Xinhua News Agency, Changsha, June 15 He Lifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, investigated the opening up work in Changsha, Hunan on June 14. He Lifeng pointed out that we should thoroughly study and implement the spirit of the important speech and instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping during his inspection in Hunan, firmly grasp our strategic positioning in building a new development pattern, unswervingly expand high-level opening up, and continue to strive to build a highland of reform and opening up in inland areas.
He Lifeng successively came to Changsha Area of China (Hunan) Pilot Free Trade Zone, Changsha Airport Economic Demonstration Zone and Changsha Huanghua Comprehensive Bonded Zone to investigate the construction and development of the park, international freight transport, customs clearance facilitation and other work on the spot, and understand the agglomeration and development of advantageous industries, production and operation of import and export enterprises, attracting foreign capital and other major problems.
He Lifeng pointed out that Hunan has a good industrial foundation and regional advantages, and has made positive progress in expanding opening up and developing export-oriented economy in recent years. We should build a new development pattern based on services, give full play to our own advantages, steadily expand institutional openness, deeply integrate into high-quality co construction of the "Belt and Road", cultivate new momentum in expanding opening up, and constantly enhance new advantages in international economic cooperation and competition. We should give better play to the role of various open platforms such as the pilot free trade zone, the pilot zone for in-depth economic and trade cooperation between China and Africa, the airport economic demonstration zone, and the comprehensive bonded zone, deepen reform and innovation, attract and gather more enterprises with high technology, high added value, and strong driving force, and promote the development of new business types and models such as engineering machinery remanufacturing, bonded research and development, bonded maintenance, and cross-border e-commerce, Radiation drives regional opening and development. It is necessary to constantly improve the level of cross-border trade facilitation, unblock the international logistics channels of land, water and air transportation, strengthen the development of emerging markets, promote the construction of overseas warehouses and the export of intermediate goods, effectively solve the difficulties and problems encountered in the operation of enterprises, and support foreign trade enterprises to better stabilize their orders and markets. It is necessary to benchmark international high standard economic and trade rules, continue to build a market-oriented, legalized and internationalized first-class business environment, further improve the level of foreign capital service guarantee, effectively enhance foreign investment confidence, and stabilize the scale of foreign capital utilization.
He Lifeng also investigated the progress of housing guarantee and delivery, and required to give full play to the role of urban real estate financing coordination mechanism, firmly fight the battle of housing guarantee and delivery for commercial housing projects, and ensure the completion and delivery of projects sold and under construction on time with quality guaranteed.
