Rousseff Gong is giving a keynote speech, Chen Jining is giving a speech, and the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone 10th Anniversary Theme Forum is being held
The theme forum for the 10th anniversary of the construction of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone was held today at the Zhangjiang Science Hall. Chinese and foreign guests gathered together to review the ten-year history of the construction of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, discuss the ways of openness, cooperation, and innovation, discuss the strategies for the construction of the pilot free trade zone, and jointly look forward to a beautiful future for development. Chen Jining, Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, attended and delivered speeches. Dilma Rousseff, President of the BRICS New Development Bank, and Gong Zheng, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Mayor, attended and delivered keynote speeches.
The construction of the pilot free trade zone started from Shanghai. Over the past decade, we have benchmarking against the highest standards and best levels, boldly trying, daring to break through, and making independent changes. The achievements of institutional innovation have continuously emerged, fully unleashing the comprehensive effect of serving national strategies, and highlighting the role of economic growth poles.
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Chen Jining pointed out that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China mapped out a grand blueprint for Chinese path to modernization, and made plans for deepening high-level reform and opening up and implementing the strategy of upgrading the pilot free trade zone.Deepen the high-level institutional opening up, connect with international high standard economic and trade rules, explore key areas, seize opportunities for digital, intelligent, and green development, and actively participate in the formulation of international economic and trade rules. Make every effort to strengthen the innovation engine, promote the organic linkage between the construction of free trade zones and international science and technology innovation centers, strengthen the strategic layout of cutting-edge emerging fields, deeply integrate into the global innovation network, and strive to create a new highland for independent innovation. Continuously strengthen the integration of reform systems, create a market-oriented, legal, and international first-class business environment, and accelerate the cultivation of world-class enterprises. Taking the construction of a national demonstration zone for innovative development of service trade and a leading area for cooperation in the Silk Road e-commerce as an opportunity, we will deepen the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment, and develop and strengthen new forms and models of service trade, digital trade, green trade, and other industries. Continuously enhancing global resource allocation capabilities, accelerating the construction of important platforms facing the world, developing higher-level headquarters economies, focusing on building important springboards for enterprises to go global and grow, better coordinating domestic and overseas, onshore and offshore, and improving the efficiency of capital, talent, technology, data and other factor allocation. We will expand our openness with a broad mind that embraces all rivers, innovate with a spirit of daring to be the first, and showcase inclusiveness with an ecological approach of integration and win-win. We will strive to improve the construction of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone and the Lingang New Area.
During his keynote speech, Gong introduced the role of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone and the Lingang New Area as "experimental fields" for reform and opening up, taking the lead in launching a series of major landmark measures and vivid practices of promoting reform and development through openness.Efforts will be made to enhance the driving force of institutional openness, and to take the lead in building an institutional system and regulatory model that is connected with international high standard economic and trade rules. Efforts will be made to enhance the modernization level of the industrial system, continuously enhance the ability to tackle key core technologies, strengthen new driving forces for industrial development, and gather high-level business entities. Efforts should be made to improve the level of agglomeration and radiation, actively build a core bearing area for the construction of "five centers", build a bridgehead to serve the "the Belt and Road", strengthen the joint development with other pilot free trade zones, unswervingly follow the road of opening up, pool the strength of cooperation, gather the momentum of innovation, and cultivate win-win results, so as to promote the construction of Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone and new areas near the port to achieve a greater leap forward.
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Dilma Rousseff, President of the New Development Bank of the BRICS countries, gave a keynote speech.
Vice Minister of Commerce Guo Tingting attended the forum and delivered a speech.As China's first pilot free trade zone, the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone has boldly experimented and ventured, creating a vivid model of promoting reform through opening up and development through reform. China has established 21 pilot free trade zones over the past 10 years, and has replicated and promoted 302 institutional innovation achievements nationwide, becoming a new highland for reform and opening up in the new era. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a major deployment to implement the strategy of upgrading free trade zones. We look forward to the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone continuing to play a leading role in solving problems and exploring paths for high-level reform and opening up.
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Matthias Koeman, Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, delivered a keynote speech via video. The Chairman of Hong Kong Taikoo Group Limited, Bai Deli, and Nobel laureate in economics, Christopher Pisarides, delivered keynote speeches at the forum.
Shanghai municipal leader Zhu Zhisong presided over the forum, with Chen Jinshan, Li Zheng, and Huayuan attending. Attending the forum were also officials from central units in Shanghai, leaders of various pilot free trade zones, representatives from international organizations, international business associations, and Chinese and foreign enterprises.
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