Xi ‘an High-tech Functional Zone has completed 330 institutional innovations in five years, and its total output value has increased to 268.1 billion yuan.

  Cctv news Five-year journey, self-improvement; Five years of struggle have yielded fruitful results. On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the establishment of Shaanxi Free Trade Zone, Xi ‘an High-tech Functional Zone held a press conference, and Shi Kangdu, full-time deputy director of Xi ‘an High-tech Comprehensive Insurance Zone Management Committee, informed the five-year construction effect of the High-tech Functional Zone. The heads of high-tech zone commercial bureau, administrative examination and approval bureau, finance and finance bureau, comprehensive insurance zone development center, science and technology innovation bureau and other departments introduced the future ideas and relevant information of high-tech pilot free trade zone.

       In the past five years, taking advantage of the east wind of free trade zone construction, Xi ‘an High-tech Functional Zone has adhered to the goal of "four high-tech" construction, with various innovations and reforms as the engine, and made bold attempts, bold ventures and independent reforms in strengthening institutional innovation, optimizing business environment and deepening industrial agglomeration to promote high-quality economic and social development, and the regional GDP has increased from 83.8 billion yuan in 2017 to 268.1 billion yuan; The total import and export volume of trade increased from 170 billion yuan in 2017 to 310 billion yuan, maintaining an annual growth rate of more than 10%. On the whole, the construction of high-tech functional zones has the characteristics of improving institutional innovation ability, expanding foreign trade scale, keeping the business environment in the forefront of the country, making the core industry matrix more dynamic, continuously expanding the function of science and technology innovation, improving the financial service system, and deepening international cooperation and exchange, and has formed a number of influential innovative experiences throughout the country, and handed over a qualified answer to the party and the people.

330 institutional innovations   Contribute "High-tech Experience" to the Construction of Free Trade Zone

  Institutional innovation is the core task of free trade zone construction. In the past five years, Xi ‘an High-tech Functional Zone has dared to be the first, and the successful experience it has explored has solidified into a system of measures, allowing the flowers of innovation to bear the fruits of reform.

  High-tech Zone adheres to the linkage development of Pilot Free Trade Zone, independent innovation demonstration zone and hard science and technology demonstration zone, based on industrial development and full opening up, constantly strengthens innovation and differential exploration, and has accumulated 330 institutional innovations covering more than ten fields, including government function transformation, customs clearance trade facilitation, financial innovation and opening up, examination and approval reform of engineering construction projects, development of integrated industry, and scientific and technological innovation. Its quantity and quality rank among the top in provinces and cities, and it has a strong demonstration and leading role.

  Among them, four reform and innovation achievements, such as the service mode of transforming scientific and technological achievements in which technical managers participate in the whole process, have been replicated and promoted by the State Council and the national ministries and commissions, and 13 reform achievements, such as the new mode of customs supervision over the packaging of dangerous goods leaving the country, have been replicated and promoted in the whole province, which has contributed a wealth of "high-tech experience" to the construction of free trade zones in the whole province and even the whole country.

 The scale of foreign trade has obviously expanded.   Foreign trade import and export accounts for nearly 80% of the city.

  The construction of free trade zone is both an opportunity and a challenge. In the past five years, adhering to the open economic development model, high-tech functional zones have deepened their exploration in expanding the opening of service industry, increasing foreign trade, digital trade and service trade, and realized the all-round expansion from the opening of factors to the opening of rules, regulations, management and standards.

  In the past five years, the high-tech functional zone has continuously released the advantages of the integration of Xi ‘an High-tech Comprehensive Insurance Zone and Guanzhong Comprehensive Insurance Zone, systematically carried out trade facilitation reforms, and successively introduced facilitation measures such as "advanced zone, post-declaration", batch entry and exit, centralized declaration, cross-border circulation and digital customs service system, which reduced the customs clearance time by more than 75% and greatly reduced the cost of enterprises. In the meantime, Xi ‘an National Processing Trade Industrial Park has been recognized as one of the first 13 national processing trade industrial parks, and international platforms such as Zhongji Industrial Park and China South African Cross-border Incubator are accelerating.

  In 2021, the actual utilization of foreign capital in high-tech functional zones reached 3.97 billion US dollars, and the import and export volume reached 310 billion yuan, accounting for 77% of the city’s total import and export value, creating nearly 80% of the city’s foreign trade import and export volume with an area of less than 4%, attracting more than 70% of the city’s foreign investment.

The business environment continues to be optimized and improved.   In five years, 40,606 new market entities were added.

  Business environment is the core competitiveness and soft power of the region. In the past five years, Xi ‘an High-tech Functional Zone has created the best business environment by implementing all-round environmental improvement measures such as government services, industrial development, social governance and ecological life, and taking innovative reform measures in the Pilot Free Trade Zone.

  Nowadays, in Xi ‘an High-tech Zone, construction projects can be accelerated by handling construction permits by stages, regional evaluation, "standard land+commitment system" for land supply and vacancy approval, commitment filing, integration of multi-evaluation and joint evaluation, and the promises of 100% guarantee of land for industrial projects and 100% approval of key projects are also fulfilled here. At the same time, Xi ‘an High-tech Zone has launched reform measures such as "cross-regional general office", "cross-provincial general office" and "one thing at a time", and explored five smart second-batch items such as "Publication Retail Business License" to make it easier and faster for enterprises to do things. "24-hour" instant acceptance, instant settlement, and the launch of "online service" for government services have achieved an online service rate of 95%, a full-time online service rate of 70%, and a maximum of 99% of the events run at one time.

  If you plant a plane tree, you will have your own golden phoenix. Since the establishment of Shaanxi Pilot Free Trade Zone, 40,606 new market entities have been added in the high-tech functional zones, with a registered capital of 505.2 billion yuan, including 428 foreign-invested enterprises with a registered capital of 7.8 billion yuan. The total number of enterprises registered and the number of foreign-funded enterprises registered rank first in all functional zones and the whole city.

The "55611" industrial system is accelerating.   The regional GDP exceeded 260 billion yuan.

  The construction of free trade zone is always inseparable from the support of industry. In the past five years, the "55611" modern industrial system with high-tech characteristics in Xi ‘an has accelerated, and Xi ‘an High-tech Functional Zone has gradually formed five dominant industries represented by optoelectronic information, automobiles, intelligent manufacturing, biomedicine, new materials and new energy; Five strategic emerging industries represented by artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing, additive manufacturing, satellite applications, and 5G; Six productive service industries represented by modern finance, modern logistics, R&D design, inspection and certification services, software and information technology services, conferences and exhibitions, as well as cultural tourism trade industry and urban modern agriculture with distinctive characteristics.

  At the same time, the high-tech functional zone has also established and improved the step-by-step cultivation and development mechanism of industrial clusters, vigorously implemented the actions of "strengthening the chain, supplementing the chain and extending the chain", established the "chain-length system" investment promotion model, formulated the "five maps of industry", made good use of the "ten methods of investment promotion", promoted the "two-way development" of foreign introduction and internal cultivation, and made great efforts to introduce industrial projects with high gold content, sufficient green content and many new contents.

  A high degree of industrial agglomeration is bound to present cluster benefits and development advantages. Nowadays, relying on many leading industries and advantageous industries, the functional zone of Xi ‘an High-tech Zone has built several 100-billion-level industrial clusters, such as optoelectronic information and automobile manufacturing, which has injected surging power into Xi ‘an’s industrial development and real economy, strongly supported the construction of national central cities, and the regional GDP has jumped to the 260 billion yuan mark.

Continue to strengthen the guidance of science and technology   The innovation vitality of high-tech enterprises is constantly released.

  As the source of "hard technology". In the past five years, the high-tech functional zone has focused on the strategic positioning given by the state, superimposed the functions of Qin Chuangyuan’s innovation-driven platform and hard science and technology innovation demonstration zone, promoted the integrated development of innovation chain and the industrial chain, and created a high-tech sample of science and technology innovation+free trade experiment.

  In recent years, Xi ‘an High-tech Zone has successively issued the implementation plan of "Nine Articles of Science and Technology Innovation", "Ten Articles of Listing" and "1+3" to promote the construction of Qin Chuangyuan, creating a large platform for the transformation of high-level scientific and technological achievements in Qin Chuangyuan, planning two core areas of Silk Road Science City and Silk Road Software City, actively constructing a six-in-one mechanism for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and building a scientific and technological innovation platform with service support.

  At present, major projects such as Qin Chuangyuan Integrated Circuit Accelerator (Xi ‘an Electronic Valley) and Xi ‘an Science and Technology Innovation Fund Park (Silk Road Xi ‘an Qianhai Garden) have been completed and put into use in Xi ‘an High-tech Functional Zone, and the vitality of innovation platforms such as Xi ‘an Science and Technology Market, integration of defense and civilian technologies Platform for National Intellectual Property Operation, National Beidou Industrial Innovation Center, Huawei Kunpeng Ecological Innovation Center, National Advanced Rare Metal Material Technology Innovation Center, and Wide Band Semiconductor National Engineering Research Center, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship platforms such as coffee blocks are constantly emerging. In addition, two "listed enterprise parks" planned for construction are also actively promoted.

  Under the incubation and cultivation of various innovation platforms, the number of innovative enterprises in high-tech zones continues to increase steadily. At present, the total number of high-tech enterprises in the region has reached 3,874, among which 3,207 are identified as small and medium-sized science and technology enterprises, and 174 are dual-innovation carriers. The proportion of R&D expenditure in GDP has risen to 6.64%, and the annual technology contract transaction volume has reached 65.2 billion yuan.

The financial service system is improving day by day.   Gather more than 90 financial service platforms.

  Help enterprises to embark on a broader stage through financial innovation. In the past five years, Xi ‘an High-tech Functional Zone has steadily promoted the implementation of financial innovation policies, built a "financial service chain", and issued a number of policies, such as the Policy of Expanding Financial Opening in High-tech Zones and Several Policies on Accelerating the Development of Financial Industry, highlighting the optimization of global financial factors allocation, attracting financial resources, financial talents and other factors to gather, and constantly improving the cross-border financial service functions.

  Xi ‘an High-tech Functional Zone continued to innovate in the financial field, and successively launched financial products such as credit loans and talent loans, realizing the wide promotion of credit+finance. We will innovate new financial formats and models, vigorously develop technology and finance, promote the deep integration of science and technology and finance through policy guidance, resource integration, platform building and innovative ways, and guide financial resources to gather in high-tech enterprises to form a service system with high-tech characteristics in technology and finance.

  At present, there are more than 90 financial service institutions and factor platforms in the whole region, and 62 enterprises have been listed on the capital market. The number of domestic listed enterprises accounts for 65% of the city and 50% of the province.

International cooperation and exchanges have deepened.   The internationalization level of high-tech zones has been continuously improved.

  In the past five years, the high-tech functional zone has taken the initiative to explore the innovative model of "One Belt, One Road" economic and trade cooperation and humanities exchange, and continuously promoted the internationalization level of the high-tech zone. Relying on the high-tech zone’s essential resources, the construction of Israel’s offshore innovation center and South Korea’s offshore innovation center has helped global enterprises to communicate by carrying out international exchange activities, creating overseas innovation platforms and introducing overseas scientific and technological projects, and has accumulated more than 20 overseas high-tech innovation projects, attracting more than 1,000 foreign talents.

  In the past five years, Xi ‘an High-tech Functional Zone has also built a national digital publishing base, promoted the deep integration of culture, science and technology, finance and trade, and strived to build a "One Belt, One Road" humanities exchange center in accordance with the working ideas of park-based bearing, leading enterprises pulling, platform operation support and innovative service guarantee.

  In addition, Xi ‘an High-tech Zone has successively held more than 100 international activities, such as the Global Hard Technology Conference, the Belt and Road International Forum on Automobile Industry Development, the Belt and Road International Fashion Week, and the Eurasian Economic Forum Science and Technology Branch, and settled in the international open platform such as the Shaanxi Silk Road Cultural Exchange Center, which has accelerated the entry of China’s industrial standards, industrial culture and industrial norms into countries along the Belt and Road, effectively boosting the humanities exchanges and economic and trade cooperation in the Pilot Free Trade Zone.