On August 21, the reporter learned from the Chenzhou High-tech Zone Administrative Committee that, the Chenzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone was officially closed the operation from now on, which marked an important step forward in the construction of Chenzhou's open platform, and also marked a solid step forward in building Hunan's "new growth pole" and becoming an important platform for Hunan's opening up and a new economic development highland in the central region.

Chenzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone was integrated and optimized by Chenzhou export processing zone on December 6, 2016, approved by the State Council, with the planned area of 1.06 square kilometers, which is the 5th Comprehensive Bonded Zone in the province and the only comprehensive bonded zone approved by Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council to Hunan Province. On December 7, 2017, it was approved by the 10 department joint inspection teams of Changsha customs; on January 12th this year, the General Customs Administration approved the approval; it was officially closed on August 21st. At present, except for the FTA, the comprehensive bonded area is a special supervision area with the highest level of openness, the most preferential policies, the most complete functions and the simplest procedures in China, which not only retains 6 functions of the original bonded processing, bonded warehousing, international procurement and distribution, international entrepot trade, research and development, testing and maintenance, but also adds 3 functions of new port operations. exhibition, and foreign trade. In addition, the functional design of the comprehensive protection zone is more perfect and scientific, which can replicate the series of advanced policies and institutional advantages of the superimposed FTA, and indicates the openness of a place to a certain extent.

At present, Chenzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone has been granted VAT general taxpayer qualifications pilot, completed the change of the name and statistical code, and smoothly promoted the second phase of the Jinguan auxiliary system and the existing enterprise system switching. The development and construction project of the Province Bonded Comprehensive Service Platform have been completed and the bidding procedures are being processed. The closure operation of Chenzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone will bring more benefits to the enterprises in the zone, the 17 enterprises becoming the first beneficiaries.

"Exports of products can enjoy tariff-free policies, and license quotas can be exempted from tax, which is the advantage of enterprises in the zone over enterprises outside the zone, greatly reducing the operating costs of enterprises in the zone. After upgrading the comprehensive bonded zone, the enterprises in the zone can process the whole process outward, so as to promote the common development of enterprises inside and outside the zone." Cao Jie, Chief of Comprehensive Business Section of Changsha Customs Office in Chenzhou, introduced that the pilot project of obtaining VAT general taxpayer qualification in Chenzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone is also a sign with very high gold content, which is equivalent to re-endowing enterprises in the zone with the dual identity of enterprises outside the zone, and is conducive to enterprises to flexibly choose market industries according to the actual domestic and foreign markets.

Since the establishment of Chenzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone, a new breakthrough has been made in attracting investment. Six projects have been introduced, including the Yinghongbao small household appliances assembly, the Liontron LCD module integration and the CCW scattered metals, with the contract investment of 203 million yuan. There are more 17 docking projects and 8 intentional signing projects." Chenzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone will bring great convenience for enterprises to the import and export, customs declaration, transportation and even the development of various new forms of business in the future." Liao Jianrong, Director of the Chenzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone Administration Bureau, said that the upgrading of the Chenzhou Comprehensive Bonded Zone has added a variety of functions compared with the original Export Processing Zone, which has a great depression effect on attracting foreign-oriented enterprises, especially foreign export-oriented enterprises, and driving the accumulation of people, funds and industries inside and outside the zone.