Recently, the State Council issued the experimental zone of promoting free trade trade and investment facilitation measures of reform and innovation "(hereinafter referred to as" measures ") in promoting trade, investment, international logistics, financial services, the real economy, and to explore the judicial safeguard function of trade and investment convenience, etc., 19 specific reform measures are put forward.

At a regular policy briefing of The State Council on Sept 3, Wang Shouwen, vice minister of Commerce and deputy representative for international trade negotiations, said that the measures, as a special document, will build an overall policy and institutional framework for the pilot free trade zone along with a series of overall plans for the pilot free trade zone. "By promoting trade and investment facilitation, we will facilitate the opening up of pilot free trade zones to the outside world at a high level, deepen the reform of delegating power, improving regulation and services, and promote the integration, coordination and efficiency of reform systems to promote high-quality development of pilot free trade zones." "Said The king.

It is understood that the 21 pilot free trade zones have a total of 28 construction plans, a total of more than 3,400 reform pilot tasks, the initial construction of the basic framework of the policy system of the pilot free trade zone.

According to Wang shouwen, the measures mainly focus on trade and investment facilitation and put forward targeted reform measures to further stimulate the vitality of market players and create new advantages for development.

Among them, in terms of improving the convenience of financial services to the real economy, the Measures proposed that the management of bank account system will be innovated, and the pilot bank account system combining local currency and foreign currency will be carried out in the pilot free trade zone.

Wang Xin, director of the Research Bureau of the People's Bank of China, said bank accounts are an important carrier and channel for market entities to conduct business activities. In the next step, we will continue to improve the relevant management framework based on the evaluation of the effects of the pilot free trade zones, provide better bank account services for the development of the pilot free trade zones, and continue to help optimize the financial environment.

In terms of improving the convenience of international logistics, the Measures require the liberalization of legal inspection of internationally registered ships, allowing overseas ship inspection institutions approved in accordance with the law to carry out legal inspection of internationally registered ships in pilot free trade zones.

Li Hongyin, head of the Maritime Safety Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, said the ministry will continue to promote the legal inspection of internationally registered ships, promote relevant work in a pilot way, and sign authorization agreements with foreign classification societies in accordance with the requirements of the International Maritime Organization. Actively plan the post-evaluation work and decide the follow-up opening measures according to the post-evaluation results.

, director-general of the department of Ministry of Commerce of free trade port Tang Wenhong pointed out that in order to ensure the "measures" the ground work as soon as possible, the Ministry of Commerce will play a good the inter-ministerial meeting free trade region office of the State Council to coordinate, push related department to simplify the process of reforms to the ground and requirements, the need to develop specific ideas, measures, rules, plan, These measures must be completed within one year from the date of issuance.