Ministry Of Commerce: Implementing The Policy Of Stabilizing Foreign Investment And Continuously Expanding Market Opening

On September 29, Zong Changqing, director general of the Department of foreign investment of the Ministry of Commerce, revealed at a regular briefing meeting of the State Council held by the State Council's new office that, in order to ensure the smooth operation of the complaint system for foreign-invested enterprises, the relevant requirements of the working measures for complaints against foreign-invested enterprises have been implemented in place. Before October 1, the Ministry of Commerce will publicly release the guidelines for handling the complaints center of foreign-invested enterprises and 31 provinces, provinces and regions in China The name, contact person, contact information and other information contents of complaint work institutions of cities and autonomous regions. In addition, the guidelines for foreign investment in China will be issued in the near future.

Since the beginning of this year, in the face of the sudden outbreak of new pneumonia, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, all localities and departments have earnestly implemented the "six stabilities" and "six guarantees" arrangements, made concerted efforts and took various measures simultaneously to steadily carry out the work of stabilizing foreign investment. From January to August this year, China's actual use of foreign capital in terms of RMB has achieved a positive growth, while it has slightly decreased in terms of US dollar. Foreign investment expectations and confidence have stabilized and improved.

In order to do a solid job in the fourth quarter and strive to achieve the goal of stabilizing foreign investment in the whole year, the Ministry of Commerce will focus on the following five aspects: first, implement the policy of stabilizing foreign investment. Focus on the introduction of the State Council's No. 28 policy, strengthen the implementation of a series of policies.

Second, continue to expand market opening. We will implement the national and pilot Free Trade Zone version of the negative list in 2020, comprehensively clean up the restrictions on foreign investment access beyond the list, and implement the "no ban or entry". Together with the national development and Reform Commission, we will speed up the revision and release of the catalogue of industries to encourage foreign investment, and further expand the scope of the catalogue. We will promote the construction of Beijing's "comprehensive demonstration area for the expansion and opening up of the national service industry", increase the number of service industries and expand the comprehensive pilot project of opening up.

Third, play an important role as an open platform. We will further promote the construction of Hainan free trade port and national pilot Free Trade Zone, and do a good job in implementing various reform tasks. We will promote the innovation and upgrading of national economic development zones, improve the assessment and evaluation methods, and strengthen the driving role of stabilizing foreign trade and foreign investment.

The fourth is to strengthen the service guarantee of foreign-funded enterprises and key projects. We should give full play to the role of the coordination mechanism for foreign trade and foreign investment and the special working class for key foreign-funded projects, improve the working mechanism, strengthen horizontal cooperation and vertical linkage, strive to solve the difficulties and problems reflected by foreign-funded enterprises, and accelerate the implementation and construction of a number of large-scale foreign-funded projects.

Fifth, we will continue to optimize the business environment. We will implement the foreign investment law and its implementation regulations, improve the complaint system for foreign investment, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investment. We will continue to promote negotiations on bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements and investment agreements, strengthen cooperation and cooperation with relevant countries and regions in the field of economy and trade, and constantly improve the internal and external environment for attracting foreign investment.