Recently, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce and the Network Information Office of the Provincial Party Committee jointly issued the “Zhejiang Digital Trade Pilot Demonstration Zone Construction Plan”. It is understood that this is also the first demonstration zone construction plan for digital trade in China. According to the plan, the whole area of Hangzhou is the implementation scope of the demonstration area in the near future; From 2021 to 2022, the construction scope will be extended to Ningbo, Jinhua and Yiwu. By 2025, the demonstration area will cover the whole province.
“The digital trade pilot demonstration zone is an important platform for promoting the construction of the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone and a major breakthrough for promoting’ building a global digital trade center’.” According to the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Commerce, the “China (Zhejiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone Expansion Regional Plan” issued by the State Council in September clearly stated that Zhejiang should “build the national digital service export base into a leading demonstration zone for digital trade”. The “Proposal” released this time refines and clarifies 23 construction tasks around the “five innovations” of digital trade, such as new infrastructure, new formats, new scenarios, new energy levels and new systems, and puts forward 108 lists of policy and system innovations.
Specifically, the construction of the demonstration area includes “three areas and one project”. That is, focus on building the core area of “Digital Trade Demonstration Zone” in the National Digital Service Export Base of the Internet of Things Industrial Park in High-tech Zone (Binjiang) to create the best ecological circle of digital service industry; In the Future Science and Technology City and Cloud City in Yuhang District, we will focus on building a “digital trade demonstration zone” digital cloud zone to form a digital trade-driven growth pole; In Qiantang New District, we will focus on the construction of a “digital trade demonstration zone” characteristic gathering area. In addition, based on the four areas of Zhejiang Free Trade Zone, Hangzhou Chengxi Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, Ningbo Yongjiang Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, Hujiahang G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, and “Yiyongzhou” Digital Trade Corridor, Zhejiang will build a digital trade cluster construction project.
The “Proposal” refines a series of construction tasks, such as accelerating the construction of intelligent computing centers and striving for the national engineering laboratory of big data technology in the Yangtze River Delta; Accelerate the construction of digital trade hub. According to the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Commerce, in order to realize these construction tasks, Zhejiang should take two steps: by 2022, a digital trade pilot demonstration zone with large scale, strong competitiveness, digital industry agglomeration, rich digital content, convenient digital trade and outstanding radiation drive will be initially established, accumulating a number of experiences that can be replicated and promoted for the development of digital trade nationwide; By 2025, it is necessary to comprehensively form a new development pattern of digital trade, build a development mechanism, supervision model and business environment of digital trade with Zhejiang characteristics that are in line with international standards, realize a higher level of digital trade liberalization and facilitation, and initially build a global digital trade center.
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(Contributed by Ningbo Municipal Commission of Commerce)