Strive to build a gold-lettered signboard of ＂investing in China＂ and open to the outside world at a high level. ＂Magnetic attraction＂ continues to increase.

CCTV News:On March 20th, the State Council Information Office held a policy briefing to introduce the Action Plan for Firmly Promoting High-level Opening-up and Greater Attraction and Utilization of Foreign Capital (hereinafter referred to as the Action Plan). The relevant person in charge said that the Action Plan introduced 24 measures around five aspects, strengthened the benign interaction with the world economy by opening to the outside world at a high level, and strengthened the confidence of foreign investors in investing in China by practical actions.

Foreign investment access is the "wind vane" for opening wider to the outside world. The "Action Plan" proposes to introduce a new version of the negative list of foreign investment access, continue to reduce restrictions on foreign investment access, and support more qualified foreign-funded institutions to carry out business in areas such as bank insurance and bond funds; We will carry out pilot projects to relax the access of foreign investment in scientific and technological innovation, and allow Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and other free trade zones to select a number of qualified foreign-invested enterprises to carry out pilot projects to expand and open up in the fields of gene diagnosis and treatment technology development and application. Experts said that a series of specific opening measures, such as genetic diagnosis, bank card clearing, commercial endowment insurance and treasury bond futures trading, will help improve the quality and scale of foreign capital utilization.

At the routine briefing on the State Council’s policies held on the afternoon of 20th, the relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission said that the revision of the catalogue of industries to encourage foreign investment had been started together with relevant departments. Initially, we will continue to take manufacturing as the key direction to encourage foreign investment, at the same time promote the integrated development of service industry and manufacturing industry, and increase support for advanced manufacturing industry, modern service industry, high technology, energy conservation and environmental protection. The revision of the catalogue of the central and western regions will fully tap the local resource endowments and industrial conditions, and increase support for basic manufacturing, applicable technologies and people’s livelihood consumption according to local conditions.

The Action Plan proposes to further improve the level of facilitation of cross-border movement of factors. For management and technical personnel of foreign-funded enterprises, accompanying spouses and minor children, the validity period of visa entry will be relaxed to two years, which will facilitate foreign talents to work, stop residence and permanently reside in China, and promote the safe and orderly cross-border transmission of data such as R&D, production and sales of foreign-funded enterprises.

Experts said that the Action Plan, based on the relevant requirements of improving the quality and level of trade and investment cooperation, will play an all-round role in promoting foreign investment.

Foreign companies pay close attention to the policy and system dividend of Hainan Free Trade Port.

From March 18 to 20, more than 30 foreign-funded enterprises and a number of foreign business associations and institutions sent representatives to Hainan to participate in a series of activities such as government-enterprise dialogue, industrial inspection and docking exchanges.

In this activity, foreign-funded enterprises paid close attention to the policy and institutional dividend of Hainan Free Trade Port, and hoped that Hainan Free Trade Port would steadily expand the institutional opening of rules, regulations, management and standards, and promote enterprises from all countries to share institutional opening opportunities.

Activation and confidence will transform the "gold content" of policies into high-quality development of private economy.

As various macro-control policies continued to take effect, the growth rate of private investment turned from negative to positive in the first two months of this year. Looking forward to the whole year, can China continue to maintain this growth in the investment field? What are the characteristics of investment in China this year?

1— In February, private investment increased by 0.4% year-on-year, and decreased by 0.4% in 2023. Among them, the investment in private projects excluding private investment in real estate development increased by 7.6% year-on-year. Private investment in manufacturing industry increased by 11.6%, and the growth rate was 2.2 percentage points higher than that of all manufacturing investment; Private investment in infrastructure increased by 7.9%, and the growth rate was 1.6 percentage points higher than that of all infrastructure investment. In terms of industries, private investment in accommodation and catering, mining, leasing and business services grew rapidly.

Experts said that this year, China will also guide local governments to implement a new mechanism for cooperation between government and social capital, encourage and support private enterprises to participate in major national engineering projects and short-board projects, and provide more market opportunities for private investment.

1— In February, the electricity consumption of the whole society increased by 11% year-on-year

The electricity consumption data released by the National Energy Administration on March 20th showed that 1-mdash; In February, the national electricity consumption totaled 1,531.6 billion kWh, up 11% year-on-year. By industry, the electricity consumption of the primary industry increased by 11.1%, that of the secondary industry by 9.7% and that of the tertiary industry by 15.7%. The electricity consumption of urban and rural residents increased by 10.5% year on year.

"China Starlight" is increasingly bright, and the construction of major projects has been solidly promoted

Queqiao-2 relay star successfully launched

At 8: 31 on March 20th, the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project, Queqiao-2 relay star, was successfully launched by the Long March-8 Yao-3 carrier rocket at Wenchang Space Launch Site in China. As the "key link" of the follow-up project of the fourth phase of lunar exploration, Queqiao No.2 relay star will set up a new "Queqiao" between the earth and the moon.

After flying for 24 minutes, the satellite and the arrow separated, and the Queqiao-2 relay star was directly sent to the scheduled Earth-Moon transfer orbit with a perigee height of 200 km and an apogee height of 420,000 km. The solar wing of the relay star and the relay communication antenna were deployed normally one after another, and the launch mission was a complete success. Next, with the support of ground measurement and control, Queqiao-2 will enter the capture orbit after mid-course correction and braking in recent months, and finally enter the 24-hour cycle mission orbit around the moon, becoming the second dedicated relay star in the world outside the earth orbit after Queqiao relay star, providing support for the sampling mission of Chang ‘e-6 moon.

Because the moon always has its back to the earth, the detectors landing on the back of the moon are blocked by the moon itself, so it is impossible to directly realize measurement and control communication and data transmission with the earth. The landing detection and sampling sites of the fourth phase of the lunar exploration project are mainly located in the south pole of the moon and the back of the moon, so relay stars with wider functions and stronger performance are needed to set up a new "relay communication station" between the moon and the earth. According to the plan, Chang ‘e-6 will be launched in the first half of 2024, and Chang ‘e-7 and Chang ‘e-8 will build the basic type of lunar research station and carry out tasks such as lunar environmental exploration.

Gaolan Port Bridge of Guangdong Huangmaohai Cross-sea Passage successfully closed.

On March 20th, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Key Project — — The Huangmaohai cross-sea passage project ushered in new progress in construction, and the Gaolan Port Bridge, a key control project, was successfully closed.

It is understood that the Gaolan Port Bridge adopts a fully floating separated steel box girder structure, that is, the steel beam of the main bridge does not need the support of the lower beam, and the bridge is completely suspended by the tension of the tower column and the stay cables, which can improve the adverse effects of external forces such as strong winds on the structure. The bridge has a total of 97 beam sections, and the full width of the double deck is 50.4 meters.

The Huangmaohai cross-sea passage starts from Gaolan Port Area, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, and ends at Doushan Town, Taishan City, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province. The total length of the line is about 31 kilometers, and it is built according to the standard of two-way six-lane expressway. It is expected that the main project will be open to traffic by the end of this year. At that time, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cross-sea and Cross-river Passage Group will be formed together with Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and Shenzhen-China Passage to further facilitate people’s travel.

"Mobile China" is full of energy.

Maritime Safety Administration of Ministry of Transport: China launches a maritime map of river-sea integration.

The Maritime Safety Administration of the Ministry of Transport launched the "One Map of River-Sea Integration" on March 20th, which realized the integration and intercommunication of maritime chart data and Yangtze River channel data, and solved the integration and unification of chart standard, Jiang Tu standard and land map standard.

The data of nautical chart, Jiang Tu and land map are displayed in one system and terminal, which breaks the data barrier problem that users can’t use two kinds of services in the same system because the standards of electronic nautical chart and Yangtze River electronic waterway map in China are different in the past, and realizes seamless docking of ocean, river and land data. On this basis, the centralized visual display of navigation planning, meteorological early warning, hydrological tide, traffic control and other navigation information on the "one map" of river-sea integration will be gradually implemented, so as to provide geographic information services for users inside and outside the system in a unified way, and further improve the level of river-sea combined transport in the golden waterway of the Yangtze River.

1— In February, China’s postal delivery business increased by 25.1% year-on-year.

The reporter learned from the State Post Bureau that in the first two months of this year, China’s postal industry delivered 26.26 billion pieces, a year-on-year increase of 25.1%. China’s express delivery enterprises actively guarantee the Spring Festival holiday travel-related delivery services, and the service scenarios are increasingly rich. The industry continues to improve its service support capabilities and the market scale is growing rapidly.

Gansu’s first international freight route in the direction of Central and Western Asia was opened this year.

Recently, a cargo flight with a load of nearly 25 tons took off from the port of Lanzhou Zhongchuan International Airport and went to Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, which marked "Lanzhou — Tashkent "international freight route officially opened for operation. It is understood that the route is expected to fly twice a week and 96 times a year. The main types of goods are machinery and equipment, goods containing lithium batteries, and small commodities. This is the first international freight route in the direction of Central and West Asia opened by Gansu Civil Aviation Logistics this year.

In the first two months of this year in Harbin, Heilongjiang, the growth rate of China-Europe trains exceeded 250%

The reporter learned from China Railway Harbin Bureau Group Co., Ltd. that in the first two months of this year, the number of outbound trains and the export volume of goods in Harbin’s Central European trains increased by more than 250% year-on-year, of which commercial vehicles accounted for over 52%, a record high in the same period of history. At the end of 2023, with the opening of the new line of China-Europe train commercial automobile transportation in Tongjiang, the railway ports of Manzhouli, Suifenhe and Tongjiang, the "East Passage" of China-Europe train, have become the main commercial automobile transportation channels in Harbin.