The Sichuan Free Trade Pilot Zone, which has received much attention, has been involved in the implementation phase formally.
Recently, the provincial government officially issued the "6+1" Overall Plan for the Construction of the Pilot Areas for the Synergy Reform of China (Sichuan) Free Trade Pilot Zone (shorted as the "Program"), and made specific arrangements for the high-quality promotion of the pilot areas of the synergy reforms.
According to the "Program", the implementation scope of Deyang synergy reform pilot zone is 98.2 square kilometers, mainly implementing the provincial party committee’s requirements on promoting the breakthrough of simultaneous cities of Chengdu and Deyang, and on jointly creating open ports, building world-class major equipment manufacturing bases, and building a regional coordinated development demonstration zone, the key functional areas of the international open channel hub and the high-end equipment intelligent innovation leading area;
The implementation scope of the Ziyang synergy reform pilot zone is 137.3 square kilometers, mainly implementing the provincial party committee's support for the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing portal hub, the strategic deployment of the emerging cities near airports, and for the construction of the pioneer area of innovation and development, which reflects the new system of open airport economy, the pilot zone that break through the simultaneous cities’ development of the Chengdu economic circle, the international-oriented regional cooperation leading area and production city integration demonstration area, docking Chengdu and Chongqing;
The implementation scope of the Meishan synergy reform pilot zone is 122.8 square kilometers, mainly implementing the provincial party committee's requirements of building a model city for the opening and development of the Chengdu economic circle, building the open development leading area, provincial export-oriented economic demonstration zone and the breakthrough area for the development of simultaneous cities of Chengdu and Meishan of the Chengdu economic circle;
The implementation scope of the Nanchong synergy reform pilot zone is 119.86 square kilometers, mainly implementing the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee's requirements of building the regional central cities of the Northeast Sichuan economic zone, building the international logistics hub in the north of Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone, northeast Sichuan export-oriented economic demonstration zone and the revitalizing the leading zone of opening and development in the old revolutionary areas of Sichuan and Shaanxi;
The implementation scope of the Zigong synergy reform pilot zone is 101.18 square kilometers, mainly implementing the provincial party committee's requirements of building the national demonstration zone for the transformation and upgrading of old industrial cities and national cultural export base, building the pioneer zone of foreign cultural trade, the leading area for innovation and development of old industrial bases, and the southwest open channel hub area;
The implementation scope of the Neijiang synergy reform pilot zone is 132.33 square kilometers, mainly implementing the provincial party committee's requirements of building the important node cities on the main axis of Chengdu-Chongqing development and Chengdu-Chongqing metropolitan functional service center, building the regional economic center of synergistic development between Chengdu and Chongqing and high quality development pioneer zone;
The implementation scope of Wenjiang synergy reform pilot zone covers the whole area of Wenjiang District with a total area of 277 square kilometers. It mainly focuses on strengthening the construction of a national central city function system in Chengdu, which fully reflects the new development concept, and building a core functional area of health industry of "three medical services, two nurturing cares and one highland" leading in Sichuan, leading in the West and leading in the world, striving to be in the forefront of some aspects ,like the "three medical integration" health industry chain reform and plants global supply chain reform.
The relevant person in charge of the provincial free trade office introduced that this is the first batch of synergy reform pilot areas in Sichuan free trade pilot zone. They will strive to cultivate and build 15 pilot areas for synergy reform in the province by 2020.