A few days ago, Tongzhou District held a mobilization meeting to build a comprehensive demonstration zone for expanding and opening up the national service industry and a China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone, and started the construction of the "two zones" in an all-round way.
Tongzhou District, as the location of the sub-center of the city, undertakes the important tasks of the times, such as resolving the functions of non-capital, promoting the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and exploring a new model for optimizing the development of densely populated areas. In 20 18 and 19, this area was approved by the State Council as the second batch of comprehensive pilot areas for the expansion and opening up of Beijing's service industry, and it was clearly the only pilot area among the four comprehensive pilot demonstration areas.
Driven by the demonstration in the experimental area, the opening level of the service industry in the city's sub-centers has been further improved. In 20 18, the proportion of service industry in GDP was 50.2%, and it rose to 59% in 20 19, an increase of nearly 9 percentage points. Foreign capital plays a prominent role in foreign trade agglomeration. This year, the actual use of foreign capital has reached 480 million US dollars, with a total import and export volume of 8.64 billion yuan.
In addition, relying on the core bearing areas such as Canal Business District, Cultural Tourism Zone and Zhangjiawan Design Town, the city sub-center focuses on administrative office, cultural tourism and high-end business, explores financial innovation and gathers a number of new formats and models. At the same time, we will deepen the reform of "simplifying administration and decentralization, strengthening supervision and improving services" in professional services such as government services, investment and trade facilitation, financial environment, talent development and scientific and technological innovation, and promote new breakthroughs in the business environment of urban sub-centers.
In 20 19, many business environment indicators such as government service, credit and inclusive innovation of urban sub-centers ranked first in the city. In the first half of 2020, the number of newly established market entities ranked third in the city, and the registered amount and growth rate ranked first in the city. At present, the Canal Business District has gathered a number of high-tech enterprises that meet the industrial orientation, and introduced 70 enterprises in the fields of headquarters economy, finance and scientific and technological innovation. Relying on the architectural resources of the Innovation Center, Zhangjiawan Design Town has undertaken more than 100 municipal enterprises, of which 88 have completed registration.
As the only pilot area of Beijing's comprehensive service industry expansion and opening-up, the city sub-center is also an important part of the international business service area of Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone. It will give full play to its leading and exemplary role in the service industry expansion and opening-up and the construction of the international business service area in the Pilot Free Trade Zone, further promote the transformation from pilot and local institutional innovation in the past to systematic and holistic institutional innovation, and form more replicable and scalable experiences for the whole city and even the whole country.