Our reporter Liu Meng
Recently, the State Council issued the "Package of Policies and Measures for Solidly Stabilizing the Economy", proposing to speed up the revision of the "Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment", to guide foreign investment in advanced manufacturing, technological innovation and other fields, as well as the central, western and northeastern regions, and to support foreign investment in the establishment of high-tech industries. Technology R&D Center, etc.In addition, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce and other relevant departments have also expressed their views on different occasions to speed up the revision of the "Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment".
Data from the Ministry of Commerce shows that since the beginning of this year, my country's utilization of foreign capital has maintained a rapid growth trend.From January to April, the actual use of foreign capital nationwide was 74.47 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 26.1%.
Fu Yifu, a senior researcher at Xingtu Financial Research Institute, said in an interview with a reporter from Securities Daily that although the scale of my country's utilization of foreign capital has shown a steady growth as a whole, there are still some imbalances in the structure.From an industrial perspective, my country's actual utilization of foreign capital is mainly concentrated in labor-intensive industries, and fields such as advanced manufacturing and technological innovation need to be further strengthened; from a regional perspective, my country's actual utilization of foreign capital is mainly concentrated in the eastern region, with the central, western and northeastern regions accounting for the relatively low.
"However, this is where the potential lies. Therefore, to guide foreign capital to invest more in advanced manufacturing, technological innovation and other fields, as well as the central, western and northeastern regions, is not only an objective need to optimize the structure of my country's utilization of foreign capital, but also an inevitable choice to create a new growth pole for attracting foreign investment. " Fu Yifu said.
Xiao Benhua, deputy dean of the Free Trade Zone Research Institute of Shanghai Lixin College of Accounting and Finance, said in an interview with a reporter from Securities Daily that the central, western and northeastern regions still have great potential to attract foreign investment, such as industries required for the development of advanced manufacturing industries. space.This move will help foreign investment to better integrate into the new development pattern, promote the deep integration of the central and western regions into the international cycle and enhance its status in the domestic cycle, and is also conducive to the transformation and upgrading of my country's industrial structure and regional balanced development.
According to the "Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment (2022 Edition) (Draft for Comment)" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Commerce on May 10, the basic principle of this revision is "to increase the total volume and optimize the structure", compared with the 2020 edition , 238 items were added, 114 items were revised, and 38 items were deleted.The main revisions are: First, continue to encourage foreign investment in manufacturing, second, continue to encourage foreign investment in producer services, and third, continue to encourage foreign investment in the central, western and northeastern regions.
All localities are also stepping up their implementation. For example, the "Guangdong Province Implementing the Implementation Plan of the State Council's "A Package of Policies and Measures for Solidly Stabilizing the Economy" proposed to fully implement the "Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment" to guide more foreign investment in advanced manufacturing, technological innovation and other fields. , foreign-funded enterprises can directly go to the customs to go through relevant tax exemption and refund procedures based on the confirmation results of the encouraged project information obtained from the development and reform, commerce and other departments.Support foreign investment in the establishment of high-tech R&D centers, and exempt import duties, import value-added tax, and consumption tax for approved foreign-funded R&D centers and imported scientific and technological development supplies.
Xiao Benhua believes that in order for foreign capital to actively invest in these areas and areas, the first is to rely on "push", that is, to introduce industrial policies from the aspects of finance, taxation and finance to encourage foreign investment in these areas and areas; the second is to rely on "gravity" to further optimize foreign businessmen investment environment, and improve the foreign investment service guarantee system.
Liu Xiangdong, deputy director of the Economic Research Department of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, told the "Securities Daily" reporter that, first of all, strengthen services for key foreign-funded enterprises and projects, continue to pay attention to the core concerns of foreign-funded enterprises, and help enterprises stabilize investment, production, and operation.Second, strengthen intellectual property protection to provide stronger support for foreign investment in R&D and innovation in China.Third, promote international exchanges and cooperation on industry standards and improve the continuity and transparency of policies.Finally, implement the major regional strategies and coordinated regional development strategies, support the central and western regions to play their own advantages, create a favorable investment environment, and give full play to the magnetic attraction of the super-large market, so that foreign-funded enterprises can enter, retain and develop well.
Fu Yifu suggested that we can support the central, western and northeastern regions to replicate and promote the successful experience of the pilot free trade zone reform, improve the level of investment facilitation, implement preferential policies such as taxation, land use, and credit, continuously reduce institutional transaction costs, and attract continuous inflow of foreign capital.(Securities Daily)
【Editor: Shi Rui】
