Qianhai accelerates the construction of Shenzhen-Hong Kong deep integration development leading area, and the number of Hong Kong enterprises settled in nearly 10,000.
Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth DreamWorks North Zone. Nanfang Daily reporter Lu Li photo
The Overall Development Plan of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone (hereinafter referred to as "Qianhai Plan") approved by the State Council is about to celebrate its first anniversary. In the past year, what changes have taken place in Qianhai, the "special zone in the special zone"? On December 19th, the reporter learned from the Qianhai Administration that focusing on the main responsibility of "reform and opening up", closely following the main line of "Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation" and anchoring the main business of "modern service industry", Qianhai continued to stimulate internal kinetic energy, showing a more dynamic development trend.
The data shows that in the first three quarters of 2024, the GDP of Qianhai reached 186.4 billion yuan, an increase of 8.2%; Investment in fixed assets reached 110.03 billion yuan, up by 16.5%; The local import and export reached 521.28 billion yuan, an increase of 50.1%. Up to now, nearly 10,000 Hong Kong enterprises have settled in Qianhai, and more than 11,000 Hong Kong people have worked and lived in Qianhai.
The total number of institutional innovations reached 882.
Qianhai shoulders the mission of carrying out risk stress testing for comprehensively expanding opening up. In the past year, Qianhai has accelerated the benchmarking of international high-level economic and trade rules, attached importance to the connection with Hong Kong and Macao rules and mechanisms, accelerated the transformation from factor-based opening to institutional opening, and strengthened the positioning of Qianhai’s "comprehensive deepening reform and innovation experimental platform" and "high-level opening-up gateway hub".
Ma Wei, vice chairman of the Hong Kong Mediation Association, was deeply touched by this. With the approval of Qianhai Court as the first batch of pilot projects "to attract mediation organizations from Hong Kong and Macao to become special mediation organizations in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area", Ma Ai became a special mediator.
"I was worried at first. After all, there are many differences in mediation culture, ideas and systems between the two places." However, Ma Wei quickly integrated the institutional advantages of the two places. For example, Hong Kong is a facilitating mediation, which can quickly break the deadlock between the parties. On the other hand, there is a judicial confirmation system in the mainland, which can provide an extra layer of legal protection for both parties to perform their duties.
Six months after the pilot, three Hong Kong mediation organizations, namely Hong Kong Mediation Association, Hong Kong Reconciliation Center and Mainland-Hong Kong Joint Mediation Center, have registered more than 30 mediators in Qianhai Court, with 159 mediation cases, greatly reducing the time and capital costs of the parties.
"Qianhai’s international arbitration rules have been in line with international standards." Wang Guixun, Chairman of the Arbitration Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong, said that Shenzhen International Arbitration Court took the lead in applying the procedural guidelines of the Arbitration Rules of the United International Trade Law Commission, creating a "twin cities and two institutes" arbitration model in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, promoting Qianhai to realize "Hong Kong-funded Hong Kong-France-Hong Kong arbitration" and building an international commercial dispute settlement center.
Lin Longan, president of Greater Bay Area Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, believes that Qianhai is becoming an important hub of "global buying and global selling". Thanks to the implementation of a series of facilitation measures, such as the guarantee release of goods trade, the clearance time of Qianhai air freight and express goods was controlled at about 2.7 hours, and the level of facilitation was greatly improved. From January to October 2024 alone, the import and export volume of cross-border e-commerce in Qianhai reached 106.2 billion yuan, an increase of 168.3%.
"After the release of Qianhai Planning, Qianhai has designed a complete opening-up policy system in finance, logistics and personnel exchanges, so that people, finance, materials and numbers can flow efficiently and conveniently." Qu Jian, vice president of the Comprehensive Development Research Institute (China) and president of Qianhai Branch, said.
Up to now, the innovation achievements of Qianhai system have reached 882, and 101 have been replicated and promoted nationwide. From January to October, the import and export volume of Qianhai Shekou Free Trade Zone was 448.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 58.3%, a record high.
DreamWorks incubates nearly 70% of Hong Kong, Macao and international teams
"Shenzhen-Hong Kong Deep Integration Development Leading Zone" and "High-quality Development Highland of Modern Service Industry" are two new strategic orientations for Qianhai in Qianhai Planning. For the integration of Shenzhen and Hong Kong, in the past year, Qianhai has continuously released the signals of integration and openness from the "Hong Kong people’s tax" to the "1510" which helps Hong Kong entrepreneurs realize their dreams with real money, and innovative measures to benefit Hong Kong in the fields of rules, facilities and people’s livelihood.
The so-called "1510" is the development model of Qianhai’s comprehensive upgrading of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth DreamWorks, that is, it introduces "1 yuan’s entry and incubation, 500 million funds and 100,000 square meters of industrial space" for Hong Kong, Qingdao and Hong Kong enterprises, so as to create an innovative and entrepreneurial platform with new quality productivity with international influence. Huang Mingxin, director of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong and founder of Dayi Semiconductor Technology, is one of the beneficiaries.
"I didn’t expect that the entrepreneurial space applied for in Qianhai only needs 1 yuan property service fee per square meter per month, and you can enjoy 3 years of incubation for free." Huang Mingxin said. The model has only been launched for four months, that is, 66 Hong Kong enterprises have entered DreamWorks through joint evaluation by experts from Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
"Qianhai has many policies to benefit Hong Kong in terms of financial, legal, scientific and professional services, as well as facilitating Hong Kong residents’ entrepreneurship, employment and life, which greatly expands the development space of talents and enterprises in Hong Kong, indicating that Qianhai’s Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation is going deeper." Zhuo Yongxing, Deputy Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong SAR Government, said.
Up to now, 25 types of professionals from Hong Kong and Macao, including engineering construction, tax-related, cultural and tourism, have been registered and registered in Qianhai. Join hands with universities such as Hong Kong University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and City University of Hong Kong to set up a platform for the transfer and transformation of incubation technology achievements. Qianhai DreamWorks has accumulated 1,374 incubation entrepreneurial teams, including nearly 70% from Hong Kong, Macao and international teams.
In order to build a high-quality development highland of modern service industry, Qianhai has issued a "three-year action plan to promote the high-quality development of modern service industry" to accelerate the construction of the "8-3-18" industrial structure, that is, to cultivate and attract eight categories of "Qianhai global service providers", and has introduced 191 companies; Improve the level of three international platforms, including 431 financial institutions in Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Financial City, 245 legal service institutions in Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Legal District and 700 one-stop services in Qianhai International Talent Port; We will speed up the construction of 18 characteristic industrial clusters, of which the asset scale of financial leasing cluster reaches 211.891 billion yuan, and the total assets of leased ships reach 15.4 billion yuan, up 23% from the beginning of the year, ranking first in South China.
The data shows that in the three years of "expansion", Qianhai’s GDP and fixed assets investment increased by 10% and 15% respectively, and the number of local enterprises increased from 55,000 to 90,000.
Nanfang Daily reporter Theway