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The Second China-Africa People's Friendship Organizations Leaders' Meeting was successfully held in Jinan

11月9日，由中国人民对外友好协会、中国非洲人民对外友好协会、山东省人民对外友好协会共同主办的第二届中非民间友好组织负责人会晤在济南成功举办。第十三届全国政协副主席李斌出席开幕式并作主旨发言，山东省副省长邓云锋、刚果(金)中国友好协会会长爱德华·莫科洛、中国人民对外友好协会副会长姜江、外交部非洲司副司长张斌等出席开幕式并致辞。 李斌指出，中非始终是命运共同体，中非高层保持密切交往，务实合作硕果累累，人文交流亮点纷呈，国际协作日益紧密。当前，国际形势正发生深刻复杂变化，面对新的机遇和挑战，中非友好组织要聚焦中非人民共同富裕和可持续发展，让合作成果广泛惠及双方人民，携手共促中非合作共赢。要助力开创中非人文交流、文化交融、民心相通新局面，为中非合作提供更深厚的精神滋养，携手共促中非文明互鉴。要积极推动双方青年交流，让中非友好事业后继有人，永葆青春和活力，携手共促中非友谊传承。中国将同非洲各国一道，落实全球发展倡议、全球安全倡议、全球文明倡议，推动构建人类命运共同体。 邓云锋表示，近年来，山东深入贯彻真实亲诚对非政策理念和正确义利观，扎实推进与非交流合作，取得了丰硕成果。下步，山东希望与非洲持续巩固农业、渔业、基建、能源、矿产等合作优势，积极开展新基建、数字经济、清洁能源等新领域合作，拓展经贸合作维度;聚焦中非产业链合作，扩大双向投资，增强合作往来深度;全方位加强宣传推介、职教培训、对口交流等领域合作，提升人文交流热度;赓续传统友谊，加强与非方民间友好组织交往，加大民间交往力度。 爱德华·莫科洛指出，非中友谊历久弥新、不断发展。中国开展对非交往高效务实，尤其是共建“一带一路”为非洲带来了巨大发展机遇，中国与非盟的交往也是南南合作的典范。对抗不能促进发展，合作才能实现共赢，相信中非合作必将进一步造福双方广大人民。 姜江表示，长期以来，中非民间友好组织坚持团结互助，推动务实合作，增进民心相通，以实际行动助力中非关系行稳致远，希望双方今后进一步加强民间交流，增进相互了解，促进地方合作，不断续写中非友谊新篇章。 张斌指出，中非友谊的根基在民间，广大中非人民是中非合作的受益者，更是贡献者，相信中非民间友好人士将继续积极投身中非友好事业，为构建高水平中非命运共同体作出更大贡献。 来自非洲22个国家26个友好组织负责人、全国17个省市对外友协代表、山东有关省直部门、企业负责人等中非嘉宾共约150人参会。会晤以“携手构建新时代中非命运共同体”为主题，近40名中非代表围绕中非合作共赢、文明互鉴、友谊传承等议题开展了对话交流。中非嘉宾一致认为此次会晤进一步凝聚了中非友好民间共识，面向未来，双方将继承中非友好合作精神，继续发扬优良传统，为推动构建中非命运共同体作出积极努力。 此次会晤通过了《中非民间友好组织负责人会晤济南宣言》。 “中非民间友好组织负责人会晤”由中国人民对外友好协会和中国非洲人民友好协会于2017年创办，旨在搭建中非民间友好组织集体对话平台，凝聚中非友好民间共识。

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01-26

The Second China-Africa People's Friendship Organizations Leaders' Meeting was successfully held in Jinan

Several Measures for Promoting the Accelerated Development of New Offshore International Trade in China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone

为贯彻落实《国务院印发关于推进自由贸易试验区贸易投资便利化改革创新若干措施的通知》（国发〔2021〕12号）《山东省人民政府印发关于推进中国（山东）自由贸易试验区贸易投资便利化改革创新若干措施的通知》（鲁政字〔2022〕70号）要求，培育壮大外贸新业态新模式，推动山东自贸试验区新型离岸国际贸易加快发展，制定本措施。 一、适用范围 本措施所称新型离岸国际贸易，是指我国居民与非居民之间发生的，交易所涉货物不进出我国一线关境或不纳入我国海关统计的贸易，包括但不限于离岸转手买卖、全球采购、委托境外加工、承包工程境外购买货物等。 本措施适用企业范围为：工商注册地、实际经营地、财税户管地均在自贸试验区内，且实质性运营，连续两年未受法律法规处罚或海关、外汇信用降级。企业须未被纳入监管部门公开发布的限制性分类管理目录。 二、加大政策支持 （一）提供人才支持。支持自贸试验区深化人才发展体制机制改革和人才生态优化提升，聚焦新型离岸国际贸易布局和发展需要，面向自贸试验区离岸贸易重点企业经营管理人才，组织开展国际化能力、专业化水平培训，依托市场化机制拓宽引才渠道，精准引进具有国际视野、通晓国际规则的复合型离岸贸易人才。支持符合条件的离岸贸易人才申报泰山产业领军人才工程经营管理项目，通过后给予相关资助，并发放“山东惠才卡”，享受出入境和居留、子女入学、社会保险等29项绿色通道服务。（牵头单位：省商务厅、省工业和信息化厅、省人力资源社会保障厅） （二）提供认定支持。支持新型离岸国际贸易服务企业（包括但不限于提供采购、物流的整体方案设计、财务、金融支付服务以及零售和批发与运输业务服务等）申请认定技术先进型服务企业，对技术先进型服务企业，按专门的税收法律、法规和国务院规定落实相关税收优惠政策。（牵头单位：省科技厅，责任单位：省发展改革委、省财政厅、省商务厅、省税务局） （三）提供要素支持。支持自贸试验区企业发展新型离岸国际贸易，加快培育新型离岸国际贸易服务能力，针对数字化验真系统及相关功能研发、数据采购与运营维护等方面的投入，以及银行机构使用系统辅助开展业务给予一定支持。积极引进相关市场主体，培育示范主体。（牵头单位：省商务厅） 三、提供结算和融资便利 （四）支持自主审核单证。按照“实质重于形式”的要求，对具备一定规模、有新型离岸国际贸易业务经验、无监管不良记录的优质客户，银行机构自主决定审核交易单证的种类。（牵头单位：中国人民银行山东省分行） （五）支持结算便利创新。鼓励银行机构按照“了解客户”“了解业务”“尽职审查”展业三原则，对具有业务实际需求的跨国公司按规定申请开展包含离岸转手买卖业务的经常项目资金集中收付和轧差净额结算业务。（牵头单位：中国人民银行山东省分行） （六）提供金融综合服务。鼓励银行机构根据企业实际需求，在依法合规、风险可控、商业可持续的前提下，审慎有序为新型离岸国际贸易业务提供保险、融资、供应链金融等综合服务支持。鼓励片区管委会探索建立新型离岸国际贸易风险补偿机制。（牵头单位：中国人民银行山东省分行、国家金融监督管理总局山东监管局、国家金融监督管理总局青岛监管局） （七）建立激励机制。鼓励银行机构围绕提升新型离岸国际贸易展业能力加大资源、人力和技术投入。将年度新型离岸国际贸易结算量排名靠前的银行机构纳入山东自贸试验区优秀合作伙伴给予褒扬。对为企业提供高质量结算服务的银行机构从业人员给予褒扬。（牵头单位：中国人民银行山东省分行、省商务厅、省地方金融监管局） 四、创新监管模式 （八）实施联合监测。鼓励推广、应用满足于新型离岸国际贸易真实性核验需求的数字化验真系统，集中接入、全量导入国际航运、物流、港口及主要国家海关数据，整合离岸贸易涉及的资金流、货物流、单据流信息，为新型离岸国际贸易提供辅助性核验。拓展新型离岸国际贸易监管方式，向银行机构和企业提示新型离岸国际贸易业务风险。 提升跨部门联合监测能力，实施集中有效的规范性评估和自律监测管理措施，以分类、协同、智能监测分析为核心，对系统性跨境资金流动风险进行全流程预警管理。（牵头单位：省商务厅、中国人民银行山东省分行） （九）实施分类监管。积极探索“负面清单+正面清单”管理模式，由片区管委会统筹协调银行机构加强对市场主体的分类调研，支持银行机构根据企业客户诚信状况、合规水平和风控能力等，动态实施客户风险分级评定。支持银行机构根据新型离岸国际贸易特点，优化业务操作规范，分类实施差异化管理，重点关注关联交易、收支金额异动、大额高频收支、融资杠杆比例和融资过度集中等现象。（牵头单位：中国人民银行山东省分行、省商务厅） 五、建立综合服务机制 （十）建立特殊需求研判及会商机制。针对企业真实合法的特殊业务需求，由省自贸办牵头组织相关业务主管部门，指导片区管委会联合银行机构开展个案分析与政策研究,根据行业不同属性量身定制个性化解决方案，满足企业多元化业务需求。（牵头单位：省商务厅、中国人民银行山东省分行、省地方金融监管局） （十一）设立新型离岸国际贸易服务中心。支持片区管委会设立新型离岸国际贸易服务中心，为区内银行机构、企业提供政策咨询、业务培训、项目协调、金融法律等各类服务。（牵头单位：省商务厅） （十二）健全司法保障机制。引进一批国内外知名的仲裁、调解等机构，为新型离岸国际贸易提供一站式国际商事争议纠纷解决服务。拓展并加强法院金融审判职能，依法审理因新型离岸国际贸易跨境投融资、跨境支付结算等业务所引发的各类金融纠纷，为自贸试验区提供更加公正、高效、便捷和可预期的金融司法保障。（牵头单位：省商务厅、省法院） 六、加强组织实施 探索建立“政府政策引导+外管精准辅导+银行深度服务+平台全景验真+企业创新作为”的新型离岸国际贸易工作机制和生态体系。省自贸办负责统筹推进新型离岸国际贸易业态发展，视创新发展需要及推进过程中遇到的新情况新问题，不定期召开推进会协调解决相关问题；加强部门统筹，推动数据共用共享；开展总结评估，实施激励管理；总结创新经验，探索离岸贸易集成性创新成果。各部门（单位）负责各自领域政策创新研究，坚持问题导向、目标导向、效果导向、责任导向，在守住安全底线前提下，大胆探索、先行先试创新举措，输出制度创新成果，打造新型离岸国际贸易政策高地。各片区管委会负责了解区内银行机构、企业问题诉求，制定切实可行的推进措施，协调部门（单位）培育壮大区内新型离岸国际贸易业态发展；加大投资贸易便利化和金融改革创新力度，不断提升区内营商环境，建设新型离岸国际贸易业态集聚区。  

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01-26

Several Measures for Promoting the Accelerated Development of New Offshore International Trade in China (Shandong) Pilot Free Trade Zone

Civil Aviation Administration of China: In 2023, international passenger flights resumed to over 4,600 weekly flights.

CCTV News reported that, according to information from the Civil Aviation Administration of China, the number of international passenger flights in 2023 has increased from less than 500 flights per week at the beginning of the year to over 4600 flights currently, a 9.6-fold increase. The number of countries with restored flights has reached 89.2% of the pre-epidemic level. Passenger flights between China and Europe have recovered to over 60% of pre-epidemic levels, and direct flights between China and the US have increased to 63 flights per week. The recovery level of flights with countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative is 6.2 percentage points higher than the overall level of international flights, effectively promoting international personnel exchanges and serving the national diplomatic situation. In 2024, domestic passenger transport in China will continue to grow steadily. The annual passenger transport volume on domestic routes is expected to reach 630 million, exceeding the 2019 level by 7.7 percentage points. The international passenger transport market will accelerate its recovery, with an estimated 6000 flights per week by the end of 2024, reaching approximately 80% of pre-epidemic levels. Domestic flight passenger volume surpasses pre-epidemic levels In 2023, the passenger volume of domestic flights has exceeded pre-epidemic levels, increasing by 1.5% compared to 2019, representing the fastest recovery rate among various modes of transportation.

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01-25

Civil Aviation Administration of China: In 2023, international passenger flights resumed to over 4,600 weekly flights.

Domestically produced "three-wheeled vehicles" become popular in the US, leading to a surge in orders for Chinese manufacturers.

Reference News Network reported on January 24. According to a report by the World Journal (US) on January 13, a blogger living in the United States recently brought a Chinese-made 'Sanbengzi' (electric tricycle) to the US, where it became a local internet-famous vehicle, sparking heated discussions among netizens. The report stated that after the electric tricycle, priced at about 5,000 RMB in China, was shipped to the United States, the blogger's father-in-law immediately assembled it. The very next day, he took the family out for a ride, winning the affection of local residents. The report added that this electric tricycle is not only convenient and practical, but also a perfect blend of fashion and individuality. It made neighbors envious, becoming a local internet-famous vehicle, with some foreigners even inquiring about purchase links. The blogger's videos also garnered attention from American netizens, many of whom expressed a desire to buy one. Subsequent videos posted by the blogger also revealed that this tricycle is street-legal in the United States, having passed vehicle inspection and been registered with a motorcycle license plate. Even more interestingly, local police also expressed their fondness for this tricycle, going so far as to suggest the blogger propose to local officials building a factory to import parts from China to the United States for assembly and sale. Separately, according to a report by Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po website on January 24, a series of videos filmed by a Chinese daughter-in-law who married into the United States quickly made the domestically produced 'Sanbengzi' widely popular in the US, leading to a surge in orders for Chinese manufacturers. During an interview, the general manager of the 'Sanbeng' manufacturing company excitedly stated: 'Since New Year's Day, we have shipped five or six hundred electric tricycles to the United States, which is several times more than the same period in previous years.'

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01-25

Domestically produced "three-wheeled vehicles" become popular in the US, leading to a surge in orders for Chinese manufacturers.

Several Measures to Promote Steady Growth, Optimized Structure, and High-Quality Development of Foreign Trade and Investment

I. Drafting Background and Process To thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, fully implement the "Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Promoting the Stable Scale and Optimized Structure of Foreign Trade" (Guobanfa [2023] No. 10), stabilize the basic situation of foreign trade and investment in the province, and promote high-quality development of foreign economy and trade, policies to promote high-quality development of foreign trade and investment are proposed. After being signed by relevant provincial departments (units), completing fair competition review and legality review, the "Several Measures" were formed. II. Main Content and Innovations 26 measures are proposed to promote foreign trade, utilize foreign investment, and optimize the business environment with greater efforts. (I) Greater Efforts to Promote Stable and High-Quality Development of Foreign Trade 1. Focus on expanding the export scale of key products and key markets. Organize the "new three items" products to explore international markets, promote the establishment of international marketing channels for advantageous industries such as automobile complete vehicles and rubber tires, and expand the scale of used car exports. 2. Accelerate the import of bulk commodities and advanced technological equipment. Build an international mineral product bonded mixing and distribution center, expand the import scale of bonded mixed mineral products, and increase the intensity of interest subsidies for the import of key technologies, important equipment and components. 3. Fully support enterprises in expanding markets and stabilizing market share. Organize and implement the overseas "Hundred Exhibitions" market development plan, and provide an 80% subsidy for the booth fees of key exhibitions included in the "Hundred Exhibitions" plan. 4. Develop and strengthen trade entities. Promote diversified tax guarantee methods, and encourage more enterprises to become customs "Authorized Economic Operators" (AEO). 5. Continuously promote the innovative and healthy development of cross-border e-commerce. Incubate a batch of new cross-border e-commerce enterprises, implement tax refunds with invoices and tax exemption without invoices for qualified cross-border e-commerce retail export enterprises in comprehensive pilot zones, and conduct pilot tax assessment of enterprise income tax at a 4% taxable income rate. 6. Accelerate the promotion of trade digitalization and green trade development. Identify a number of provincial-level digital service export bases, and increase the allocation of green electricity resources to key foreign trade enterprises. 7. Improve the effectiveness of the pilot policy for export tax rebates at the port of shipment. Open up information interconnection channels between the port of shipment and the port of departure, integrate resources such as routes, finance, and trade, promote the enjoyment of export tax rebate policies by enterprises, and expand export scale. 8. Increase the intensity of import and export credit lending. Establish a directory of key enterprises importing from Africa and RCEP member countries, and expand imports of key materials such as food, energy, and resources, advanced technologies, and major equipment. Implement the "commerce + finance" policy, and financial institutions will provide credit to the province's commercial enterprises with a scale of no less than 460 billion yuan. 9. Better play the role of export credit insurance. Expand the coverage of small and micro enterprises, and the number of small and micro enterprises insured by the "single window" shall not be less than 18,000. 10. Optimize cross-border settlement services for foreign trade. Formulate a list of potential "first-time clients" for cross-border RMB business, and expand the scale of first-time clients for exchange rate hedging. (II) Greater Efforts to Attract and Utilize Foreign Investment 11. Carry out investment promotion activities in depth. Hold high-level events such as the Qingdao Summit of Transnational Corporation Leaders, the Confucian Businessmen Conference, the Hong Kong and Macao Shandong Week, and the Shandong-Transnational Corporation Cooperation Symposium, actively connect with foreign business institutions, chambers of commerce, and industry associations in China, and provide project investment information matching services for various cities. The number of visits and personnel for key park staff to go abroad for business trips such as investment promotion and economic and trade tasks will be arranged according to actual work needs. 12. Deepen investment cooperation with key countries and regions. Focusing on high-end equipment, green energy and other fields, continuously expand cooperation with developed economies such as Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States. Deepen mechanism-based cooperation such as the Singapore-Shandong Economic and Trade Council. 13. Improve the level of attracting foreign investment in manufacturing. Focusing on 11 iconic industrial chains such as new generation information technology and high-end chemicals, introduce a batch of foreign investment projects to supplement, extend, and strengthen the industrial chain in manufacturing. Support various cities in deepening cooperation with central enterprises and introducing a batch of high-quality foreign investment projects; encourage all levels of state-owned enterprises to conduct overseas mergers and acquisitions and overseas financing to return for development. 14. Further expand the areas of attracting foreign investment. Accelerate the pilot program for qualified foreign limited partners (QFLP), and support the use of raised offshore RMB to directly conduct relevant domestic investments. Encourage government-guided funds to participate in the establishment of QFLP funds in a market-oriented manner, and support foreign investment in establishing research and development centers. 15. Give full play to the role of development zones as the main platform for utilizing foreign investment. Deepen the reform of development zone management systems, and promote more large foreign investment projects to settle in around the leading industries. Give full play to the role of platforms such as the Shandong Pilot Free Trade Zone, the SCO Demonstration Zone, the Jinan New and Old Kinetic Energy Conversion Starting Area, the Qingdao West Coast New Area, and the Jinan-Qingdao-Yantai International Investment Promotion Industrial Park, and focus on key industries to increase efforts to attract foreign investment. 16. Strengthen the coordination of key foreign investment projects. Establish a supervision and dispatch mechanism for major foreign investment projects, implement the "Secretary and Mayor Project Engineering", implement the main responsibility of various cities for major foreign investment projects, and strengthen the coordination of foreign investment attraction work. 17. Strengthen the element guarantee for foreign investment projects. Key foreign investment projects can apply for the use of provincial-level reserved energy consumption indicators in accordance with regulations, and those that need to increase the newly constructed land area will be uniformly arranged by the provincial level for land indicators, and the total amount of pollutant emissions within the city will be coordinated. 18. Increase financial and tax support for foreign investment. Newly established projects with annual foreign investment inflow exceeding US$50 million and increased investment projects with annual foreign investment inflow exceeding US$30 million, the provincial finance will provide support at a rate of 2% of the actual expenditure of the foreign investment inflow, and the city where the project is located will provide support at a rate of no less than 1% of the actual expenditure of the foreign investment inflow, with a maximum of no more than 100 million yuan. 19. Strengthen financial policy support for foreign investment. Support qualified foreign-invested enterprises to obtain financing through listing on the main board, STAR Market, ChiNext, listing on the basic layer and innovation layer of the NEEQ, and issuing corporate credit bonds. 20. Strengthen the construction of the investment promotion team. Support various cities in implementing a more flexible salary system for the employed personnel of investment promotion departments and teams. (III) Greater Efforts to Optimize the Business Environment 21. Build a collaborative mechanism among customs, localities, ports, railways, zones, and enterprises. Promote data interconnection among customs, localities, ports, railways, zones (free trade zones, bonded zones, customs special supervision zones), and enterprises, and build a "one-click, one-stop, and full-process" data sharing platform to serve the logistics development of the Yellow River Basin. 22. Properly address unreasonable trade restrictions. Timely release early warning information on trade frictions to enterprises, strengthen guidance and training on litigation for involved enterprises, and provide support for enterprise litigation. 23. Optimize supporting services for international exchanges. Fully implement the "one-stop acceptance and parallel approval" for foreign nationals working in China, and provide convenience for residence and stay for senior executives of foreign-invested enterprises and foreign technical personnel and their families. 24. Create a good development environment for international talents. Carry out pilot programs for the recognition of overseas professional qualifications in free trade zones. 25. Improve the efficiency of government services for enterprises. Promote the trial implementation of the commitment system for project environmental impact assessment and approval, reduce the time limit for enterprises to apply for discharge permits for the first time from 30 working days to 20 working days, and reduce the proportion and frequency of inspections for foreign-invested enterprises with low credit risk. 26. Strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of foreign investors. Ensure that foreign-invested enterprises enjoy equal treatment in intellectual property protection, standard setting, government procurement, and bidding and tendering. From Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce

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