet Enterprise 'One -button" smart platform to achieve one -click knowing of tariff discounts, origin rules, and free trade policies. At present, nearly 6,000 companies have registered and used the platform, with nearly 100,000 clicks. Guide enterprises to expand the export of tax reduction goods such as electrical equipment and automobile parts, and increase imports of tax reduction products such as electromechanical products and mineral products. At the same time, companies are encouraged to dig deep into the import demand for RCEP countries and build a direct sales platform for imported consumer goods for Japan, South Korea and Australia. In the first half of this year, the city's import and export growth rate of RCEP countries higher than the average growth rate was 1.6 percentage points, of which the growth and export growth of imports and exports in South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Cambodia and other countries has accelerated significantly. Actively open up the RCEP open channel and promote the normalized operation of Nanjing -Vientiane Chinese and old freight trains. In the first half of the year, the number of departures from Nanjing to Laos exceeded 4 times the whole year. Crypto direct routes in Japan and South Korea, running 9 direct ships per week.

Taking investment and industrial chain as the power source, continuously strengthen project support. Strengthening foreign investment in the RCEP region. In the first half of this year, RCEP member states set up 33 new projects in Ning. The actual use of foreign capital was 420 million US dollars, an increase of 123.3%year -on -year. Support RCEP regional multinational companies to set up regional headquarters and functional agencies in Ning. At present, RCEP member states such as South Korea and Singapore have set up three recognized functional institutions in Nanjing. Continuously improved regional overseas investment and engineering contracted cross -border resource integration capabilities. In the first half of the year, Nanjing Enterprise went to Japan and Singapore and other RCEP countries' overseas investment filing projects. The cumulative turnover of RCEP member states has a total turnover of 450 million US dollars, accounting for 42.8%of the city.

With high -level system opening as the core point, policies and measures are constantly improving. Introduce the pilot plan for deepening the institutional open application scenario, focusing on trade facilitation, investment liberalization, convenient flow of factors, and "post -boundary" rules. Specific application scenarios, proposed 20 benchmarking measures, conducting pilot and pressure tests first, and striving to form an experienced results of institutional openness. In the province, the "Digital Trade Development Action Plan (2022-2025)" is the first to be released. The number of national-level special service export bases such as digital service export bases in the city accounts for more than half of the province.

Based on promoting friendly exchanges and cooperation as the fundamental aspect, and continuously optimize the business environment. Actively provide convenience for business visitors of RCEP member states, internal migrant workers, installation and service personnel, etc., and set up an international talent service center to achieve joint management of overseas talent work permits and residence permits. At the same time, strengthen communication with the trade investment promotion agency in the RCEP area, and actively connect with the Economic and Trade Office of RCEP regions such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, and Cambodia to use the economic and trade exhibitions, peak forums, and exchange activities to promote international talents in the region comminicate.

(Trainee reporter Zhang Ziyang)

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