Solidly promoting high-level opening up to the outside world with greater efforts to attract and utilize foreign investment action plan

Foreign investment is an important force to participate in the construction of Chinese path to modernization and promote the common prosperity and development of China's economy and the world economy. To implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the following action plan is formulated.
1、 Expand market access and improve the level of foreign investment liberalization
（1） Reasonably reduce the negative list of foreign investment access. Establish a sound national treatment and negative list management system for foreign investment access, comprehensively lift restrictions on foreign investment access in the manufacturing industry, and continue to promote the expansion of opening up in areas such as telecommunications and healthcare.
（2） Carry out pilot programs to relax foreign investment access in the field of scientific and technological innovation. Allow Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and other free trade pilot zones to select several eligible foreign-invested enterprises to expand their pilot programs in the development and application of genetic diagnosis and treatment technologies. Supporting measures to open up information services (limited to application stores) and other fields to better implement and achieve results in the pilot free trade zone.
（3） Expand the access of foreign financial institutions in the field of banking and insurance. Under the premise of ensuring safety, efficiency, and stability, support qualified foreign institutions to carry out bank card clearing business in accordance with the law. Deepen the opening up of industries such as commercial pension insurance and health insurance, and support qualified overseas professional insurance institutions to invest in or participate in insurance institutions within China.
（4） Expand the business scope of foreign financial institutions participating in the domestic bond market. We will optimize the procedures for foreign financial institutions to participate in the domestic capital market and further facilitate their participation in China's bond market. Support eligible foreign financial institutions to participate in domestic bond underwriting in accordance with regulations. We will study and prudently promote more qualified foreign banks to participate in the pilot treasury bond bond futures trading.
（5） Deeply implement pilot projects for qualified overseas limited partners to invest domestically. Expand the pilot scope of qualified overseas limited partners, standardize the requirements of qualified overseas limited partner management enterprises and funds in terms of registered capital, shareholders, etc., and expand the scope of funds that can be invested in. Improve the management measures for private equity investment fund services, encourage foreign investment to establish private equity funds and carry out various investment activities in accordance with the law.
2、 Intensify policy efforts to enhance the attractiveness of foreign investment
（6） Expand the Catalogue of Industries Encouraging Foreign Investment and the List of Foreign Investment Projects. The National Catalogue of Encouraging Foreign Investment Industries will increase support for advanced manufacturing, high-tech, energy conservation and environmental protection, and the Catalogue of Foreign Investment Advantage Industries in the Central and Western Regions will increase support for basic manufacturing, applicable technology, and people's consumption. Actively support foreign investment projects in fields such as integrated circuits, biopharmaceuticals, and high-end equipment to be included in the list of major and key foreign investment projects, and allow them to enjoy corresponding support policies.
（7） Implement tax support policies. Foreign invested enterprises that reinvest in projects within China and meet the conditions such as the Catalogue of Industries Encouraging Foreign Investment may enjoy tariff exemption policies for imported self use equipment in accordance with regulations. We will implement preferential tax policies for overseas investors to invest in China's bond market and other financial markets.
（8） Increase financial support. Encourage financial institutions to provide high-quality financial services and financing support for eligible foreign-funded projects in accordance with market-oriented principles. Support eligible foreign-invested enterprises to issue RMB bonds for financing in China and use them for domestic investment projects. Promote the implementation of facilitation policies for cross-border trade and investment foreign exchange management, and continuously improve the convenience of foreign exchange business for foreign-invested enterprises.
（9） Strengthen energy utilization guarantee. Improve the regulation of total energy consumption and intensity, focus on controlling fossil energy consumption, implement policies such as excluding the consumption of raw materials and non fossil energy from the total energy consumption and intensity control, and ensure the reasonable energy demand of foreign-funded projects on an equal footing. Accelerate the promotion of green certificate trading and cross provincial green electricity trading to better meet the green electricity needs of foreign-invested enterprises.
（10） Support the central, western, and northeastern regions to undertake industrial transfer. Encourage the central, western, and northeastern regions to leverage their local comparative advantages and formulate policies and measures tailored to local conditions to reduce the costs of land, energy, labor, and logistics for manufacturing enterprises. Plan and integrate key development zones in the central, western, and northeastern regions, pair up with the eastern region to carry out foreign investment industry transfer cooperation, establish and improve mechanisms and implementation rules for project promotion, cadre exchange, and profit sharing.
3、 Optimize a fair competition environment and provide good services for foreign-invested enterprises
（11） Clean up behaviors and policy measures that violate fair competition. Promptly handle discriminatory behaviors against foreign-invested enterprises reflected by business entities in government procurement, bidding, qualification licensing, standard formulation, and subsidy enjoyment, and notify responsible entities and set a deadline for rectification. Accelerate the formulation and promulgation of standards for government procurement of domestic products, and treat products produced by domestic and foreign enterprises that meet the standards equally and equally in government procurement activities. Comprehensively clean up policy measures that hinder a unified market and fair competition.
（12） Improve the bidding and tendering system. Accelerate the revision of the Tendering and Bidding Law. Organize special governance for prominent issues in the field of bidding and tenderingWe will concentrate on rectifying a group of issues that have been strongly reflected by business entities, and remove unreasonable restrictions that restrict all types of ownership enterprises from participating equally in bidding and tendering. Develop rules for fair competition review in the field of bidding and tendering, strengthen rigid constraints on fair competition review, and avoid issuing policy documents that exclude and restrict fair competition.
（13） Revision of fair participation standards. Support foreign-invested enterprises to participate in standardization technical committees or relevant standardization organizations for advanced manufacturing, engineering materials, information and communication under the same conditions, and participate equally in the formulation and revision of standards in accordance with the law. Timely disclose national standard information and improve the transparency and openness of standardization work.
（14） Improve the scientific level of administrative law enforcement. Strictly implement the administrative law enforcement publicity system, strictly implement the list of administrative inspection items, resolutely avoid duplicate inspections, timely correct non-standard administrative law enforcement behaviors, and gradually promote off-site supervision with remote supervision, early warning and prevention as the main characteristics.
（15） Continuously building; Investing in China; Brand. Based on important exhibition platforms, carry out; Investing in China; Key investment promotion activities aim to comprehensively showcase China's high-quality business environment and investment opportunities to overseas investors. Establish and improve work mechanisms, leverage the role of business institutions of embassies and consulates abroad, and support local governments; Go out& Ldquo; Please come in; In combination, we will carry out investment promotion work on a regular basis. Organize international industrial investment cooperation docking activities to promote more project negotiations and signing.
（16） Strengthen services for foreign-invested enterprises. Make good use of platforms such as roundtable meetings for foreign-funded enterprises, deepen regular exchanges with foreign-invested enterprises, foreign chambers of commerce associations, and international organizations, respond to concerns from all parties in a timely manner, and provide targeted service guarantees. Improve the cross departmental coordination mechanism for complaints from foreign-invested enterprises at all levels, improve the direct contact system for foreign-invested enterprises, facilitate communication channels, and timely understand and promote the resolution of issues and reasonable demands raised by foreign-invested enterprises. Implement the foreign investment information reporting system, continuously promote departmental data sharing, and prohibit foreign investment enterprises from repeatedly submitting information that can be obtained through departmental information sharing.
4、 Smooth flow of innovative elements and promote innovation cooperation between domestic and foreign enterprises
（17） Support data flow between foreign-invested enterprises and headquarters. Standardize cross-border data security management, organize and carry out data export security assessments, standardize the filing of personal information export standard contracts, and promote the orderly flow of data cross-border security in research and development, production, and sales of foreign-invested enterprises. Develop cross-border data transfer standards for the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, rely on major cooperation platforms such as the Hengqin Guangdong Macao Deep Cooperation Zone and Qianhai Shenzhen Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, establish a cross-border data flow mechanism for Hong Kong and Macao enterprises, and explore the establishment of cross-border data flow; White List; The system is steadily promoting the convenient flow of data within the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area.
（18） Facilitating international business personnel exchanges. To provide convenience for foreign investors to apply for visas to China, the visa entry validity period for management personnel, technical personnel, their accompanying spouses, and underage children of foreign-invested enterprises is relaxed to 2 years. Accelerate the recovery of international flights to key aviation hubs such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.
（19） Optimize the management of work and residence permits for foreigners in China. Optimize the process of obtaining work permits and work residence permits for foreigners coming to China, and adopt the "; One port acceptance and parallel approval; To form a faster and more efficient approval mechanism. Strengthen departmental collaboration and provide convenience for foreign talents introduced to work, stay, and permanently reside in China.
（20） Support cooperation and innovation between domestic and foreign institutions. Deeply implement the international science and technology cooperation plan under the new situation, and support foreign-invested enterprises, foreign-funded research and development institutions, and multinational corporations established within China to participate equally in national key research and development plans, major national science and technology projects, and other national science and technology plans.
5、 Improve domestic regulations and better align with international high standard economic and trade rules
（21） Strengthen intellectual property protection. Integrate with international high standard intellectual property rules, improve intellectual property protection regulations, accelerate the construction of a national intellectual property protection information platform, strengthen the construction of trade secret protection systems, and deepen the implementation of intellectual property administrative protection work plans. Focus on key areas and key links, and increase the protection of intellectual property rights for foreign-invested enterprises. Intensify the investigation and punishment of cases of intellectual property infringement, and resolutely crack down on and punish acts that infringe on the intellectual property rights of foreign-invested enterprises.
（22） Establish sound rules for cross-border data flow. Scientifically define the scope of important data. Fully and deeply participate in the World Trade Organization's e-commerce negotiations, and promote the acceleration of the construction of global digital trade rules. Explore pilot projects for cross-border data flow with members of the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement, accelerate the establishment of cross-border data flow cooperation mechanisms with major economic and trade partner countries and regions, and promote the construction of a multi-level global digital partnership network.
（23） Actively promote the negotiation and implementation of high standard economic and trade agreements. Promote the signing of free trade agreements with more countries and regionsExpand the global network of high standard free trade zones.
（24） Intensify the pilot efforts to connect with international high standard economic and trade rules. Give full play to the leading role of the national comprehensive demonstration zone for expanding the opening up of the service industry, accurately connect with the development needs of industries, take the lead in building a service industry opening system that is connected with international high standard economic and trade rules, and timely connect with the comprehensive pilot areas for expanding the opening up of the service industry in a hierarchical manner. Support conditional free trade pilot zones and Hainan Free Trade Port, based on national conditions, connect with international high standard economic and trade rules, and take the lead in exploring the implementation of domestic regulations on World Trade Organization service trade, investment facilitation, digital trade and other negotiation achievements.
All regions and departments should thoroughly implement the deployment requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on expanding high-level opening-up to the outside world, take proactive measures and vigorously implement them, and effectively enhance the sense of gain for foreign-invested enterprises. Each region should make greater efforts in creating an environment and improving services, taking practical issues of concern to foreign-invested enterprises as a breakthrough point, adept at using innovative thinking to solve contradictions, and consolidating confidence in the development of foreign investment in China. Each department should quickly refine and implement various tasks, develop a timetable and roadmap, and promote the implementation and effectiveness of policy measures. The National Development and Reform Commission, in conjunction with relevant departments, should strengthen guidance and coordination, track and evaluate the implementation effects of various policiesTimely summarize experience and replicate promotion. Promptly seek instructions and reports from the Party Central Committee and the State Council on major issues.