Over the past three years, Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone has continued to deepen reform and innovation, accelerated the implementation of pilot tasks, and achieved important milestones in its construction and development.August 30 marked the third anniversary of the inauguration of the Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone.
Since its establishment, Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone has focused on key areas and key links by making bold experiments and innovations and carrying out independent reforms.
104 of the 113 reform pilot tasks approved by the State Council have been implemented, and 7 are under progress, accounting for more than 98% of the total.
In the Lianyungang sub-zone of the Pilot Free Trade Zone, the newly-launched one-stop supervision mode of bonded + export combined and multimodal transport has effectively improved the efficiency and efficiency of the whole process of logistics and improved the level of customs clearance facilitation.
Over the past three years, the Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone has explored and formed 196 institutional innovations, according to the press conference held by the Provincial Government Information Office on the third anniversary of the establishment of the Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone.11 achievements have been replicated and promoted nationwide, and 88 achievements have been replicated and promoted in the province.
The Pilot Free Trade Zone has deployed and implemented more than 90 key R&D projects and 49 major scientific and technological achievements transformation projects, breaking through a number of key core technologies in major industries, and has cultivated more than 3,500 high-tech enterprises, accounting for 9.5% of the provincial total.
Bringing into full play their respective strengths, the three free trade sub-zones in the province have constantly enhanced their innovation capabilities, accumulated and expanding emerging momentum, and continuously optimized the business environment.
Accelerated development has been made in integrated circuits, life and health in the Nanjing Free Trade Sub-Zone, new-generation information technology, biomedicine, high-end equipment manufacturing, and nanotechnology applications in the Suzhou Free Trade Sub-zone, and strategic emerging industries such as new medicine and new materials in the Lianyungang Free Trade Sub-Zone.
The three Free Trade Sub-Zones have added 82 thousand market entities, and more than 90% of the market entities are satisfied with the business environment in the pilot zone.
In the past three years, the Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone has completed foreign trade imports and exports of 1.65 trillion yuan, and reported foreign direct investment of US$6.72 billion, ranking among the top in the country.