The New Negative List Of Foreign Investment Access Will Be Implemented From July 23

"Since its establishment in 2009, China has always been an important market for our company. In the past 11 years, we have not only witnessed the achievements made in China's economic construction, but also increasingly felt the constantly improved infrastructure and continuously optimized business environment." China's CEO China China Bethven, China novel coronavirus pneumonia, has been established in 11th anniversary, when the company was founded in Shanghai, China. The first half of this year, the new crown pneumonia epidemic broke out, which caused many worries outside China. However, the epidemic situation in China has been effectively controlled, and many foreign businesses have already resumed their business in China. Heart. As a diversified IT service provider, blunder has come from the EU for 11 years and has gained broad development space in China.
According to a new report released by the European Chamber of Commerce in China, 65% of enterprises regard China as the most important or the top three investment destinations, and 48% of enterprises are optimistic about the growth of their income in China, all up 3% over the previous year.
Jiangsu Province, also located in the Yangtze River Delta, has been speeding up the resumption of local enterprises' work and production on the one hand, and has also issued a series of policies to stabilize foreign investment. For example, the "opinions on promoting the utilization of foreign capital and improving the quality and doing a good job in the work of investment promotion, safety and business stability" recently issued by Jiangsu province put forward 23 measures to stabilize foreign investment, with special emphasis on unblocking the communication channels between the government and enterprises and enhancing the sense of gain of foreign-funded enterprises. With the support of a series of measures, from January to May this year, Jiangsu actually used 12.33 billion US dollars of foreign investment, an increase of 8.7% over the same period of last year; 1126 foreign investment projects were newly established, and the new contractual foreign investment was 25.68 billion US dollars, an increase of 18.1% year-on-year.
The reporter learned from the regular press conference held by the national development and Reform Commission on July 17 that since the second quarter of this year, with the further consolidation of the achievements in epidemic prevention and control in China, the resumption of work and production and the overall promotion of reaching the production capacity, the situation of China's utilization of foreign capital has obviously stabilized. In the first half of the year, China's actual utilization of foreign capital was US $67.93 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 4%. Among them, the growth rate in the second quarter increased by 5.1%, up 17.9 percentage points compared with the first quarter. From the perspective of major foreign-funded projects, many projects have made positive progress. Huizhou CNOOC Shell Petrochemical phase III project held a "cloud contract"; the first batch of BASF new integrated base project was piling in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and the project officially entered the civil construction stage; Shanghai Tesla electric vehicle project phase I has successfully reached the production capacity, and the second phase is also in orderly progress.
"On the basis of promoting the first three major foreign-funded projects, we have recently launched the fourth batch of major foreign-funded projects, involving electronic information, new materials and other fields. The successive implementation of these major foreign-funded projects shows the strong confidence of foreign-funded enterprises in China's development. " Yuan Da, director of the Policy Research Office of the national development and Reform Commission and spokesman, said.
Earlier this month, German pharmaceutical company bringer Ingelheim announced the launch of China's external innovation cooperation center, and announced that it would increase investment of 451 million euro in the next five years, mainly for the expansion of animal health and biopharmaceutical production base and investment in clinical research and development. The company is also another foreign pharmaceutical enterprise that has increased its market share in China after multinational pharmaceutical enterprises such as Roche and Merck launched innovation centers in China. "China is one of the most important strategic markets for Boehringer Ingelheim in the world. In the next 10 years, it is expected that 71 new products or new indications will be approved in China." Said Gao Qifei, President and chief executive officer of the Greater China region of Boehringer Ingelheim.
With regard to the negative list problem that foreign enterprises are generally concerned about, the national development and Reform Commission said at a press conference that it will continue to actively expand the opening up to the outside world, continuously optimize the business environment, and do a solid job in stabilizing foreign investment in accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council. First, implement the negative list. The new version of the negative list of foreign investment access in China and pilot free trade zones will be implemented from July 23. The development and Reform Commission will, in conjunction with relevant parties, do a solid job in the implementation of the new opening-up measures, improve the consistency of various policies, and give equal treatment to domestic and foreign-funded enterprises in areas beyond the negative list. No unit is allowed to set restrictions on access to foreign capital alone.
Second, optimize investment services. We will continue to do a good job in the implementation of major foreign investment projects at the national level, improve the coordination mechanism for major foreign investment projects at the local level, and strengthen project reserves. Taking the work of major foreign-funded projects as the demonstration and guidance, we will comprehensively improve the service level of foreign-funded projects.
The third is to facilitate personnel exchanges. In April this year, the national development and Reform Commission, together with relevant departments, established a charter flight mechanism for foreign personnel from major foreign-funded projects to focus on solving the international travel problems reflected by multinational companies. In the past three months, more than 5000 foreign management and technical personnel of 23 projects have entered the country by charter flights. We will continue to do a good job in this area and provide convenience for enterprises to implement projects.
Fourth, strengthen positive encouragement. On the basis of maintaining the stability of the existing items, we should further expand the scope of encouraging foreign investment. In terms of industry, we should focus on promoting the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, and in the regional aspect, we should actively attract foreign investment in the central and western regions.