Ten Years Deep Reform · Expert Dialogue ｜ Cui Fan: "Negative List" has fundamentally changed the business environment.

The implementation of the "negative list" system allows the market subject to feel the certainty and predictability, and the business environment has changed fundamentally.

——The Professor of International Trade at the University of International Trade and Director of the University of International Economics and Trade at the University of Foreign Economics and Trade and Director of the Research Department of the China World Trade Organization Research Association

↑ Cui Fan

The Third Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on several major issues of comprehensive deepening reforms" (referred to as "Decision"), and a total of 60 and more than 300 reform measures were launched. Among them, the "Decision" proposed in the chapter of "accelerating the improvement of the modern market system" and established fair, open and transparent market rules. The unified market access system is implemented. On the basis of formulating a negative list, various market entities can enter the fields outside the list equally according to law. Explore the management model of national benefits plus negative lists before the admission of foreign investment.

What changes did the "negative list" system in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone bring to my country? Starting from the negative list, what are the trials of the Pilot Free Trade Zone? What efforts do we need to achieve higher levels of opening up to the outside world? Red Star reporter interviewed Cui Fan.

Start with "negative list"

A series of replicable promotion experience is pushed through the whole country

According to Cui Fan, the Shanghai Free Trade Zone began to trial "Special Management Measures for Foreign Investment Access (negative list)". Foreign investment has been changed from the approval system to the filing system. Foreign investments other than "negative lists" are managed in accordance with the principles of internal and foreign capital consistent principles to give national treatment, which greatly increases the convenience of foreign investment.

"In the past, if foreign businessmen came to China, the approved people often had a lot of tailoring. On the one hand, it increased the uncertainty of corporate investment decisions, and on the other hand, it also increased the possibility of corruption." Since the "negative list of foreign investment access" in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, my country has gradually established a market access system of "non -prohibited". In 2016, in accordance with the consistent principles of internal and foreign investment, a "negative list of market access" was introduced. First of all, pilots were conducted in Shanghai, Tianjin, Fujian, and Guangdong, and then promoted nationwide to strive to achieve "one single list, single and unique" " , Gas the fundamental change in China's business environment.

"The law can not be prohibited". In Cui Fan's view, the "negative list" system has greatly improved the predictability and certainty of market entities. "When the uncertain factors are reduced, the decision -making costs of various market entities, including foreign investors, have significantly reduced and the efficiency has been greatly improved, which can effectively stimulate market vitality and promote economic development."

In addition to the "negative list", since the "first trial" of the Shanghai Free Trade Pilot Zone in 2013, a large number of copied and promoted reform pilot experience has also been accumulated. According to Cui Fan, the official website of the Ministry of Commerce's Port Construction Coordination Department of the Ministry of Commerce has a "copying promotion" column, showing the experience and practical cases that can be replicated and promoted by the free trade pilot zone.

↑ On the official website of the Hong Kong Construction Coordination Department of the Ministry of Commerce, there is a column of "Copy Promotion"

Cui Fan said that in 2013, the Shanghai Free Trade Pilot Zone was established, and a pilot reform of the foreign -invested enterprise system was carried out. The financial innovation system with the target of capital projects and the opening of the financial service industry, and the post -post -event supervision system that transforms government functions as the core, and will be officially implemented by the Foreign Investment Law on January 1, 2020. my country's foreign investment system has a foreign investment system. Dynamic changes.

Expand, improve quality, increase efficiency

Beef at higher levels of international economic and trade rules

The "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" is clear that the layout of the free trade pilot zone is improving, and it gives them greater reform of autonomy.

How to further play the role of the "test field" in the Pilot Zone? Cui Fan suggested that through "expansion, quality improvement, and efficiency" to give full play to the function of the free trade pilot zone, thereby driving my country to achieve higher levels of opening up.

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He explained that the so -called "expansion" can be further increased in the number of free trade pilot zones, especially considering adding more free trade pilot zones in the central and western regions. On the other hand, the scope of the free trade test area is based on the current 120 square kilometers, and further expands the scope according to the actual situation. If the economic development zone and high -tech zone around the Free Trade Zone are incorporated into the expansion area of ​​the Free Trade Zone, and the scope of the "institutional innovation high" is expanded.

The so -called "quality improvement", that is, the international economic and trade rules with a higher level of benchmarking, conduct high -level open pressure tests. For example, Cui Fan's "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP), which has joined China and officially entered into force this year, in addition to the 701 treaty obligations, there are 170 encouragement obligations. , Integrate institutional innovation. In addition, there are many high -standard economic and trade rules for the "Comprehensive and Progressive Inter -Pacific Partnership Agreement" (CPTPP) that my country is applying for joining.

The so -called "efficiency", that is, enhance the effect of innovation in the system innovation of the free trade test area, improve the government's management and service capabilities, and continuously optimize the business environment, thereby enhancing the sense of gain of consumers and market entities. "The government's service capacity is stronger, the management efficiency is higher, and the sense of gain of market entities will naturally be better." Cui Fanru said.

Red Star News reporter Zhang Yanliang

Editor Guan Li Pioneer

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