Development strategy for free trade zones
1. Based on industry, serve the economic development and resident enterprises of industrial parks.
2. Using trade as a link to connect Chinese enterprises with advantageous production capacity and global customers.
3. With policy support, effectively utilize the national support policies of China and Vanuatu to support the development of overseas investment enterprises.
4. Taking finance as the guarantee, utilizing financial instruments reasonably to meet the funding needs of enterprise development and the utilization of funds in the offshore financial system, as well as establishing pilot projects for the free circulation and settlement of RMB overseas.
5. Taking tourism as a driving force, quickly attracting attention and forming popularity, and quickly improving the basic services in the early stage of the free trade zone.
6. Taking immigration as a guarantee, make reasonable use of the convenience of national identity, and ensure that settled enterprises can fully enjoy all preferential policies and measures of the industrial park.
7. Taking infrastructure investment as the foundation and providing an excellent foundation for industrial development.
8. Use the benign capital income formed by industrial development to reinvest and compensate for infrastructure investment.
At the national level:
The Chinese government: the bridgehead of the Belt and Road South Pacific
Vanuatu:
Vanuatu Financial Center, the only national level free trade zone
National freight trade hub and demonstration zone for industrial upgrading and development
Demonstration Zone for Comprehensive Development of Culture and Tourism, and Demonstration Zone for International Cultural Exchange
Demonstration Zone for Digital Economy Development and Green Energy Development
Core functions |
Affiliated functions |
Peripheral functions |
Production services |
Infrastructure, airport development, dock expansion, real estate development, cultural and tourism development, energy development, animal husbandry development, agricultural planting and mining development, forestry development |
Hydraulic, electric, natural gas, oil, mining, fishery and wood processing, office leasing, gambling, hotels, tourism, freight forwarding and residential, island buying and selling, warehousing, logistics, tobacco and alcohol trading |
Life services |
Health care, health base, commercial retail, entertainment and leisure |
Supermarkets, building materials, hospitals, health care, residential services, entertainment consumption, and daily life consumption |
Professional services |
Information services, labor services, and technology services |
Professional technical services, company services, intellectual property services, cultural and creative services |
Cultural Exchange |
International think tanks, education and training |
International universities, vocational training, research institutes, conference organizations, cultural organizations, public welfare organizations |
Science and trade services |
AI robots, Future City, Trade, Cloud Warehouse |
Virtual reality world, digital humans, and bulk trade |
Capital finance |
Exchanges, digital currencies, wallets/coin issuance, banks, insurance, funds |
Legal consultation and financial consultation |