Recently, the reporter learned from Tianjin Customs, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Binhai New Area People's Government and Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Administrative Committee that on June 5, the State Council approved the establishment of the Tianjin Lingang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, adding a new engine to Tianjin's high-profile open platform. The newly approved Tianjin Lingang Comprehensive Bonded Zone is located in the heart of the Bohai Sea Economic Zone, with a planning area of 5.56 square kilometers, located in the core of Tianjin Port "one port and six districts", which will focus on building the ocean economy, hydrogen energy and other iconic industrial chains, and provide strong support for the expansion of offshore equipment, grain and oil processing and other advantageous industries.

It is understood that the comprehensive bonded zone is the highest level of opening, the best policy, the most comprehensive function, the most flexible operation, the most convenient customs clearance special supervision area. With the official approval of Tianjin Lingang Comprehensive Free Trade Zone, Tianjin now has a total of Tianjin Port Comprehensive Free Trade Zone, Tianjin TEDA Comprehensive Free Bonded Zone, Tianjin Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Tianjin Binhai New Area Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Tianjin Lingang Comprehensive Bonded Zone five comprehensive bonded areas, gathered aviation manufacturing and testing and maintenance, oil and grease processing production, aircraft and offshore platform financing and leasing, automotive parallel imports, cross-border e-commerce, large At the same time, it also vigorously develops the construction of intelligent comprehensive bonded zones to better serve trade and investment facilitation. Sun Yongli, head of the special area development section of Tianjin Customs, said: 2022 Tianjin comprehensive bonded zone import and export value reached 268.71 billion yuan, an increase of 5.9%, contributing to the city's foreign trade import and export volume of nearly 1/3 volume, for the city's export-oriented industrial clusters, to attract foreign investment played an important role.

Tianjin's application for the establishment of the Lingang Comprehensive Bonded Zone is an important initiative to implement the national strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Cooperative Development, implement the city's "Ten Actions" and play a leading role in Binhai New Area, With the support of the General Administration of Customs, the Ministry of Natural Resources and other national ministries, the Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Tianjin Customs, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Municipal Bureau of Planning and Resources, the Municipal Bureau of Finance, the Municipal Bureau of Taxation, the Municipal Bureau of Foreign Exchange and other relevant departments and the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Administrative Committee have worked together to create a high-level comprehensive bonded area, optimize the planning of the Lingang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, accelerate the key projects and regional construction, and achieve the smooth approval of the Lingang Comprehensive Bonded Zone.

As the main body of construction and development of the Lingang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, the Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone Administrative Committee has been closely focusing on the overlapping functions of sea and air ports, "bonded+" and free trade innovation functions to build a leading comprehensive bonded zone in the country, and the main economic indicators in the first quarter of this year continued to grow rapidly on the basis of high operation, achieving a strong start. The gross regional product grew by 13.2% year-on-year, the output value of regulated industry grew by 9.3%, the income of profit-making service industry grew by 49.5%, the sales of limited goods grew by 24.3%, the general budget income of the district grew by 19% year-on-year, and the investment in fixed assets grew steadily by 6.1% year-on-year. In the future, it will give full play to the unique policy and location advantages of Lingang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, accelerate the transformation of old and new dynamics, release the shoreline resources of the terminals in the Lingang area, strive to build the first national bonded ship manufacturing and repair base, the largest bonded manufacturing center for offshore engineering equipment, and a national bonded R&D demonstration zone for marine engineering, and strive to become a model and benchmark for comprehensive bonded zones in the new era.

Next, Tianjin will take the approval of Lingang Comprehensive Bonded Zone as an opportunity to continuously optimize the top-level design, actively dock to the new rules of global investment and trade, play a comprehensive bonded zone in the "Ten Actions", "double-center" city construction of the demonstration and leading role, the comprehensive bonded zone to become a new high ground for innovative development of open economy in Tianjin, the new business card.