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between market, quality, safety, and financial supervision and made supervision
more efficient. We launched initiatives to end unjustified charges levied on

businesses and fully investigated and punished the imposition of arbitrary charges,
fines, and quotas. We advanced pilot projects for innovation in the business
environment and promoted integrated improvements to the business
environments in the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao
Greater Bay Area, Fujian Province, and other key regions in a bid to foster a

world-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and
internationalized.
4) Significant headway was made in ensuring stable foreign trade and foreign
investment.

New forms and models of foreign trade developed at a faster rate, and trade
and investment were further liberalized and facilitated. We built a number of new
integrated experimental zones for cross-border e-commerce and introduced and
implemented policies and measures to support the development of overseas
warehouses for cross-border e-commerce. We temporarily reduced or cancelled

port charges, continued to review and standardize port charges for maritime
transportation, and made customs clearance for goods more efficient. We kept
foreign investment stable and growing and improved investment quality, with a
focus on increasing investment in the manufacturing sector. The Catalog of

Encouraged Industries for Foreign Investment was revised and its 2022 edition was
released. Concrete results were achieved in comprehensively deepening reform
and opening up in Hainan. Projects were launched to develop supporting facilities
for separate customs operation on the whole of Hainan Island as a free trade port,
to build tourist routes around the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park, and to

expand the Yangpu international container shipping hub.
Major trade events including the Fifth China International Import Expo, the
131st and 132nd China Import and Export Fair, the Ninth China International Fair
for Trade in Services, the 22nd China International Fair for Investment and Trade,

the Second China International Consumer Products Expo, and the 19th
China-ASEAN Expo were successfully hosted. China engaged in pragmatic
multilateral and bilateral economic and trade cooperation. The Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was implemented at a high level,
negotiations on the China-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Free Trade Agreement

(FTA) and other FTAs were steadily advanced, and negotiations on building a

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