67 out of 139 reform tasks have been implemented.
On January 22 this year, the "Pudong New Area Comprehensive Reform Pilot Implementation Plan" issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council was publicly released. At the leading district reform and innovation and Pudong New Area comprehensive reform pilot results conference held on June 11, reporters learned that at present, the Pudong New Area comprehensive reform pilot is continuing to advance solidly, and 67 of the 139 reform tasks specified in the implementation plan have been implemented. Accounting for nearly 50%, the results are initially showing.
According to Xu Shanchang, President of the Chinese Macroeconomics Society, the comprehensive reform pilot is to comprehensively promote economic, social, cultural, and ecological reforms. Through coordinated advancement and focusing on connection and supporting facilities, it will break through the past one-on-one reform and effectively enhance the effectiveness of the reform. Synergy and integrity.
"We have carefully sorted out the implementation plan, which contains a total of 139 reform tasks, which can be divided into two types." Chen Yanfeng, deputy director of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, said that the first type is the mission and task assigned to Pudong at the national level for pilot implementation. The second category includes reform measures aimed at enterprise and urban development. For example, the plan clearly explores the establishment of a safe and convenient data flow mechanism, which is to address the current cross-border data flow needs faced by enterprises and propose detailed rules such as the scope of data export and security assessment to improve the convenience of cross-border data flow.
"The reform tasks in the implementation plan reflect the systematic integration, precision and effectiveness of the reform, and more importantly, reflect the Party Central Committee's expectation for Shanghai and Pudong to play a demonstrative and leading role in reform and opening up." Chen Yanfeng said that the municipal party committee and government have clearly defined the responsible departments for the reform tasks one by one, and 67 of them have been implemented so far, accounting for nearly 50%.
For example, the Plan specifically mentions "deepening the reform of talent development systems and mechanisms and accelerating the construction of a high-level talent base." In response, Pudong has taken the lead in the field of biomedicine and established a "through train" for senior professional title evaluation, allowing on-the-job professional and technical personnel in the non-public sector to directly apply for senior professional titles, aiming to cultivate a group of outstanding talents in the field of biomedicine.
"Our company specializes in the research and development of ophthalmic implantable medical devices. We have broken the foreign monopoly on intraocular fillers and provided domestic alternative products. In the past, due to the lack of talents with senior professional titles, many private companies faced barriers when applying for some scientific research fund projects, which actually affected everyone's enthusiasm for participating in scientific research. After the reform, scientific researchers can participate in the evaluation of senior professional titles through the 'through train'. With the professional title, they will have more advantages in applying for projects, which will also help to unleash their creativity and vitality." said Zhao Hongbing, general manager of Shanghai Jieshi Medical Technology Co., Ltd.
At the meeting that day, Wu Jincheng, deputy secretary-general of the municipal government and mayor of Pudong New Area, said that the first batch of 30 cases released this time strives to tell the reform story from the perspective of the enterprise, explain the business logic from the institutional level, and clarify the implementation path from the operational perspective. Let more reform participants and a broad range of business entities understand and make good use of policies, and better transform institutional innovation into a driving force for high-quality economic and social development.
The reporter learned that through innovative exploration of the joint regulatory system, Pudong New Area is helping innovative drugs represented by CAR-T to accelerate their overseas expansion.
"In order for CAR-T cell therapy products to be successfully exported, we must first obtain immune cells from overseas patients, send them to domestic factories for preparation within 36 to 44 hours, and then ship the finished products to overseas medical institutions." Sun Jing, head of the government affairs and public relations department of Innovent Biologics, said that this requires government departments to complete a regulatory relay within 36 hours. "Now, the cross-departmental joint approval channel has been fully opened, and we are actively promoting commercial operation cases to complete the first order as soon as possible." Sun Jing revealed.
As the infrastructure for building data elements, the Shanghai Data Exchange was established in Pudong in 2021. Tang Qifeng, general manager of the Shanghai Data Exchange, said that since its establishment, the Shanghai Data Exchange has nearly 3,000 data trading products; in 2023, the data transaction amount exceeded 1 billion yuan.
"We are looking forward to the Shanghai Data Exchange being able to serve the national market with the support of the Plan." Tang Qifeng introduced that, as of now, Shanghai has been connected with 10 provinces in China through data trading chains. In addition, Shanghai has also started to establish industry data centers in specific industries such as health, transportation, and finance.
The reporter learned that, so far, the Pudong comprehensive reform pilot has made breakthroughs in benchmarking international rules and deepening institutional opening. It fully connects with international high-standard economic and trade rules such as CPTPP and DEPA, takes the lead in conducting stress testing, and promotes the high-level institutional opening of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone. The construction of the Oriental Hub International Business Cooperation Zone and the central functional area of the country's first "Silk Road E-commerce" cooperation pilot zone has started. The first foreign arbitration institution business institution in the country, the Korean Commercial Arbitration Institute Shanghai Center, was approved for registration, and the first representative office of a foreign patent agency in the Middle East in China was established in Pudong. The "Shanghai Provisions on Promoting Standardization and Innovation in Pudong New Area" was issued and implemented, and the first joint corporate standards formulated by the world's top 500 foreign-funded enterprises were created.
In addition, the Pudong New Area comprehensive reform pilot has also made breakthroughs in improving the core functions of the "five centers". The first shipping futures product, the container shipping index futures, completed the delivery of the first expiring contract on April 29, 2024, with a delivery amount of 177 million yuan, completing the complete process from listing to trading, settlement and delivery. The Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange, in conjunction with China National Offshore Oil Corporation, completed the country's first cross-border RMB settlement transaction for imported liquefied natural gas, and in conjunction with PetroChina, completed the country's first cross-border digital RMB settlement transaction for international crude oil. The policy of exempting offshore trade stamp duty in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone and the Lingang New Area has been implemented, effectively reducing the operating costs of multinational companies and better supporting headquarters organizations in developing offshore economic and trade businesses.
At the meeting that day, a new batch of architect responsibility system pilot projects were signed, and a batch of senior biomedical professional title certificates were issued. The relevant person in charge awarded the National Artificial Intelligence New Drug Research and Development Platform, the Intelligent Computational Structural Biology Independent Innovation Research Platform, and the International Advanced Technology The Application Promotion Center was also officially unveiled.
