What signal does the establishment of Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone release?, Strong observation | Policy with R&D innovation as its characteristic | Enterprise | Zhongguancun
Beijing Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone has recently been officially approved for establishment. This is the first comprehensive bonded zone in the country characterized by research and development innovation, and will be developed into a digital intelligent comprehensive bonded zone representing the national innovation image in the future.
In November 2021, the Central Commission for Deepening Reform approved several measures to support the implementation of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement pilot reforms in the Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone, clearly supporting Beijing's application for the establishment of the Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone with research and development innovation as its characteristic.
The customs officers of Beijing Zhongguancun Customs supervise the export of automobiles and help enterprises sell their products well in countries along the "the Belt and Road".
According to this goal, Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone will build a "2+2+N" bonded business spectrum, with the integrated circuit industry and pharmaceutical and health industry as the core, and the artificial intelligence industry and technology service industry as the focus, expanding N bonded service formats such as headquarters economy, cross-border e-commerce, digital culture, financing leasing, and high-end software service outsourcing.
"The '2+2+N' bonded business spectrum is still the first time that China Customs has assisted in the realization of national strategies." Qian Jin, Associate Professor of the School of Customs and Public Economics at Shanghai Customs University, stated in an interview with the "Strong Observation" column of People's Daily that the functions of customs special supervision areas mainly focus on promoting foreign trade, attracting foreign investment, driving the opening up of the central and western regions, leading new business formats, exploring innovation incubators and institutional innovation laboratories. The business spectrum of Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone is a further upgrade of the functions of the customs special supervision zone at the national strategic level, fully demonstrating the country's confidence in the customs function, and also placing new expectations on the customs special supervision zone in leading national scientific and technological innovation. It is a new task and mission entrusted to China Customs by the country.
In 2022, the Beijing Municipal Government officially submitted an application to establish the Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone. Focusing on the positioning of a research and development innovative comprehensive bonded zone, a total of five functional zones were planned, including a comprehensive office functional zone, an inspection functional zone, a research and development design functional zone, a testing service functional zone, and a logistics service functional zone.
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On May 30th, Wu Kai, Deputy Director of the Zhongguancun Science City Management Committee and Deputy District Mayor of Haidian District, introduced at a press conference held at the Zhongguancun Forum that the Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone is planning and building in innovation, and innovation is its "dominant gene".
Zhang Geping, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Beijing Customs, stated that Beijing Customs takes the promotion of the "Smart Customs Strong Country" action and the construction of smart customs as an opportunity, fully relies on the policy advantages of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone, uses technology empowerment, and plays the role of a "hub" for domestic and international dual circulation. They have successively proposed 54 specific measures to solve practical problems for enterprises. Zhongguancun is the starting point of technological innovation, the source of original innovation, and the main battlefield of independent innovation. Next, Beijing Customs will reduce the operating costs of enterprises by overlapping bonded policies, effectively enhance the radiation and driving effect of the comprehensive bonded zone on industries outside the zone, continuously improve the competitiveness of the high-end manufacturing industry, serve industrial upgrading and high-quality economic development.
Zhang Geping further explained that first of all, we should leverage the support and driving role of the Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone, which includes the "Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone," "Zhongguancun Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone," "National Service Industry Expansion and Opening Comprehensive Demonstration Zone," and "Comprehensive Bonded Zone." We should actively promote the replication and promotion of various regulatory innovation systems in the pilot free trade zone in the comprehensive bonded zone, deepen the "bonded+" model, deepen the "streamlining administration and delegating powers" reform, explore and promote innovative models of digital and intelligent supervision in the comprehensive bonded zone, and reduce the time, economic, and human costs of various links in the industrial chain such as enterprise research and development, testing, and pilot testing; Secondly, the specific support measures provided by Beijing Customs in recent years for the integrated circuit industry, biopharmaceutical industry, new energy industry, etc. will be concentrated and invested in enterprises within the Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone to achieve policy overlap, release reform dividends, and use customs policy innovation to assist enterprises in research and development innovation; Finally, through policy visits, enterprise coordinator mechanisms, and conducting questionnaire surveys, we continuously strengthen and improve the depth, breadth, and accuracy of policy lectures, helping enterprises timely understand the entry project guidelines and policy functional advantages of Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and make full use of various types of customs policy measures.
Wang Chunrui, a lecturer at the Customs Management Department of the School of Government Management at the University of International Business and Economics, suggested that the construction of the Zhongguancun Comprehensive Bonded Zone should focus on the construction of customs supervision sites, the design of customs supervision processes, the trial and error of innovative supervision models, the use of advanced supervision technologies, and the cultivation of highly reputable enterprises, and provide services such as enterprise research, regular consultations, and policy lectures.