Legal analysis: as of the end of 2020, China has been approved in multiple batches of 21 pilot free trade zones, has initially formed a version of the "right 1 + 3 + 7 + 1 + 6" of the basic pattern, the formation of the east and west, south, north and south of the center of the coordination of the openness of the land and sea integration, and to promote the formation of the formation of a new round of China's comprehensive opening pattern. In 2020, the number of FTZs in the country expanded to 21, including Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin, Fujian, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hainan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei, Yunnan, Guangxi, Heilongjiang, Beijing, Hunan and Anhui.
Legal basis: "The State Council on the support of pilot free trade zones to deepen the reform and innovation of a number of measures to notify" I. Create an excellent investment environment.
(a) Drawing on Beijing's comprehensive pilot experience in expanding and opening up the service industry, relax the proportion of foreign investment in construction engineering design enterprises foreign technicians, relax the restrictions on talent intermediary organizations. (Responsible departments: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Ministry of Commerce; scope of application: all Pilot Free Trade Zones; the following measures are applicable to all Pilot Free Trade Zones, except for measures labeled as applicable to specific Pilot Free Trade Zones)
(2) When preparing and issuing the national land-use plan, the actual situation in the Pilot Free Trade Zones will be taken into consideration, and the land-use plan of the relevant provinces (municipalities) will be reasonably arranged; the relevant localities should give priority to supporting the Pilot Free Trade Zones. localities shall give priority to supporting the construction of the Pilot Free Trade Zone and promoting its healthy and orderly development. (Responsible department: Ministry of Natural Resources)
(3) Decentralize the authority of project approval categories such as construction permits for building projects and safety production permits for building construction enterprises to the Pilot Free Trade Zone. (Responsible department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
(4) Authorizing the Pilot Free Trade Zone to carry out pilot work to change the permits for the application, upgrading, and addition of qualifications of construction enterprises implemented by provincial-level and sub-provincial authorities to the implementation of the informative commitment system. (Responsible department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
(E) the foreign investment in the establishment of the construction industry (including design, construction, supervision, testing, cost consulting and other engineering construction-related subjects) qualification permits at the provincial level and the following approval authority to the pilot free trade zone. (Responsible Department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
(F) the Pilot Free Trade Zone of wholly foreign-owned construction enterprises to undertake the province (city) of the Sino-foreign joint construction projects, not subject to the proportion of Chinese and foreign investment in construction projects. (Responsible Department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
(7) Under the "Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement", "Mainland and Macao Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement", and the "Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement", the Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan-funded construction enterprises within the Pilot FTA are no longer subject to the restrictive provisions of the "Provisions for the Administration of Foreign-Invested Construction Enterprises" on the scope of contracting works. (Responsible Department: Ministry of Housing, Urban-Rural Development and Tourism) (Responsible department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
(h) For foreign-invested engineering design (except engineering survey) enterprises in the Pilot FTA serving the province (city), the requirement for investors' engineering design performance when applying for qualification for the first time shall be canceled. (Responsible department: Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
(ix) The administrative department of health implements a notification and commitment system for the allocation of Class B large-scale medical equipment to socially-run medical institutions in the Pilot Free Trade Zone. (Responsible department: Health Commission)
(j) Medical institutions in the Pilot Free Trade Zone may, according to their own technical capabilities, carry out research projects on clinical frontier medical technology of stem cells in accordance with relevant regulations. (Responsible department: Health Commission)
(k) The Pilot Free Trade Zone is allowed to innovate and launch tax service initiatives in line with international standards. (Responsible department: General Administration of Taxation)
(xii) Provincial-level market supervision departments can delegate the preliminary examination authority for the registration of the permanent representative offices of foreign (regional) enterprises to the market supervision departments with the authority for the registration and management of foreign capital in the Pilot FTZ. (Responsible Department: General Administration of Market Supervision)
(xiii) Supporting the establishment of trademark acceptance windows in the Pilot Free Trade Zone. (Responsible Department: Intellectual Property Office)
(xiv) Setting up acceptance points in the Pilot Free Trade Zone to accept the registration of pledge of trademark rights. (Responsible Department: Intellectual Property Office)
(xv) further relaxing the restrictions on the conditions of shareholders of patent agencies, the new establishment of limited liability patent agencies, allowing no more than one-fifth of the Chinese citizens who do not have the qualification of patent attorney, who are over 18 years old, and who are able to work full-time in the patent agency to serve as shareholders. (Responsible department: Intellectual Property Office)
(16) Strengthen the top-level design, in the Pilot Free Trade Zone to explore the innovation of government reserves and enterprise reserves combined with the oil reserve model. (Responsible departments: Development and Reform Commission, Food and Reserve Bureau, Scope of application: Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone)