Cctv newsOn the morning of December 8, the State Council Press Office held a routine briefing on the State Council policy, introducing the situation of promoting the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone to fully meet international high-standard economic and trade rules, and answering reporters’ questions.
Zhu Min, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, said that Shanghai has focused on improving efficiency, reducing costs and optimizing processes, and has carried out special actions for cross-border trade facilitation for six consecutive years to continuously optimize the business environment of cross-border trade. Shanghai’s "single window" for international trade has also been promoted by the World Bank. The continuous optimization of the business environment of cross-border trade has boosted the scale of Shanghai’s trade to increase year by year. From January to October this year, the total value of Shanghai’s import and export goods exceeded 3.5 trillion yuan, up 1.9% year-on-year, hitting a record high.
We will actively carry out benchmarking reform. The Master Plan is in line with the requirements of the World Bank’s international trade business environment in many fields, and introduces three aspects.
First, further deepen reform and innovation and continuously optimize the whole process of customs clearance. The customs clearance facilitation measures proposed in the Overall Plan will help to optimize the layout of international transit consolidation functions, build a monitoring system of operation time in the whole link and process, strengthen inter-departmental coordination, and further reduce the overall customs clearance time at ports. It should be added here that at present, the overall customs clearance time at Shanghai Port has been less than 48 hours, and the low-value express mail has been released within 6 hours under normal circumstances.
The second is to further build smart ports and improve the digitalization level of cross-border trade. In the Master Plan, it is clearly proposed to support the "single window" of Shanghai international trade to build a data cross-border exchange system, which will help to build a smart port big data base and a "one-stop" trade digital public service platform based on the "single window" of Shanghai international trade, and improve the digitalization and intelligence level of cross-border trade.
The third is to further optimize the service for enterprises and continuously improve the overall service environment of trade. There are more than 50,000 import and export enterprises in Shanghai, and the concentration of service trade enterprises is also very high, most of which are small and medium-sized enterprises. The measures proposed in the Master Plan to promote the cooperation and digital development of small and medium-sized enterprises will help strengthen the communication and services between government departments and trading enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, and further enhance the sense of acquisition and satisfaction of trading enterprises.
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