Shanghai releases digital trade plan to attract foreign investment in Internet access services

Source: Shanghai Municipal People's Government Website
Original Title: Notice of the General Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government on Issuing the "Implementation Plan for Promoting the High-Quality Development of Digital Trade and Service Trade in Shanghai"

People's governments of all districts, all committees, offices and bureaus of the municipal government, and all relevant units:

The "Implementation Plan for Promoting the High-Quality Development of Digital Trade and Service Trade in Shanghai" has been approved by the municipal government and is now issued to you. Please implement it conscientiously.

General Office of Shanghai Municipal People's Government

December 30, 2024

Implementation Plan for Shanghai to Promote High-quality Development of Digital Trade and Service Trade

In order to thoroughly implement the "Opinions of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on the Reform, Innovation and Development of Digital Trade" and the "Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Promoting High-quality Development of Service Trade with High-level Opening", comprehensively promote the reform, opening and innovation of digital trade and service trade, build a digital trade international hub port and a service trade global hub node that deeply connects the world, and strive to achieve a total service import and export scale of US$260 billion and a digital delivery service trade scale of US$130 billion by 2029, accounting for about 50% of the service trade, this implementation plan is formulated.

I. Vigorously develop digital delivery service trade

(I) Pilot and expand the opening of value-added telecommunications. Leverage the advantages of digital infrastructure in Lingang New Area and Pudong New Area, and promote the establishment of wholly foreign-owned Internet data centers, content distribution networks and application stores. Attract foreign investment to carry out Internet access services, online data processing and transaction processing, information protection and processing services. (Responsible units: Municipal Economic and Information Commission, Municipal Communications Administration, Pudong New Area Government, Lingang New Area Management Committee)

(II) Expand digital product trade with a focus on cultural trade. Promote the "Thousand Sails Going Out to Sea" of cultural trade, and select and release the top ten cultural trade brands in Shanghai on an annual basis. Attract overseas games and movies that have not been publicly released in China to be tested and screened in accordance with regulations during foreign-related game and film festivals, and attract international top e-sports events to be held in Shanghai. (Responsible units: Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, Municipal Commerce Commission, Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, Municipal Sports Bureau)

(III) Develop high-end service outsourcing to expand digital service trade. Implement the "enterprise-to-object" supervision model in the pilot import of biopharmaceutical R&D items. Enhance the radiation and driving role of the national digital service export base. Support the development of shared service centers for multinational companies. (Responsible units: Municipal Commerce Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Municipal Economic and Information Commission, Pudong New Area Government)

(IV) Accelerate the promotion of digital technology trade and industry coordinated development. Create industry clouds such as trade cloud, industrial cloud, and medical cloud that are linked to the international market, promote the integration of "design + manufacturing", increase international cooperation in artificial intelligence, and deepen the pilot registration of intellectual property rights for data products. (Responsible units: Municipal Economic and Information Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Municipal Commerce Commission, Municipal Data Bureau, Municipal Party Committee Cyberspace Administration, Municipal Intellectual Property Office)

II. Expand and expand digital ordering trade

(V) Optimize the cross-border e-commerce sea and air transport supervision model. Deepen the pilot of air transport facilitation for cross-border e-commerce goods such as electric and magnetic goods and cosmetics, and enhance the cross-border e-commerce goods collection and transportation guarantee capacity of air cargo terminals. (Responsible units: Municipal Commission of Commerce, Municipal Commission of Transportation, Shanghai Customs, Civil Aviation Administration of East China, Pudong New Area Government, Lingang New Area Management Committee, Hongqiao International Central Business District Management Committee)

(VI) Strengthen financial service support for cross-border e-commerce. Innovatively use cross-border e-commerce credit insurance products to simplify foreign exchange receipts and payments procedures for small and micro cross-border e-commerce enterprises. Improve cross-border RMB settlement services. (Responsible units: Municipal Commission of Commerce, Shanghai Headquarters of the People's Bank of China, Shanghai Customs, Shanghai Branch of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Financial Office of the Municipal Party Committee, Shanghai Branch of Sinosure, and relevant district governments)

(VII) Promote the expansion of cross-border e-commerce import business. Promote foreign e-commerce platforms to set up Chinese or Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai and launch Chinese sites. Promote the "same warehouse storage and same package delivery" of foreign trade goods in special customs supervision areas and expand bonded imports. Optimize the return process of cross-border e-commerce direct purchase imported goods. (Responsible units: Municipal Commission of Commerce, Shanghai Customs, Lingang New Area Management Committee, Hongqiao International Central Business District Management Committee, and relevant district governments)

III. Appropriately advance the layout of digital infrastructure

(VIII) Accelerate the construction and expansion of high-level network infrastructure. Accelerate the construction of new information and communication infrastructure represented by 5G networks and fiber-optic broadband networks. Promote the construction of Southeast Asia-Japan No. 2 submarine optical cable and the construction of Lingang submarine optical cable landing station. Promote the expansion of the National (Shanghai) Internet Exchange Center and the International Internet Data Dedicated Channel. (Responsible units: Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission, Municipal Communications Administration, Municipal Data Bureau, Lingang New Area Management Committee, Hongqiao International Central Business District Management Committee)

(IX) Layout high-performance computing power infrastructure. Build high-level cloud computing data center clusters, open computing power platforms, and computing power interconnection platforms. Build a city public computing power service hub to provide inclusive computing power services to small and medium-sized enterprises. Build large-scale commercial computing power. Explore the construction of a data center with international service capabilities and Yangtze River Delta radiation functions in the Hongqiao International Central Business District. (Responsible units: Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission, Municipal Communications Administration, Municipal Data Bureau, Hongqiao International Central Business District Management Committee) (X) Build high-quality data infrastructure such as blockchain and corpus. Build urban blockchain infrastructure, create a blockchain as a service (BaaS) platform and general cross-chain functions, and facilitate cross-border trusted data flow. Promote the construction of high-quality corpus data elements. (Responsible units: Municipal Data Bureau, Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Commission) (XI) Digital empowerment of shipping service trade. Build smart ports, deepen the application of blockchain, big data and other technologies, and strengthen the online verification, circulation and application of electronic documents such as electronic bills of lading, electronic letters of credit, electronic certificates for ships and crew, and electronic departure certificates. Deepen the construction of the Asia-Pacific Demonstration Electronic Port Network and create an international trade and logistics information exchange hub. Launch an international shipping container ship entry and exit safety and punctuality forecast index. Promote air transport data sharing and digital transformation. Build a public platform for comprehensive air cargo information services to achieve information integration of the entire air logistics chain. Rely on information technology to improve the service level of shipping financing, insurance, and law, and deepen the construction of shipping service headquarters bases such as North Bund, Hongqiao Linkong, Lingang New Area, and Lujiazui-Expo. (Responsible units: Municipal Transportation Commission, Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration, Municipal Cyberspace Administration, Municipal Commerce Commission, Municipal Data Bureau, Pudong New Area Government, Hongkou District Government, Changning District Government, Civil Aviation Administration of East China, Lingang New Area Management Committee, Hongqiao International Central Business District Management Committee)

(XII) Accelerate the development of financial and insurance service trade. Enhance the functions of the RMB Cross-Border Payment System (CIPS). Attract domestic and foreign companies to issue "Panda Bonds" and "Belt and Road Bonds". Support qualified overseas traders to directly participate in trading international products such as crude oil, low-sulfur fuel oil, international copper and crude oil options. Create an international reinsurance functional area in the Lingang New Area and build the Shanghai International Reinsurance Registration and Trading Center. (Responsible units: Municipal Party Committee Financial Office, Shanghai Headquarters of the People's Bank of China, Shanghai Financial Regulatory Bureau, Shanghai Securities Regulatory Bureau, Lingang New Area Management Committee)

(13) Build a service trade system that matches the aviation industry. Explore business formats such as aviation material leasing, consignment, and sharing. Build an aviation asset trading platform to create an aviation financial trade ecosystem that covers the entire life cycle of aviation asset trading, maintenance, modification, and disposal of aircraft, aircraft engines, simulators, etc. Improve the service trade supervision system. (Responsible units: Municipal Commerce Commission, Shanghai Customs, Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Municipal Economic and Information Commission, Shanghai Headquarters of the People's Bank of China, Shanghai Financial Regulatory Bureau, Lingang New Area Management Committee)

(14) Vigorously develop green service trade. Support the import of technologies and services such as energy conservation and carbon reduction, environmental protection, and ecological governance that are urgently needed in China. Support the export of green energy-saving technologies and services. Give full play to the role of the green technology bank platform to promote international cooperation. Deepen the construction of the carbon emission rights trading market and enrich carbon financial products. (Responsible units: Municipal Commerce Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau)

V. Strengthen the construction of enterprise entities and regional carriers

(15) Improve the level of leading enterprises. Update the "Shanghai Service Trade Promotion Guidance Catalogue" every year to clarify the promotion direction. Increase the cultivation of technologically advanced service enterprises and support the active use of digital technology, artificial intelligence and other innovative service supply. Support enterprises to participate in the formulation and promotion of international standards for digital trade and service trade. (Responsible units: Municipal Commerce Commission, Municipal Science and Technology Commission, Municipal Taxation Bureau)

(16) Build the Shanghai Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA) Cooperation Zone. Promote practical cooperation in the fields of electronic bills of lading, electronic invoices, electronic ports, electronic payments, and e-commerce for small and medium-sized enterprises. Build the Lingang New Area into the core carrier area of ​​the DEPA Cooperation Zone and innovate the international cooperation scenario for digital trade. (Responsible units: Municipal Commission of Commerce, Lingang New Area Management Committee, Municipal Bureau of Data)

(17) Build a pilot zone for cooperation on "Silk Road e-commerce". Expand institutional opening in the field of e-commerce, and carry out industrial docking, local cooperation, and capacity building with partner countries. Enrich new formats such as electronic ordering, live streaming, and cultural e-commerce. Launch cooperative brands such as the "Silk Road e-commerce" National Pavilion and "Silk Road Cloud Products", and build exchange platforms such as think tank alliances, cooperative training, and portals. Participate in global trade promotion and assistance actions. (Responsible units: Municipal Commission of Commerce, Shanghai Customs, Pudong New Area Government, Lingang New Area Management Committee, and Hongqiao International Central Business District Management Committee)

(18) Build an international data economy industrial park. Build an international data economy industrial park in Lingang New Area and pilot cooperative innovation business. Improve the service efficiency of the Lingang Data Cross-border Service Center and improve the investment promotion model. (Responsible units: Lingang New Area Management Committee, Municipal Commerce Commission, Municipal Cyberspace Administration, Municipal Data Bureau)

(19) Enhance the scale effect of service trade agglomeration areas. Build a service trade agglomeration area featuring headquarters economy in Pudong New Area. Build a core bearing area for high-end shipping services in Hongkou District. Build Yangshupu Digital Trade Valley in Yangpu District. Relevant districts shall accelerate the development of digital trade and service trade in light of their resource endowments and industrial characteristics. Promote the expansion of the business focus of special customs supervision areas such as Jinqiao and Caohejing Comprehensive Bonded Zones to digital trade and service trade. Implement the service trade small and medium-sized enterprise development plan, encourage districts to set up innovative enterprise incubators, optimize service trade export credit insurance services, and connect with the National Service Trade Innovation and Development Guidance Fund. (Responsible units: district governments, China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation Shanghai Branch)

VI. Promote the convenient flow of trade factors

(20) Promote and regulate the cross-border flow of data. Formulate a negative list and operational guidelines for cross-border data flows in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (including the Lingang New Area). Support enterprises to conveniently access the international Internet. (Responsible units: Municipal Cyberspace Administration, Municipal Bureau of Data, Municipal Economic and Information Commission, Pudong New Area Government (Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone Management Committee), Lingang New Area Management Committee)

(XXI) Facilitate cross-border flows of natural persons. Accelerate the construction of the Oriental Hub International Business Cooperation Zone, and expand international training and other functions in the fields of medical devices and aviation. Optimize the application service for APEC Business Travel Cards. Promote the pre-acceptance service for foreign port visas and promote the pilot of electronic port visas. Build a direct connection platform for overseas talent services. (Responsible units: Municipal Commerce Commission, Municipal Public Security Bureau, Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, Shanghai Customs, Pudong New Area Government, Hongqiao International Central Business District Management Committee)

(XXII) Optimize the management of cross-border capital flows. Support the application of capital pool business in the centralized management of cross-border funds for digital trade and service trade. Carry out pilot projects for comprehensive solutions for international electronic invoices and cross-border electronic payments. Support the construction of a global settlement center for the digital RMB in the bank's internal system. (Responsible units: Shanghai headquarters of the People's Bank of China, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, and Financial Office of the Municipal Party Committee)

(XXIII) Give full play to the function of promoting trade through exhibitions. Continue to hold exhibitions such as the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Pujiang Innovation Forum, North Bund International Shipping Forum, China (Shanghai) International Technology Import and Export Fair, and China International Digital Interactive Entertainment Exhibition. Support enterprises to participate in well-known overseas exhibitions. Further give play to the promotion effect of the China International Import Expo, China International Fair for Trade in Services, and Global Digital Trade Expo. (Responsible units: Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economic and Information Technology, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology, Shanghai Municipal Commission of Transportation, Shanghai Intellectual Property Office, Shanghai Municipal Propaganda Department, Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and Shanghai Council for the Promotion of International Trade)

The Shanghai Leading Group for Promoting the Construction of Shanghai International Trade Center will lead the work of high-quality development of digital trade and trade in services. All member units of the leading group and relevant units should promote the implementation of various tasks in accordance with their division of responsibilities.