"Among all the districts in the third batch of pilot free trade zones, The institutional innovation index of Wuhan district ranks the first, and the government function transformation index of Wuhan district, Xiangyang District and Yichang district ranks the first, second and fourth." In April, on the occasion of the third anniversary of the launch of hubei Free Trade Zone, the person in charge of hubei Provincial Department of Commerce introduced the development results of Hubei Free Trade Zone.

On August 31, the "Walking Free Trade Zone" cloud forum was held online in Hubei Pilot Free Trade Zone. Leaders of Hubei Pilot Free Trade Zone (PILOT Free Trade Zone) from Wuhan, Xiangyang and Yichang attended the "Cloud Discussion" and Shared in more detail the achievements made by Hubei Pilot free trade Zone in actively undertaking the transfer of emerging industries and constantly exploring the reform and innovation of system and mechanism.

Among them, Wuhan Free Trade Zone, located in the core area of East Lake High-tech Zone, known as "Optical Valley of China", has gradually formed an industrial cluster effect and become a famous emerging industrial cluster in China.

"Wuhan free-trade area focus on developing a new generation of information technology, life, health, strategic emerging industries such as intelligent manufacturing and international trade, financial services, and other modern service industry, modern logistics makes the innovation and opening up drive development area, advanced manufacturing and modern service industries demonstration zone, strategic emerging industries and high-tech industry agglomeration area, central area opening to new heights." "Said Sun Qianwen, deputy director of the management committee of Wuhan Donghu New Technology Development Zone.

Hubei Free Trade Zone (Wuhan area), which focuses on high and new technology, has any plan to develop high-end manufacturing industry in the next step? Deng Hua, deputy director of the Free Trade Reform and Innovation Bureau of East Lake High-tech Zone, gave a detailed introduction.

We will further open China to the outside world

Deng hua said that with the continuous improvement of the opening level of Wuhan area, honeywell, CERN and other star enterprises have settled in the area. Now, there are more than 1,000 foreign enterprises, and hundreds of world top 500 companies have invested and started business in wuhan Free trade area.

Next, First of all, Wuhan district should fully implement the Foreign Investment Law and the 2020 version of the negative list of pilot free trade zones, give full play to the advantages of free trade zones as a new height of reform and opening up in the new era, and increase the efforts to attract foreign investment. We will speed up the construction of key foreign-funded projects such as the Bio-pharmaceutical project of South Korea Saiqun and the China headquarters of Honeywell Emerging Markets. Relying on wuhan Industrial Park, an industrial cooperation zone across the Straits in Hubei province, we will focus on introducing a number of high-end manufacturing, bio-pharmaceutical and other industrial projects.

Second, we should deepen the opening up of high-tech industries and modern service industries to the outside world, and enhance the position of regional competitive manufacturing industries in the global industrial, innovation and value chains.

Finally, we should encourage manufacturing enterprises to go global, vigorously develop cross-border e-commerce of industrial products, and foster new forms of trade.

We will further develop major industrial projects

According to Deng Hua, the next step of Wuhan area will focus on building "optical core screen end network", biomedicine and medical equipment two trillion level industrial clusters, pay close attention to the implementation of major industrial projects.

First, accelerate the construction of the second phase of the national storage base project, and push forward the completion and operation of the second phase of Tianma G6 and Wuhan New Core Production expansion projects within this year, thus injecting strong impetus into the expansion and expansion of the industry chain of "optical core screen end network".

Second, accelerate the development of high-end medical equipment and intelligent manufacturing projects such as lianying Medical Wuhan Headquarters base and Mindray Medical Wuhan Project, and focus on building an industrial cluster of biomedical and medical devices.

Further strengthen the industrial space carrier

"We will accelerate the building of a space for industrial innovation in the '1133' sector, and create one innovation axis, one core innovation source, three major innovation nodes and 300 billion roads." Deng hua introduced.

For the next step will be high level construction at the same time, wuhan optical valley, "science and technology innovation corridor" core bearing area and the optical valley science island, layout and construction of the east lake laboratory experiment, precision gravity measurement, pulse magnetic field lifting device and other major technology infrastructure, key scientific research platform, as the leading industry in the original innovation filling weight.

We will further accelerate the development of future industrial innovation clusters

"Wuhan free trade Zone is a leading area for innovation and entrepreneurship. It has 63 science and technology business incubators (20 at the national level and 17 at the provincial level), 101 makers' Spaces and more than 500 entrepreneurship service agencies, attracting more than 200,000 scientific and technological personnel to make innovations and start businesses every year." Sun told Chinanews.com.

As for the next plan to cultivate future industrial innovation clusters, Deng said that the first is to fully implement the "wuhan district to accelerate the development of online new economy 20", "Optical Valley Internet + education 10" and other policies to accelerate the promotion of digital, networking, intelligent upgrading of the industry.

Second, we will strengthen the construction of new infrastructure and new economy application scenarios, further promote the in-depth integrated development of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, and provide market opportunities for new economy enterprises.

Third, improve the whole life cycle gradient cultivation chain of enterprises, strengthen the cultivation path of "incubators - start-ups - gazelle enterprises - unicorns - birth of new industries", and give birth to a number of "gazelle enterprises" and "unicorns" with disruptive innovation.

We will further improve the business environment

"Wuhan Free Trade Zone adheres to the problem-oriented approach, focuses on difficult and painful points, and takes demand as the driving force, vigorously carrying forward the spirit of 'shop boys' who' need everything and let nothing go unchallenged 'and striving to create a first-class business environment." Li Hong, director of the Comprehensive Free Trade Coordination Bureau of East Lake High-tech Zone, summed up the first half of the year in response to the impact of coVID-19.

Next, Wuhan district will continue to accelerate the transformation of government functions and deepen the reform of "strengthening regulation and service". We will make government services standardized, coordinated, intelligent and convenient, and do our best to create an optimal business environment, starting with the reform of the "all-in-one" and "Four" government offices.

Second, we will fully implement the negative list system for market access and support enterprises to better participate in market cooperation and competition. Third, we will focus on building a new type of relationship between government and business in order to improve the quality and efficiency of corporate services.

"Various measures in wuhan free trade zone have effectively promoted the continuous optimization of the business environment, reduced the operating costs of market players, and further stimulated the vitality of market players. In the first seven months of this year, the whole region added 12,851 new market players, including 9,215 newly registered enterprises. Major economic indicators in the second quarter are back in positive territory." Li Hong said.