The Secretary of the Jilin Provincial Committee emphasized the need to address the issues of obstructed open channels and to accelerate the construction of maritime passages.

“To adhere to reform that promotes openness, to allow openness to drive reform, and to recognize that openness is also a form of reform, we must fully leverage Jilin’s advantages along the border and near the sea, seize opportunities, ride the momentum, and strive to revitalize our strengths, making efforts to achieve new breakthroughs in open development,” emphasized Huang Qiang, Secretary of the Jilin Provincial Committee, during a special meeting on open development in Jilin Province on December 13.

On December 13, Secretary Huang Qiang chaired the special meeting on open development in Jilin Province, attended by Hu Yuting, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Committee and Governor, and Zhu Guoxian, Chairman of the Provincial Political Consultative Conference.

According to Jilin Radio and Television Station, during the meeting, officials from the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial Department of Transportation, Provincial Department of Commerce, Changchun Customs, and the Jilin Provincial Taxation Bureau of the State Administration of Taxation, along with the main leaders of the Party Committees of Changchun and Hunchun, reported on their work. Key representatives from China FAW Import and Export Company, Changchun International Land Port Development Company, and Hunchun Changda E-commerce Company also spoke.

Huang Qiang stressed that to promote high-quality development and make significant progress, breakthroughs in open development are essential. It is necessary to maintain a problem-oriented approach, understand the real situation, identify genuine issues, and solve them effectively, while promptly addressing shortcomings and obstacles.

First, it is crucial to resolve the issue of low quality and efficiency in foreign trade cooperation, continuously expand the total volume of foreign trade, efficiently carry out investment attraction, actively seek cooperation across provinces, assist enterprises in exploring overseas markets, and create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized.

Second, addressing the issue of unimpeded open channels is vital. Departments such as transportation should act as the “pioneers” of Jilin’s open development, accelerate the construction of maritime channels, enhance the radiating effect of land channels, continuously improve the capacity of air channels, and actively plan a number of major projects to strive for inclusion in the national 14th Five-Year Plan.

Third, it is important to invigorate open platforms. Various development zones at all levels should compete and compare their achievements in high-quality development, accelerate transformation and innovative development, fully utilize their functional roles, and ensure that quality enterprises and projects continue to settle.

Fourth, addressing insufficient regional cooperation and connection is necessary. Actively align with national major strategies, deepen regional counterpart cooperation, and comprehensively strengthen strategic cooperation among the three northeastern provinces and one region to better integrate into the national unified market.

Fifth, enhancing exchanges in science, education, and culture is essential. Broadly carry out exchanges and mutual learning in technology, education, and cultural tourism, allowing economic cooperation and cultural exchanges to complement each other.

Sixth, addressing safety issues in open development is crucial. Strengthen risk warning and prevention, and firmly maintain safety bottom lines.

During the meeting, Governor Hu Yuting emphasized the need to focus on the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, strengthen organized expansion of openness, leverage overseas chambers of commerce, organizations, and institutions, study the establishment of overseas liaison offices in key countries, encourage leading enterprises and state-owned enterprises to set up overseas offices, improve cooperation mechanisms with friendly provinces and states in various countries, and promote the expansion, upgrading, and quality improvement of open development.

Efforts should be made to promote two-way interaction of “bringing in” and “going out,” comprehensively explore international markets, expand product exports, establish a long-term mechanism for nurturing foreign trade entities, deepen scientific and cultural cooperation, expand the international tourism market, and innovate foreign trade supervision models. The aim is to enhance platform capabilities through “hard assessments,” promote reform and innovation in development zones across the province, and implement differentiated development strategies for each zone.

Additionally, optimizing the business environment, steadily expanding institutional openness, accelerating the construction of a modern infrastructure system, aligning with international high-standard economic and trade rules, and strengthening policy coordination are necessary to promote high-level openness through breakthrough measures.

Recently, Governor Hu Yuting also chaired a special meeting to promote open development, pointing out that advancing high-level openness is the source of vitality for economic development and an essential path for significantly improving Jilin’s high-quality development.

First, it is important to strengthen systematic integration and supporting incremental measures. In light of the new situation, tasks, and requirements for foreign openness, implement national policies, streamline and summarize existing policy mechanisms and measures, and create further implementation opinions to promote high-level openness, highlighting key areas and planning a package of incremental policy measures.

Second, effectively utilize various open channels and platforms. Optimize the network of open channels, deeply integrate into the Belt and Road Initiative, fully leverage the role of China-Europe freight trains, focus on key regions to increase the opening of routes, and strive to create international trade channels that are efficient, cost-effective, and service-oriented.

Third, create a favorable international business environment. Improve the roundtable meeting system for foreign-funded enterprises, enhance support for foreign-funded and foreign trade enterprises in obtaining resources and qualifications, and legally protect the rights and interests of foreign investments. Implement the national negative list for foreign investment access and expand market access. Promote the facilitation of entry and exit policies and continuously optimize the soft environment for high-level openness.