Original title: Guangdong will join hands with Hong Kong and Macao to promote the construction of two cooperation zones at a high level. The preparation of the overall development plan for Hengqin and Qianhai is speeding up
The 21st Century Business Herald reporter learned at the press conference that Guangdong is speeding up the preparation of the overall development plan for Hengqin and Qianhai. The next step will be to give full play to the two cooperation zones’ role as experimental grounds in institutional innovation and as a window in expanding opening up.
On September 10th, Ma Xingrui, Deputy Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Governor, attended the press conference of Guangdong Province to promote the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone and Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, and implemented the two central plans to promote Hengqin. 1. Introduction of the construction of the two cooperation zones in Qianhai.
He said that at the critical moment when the development and opening up of Hengqin and Qianhai entered a new stage of development, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the “Overall Plan for the Construction of Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone” and “Comprehensively Deepen the Reform of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone” “Open Plan” (hereinafter referred to as “Hengqin Plan” and “Qianhai Plan”), drew a beautiful blueprint for the construction of two cooperation zones.
Ma Xingrui said that Guangdong will work with Hong Kong and Macau to do a good job in the construction of the two cooperation zones at a high level, and make every effort to promote the implementation of major policies, major projects, and major reforms. Guangdong will take serving Hong Kong and Macao as the starting point and goal of advancing the construction of the two cooperation zones, as an important criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of the construction of the two cooperation zones, comprehensively and accurately implement the “One Country, Two Systems” policy, expand the new space for the development of Hong Kong and Macao industries, and the comprehensive development of Hong Kong and Macao residents. Space, promote the moderately diversified economic development of Macao, and promote Hong Kong and Macao to better integrate into the overall development of the country.
Give full play to the role of test field and window
The 21st Century Business Herald reporter learned at the press conference that Guangdong is speeding up the preparation of the overall development plan for Hengqin and Qianhai. The next step will be to give full play to the two cooperation zones’ role as experimental grounds in institutional innovation and as a window in expanding opening up.
For example, in the reform of the business environment, the central government has given the two cooperation zones a new mission of institutional innovation. The Hengqin plan proposes to establish a highly convenient market access system in terms of building a new high-level and open system integrated with Macao, including the implementation of the market access commitment system, and strictly implement the “non-prohibited entry”; Qianhai plan It is proposed to create a world-class business environment, and to explore and reduce market access restrictions for Internet-integrated products and services in accordance with laws and regulations.
Guo Wanda, executive vice president of the China (Shenzhen) Comprehensive Development Research Institute, said that the central government has positioned Qianhai in two ways. One of them is a test platform for comprehensively deepening reforms and innovations. As a test field, Qianhai’s important point is to build the world. First-class business environment, so the business environment is placed in a very important position.
A reporter from the 21st Century Business Herald learned at the press conference that Guangdong will take the link with Hong Kong and Macau as the driving force, benchmarking the highest and the best, and creating a world-class business environment, especially in terms of market access.
For example, Guangdong is studying and formulating special measures to relax market access, a catalog of encouraged industries, and implementing negative list management. In the future, Hengqin will achieve a high degree of convergence with Macau in terms of business environment, and realize the free inflow and outflow of cross-border capital with Macau; Qianhai will implement a commercial registration confirmation system, and Hong Kong and Macau investors can “one-stop” without leaving Hong Kong and Macau. Handle related matters.
In terms of building a new high-level open system, the two cooperation zones have also been placed high hopes. The two central plans have given Hengqin and Qianhai a series of major opening policies in terms of cross-border trade, cross-border finance and legal opening.
The Hengqin plan puts forward the “first-line” deregulation of goods and the “second-line” management, highly convenient personnel entry and exit, and promotes the cooperation zone’s financial market to be the first to be highly open; the Qianhai plan proposes to build a high-level opening portal hub to deepen service trade with Hong Kong and Macau Liberalization, expanding the opening up of the financial industry, and improving the level of opening up of legal affairs to the outside world.
According to Chen Guanghan, chief expert of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Development Research Institute of Sun Yat-sen University, both Hengqin and Qianhai will play the role of “windows” for expanding opening up in the future. They will attract global technology companies through high-level opening up. And entrepreneurs.
It is understood that Guangdong will play the role of the opening “window” of the two cooperation zones, promote Hengqin to accelerate the construction of a new high-level open system integrated with Macau, and promote Qianhai to expand the opening of modern service industries such as service trade, finance, and law, and drive The province is speeding up the creation of a strategic fulcrum for a new development pattern.
Lin Keqing, member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Executive Vice Governor, revealed at the press conference that Guangdong will issue a number of measures to promote the construction of the two cooperation zones as soon as possible, including highlighting decentralization and empowerment and innovation of the rule of law, and highlighting the coordinated development of industries with Hong Kong and Macao.
In response to decentralization and empowerment, Guangdong will support Hengqin to apply for authorization in the form of a list to deepen reforms in key areas such as economic management, business environment, and market supervision; support the inclusion of Qianhai’s development policy requirements in the follow-up list of Shenzhen’s comprehensive reform pilot to promote the previous Policies on the marine industry, finance, and cross-border trade have been “expanded” simultaneously.
For the coordinated development of industries in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, Hengqin will focus on the “four new” industries, research and compile a catalog of encouraged industries, a catalog of corporate income tax incentives, a catalog of high-end and scarce talents; Qianhai will focus on deepening its relationship with Hong Kong in finance and law. , Business and logistics, scientific and technological services, shipping and other modern service industry open cooperation.
How to maximize the release of policy dividends
With the official announcement of the plan, the construction of the two cooperation zones will also enter a new stage. Lin Keqing said at the press conference that Guangdong will focus on Hengqin’s original intention to promote the moderately diversified economic development of Macao and Qianhai’s positioning of relying on Hong Kong, serving the Mainland and facing the world, and work with Hong Kong and Macao to go all out to promote the construction of the two cooperation zones.
How will Guangdong Province better implement the construction plan of the two cooperation zones? At the press conference, the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Guangdong Provincial Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, and the relevant persons in charge of Shenzhen and Zhuhai all gave specific responses.
Zheng Renhao, director of the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission and director of the Provincial Greater Bay Area Office, took the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone as an example. He believed that the cooperation zone should choose the main direction of the industry and stimulate the endogenous driving force of industrial development. “Hengqin cannot do everything. It must be targeted and do something and not do something.”
He introduced that the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission is working with Macau to study and compile an industrial development plan and a catalog of encouraged industries, which will not only integrate Macau’s current industrial foundation and characteristics, but also give full play to Guangdong’s capabilities and advantages. Guangdong is planning to introduce a number of large enterprises such as integrated circuits, new energy vehicles, and biomedicine to Hengqin to set up R&D and design centers. The high-end manufacturing industry chain of Qin is accelerating agglomeration.
Dai Yunlong, party secretary and director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, said that the release of the Hengqin Plan and the Qianhai Plan will be of great significance to comprehensively promote the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, enhance the level of cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and inject new impetus into the long-term development of Hong Kong and Macao. Provide new space and create new opportunities.
“The two plans propose to improve the preferential policies for corporate and personal income tax, and to maximize the release of policy dividends. This will effectively promote the accumulation of high-end talents and enterprises in Hengqin and Qianhai.” Dai Yunlong took the Qianhai plan as an example and identified enterprises in the cooperation zone. Preferential income tax policies will be postponed to the end of 2025, the scope of preferential benefits will be greatly expanded, the preferential threshold will be further reduced, and the collection and administration measures will be more convenient. This will more effectively enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of the modern service industry in the cooperation zone.
Yu Haiping, director of the Guangdong Provincial Local Financial Supervision Bureau, revealed that the Guangdong Provincial Local Financial Supervision and Administration Bureau and the central financial management department in Guangdong have compiled a list of policy requirements for financial reform and development in the two cooperation zones in the early stage.
“Considering the objective reality of the relatively small scale of Macao’s financial institutions, Guangdong will seek the support of the central financial management department to lower the threshold requirements for Macao financial institutions or controlling shareholders in terms of assets, capital scale, operating life, etc., and simplify the approval process. , So that more Macau financial institutions can more conveniently enter the cooperation zone for business development.” Yu Haiping said as an example.
Regarding how Shenzhen speeds up the implementation of the Qianhai Cooperation Zone plan, Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee and Mayor Qin Weizhong said that Shenzhen will seize the major opportunity of “district expansion”, coordinate “physical expansion” and “policy expansion”, and fully release ” The powerful scale effect and multiplier effect of “expansion area”.
He revealed that Shenzhen is preparing a new round of Qianhai overall development plan and land and space planning, systematically considering the industrial layout, functional layout, and spatial layout after the “expansion area”, and insisting that 1/3 of the newly sold industrial land is for Hong Kong-funded and Hong Kong enterprises. Better support for Hong Kong’s economic expansion and development space.
Regarding how Zhuhai promotes the construction of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao in-depth cooperation zone, Huang Zhihao, deputy secretary of the Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, stated that Zhuhai will use the strength of the city to closely link the construction of a modern international special economic zone with the construction of the Hengqin cooperation zone, and work with Macau to enhance Guangdong. The energy level of the Macau-Zhuhai pole in the Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
“The Hengqin plan has clear guidelines for industrial development. Zhuhai will focus on the key industries in the cooperation zone, optimize the industrial layout of Zhuhai, and make the industrial layout coordinate and adapt to the urban pattern, traffic pattern and population layout of Zhuhai and Macao.” Huang Zhihao said .
(Author: Li Zhen, Editor: Zhang Xing)
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