East China’s Jiangsu province has made unremitting efforts to promote the development of the free trade sub-zones in Nanjing, Suzhou and Lianyungang in a bid to form a reproducible and extendable experience, and assume a major role in exploring ways for national development.
The Nanjing Free Trade Sub-Zone is spending 700 million yuan to build an international medical center.
Before the start of the project, the free trade zone arranged a unified environmental assessment and energy conservation assessment, which saved a lot of time and cost and maximized the effect of reform.
Shi Jianhua, Project Manager, International Medical Center
The application materials are simplified
from hundreds of pages of reports
to a few pages of registration form
or commitment form
saving more than 3 months of evaluation time
Xie Fei, Official in Charge of Approval System Reform, Nanjing Free Trade Sub-Zone
Nanjing Free Trade Sub-Zone
has unified 8 regional evaluation reforms
and 67 pilot application cases
In the next 3 years
it will reduce the evaluation cost
of enterprises by about 60 million yuan
In the Lianyungang Free Trade Sub-Zone, the new "bonded + export" supervision model of China-Europe Express Train has broken the restriction that bonded goods and exported goods must be packed separately.
This reform measure has measured up to the needs of small-value commodities transiting through the border and also increased the utilization rate of containers.
From January to November, China-Europe Express trains have shipped 526 trains and 43,114 TEUs from Lianyungang, with a year-on-year increase of 22.9%, ranking first in the province.
In the Suzhou Free Trade Sub-Zone, Germany-funded Braun Medical is in urgent need of equipment and consumables that are accessible at its German headquarters.
Thanks to the graded and classification management system for unregistered medical devices used in R&D and testing implemented in Suzhou, medical devices that have not yet been registered in China can also be imported as soon as possible, which has enabled Braun Medical to launch its new products six months ahead of schedule.
Ding Yi, Senior Production Manager of Active Medical Devices, Braun Medical (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
The policy dividend
has greatly shortened the cycle
of our entire project
enabling our patients
to receive higher-quality treatment
For more than one year, the Jiangsu Free Trade Zone has deepened institutional innovation, stimulated market vitality, and made every effort to create a new height for reform and opening up.
The free trade zone has formulated and issued more than 110 policy documents, updated the list of enterprises that can be replicated and promoted, granted the free trade zone 273 provincial-level management items at one time, and comprehensively promoted the reform of license-permit separation, benefiting more than 6,000 enterprises.
Zhao Jianjun, Director of the Department of Commerce of Jiangsu Province
we will promote institutional opening
of rules, regulations, management, standards
in accordance with high-standard international economic
and trade rules
and strive to make greater efforts
to enhance the systemic and integrated reforms
achieve greater breakthroughs
enlist the support of the central government
to carry out pilot projects for open innovation
of the entire biomedicine industry chain
in the free trade zone
promote cooperation
between the Jiangsu Pilot Free Trade Zone
and other pilot free trade zones
in the Yangtze River Economic Belt
and the Yangtze River Delta
and make positive contributions
to the overall development
of the province and the country
