Qingdao Radio and Television News on June 6 In June 2018, President Xi Jinping announced at the SCO Qingdao Summit that the Chinese government would support the construction of a China-SCO Local Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Zone in Qingdao, and entrust Qingdao with a "national responsibility" to build it. A hundred boats are racing forward, and those who are struggling to row the oars are vying to get ahead. Bearing in mind the entrustment of General Secretary, the SCO Demonstration Zone will shoulder the national important responsibilities, fully promote the construction of "Four Centers" of international logistics, modern trade, two-way investment cooperation, business, as well as tourism and cultural exchanges and development, and actively build a new platform for "One Belt, One Road" international cooperation. Today, the specially column "Following the Footsteps of the General Secretary" of Convergence Media broadcast "SCO Demonstration Zone: Regarding International Cooperation as a New Road and Riding the Wind to Create a Future".
Reporter Liu Jialei: Sail out to sea and achieve win-win development. The pepper handle remover beside me can be described as a star product of agricultural equipment in countries along the “Belt and Road”. At present, the company's orders have been scheduled in 2024, and the products are exported to India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Vietnam and other countries and regions, occupying more than 95% of the global market share of similar products.
Through continuous industry-university-research collaborative innovation, Qingdao Lulu Agricultural Equipment Co., Ltd., located in Jiaozhou, took the SCO Express to seize the international market. Relying on the institutional advantages of tariffs and trade and investment facilitation in the SCO Demonstration Zone, the company conducted several rounds of negotiations through the Pakistan-China Center last year, and finally signed a cooperation agreement for the Pakistan-China Pepper Industrial Park covering an area of 100 mu and an investment of 20 million US dollars. After being put into production, the annual output value will reach 30 million US dollars. At present, the land procedures for the project have been completed. Next year, the production line here will go across the ocean, and the golden signboard of "Made in China" will be promoted to more countries.
Li Zhimin, General Manager of Qingdao Lulu Agricultural Equipment Co., Ltd.: The SCO Demonstration Zone has given us a lot of information. Through the SCO Pakistan Center, the bridge has been built for us to get in touch with the Pakistani ambassador and counselor.
Wang Zihai, Honorary Investment Counselor of China, National Investment Commission of Pakistan: It is necessary to coordinate various functional ministries in Pakistan and various functional departments in China to conduct in-depth and direct contacts to solve problems encountered in the process of doing business.
Since the start of construction, the SCO Demonstration Zone has always been guided by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, actively played a leading role, focused on strengthening bilateral and multilateral foreign exchanges and cooperation in various fields, and accelerated the creation of a new highland for opening up in the new era. It has accumulated more than 1,700 trade entities, introduced and cultivated 10 trade platforms such as the SCO Cross-border Trade Service Center, and 4 cross-border e-commerce platforms including Transfar (SCO) Hemaotong, and the trade volume with SCO countries has grown from 850 million yuan in 2019 to 4 billion yuan in 2021. Besides, it also operates 25 international and domestic train routes on a regular basis, reaching 49 cities of 20 countries of SCO and countries along the "Belt and Road". From January to May this year, the China-Europe train (Qilu) in the SCO Demonstration Zone has made a total of 357 trips, reach a year-on-year increase of 37.3%.
Fu Zhonghua, Minister of the Department No.1 of Industry Development of SCO Demonstration Zone Management Committee: we will build a joint customs center in the zone, conduct research on customs clearance and trade facilitation between relevant cities in the SCO countries, and truly build the SCO Demonstration Zone into a platform for capital flow, people flow, information flow, and logistics to gather and burst.
Close economic and trade cooperation is inseparable from the support of economic and trade talents. In 2021, at the SCO Dushanbe Summit, President Xi Jinping once again "named" Qingdao, and personally deployed Qingdao to build the SCO Institute of Economy and Trade to boost the development of the SCO's multilateral economic and trade cooperation.
Reporter Liu Jialei: "Establishing the China-SCO Institute of Economy and Trade to help the SCO countries develop multilateral economic and trade cooperation" is not only the entrustment, but also an important responsibility of the state. On January 13 this year, the China-SCO Institute of Economy and Trade was officially inaugurated, with the SCO Demonstration Zone as the main body of promotion and Qingdao University as the main body of implementation, integrating domestic high-quality resources, and further strengthening the construction of economic and trade talent team for SCO and countries along the “Belt and Road”.
Xiao Jiangnan, Executive Dean of the SCO Institute of Economy and Trade and Vice President of Qingdao University: it’s necessary to highlight openness, internationalization, marketization, and innovation, increase the efforts of building "Economic and Trade +", and promote the multilateral economic and trade development of SCO-related countries. In response to the economic and trade needs of the SCO countries and countries along the "Belt and Road", 7 classes of foreign aid training and economic and trade training have been carried out with more than 1,600 participants.
While accelerating international cooperation in various fields such as economy, trade, and humanities, the SCO Demonstration Zone is pushing reforms through opening up and building a pilot zone for institutional innovation from a high starting point. Up to now, the SCO Demonstration Zone has implemented 35 reform and innovation measures with SCO characteristics, and initially formed an institutional innovation framework system with SCO characteristics of “Four Conveniences and One Leading”. More than 90% of the innovation cases are related to the SCO. Country-related, involving logistics, commerce, technology, people-to-people and cultural exchanges and other fields. In 2022, the SCO Demonstration Zone will play a role as a breakthrough demonstration in the core area, and accelerate to become the main battlefield for project construction, the main window for opening to the outside world, and the main force for international cooperation, helping to build an open pattern of land-sea linkage and mutual assistance between the east and the west.
Zhang Dong, Deputy Director of the Management Committee of the Party Working Committee of the SCO Demonstration Zone: We will conscientiously implement the requirements of the Provincial and Qingdao Party Congresses, and build momentum and rise under the overall construction idea of "overall planning, one core leadership, and three-district linkage", try to "be solid, good, beautiful, and sound", and speed up the creation of a new platform for "Belt and Road" international cooperation.
