On August 28, 2015, the state council general office issued by the general office of the state council about accelerate the integration of areas under special customs supervision optimization plan (countries do hair [2015] no. 66, hereinafter referred to as the "scheme"), a comprehensive integration of areas under special customs supervision system deployment optimization work, for a period of areas under special customs supervision in the present and the future development direction.

　　One, "the plan" of the background

　　Shanghai waigaoqiao free trade zone to set up since 1990, the state council has approved a total of the bonded zones, export processing zones, bonded logistic parks, bonded harbor area, comprehensive bonded zones and cross-border industrial zone 6 class 160 areas under special customs supervision.After integration, at present the national total of 122 areas under special customs supervision, to undertake international industrial transfer, promote the coordinated development of regional economy, promote foreign trade and expand employment made a positive contribution.

　　In 2012, the state council issued "the state council on promoting the development of areas under special customs supervision scientific guidance" (guo fa [2012] no. 58, hereinafter referred to as the nation no. 58), at the national level for the first time explicitly put forward steadily promoting integrated optimization, promote the scientific development of areas under special customs supervision.The third plenary session of the 18 through "the central committee of the communist party of China about certain major issue decision" comprehensively deepen reform, further put forward the "optimization" to speed up the integration of areas under special customs supervision.

　　At present, the difficulties and the world economic recovery, global trade continues to weaken, new trends of international industry transfer appear, domestic development in transition and phase shift, the open economy faces severe challenges.The economic development of our country enters the new normal, is implementing a new round of high levels of opening to the outside world, especially the implementation of "area", coordinated development of the beijing-tianjin-hebei region, the Yangtze river economic belt and other major national strategy, promote the stable growth of foreign trade and the transformation and upgrading, promoting the healthy development of steady economic development of areas under special customs supervision put forward new and higher requirements.At the same time, the areas under special customs supervision in the process of development is also facing some problems to be solved.To do this, you need at the national level introduced to speed up the integration of areas under special customs supervision optimization measures.

　　Since March 2014, the general administration of customs jointly with the national development and reform commission, ministry of finance, the ministry of land and resources, housing, urban and rural construction ministry, the ministry of transport, ministry of commerce, administration of taxation, state administration for industry and commerce, quality supervision, inspection and quarantine, and 10 ministries and commissions such as safe, on the basis of in-depth investigation and repeated proof, formed a "solution", and in August 28, 2015 by the state council general office issued by the official.

　　Second, the significance of "the plan"

　　"The plan" is the state council in 2012 after the nation no. 58 comprehensively deepen reform under the new situation of another framework document guiding the development of the areas under special customs supervision, is under the new situation, the new normal to speed up the integration of areas under special customs supervision to optimize the overall deployment, will provide significant for the development of the areas under special customs supervision of the historical opportunity, marked the areas under special customs supervision development into a new historical stage.Its significance mainly reflects in:

　　(a) to speed up the integration of areas under special customs supervision optimization, is the need of promoting the steady growth of foreign trade.In 2014, the areas under special customs supervision of import and export value of $694.5 billion, about 16% of the total cost of the national foreign trade import and export, 42 times compared with 2000, and drive many into enterprises in the zone chain, formed a large number of different characteristics of the foreign trade production base.As the locomotive of import and export growth, areas under special customs supervision for quite a long time the growth rate of about 30%, but there have been recent slowdown trend, especially in the first half of this year in the import and export have fallen by almost 9%, need to further improve the system of policy, innovation, development function, optimization of management, strengthen the scientific development of endogenous power, build internationalization, marketization, government by law environment, promote the enterprises to participate in the international market competition, to support the steady growth of foreign trade.

　　(b) to speed up the integration of areas under special customs supervision optimization, is the need of cultivating new foreign trade competitive advantage.At present, within the areas under special customs supervision most companies are still engaged in labor-intensive industries or processing and manufacturing link in technology-intensive industry, at the bottom of the smiling curve, the research and development, sales, settlement, maintenance, remanufacturing value chain links such as proportion is still very low.Need to play to the areas under special customs supervision policy, the advantages of the location, industrial foundation, on the basis of developing high-end manufacturing, further promote the areas under special customs supervision to the industrial chain of high-end and value-added development, and promote the areas under special customs supervision industry transformation and upgrading, leading the domestic technology innovation and industry upgrading, boosting the open economy promote transformation from scale expansion to quality benefit, improve the position in the international industrial division of labor.

　　(c) to speed up the integration of areas under special customs supervision optimization, optimization of foreign trade development is the need of the new pattern.By factors such as geographical location, resources endowment and development foundation, the open economy system in our country construction of unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable problem still prominent, the coastal areas of the open economy system more mature, inland relative lag.Opening wider to the potential in the Midwest and northeast border area and inland, need areas under special customs supervision display elements gathered radiating and driving play and, ordered to undertake industrial transfer, to explore suitable for inland open the new way of economic development and service all the way "area", the coordinated development of beijing-tianjin-hebei strategy implementation and the Yangtze river economic belt and other major countries, to promote coordinated development of regional economy, cultivating all-round open new advantages.

　　(d) to speed up the integration of areas under special customs supervision optimization, is to adapt to the needs of the development of new forms of foreign trade.In recent years, the cross-border e-commerce, foreign trade integrated services platform, market procurement as representative's new trade forms flourish.Need to play to the areas under special customs supervision "bonded" function, form a complete set of perfect management system, and promote industry "bonded +" project, including "bonded + culture" and "bonded + financial", promote the development of new forms, new business models, push to expand on both ends of the industrial chain, extending to the service areas, further promote the areas under special customs supervision from to the open policy the highland heights.

　　Third, the main content of the plan

　　"Solutions", including the preface and the text text by general requirements, promote the integration and realize the optimization, implementation steps, the organization guarantee of five parts, such as in certain areas under special customs supervision on the basis of the basic orientation and historical role, draw lessons from to absorb the latest innovation achievements, closely around the national strategy, emancipate the mind, reform and innovation, and decentralization, transform function, administration according to law, strengthen supervision, optimization services, promoting development, strive to solve the main problems which restrict the development of the areas under special customs supervision science.

　　"Plan" put forward, the development of the areas under special customs supervision goal is to enhance the scientific development of endogenous power, promote transformation and upgrading of processing trade, and display elements gathered radiation and leading role.Key task is to draw lessons from the successful experience of free trade area innovation system, innovation of management system, increase the efficiency of the regulation;According to need to set up appropriate control increment, integrated optimization of inventory, gradually unified regulatory model of all kinds of areas under special customs supervision, standardize the areas under special customs supervision policies;On the basis of developing high-end manufacturing, extend function, promote transformation and upgrading of areas under special customs supervision industry and diversification;Improve land utilization and comprehensive operation efficiency, earnestly implement good access and exit mechanism, the land utilization rate is low, the poor running benefit, shall be ordered to make rectification, subtract area or revoked.

　　"Solution" emphasize adhere to market-oriented, problem oriented, the rule of law guide and efficiency oriented, put forward to promote areas under special customs supervision type, function, policy and management four aspects of integration, realize the industrial structure, business forms, good service trade mode and regulation optimization.

　　(a) four integration.

　　1. The integrated type.According to the needs of different period of development, China has set up six types of areas under special customs supervision."The plan" proposed to conform to the conditions of the areas under special customs supervision gradually integrated into the comprehensive free trade zone, to set up a new areas under special customs supervision unified named comprehensive free trade zone.The integration of areas under special customs supervision does not break through the existing planning area, do not have the conditions of areas under special customs supervision shall not conformity.

　　2. The integration capability.At present, the areas under special customs supervision to carry out the bonded processing and bonded logistics business is given priority to, the associated with manufacturing, research and development, the development of producer services, such as sales, settlement, maintenance is not enough, cross-border e-commerce, financing lease and futures bonded delivery "bonded +" new mode and new formats such as size is small."Plan" put forward by gradually integrated bonded function, has the service development of export-oriented economy and reform and opening up, the connection between the two markets, the international and domestic support for enterprise innovation and development, meet the demand of industry diversification, radiating and driving play play to the intensive use of land and factors of agglomeration and other basic functions.

　　3. The integration policy.Existing areas under special customs supervision policy and the "two head out" and "manufacture" function orientation, the development of manufacturing industry of our country and expanding foreign trade has played a positive role.With international and domestic market depth fusion, the use of international and domestic enterprises in the area of two markets, two resources demand more and more urgent, to innovation and development orientation."Solutions" to "standard, perfect the tax policy," to adapt to the new situation areas under special customs supervision "extroversion, combining two the market" the function orientation and implementation is given priority to with the international market of "one-way valve" to the international domestic two markets "two-way valve".

　　4. Integration management.Areas under special customs supervision management involves multiple departments, need to strengthen cooperation with various departments.For this, "the plan" put forward by the "speed up the cooperation between the perfect management mechanism, implementing management information exchange, mutual recognition and enforcement of mutual regulation" (hereinafter referred to as the "three mutual"), "strengthening the matter afterwards supervision", "simplified integration, new areas under special customs supervision of examination and approval and acceptance procedure" measures, such as a unified regulatory mode, integrate management resources, realize from the examination and approval in advance to make supervision afterwards, really is more open and tube have to live, effectively guard against risks.

　　(b) four optimization.

　　1. Optimize the industrial structure.In order to further optimize the structure of industry of areas under special customs supervision, "the plan" to "encourage the radiation ability of large projects into the area of development" and "promote the sale of associated with manufacturing, settlement, logistics, testing, maintenance and development of the orderly development of producer services", "actively promote domestic first try" selective tariff policy measures such as.Among them, the "selective tariffs" refers to the production of goods in the domestic sales, the enterprise can choose according to the corresponding imported materials or goods out of the area actual status to pay custom duty.The policy can help the enterprises in the area, effective docking domestic market, optimize the industrial structure, encourage processing trade to concentrate in areas under special customs supervision.At present, the move has in hengqin new area, pingtan comprehensive experimental area and free trade area pilot areas under special customs supervision.

　　2. Optimize the business form.In order to adapt to the objective requirements of the production and operation of an enterprise, "the plan" put forward to support the enterprises in the area, using spare capacity to undertake domestic outside processing (hereinafter referred to as the "processing"), promote the goods status classification regulation and trade pilot measures such as pluralism.Venezuela processing refers to the enterprises in the area, using spare capacity to undertake domestic outside the processing business, to help enterprises improve production efficiency.Cargo status classification regulation refers to allow the bonded goods storage that participate in consolidation with the bonded goods, distribution, purchase orders, final products at home and abroad based on the actual departure zone in export or return.At present, the move has been in Shanghai, free trade area of fujian pilot areas under special customs supervision.Trade diversification refers to the eligible diversified functional areas, within the areas under special customs supervision established trade gives function zone enterprises the general taxpayer qualification, trade, warehousing, logistics and other business.At present, the move has chongqing in suzhou industrial park, comprehensive bonded zones and two way inch beach pilot bonded port area.

　　3. The optimization of trade ways.To give full play to the advantage in the bonded areas under special customs supervision function, the scheme is put forward to promote new industries "bonded +" plan, encourage enterprises to carry out maintenance and cross-border e-commerce, futures delivery, financing lease, warehouse receipt pledge financing, show the business such as trade, promote the development of new forms of foreign trade.

　　4. Optimize the supervision service.Shanghai free trade area were established, the relevant departments of the innovation of supervision system, forming a batch of can be copied, can promote the reform and innovation of results.To this end, the solution proposed to speed up the replication to promote free trade area and maturity of innovation pilot areas under special customs supervision system;Deepen the "one line let go", "second line safe and effective to hold" trade facilitation reform;To carry out the "three mutual" promoting the construction of big customs clearance, we will speed up the establishment of a "single window".Strengthen port and the areas under special customs supervision and linkage development between areas under special customs supervision.On the basis of effective supervision, enhance the level of trade facilitation and realize the unity of safety and convenience.

　　Fourth, to organize the implementation of "the plan"

　　In integrated optimization measures on schedule, the plan made corresponding points in the near future, mid, and long-term deployment, some relatively mature can go ahead or measures to try to arrange in the near future, other measures according to the arrangement of implementation of ease in the medium term, forward.

　　- 2015-2016, further areas under special customs supervision for examination and approval of a new strictly, to speed up the stock of integration, to carry out the exit mechanism, simplify the process of integration, a new set of examination and approval and acceptance;Promote ports and areas under special customs supervision and linkage development between the areas under special customs supervision;In accord with conditions of areas under special customs supervision actively carry out domestic selective tariffs and cargo status classification regulation, trade diversification pilot;Support the enterprises in the area, using spare capacity to undertake domestic outside processing;Promotion futures bonded delivery, and maintenance, financing lease and other regulatory system;Carried out in accordance with the principle of fair competition and expand the cross-border e-commerce import business;At the same time, to speed up the pace of information system construction, implementing management information exchange, mutual recognition and enforcement of mutual regulation, promoting the construction of a "single window" of international trade.

　　- 2017-2018, on the basis of summarizing the previous pilot, speed up the replication to promote the innovation system of pilot mature measures;Revision of unification of the law of the People's Republic of China customs for the comprehensive free trade zone supervision measures, provide legal guarantee for integrated optimization;Build areas under special customs supervision development performance evaluation system, and improve the corresponding to the requirements areas under special customs supervision and matching system.

　　- 2019-2020, establish comprehensive bonded zone management regulations;Perfecting the related policy;Efforts to establish areas under special customs supervision as an important carrier of free trade area;Service "area" development strategy, establish along with the national norm of areas under special customs supervision and pragmatic cooperation mechanism.

　　The general administration of customs will firmly implement the party central committee and the state council decision deployment, strengthen organizational leadership, perfect the work mechanism, promote the national customs and focused, step by step, the orderly work out effectively.At the same time, the customs, as a lead of areas under special customs supervision work department will take the initiative to enhance cooperation with all relevant departments and local governments to cooperate, make business guidance and service work, timely supervise follow integration of areas under special customs supervision and optimize the work progress and research to solve difficulties and problems appeared in the process of integrated optimization, actively yet prudently proceed with work related to ensure integrated optimization to obtain actual effect.