Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Promoting the Scientific Development of Special Customs Supervision Areas

Guiding Opinions of the State Council on Promoting the Scientific Development of Special Customs Supervision Areas

Guo Fa [2012] No.58

October 27, 2012

The people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and all ministries and commissions of and all departments directly under the State Council,

In order to satisfy the needs of China's opening up and economic development in different periods, the State Council has successively approved and established six categories of special customs supervision areas (hereinafter referred to as the "special supervision areas"), namely bonded areas, export processing zones, bonded logistics parks, cross-border industrial zones, bonded port areas and comprehensive bonded zones. For over 20 years, the special supervision areas have been playing an active role in undertaking international industrial transfer, pushing forward the transformation and upgrade of processing trade, expanding the foreign trade, promoting the employment and other aspects. However, in the development, there are also problems such as too many categories, single function, attaching more importance to the application for establishment that construction and development and so on. In order to further promote the scientific development of special supervision areas, the guiding opinions are hereby given as follows:

I. General Requirements
1. Guiding ideology. With the guidance of the Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", the efforts shall be made to thoroughly implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, integrate the categories of special supervision areas, improve policies and functions, strengthen the supervision and services and promote the scientific development of special supervision areas, so as to better serve the reform, opening up and economic development.
2. Basic principles.
-- Reasonable allocation and coordinated development. In accordance with the principles of facilitating the implementation of the national strategic planning for regional development, the undertaking of industrial transfer in central and western regions, and the integration and optimization of special supervision areas, as well as the principle that there are export-oriented large projects expected to enter and be stationed, the efforts shall be made to reasonably establish special supervision areas and promote coordinated development of regional economy.
-- Paying attention to the quality and improving the benefit.
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