"Huaihua City is an important node city in the new western land-sea channel. We insist on expanding opening up to the outside world and further consolidate the new pattern of opening up based on the "dual channel", connecting with the "two oceans", and serving the "dual circulation"." said Li Chunqiu, a member of the National People's Congress, deputy secretary of the Huaihua Municipal Party Committee and mayor of Hunan Province.

In the past year, Huaihua City has added 54 new international and domestic transportation lines, built new trade transactions with 23 countries, and added 52 new ports and stations. It has successfully attracted goods from 20 provinces including Hubei and Jiangxi and 14 cities and prefectures in Hunan Province to be gathered and allocated in Huaihua City. 1,009 trains were launched throughout the year, and the provincial target was reached two years ahead of schedule. Among them, the ASEAN freight trains have entered the first echelon in the country, and the Zhonglao freight trains have ranked first in the central region. Huaihua's foreign trade import and export growth rate has ranked first in Hunan Province for three consecutive years.

Representative Li Chunqiu introduced that in order to continuously expand the "circle of friends" of economic and trade cooperation, Huaihua City signed cooperation agreements with Yangpu Port, Nansha Port, etc., and established 7 overseas warehouses in countries such as Thailand and Laos, successfully attracting seven internationally renowned shipping companies such as COSCO Shipping to set up return points in Huaihua City. Yantian International Huaihua Inland Port was also officially listed and operated. Huaihua City has also opened a green channel for "reporting, checking and releasing". The customs clearance efficiency of goods import and export far exceeds the national average. It has been successfully included in the pilot export tax rebate at the port of departure, and the enterprise tax refund cycle has been significantly shortened by 5 to 10 days.

"Practice has proved that unswervingly promoting high-level opening up is not only the correct choice of history, but also in line with the logic of the progress of the times." Representative Li Chunqiu said that Huaihua City will keep in mind the instructions, seize opportunities, and strive for progress, insist on "strengthening towards the sea chart" in improving the level of opening up, and strive to build an ASEAN train assembly center, a cross-border e-commerce integration center, an imported commodity procurement center, and a cold chain logistics distribution center in the central region, accelerate the pace of integrated development of Hong Kong, industry and city, and strive to build a strategic portal for the integration of the central region into the "Belt and Road". We will continue to "seize the initiative" in steadily expanding institutional opening up, actively participate in the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road", actively connect with international economic and trade rules such as the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement", orderly expand the opening up of markets such as goods, services, and labor, and better participate in international division of labor, cooperation and competition. We will continue to "open the door to invite customers" in adapting to economic globalization, implement the deployment requirements of the country to further relax foreign investment access, and continue to create a market-oriented, law-based, and international first-class business environment to ensure the treatment of foreign-invested enterprises in terms of factor acquisition, qualification and license.

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