What is the core of the free trade pilot zone?

Legal analysis: Institutional innovation is the core of the construction of the free trade pilot zone. Since the operation of the Guangdong, Tianjin, and Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zones, a number of innovative results that can be replicated and promoted have been formed, including the "single window" for international trade, a new model of corporate-specific web government services, and a market supervision system based on credit risk classification. , the "Four Ones" reform of the investment management system, and simple enterprise cancellation and other reform pilots. These institutional innovation experiences have been replicated and promoted across the country and gradually released the dividends of reform and opening up.

Legal basis: "Notice of the State Council on Several Measures to Support the Deepening of Reform and Innovation in Pilot Free Trade Zones"

1. Creating an excellent investment environment

(1) Reference Based on the comprehensive pilot experience of expanding the opening-up of Beijing's service industry, the requirements for the proportion of foreign technical personnel in foreign-invested construction and engineering design enterprises have been relaxed, and restrictions on talent agencies have been relaxed. (Responsible departments: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Commerce; Scope of application: all free trade pilot zones. Except for the measures applicable to specific free trade pilot zones, the scope of application below is all free trade pilot zones. )

(2) When preparing and issuing the national land use plan, consider the actual situation of the free trade pilot zone and reasonably arrange the land use plans of the relevant provinces (municipalities); relevant localities should give priority to supporting the construction of the free trade pilot zone, Promote its healthy and orderly development. (Responsible department: Ministry of Natural Resources)

(3) Decentralize project approval authority such as construction project construction licenses and construction enterprise safety production licenses to the Free Trade Pilot Zone. (Responsible department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)

(4) Authorize the free trade pilot zone to carry out pilot work, and change the construction enterprise qualification application, upgrade, and additional licenses implemented by provincial and lower authorities to implementation notifications Commitment system. (Responsible department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)

(5) Provincial and provincial-level entities with qualifications for foreign investment in the construction industry (including design, construction, supervision, testing, cost consulting, etc., and all project construction-related entities) The following approval authorities are delegated to the Pilot Free Trade Zone. (Responsible department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)

(6) When wholly foreign-owned construction enterprises in the free trade pilot zone undertake Sino-foreign joint construction projects in the province (city), they are not subject to Chinese and foreign investment in the construction projects Ratio limits. (Responsible department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)

(7) In the "Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic and Trade Partnership Arrangement", "The Mainland and Macao Closer Economic and Trade Partnership Arrangement", "Strait Under the Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, the restrictive provisions on the scope of project contracting in the "Regulations on the Administration of Foreign-Invested Construction Enterprises" will no longer be implemented for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan-funded construction enterprises in the Free Trade Pilot Zone. (Responsible department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)

(8) For foreign-invested engineering design (except engineering survey) enterprises in the free trade pilot zone that serve the province (municipality), the investment in the first application for qualifications shall be cancelled. The engineer’s engineering design performance requirements. (Responsible department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)

(9) The health administrative department shall implement a notification and commitment system for the deployment of Class B large-scale medical equipment in social medical institutions in the free trade pilot zone. (Responsible department: National Health Commission)

(10) Medical institutions in the Pilot Free Trade Zone may carry out stem cell clinical cutting-edge medical technology research projects based on their own technical capabilities and in accordance with relevant regulations. (Responsible department: National Health Commission)

(11) Allow the free trade pilot zones to innovatively launch tax service initiatives that are in line with international standards. (Responsible department: State Administration of Taxation)

(12) Provincial market supervision departments may delegate the preliminary review authority for the registration of permanent representative offices of foreign (regional) enterprises to those in the pilot free trade zones that have the authority to manage foreign investment registration. market regulatory authorities. (Responsible department: State Administration for Market Regulation)

(13) Support the establishment of trademark acceptance windows in the pilot free trade zones. (Responsible department: Intellectual Property Office)

(14) Set up acceptance points in the Pilot Free Trade Zone to accept registration of trademark right pledges.

(Responsible department: Intellectual Property Office)

(15) Further relax the conditions for shareholders of patent agencies. For newly established limited liability patent agencies, no more than one-fifth of them will be allowed to have no patents. Chinese citizens who are qualified as agents, are over 18 years old, and can work full-time in a patent agency shall serve as shareholders. (Responsible department: Intellectual Property Office)

(16) Strengthen top-level design and explore innovative oil reserve models that combine government reserves and corporate reserves in the pilot free trade zone. (Responsible departments: Development and Reform Commission, Grain and Reserves Bureau, scope of application: Zhejiang Free Trade Pilot Zone)