At present, optimizing the layout of regional opening up focusing on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is conducive to enhancing the linkage effect of two resources in the domestic and international markets, promoting the process of economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region, and rebalancing the world. make an important contribution.

Focus on ASEAN

ASEAN is the main body of RCEP, the focus of regional cooperation, and will be the region with the fastest global economic development in the next 10 to 20 years. Therefore, it is necessary to pragmatically advance the process of China-ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership.

At present, it is necessary to implement the China-ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership as soon as possible. For example, seize the opportunity to encourage domestic enterprises to invest in ASEAN in the fields of digital economy, processing and manufacturing; implement my country's commitment to tariff reduction in ASEAN in RCEP, and expand the import of ASEAN agricultural products, high-quality consumer goods, and intermediate commodities. Another example, the top priority of Hainan Free Trade Port is to issue relevant policies, laws and regulations as soon as possible, and build a "headquarters base" for Chinese enterprises to go to ASEAN, so as to give full play to its important pivotal role in the comprehensive strategic cooperation between China and ASEAN.

We must strive to achieve breakthroughs in China-Japan-Korea free trade cooperation under the RCEP framework. For example, promote free trade with Japan and South Korea under the medical and health care and elderly care industries under the RCEP framework; promote cooperation in green industries such as clean energy development, ecological manufacturing, and utilization of environmentally friendly technologies. In addition, efforts are made to resolve trilateral and bilateral cooperation issues under the multilateral framework of RCEP. For example, taking advantage of China's production capacity, Japan and South Korea's service advantages, promoting the "China, Japan and South Korea +" under the RCEP framework, and jointly developing the fourth-party market.

Focus on trade in services

Service trade has become the focus of global free trade and the focus of my country's efforts to promote high-quality development and high-level opening up. It is necessary to use RCEP as a starting point to realize the conversion of the specific commitment list from the positive list to the negative list as soon as possible; in the fields of health, education, information, culture and other fields, accelerate the process of opening up the service industry to the outside world, and fully implement the pre-establishment and post-establishment nationals treatment; promote the digital transformation of traditional service trade, and enhance the international competitiveness of my country's digital trade, finance and other productive service trade.

It is necessary to create a new highland for opening up focusing on service trade. For example, promote the negative list of cross-border service trade in Hainan Free Trade Port in the domestic free trade pilot zone, and reduce the restrictive measures for cross-border service trade in Hainan Free Trade Port from the current 70 to less than 40; accelerate the integration of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao trade in services To promote the integration of rules, regulations, management and standards in the service field of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.

Vigorously strengthen fair competition

At present, institutional opening has become a prominent feature of my country's high-level opening up. Institutional opening requires strengthening institutional arrangements in areas such as fair competition, anti-monopoly, market transparency, and intellectual property protection. For example, further improve the pre-entry national treatment plus negative list management system for foreign investment, implement post-entry national treatment; break the market monopoly and administrative monopoly of the service industry; realize the transformation of economic policy from industrial policy-based to competition policy-based; strengthen Fair competition review of economic policies; actively connect with global high-level economic and trade rules, and strengthen stress tests in sensitive areas in some regions; strengthen property rights protection and intellectual property protection, etc.

We must promote the formation of a large regional integrated market through institutional opening up. For example, relying on the RCEP agricultural opening policy and fast customs clearance mechanism, jointly build a large RCEP agricultural product market; promote cooperation in life service industries such as tourism, medical health, culture and entertainment, and jointly build a large RCEP service-oriented consumer market; under the framework of RCEP e-commerce rules , and jointly develop the large digital economy market in the region. At the same time, focus on the trade and investment needs of RCEP member countries in the service field, and start consultations on mutual recognition of service industry rules, regulations, management, and standards with RCEP member countries as soon as possible; adopt international standards to improve my country's service industry management standards and international standards In the Hainan Free Trade Port, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and other places, explore the mechanism of connection and conversion of different systems and rules focusing on law and accounting.