Chinese enterprises ' Utilization of China-ASEAN FTA Agreement is only 10%

--Xu Ningning, chief expert on business issues in ASEAN, interviewed China-ASEAN FTA to implement zero tariff, and this year ushered in the 20 anniversary of the establishment of dialogue and cooperation between China and ASEAN. We have seen the gratifying changes brought about by the increasingly close cooperation between the two sides, and have felt the rich achievements of the FTA in the process of formation.　　At the same time, there are some new situations and new problems in the cooperation between the two sides, and on how to actively deal with these problems, this newspaper exclusive interview with China's ASEAN business chief experts, China-ASEAN Business Council, Deputy Secretary-General Xu Ningning.　　To strengthen the understanding of the relevant issues: the FTA construction has been carried out for more than 10 years, but there are still many entrepreneurs, government officials, business owners of the trade zone policy lack of understanding of the FTA, the overall utilization rate of China's FTA agreement is only 10%. Xu Ningning: Government departments, the media and the Chamber of Commerce should further enhance the China-ASEAN Free trade promotion and training, so that the parties concerned understand the timetable, business opportunities and challenges of China-ASEAN mutual Open Market, understand the economic and trade Cooperation Development plan reached by the two countries, understand the political, economic, social, cultural and related economic policies,　　Industry orientation, investment environment, market characteristics and other basic conditions, to understand the ASEAN Community Construction, ASEAN and Japan and South Korea and other countries such as the establishment of FTA areas.　　At present, the China-ASEAN Business Council has formed a joint meeting of the Trade District media, held a high-level seminar in the FTA, and has assisted more than 30 provinces and municipalities to convene the FTA Policy Forum, and will continue to provide related services in the future.　　Improve the ability to develop each other's market new problems: At present, many enterprises do not understand each other's country's industrial policy, market characteristics, economic system, in the choice of trade and investment partners lack of business channels. Xu Ningning: Both enterprises should make full use of the preferential conditions of the FTA, the export of products to fill out the FTA preferential certificate of origin, and actively develop the tax relief of this large market, but also should be good for each other's national products duty-free access to domestic market preparation.　　by January 1, 2015, China and ASEAN four new member countries (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma) trade in the vast majority of products will be abolished by the agreement, the two companies from now on the need for mutual market opening up. At the same time, enterprises should timely according to market size changes, formulate new market development strategy and strategy, as soon as possible to understand the China and ASEAN different countries market opening timetable, and actively improve the ability to develop each other's market.　　We should pay attention to the feasibility analysis of entering each other's market, pay attention to the change of the economic policy of each other, improve the investment benefit, enhance the popularity of the enterprise products in the new market, widen the business channel of entering the other market actively, select the business partner.　　China-ASEAN Business Council The Chinese secretariat is preparing for the establishment of the China-ASEAN FTA Business Advisory Committee to provide a series of business consulting services for both enterprises.　　Deepen the new problem of industry cooperation: at present, most of the industries between the two industries have not yet docked, lack of sufficient understanding, trade associations between the lack of communication. Xu Ningning: PoliticalGovernment departments, Trade chambers of commerce and enterprises should fully understand the importance and urgency of promoting the cooperation between the two sides at present.　　The government industry competent department should list the industry cooperation as the top priority of the economic and trade cooperation between China and ASEAN countries, and actively explore how to complement each other's industries and how to enhance regional productivity and international competitiveness through cooperation and promote industry cooperation. The trade associations of both sides should guide and assist enterprises to enter the market, assist in intergovernmental cooperation and implement the implementation of the relevant FTA agreement between the governments.　　Trade Chambers of Commerce should explore ways of docking and cooperation between the two industries, and formulate and implement the China-ASEAN FTA Industry Cooperation program.　　Increased two-way investment in the new problem: 2010, China and ASEAN bilateral trade volume of nearly 300 billion U.S. dollars, but the total two-way investment of nearly 70 billion U.S. dollars, the scale is still relatively small. Xu Ningning: The two sides should increase two-way investment as the new engine of China-ASEAN economic growth, further open the investment market, promote investment facilitation and gradual liberalization, create a convenient, transparent and fair investment environment, speed up the improvement of China-ASEAN investment promotion system and accelerate the development of major project cooperation.　　Actively use the China-ASEAN Investment Cooperation Fund and China to the ASEAN countries to provide 15 billion U.S. dollars loans. ASEAN countries should increase their investment in China, implement encouraging policies, promote Chinese enterprises to participate in the construction of ASEAN national infrastructure and promote the participation of Chinese enterprises in the ASEAN countries ' subregional economic cooperation. The two sides should actively cooperate in the construction of China's overseas economic and trade cooperation zone and actively explore the construction of the cross-border cooperation zone. The Chinese Government is implementing the economic development strategy of "the great development of the West, the revitalization of the Northeast, the rise of the Middle East and the new crossing of the eastern Region", and the ASEAN countries should pay attention to China's regional development plan.