Deepening reforms in key areas, the construction of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone will continue to benchmark against the World Bank's new evaluation system
During the 10-year construction process, what explorations have been made by the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone in enhancing government governance capabilities and optimizing business environment institutional innovation?
On September 29th this year, the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone will celebrate its 10th anniversary of operation. On the morning of September 15th, at a press conference held by the Municipal Government Information Office, Yang Chao, Executive Deputy District Mayor of Shanghai Pudong New Area and Deputy Director of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone Management Committee, stated that Pudong New Area is taking the 10th anniversary of the construction of the pilot free trade zone as an opportunity to comprehensively implement the national and Shanghai city's deployment to optimize the business environment, benchmark the World Bank's new evaluation system to deepen reforms in key areas, and systematically implement innovative measures for the business environment.
Yang Chao said that in the 10 years since the construction of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, it has continuously promoted the transformation of government functions, and through institutional innovation, continuously created a market-oriented, legal, and international business environment.
Focusing on "broad access", the "speed of free trade zones" continues to refresh. One is to deepen the reform of the commercial system, take the lead in piloting the enterprise name registration declaration commitment system and market entity registration confirmation system, and give enterprises greater autonomy. Secondly, based on the first introduction of the "separation of certificates and licenses" reform, we will further explore the pilot program of "one industry, one certificate", shift the focus of the reform from the "department centered" reform of individual matters to the "enterprise centered" reform of completing one thing, comprehensively implement process reengineering, reduce work time, and achieve that one certificate can open for business.
Focusing on "excellent services", the efficiency of government services continues to improve. One is to comprehensively promote the "one network for all" online service, achieving functions such as unified authentication, unified acceptance, unified feedback, and unified supervision of enterprise affairs, and 100% access to the main portal for government service matters. The second is to take the lead in promoting "single window processing" offline, integrating the separate approval and acceptance windows of each department into a comprehensive window, truly achieving "one window" for external use. The third is to deepen the digital transformation of government services. The "Government Intelligence Office" relies on artificial intelligence to automatically generate application materials, and the mobile end "enterprise exclusive webpage", remote "direct assistance", and "remote identity verification" use proactive, accurate, and intelligent services to achieve "zero movement", "zero preparation", and "zero materials" for enterprises.
Focusing on stabilizing expectations and continuously optimizing the business environment. One is to continuously strengthen the comprehensive regulatory mechanism, the second is to improve the high-level intellectual property protection system, and the third is to strengthen the legislative protection of the business environment, focusing on the common needs of enterprise development and the special needs of key industries. The Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress has successively issued 18 regulations in Pudong New Area, including "one industry, one certificate" and "intellectual property protection". The new area has also introduced 17 management measures, including the "commercial mediation system", to continuously promote and support the construction of the business environment in the free trade zone.