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Excerpts from the Report on the Work of the People's Government of Fujian Province (2019)

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I. A review of our work in 2018

1. We stressed innovation-driven development and substantially improved the quality of the supply side.

2. We stressed coordinated development and made new progress in development between urban and rural areas and across regions.

3. We stressed green development and maintained sound ecological environment.

4. We stressed open development and continued to broaden the scope of exchanges and cooperation.

With a commitment to development through opening-up, Fujian improved the open economy by creating an enabling business environment, leveraging various platforms, expanding the circle of friends, and attracting investors.

Fujian played an active part in the Belt and Road Initiative. Its trade volume with countries and regions along the Maritime Silk Road grew by over 11%. The building of BRI shipping network got off to a good start. Taiwan-Fujian-Europe freight trains made 175 trips, covering over 30 cities of Eurasia. Global Mazu Culture Forum and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road Expo were a great success.

We deepened reform and opening-up in the Fujian Pilot Free Trade Zone by rolling out 54 new measures, among which 15 were first of its kind in China and 9 were replicated and applied nationwide.

Further progress was made in turning Pingtan Comprehensive Pilot Zone into an international tourist island, a frontrunner in cross-straits cooperation and China’s opening-up, a hub of emerging industries and high-end services with enjoyable living environment. Pilot programs in cross-straits cooperation made fresh breakthroughs.

We have sped up the development of Fuzhou New Area across the board and the building of Binhai New City.

Fujian was actively involved in the first China International Import Expo and achieved fruitful results in import and export and in signing procurement agreements and attracting investment.

We responded proactively to China-US trade frictions by unveiling thirty-six measures and nine supplementary measures to stabilize and promote foreign trade and fostering new forms of foreign trade. Xiamen was designated as a comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zone and Shishi clothing mall has implemented a pilot program for market procurement trade. Fujian stood at the sixth place in export volume nationwide.

We adopted new systems of administration and operation for development zones to drive high-quality development. We successfully hosted major investment promotion activities such as the 20th China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT), Investment Promotion Forum for Fujian Entrepreneurs and Symposium of International Capital Investment. Altogether 67 projects were established or replenished with a foreign investment of over RMB 100 million each.

5. We stressed shared development and brought more benefits to our people.

II. Pursuing high-quality and leapfrogging development to deliver a solid performance in 2019

1. We should focus on innovation–driven growth and foster new drivers for high-quality development.

2. We should focus on industrial transformation and upgrading and provide new support for high-quality development.

We will give better play to Refreshing Fujian and the high-speed rail loop in the province to promote the brand of “Come to Where Fortune Smiles. Fujian Province.”. We will introduce large tourism corporations from home and abroad, develop medium and high-end tourism, and establish tourism service sharing platforms. We will promote integrated ecotourism, in-depth tourism, red tourism (tourism to revolutionary sites of significance in CPC history), and wellness tourism, and make cruise tours, yacht tours and motorhome tours more appealing to the public and see a substantial growth in the number of tourists, length of stay, and total consumption.

3. We should focus on reform and opening up and unleash new vitality for high-quality development.

We will move faster to develop an open economy of higher standards. At the new starting point, we will pitch into the Belt and Road development in a bid to make more visible progress. We will bring overseas Fujianese communities on board our Belt and Road cooperation, and work toward solid and sustained progress in building the core area of the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. We will carry out seven flagship projects: BRI shipping network, BRI air links, demonstration parks for international cooperation, overseas priority zones for economic cooperation, offshore fishery bases, building cultural and tourism brands, and expanding our global circle of friends. We will work for an early inscription of Historic Monuments and Sites of Ancient Quanzhou (Zayton) and other sites into the World Heritage List.

We will see that the Pilot Free Trade Zone better plays its exemplary and leading role, and roll out pilot programs to develop an enabling investment environment and advance trade facilitation. With more institutional innovations, we will bolster automobile import, aviation maintenance and other priority business forms, exploring new horizons of reform and opening-up in the new era.

We will scale up new models such as market procurement trade and cross-border e-commerce, and foster new growth areas in services trade.

Capitalizing on the spillover benefits of the China International Import Expo, we will expand the import of advanced technologies and equipment, scarce resources and high quality consumer goods, and build cross-regional commodity allocation center and consumer goods distribution center, ensuring high quality import and export.

We will roll out the 3.0 version of the single window system for international trade, so as to reduce the time for customs clearance.

As the system of pre-establishment national treatment plus a negative list will be implemented nationwide and more sectors will be opened up for foreign investment, we will make targeted moves to attract more investment from Fortune 500 and Taiwan top 100 companies as well as industrial leaders, and facilitate the delivery of a series of projects on advanced manufacturing and modern services, so as to secure more and higher quality  foreign investment.

We will ensure the success of the China International Fair for Investment and Trade, and turn it into an international, highly professional brand and a premier platform for the next round of high-standard opening up.

4. We should focus on rural revitalization and open new room for high-quality development.

5. We should focus on coordination across regions and open up new prospects for high-quality development.

6. We should focus on ecological conservation and cultivate new strengths in high-quality development.

7. We should focus on improving people's wellbeing and share new benefits of high-quality development.

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