快速崛起的中國內陸開放高地

快速崛起的中國內陸開放高地

重慶通向歐洲的渝新歐班列。 攝影：譚舒

站在新的歷史起點上，重慶正在描繪開拓開放的新藍圖。“渝新歐”使重慶向世界真正打開了國際貿易。渝新歐班列2011年問世，憑借“時間只有海運的三分之一、價格只有空運的五分之一”的優勢，創造性地開辟了從中國內陸到歐洲的貨運新通道。

至此，重慶形成了向西直達歐洲、向南連接東南亞和南亞、向東直抵太平洋的“Y”字形國際大通道，這不僅契合了“一帶一路”和長江經濟帶戰略，還形成了承東啟西、連通南北的國際交通網絡。同時，憑借水陸空3個國家級交通樞紐、3個一類口岸和3個保稅區，重慶形成了國內唯一的“三個三合一”開放平臺，為重慶大開放注入強勁動能。

依托內陸一類鐵路口岸，以及國家汽車整車進口口岸、鐵路保稅物流中心（B型），重慶的口岸經濟發展全面推進。重慶啟動實施了跨境電子商務、保稅商品展示交易、保稅貿易創新、大數據云計算、國際金融結算等五大服務貿易專項。

大開放帶來大發展。如今，重慶實際利用外資已連續5年突破100億美元，世界500強落戶超過260家。5年來，重慶外貿進出口增長超過5倍，排位從全國第23位上升至第10位，居中西部第一；服務貿易增長近4倍；實際對外投資增長2.4倍。跨境電子商務、保稅商品展示交易、保稅貿易、互聯網云計算大數據、跨境結算等新型服務貿易放量增長，全年服務貿易額172億美元，增長31.3%。

今年1月，中國與新加坡第三個政府間合作項目—中新（重慶）戰略性互聯互通示范項目正式落戶，項目以服務貿易為主題，將金融服務、航空、交通物流、信息通信技術作為重點合作領域。強烈的“磁吸”效應不斷顯現：境外企業首次到內陸地區發行熊貓債、多家重慶企業赴新加坡發行企業債、雙方擬合作建設海底通信光纜……僅2016年上半年，簽約項目金額就高達131.4億美元。

2016年8月31日，商務部宣布了在重慶等7個省市設立自貿試驗區的消息。重慶作為內陸自由貿易試驗區，將成為內陸國際物流中心、內陸服務貿易中心、內陸功能性金融中心。

正是依托大通道帶來的大開放，大開放帶動的大發展，重慶正在崛起成為中國內陸開放高地。

Standing at a new historical starting point, Chongqing is unfolding a new blue print of reform and opening-up. Having been completed and put into production since 2011, the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe International Railway, which stands out with its unique advantages of one-third time duration of ocean shipping and one-fi fth cost of air freight, has been opening up creatively a new transportation channel connecting inland China and Europe and therefore opening up a window integrating Chongqing into international trade in a real sense.

At this point, Chongqing has established a “Y-shaped”international transport route which reaches Europe westwards and the Pacifi c and eastwards respectively and connects South Asia and Southeast Asia southwards, which on the one side, fi ts right into the layout of the Belt and Road and Yangtze River Economic Belt strategy; on the other side, forms an international transport network bridging the east and the west and connecting the south and north. Meanwhile, Chongqing boasts one special opening-up platform supported by its “three three-in-one”system, namely, three national transportation hubs covering waterway, railway and airway, three fi rst-class customs ports and three bonded areas, which equips Chongqing with strong driving force for further opening-up.

The port economy of Chongqing develops comprehensively with the support of the first-class railway port of inland China, the national fi nished-automobile import port and the railway bonded logistic center (type B). Chongqing also puts fi ve service trades into production, including cross-border e-commerce, exhibition and trading of bonded goods, bonded trade innovation, cloud computing of big data and international fi nancial settlement.

Broader opening-up brings more promising development. At present, Chongqing has been attracting over USD 10 billion of foreign investment fi ve years in a row and more than 260 world top 500 enterprises here. Over the past fi ve years, Chongqing has witnessed a 5 times’ growth in import and export trades, ranking first among middle and western cities and the 10th among all cities in China from the original 23rd while income from service trade and actual investment abroad have also increased 4 and 2.4 times respectively. A close-to-upper limit increase has been reached in new types of service trades like cross-border e-commerce, exhibition and trading of bonded goods, bonded trade innovation, cloud computing of big data and international financial settlement, with an annual trade volume of USD 17.2 billion, that is, an increase of 31.3%.

In January, 2016, the third inter-government cooperation project between China and Singapore has been established officially, namely, the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity, which is service trade centered and focuses on such key cooperation fi elds as fi nancing service, airlines, transportation logistics and information & communication technology. Chongqing, at this moment, appears to be a big“magnet” with incredibly strong attraction, for example, there is foreign enterprise issuing the panda bonds for the fi rst time in inland China, many Chongqing’s enterprises are issuing their bonds respectively in Singapore who is also planning on building the submarine optical communication cables with the former......, only for the fi rst half of 2016, Chongqing has fi nished a contract

amount of USD 13.14 billion with foreign enterprises. On August 31, 2016, the Ministry of Commerce of People’s Republic of China stated to establish the “pilot free trade zone” in 7 provinces and cities, with Chongqing being one of them, which will further upgrade Chongqing to an international logistic center, a service trade center and a functional fi nancing center of inland

China. While the large transport routes speed up a broader openingup which then brings forward more promising development, Chongqing is rising to be a vanguard of opening--up in inland China.

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