Notice of the Commerce Bureau of Haidian District, Beijing Municipality on Issuing the "Several Measures of Haidian District for Promoting High-Quality Development of Foreign Investment" and the "Several Measures of Haidian District for Promoting High-Quality Development of Foreign Trade"
In order to thoroughly implement the national strategy of opening up, continuously optimize the foreign investment environment in Haidian District, intensify efforts to promote and serve foreign investors, consolidate and enhance the confidence of foreign-invested enterprises in developing within Haidian, accelerate the building of a globally influential “City with the Greatest Investment Value,” contribute to establishing a new development paradigm, and advance high-level opening-up and high-quality development in Haidian District, these measures have been formulated.
Strive to significantly strengthen the depth of strategic deployment and innovation-leading effectiveness of foreign investment in Haidian District, deeply integrate into global industrial and supply chain systems, and create a new open economic ecosystem characterized by efficient allocation of international capital, free flow of cross-border data, and attraction of top-tier talent from near and far, thereby establishing Haidian District as the preferred destination for foreign investors seeking to deepen their presence in the Chinese market and connect with global innovation networks.
(1) Encourage key areas of foreign investment.Encourage foreign investment in key industries such as artificial intelligence, healthcare, and intelligent manufacturing. Also encourage attracting foreign capital into service sectors including elderly care services, culture and tourism, sports, medical care, vocational education, and finance, to meet diversified service consumption needs. For foreign-invested enterprises that invest in priority sectors aligned with the Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment and are deemed eligible upon assessment, provide financial support not exceeding RMB 30 million.
(2) Encourage overseas funds to engage in equity investments.Encourage overseas funds to collaborate on equity investments within Haidian District. For overseas funds that invest in foreign-invested enterprises listed in the Catalogue of Industries Encouraged for Foreign Investment during the year and demonstrate positive contributions to enterprise R&D capabilities, technology transfer, industrial linkage, or scale of utilized foreign capital, provide support not exceeding RMB 2 million upon assessment.
(3) Enhance investment promotion.Encourage foreign-invested enterprises to increase reinvestment of domestic profits, undertake merger and acquisition investments, establish investment companies, and set up headquarters-type institutions in Haidian, while intensifying policy publicity and interpretation to deliver high-quality services for project implementation. Continuously optimize the business environment and ensure that relevant foreign-invested enterprises enjoy treatment accorded to foreign-invested entities in accordance with laws and regulations. Support promising growth-stage foreign-invested enterprises to accelerate development and guide qualified firms to apply for recognition as regional headquarters of multinational corporations and foreign-funded R&D centers.
(4) Facilitate R&D and innovation.Support foreign-invested enterprises in applying for preferential tax policies on technology transfer income to enhance their technological innovation capabilities and promote the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements. Allow eligible R&D expenses to benefit from pre-tax additional deductions. Assist foreign-invested enterprises in accessing related support policies aimed at technological innovation and enhancing their international competitiveness.
(5) Provide financial support convenience.Encourage financial institutions to offer quality financial services and financing support to eligible foreign-invested enterprises based on market-oriented principles. Fully support foreign-invested enterprises in pursuing overseas listings. Continue piloting integrated bank settlement accounts in both local and foreign currencies, as well as pilot programs for multinational corporations’ integrated domestic and foreign currency cash pools, continually improving the convenience of foreign exchange transactions for foreign-invested enterprises.
(6) Facilitate data element circulation.Provide a “green channel” service for data export by foreign-invested enterprises in Haidian District. Leveraging the Beijing Cross-Border Data Service Center (Zhongguancun Science City Service Station), offer one-stop policy consultation and compliance guidance to facilitate efficient, convenient, and secure data flows.
(7) Provide personnel service convenience.Offer convenient services regarding talent recruitment, housing security, and children’s education. For overseas talents, invited personnel, and their spouses and children associated with foreign-invested enterprises in our district—engaged in economic and trade cooperation, business negotiations, project research and development, exchanges, visits, cooperative inspections, or innovation and entrepreneurship—provide visa issuance conveniences featuring “longer validity periods, more return trips, broader eligibility, and higher-quality services,” along with port-of-entry visa-on-arrival options, 24/7 one-on-one consultations, dedicated counters offering premium services, and timely responses to urgent needs. Support senior management, business professionals, and technical staff of foreign-invested enterprises in applying for APEC Business Travel Cards, and assist enterprises in inviting foreign business guests to China.
(8) Provide life service convenience for international talents.Offer eligible foreign-invested enterprises integrated services combining work permits and social security cards for foreigners, facilitating their employment and daily life in China. With a well-established international education system, schools at all levels across the district can enroll foreign students, meeting the educational needs of international talent’s children. Continuously optimize the international medical service environment, expand the number of pilot institutions providing international medical services, promote hospital–international insurance collaborations, and deliver high-quality medical care to international patients.
(9) Provide intellectual property protection convenience.Uphold the principle of “equal protection” for intellectual property rights, further refine collaborative IP protection mechanisms, strengthen international IP exchanges, reinforce coordinated protection and precision services, and provide foreign-invested enterprises with comprehensive IP services covering creation, utilization, protection, and management, consistently fostering a favorable business environment for IP protection.
(10) Provide policy support convenience.Encourage eligible foreign-invested enterprises to apply for expanded pilot policies opening up value-added telecommunications services. Support eligible foreign investors in establishing wholly foreign-owned hospitals. Back eligible foreign-invested enterprises within the Haidian cluster of the Free Trade Zone to engage in human stem cell research, gene diagnosis and treatment technology development, and application. Encourage foreign-invested enterprises to reinvest domestically and enjoy relevant tax incentives.
(11) Provide government–enterprise coordination convenience.Make effective use of platforms such as the Foreign-Invested Enterprises Roundtable Meeting to deepen regular communication with foreign-invested enterprises, promptly address their concerns, and tailor services accordingly. Improve the complaint-handling mechanism for foreign-invested enterprises, properly resolve prominent issues raised through complaints, and safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. Fully leverage the “service butler” and “service package” mechanisms to regularly visit and survey key foreign-invested enterprises, delivering services and policies directly to them, thereby enhancing their sense of gain.
Financial support under these measures, together with other similar policies in our district, shall be implemented according to the principle of “favorable terms without duplication,” allowing enterprises to choose independently.
The Haidian District Bureau of Commerce, in collaboration with relevant departments, is responsible for interpreting these measures; detailed rules and implementation of financial support fall under the jurisdiction of the Haidian District Bureau of Commerce.
These measures shall take effect from the date of promulgation.
To thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council concerning stable foreign trade, actively respond to current opportunities and challenges facing foreign trade development, promote steady growth and structural optimization of regional foreign trade, and in accordance with the Ministry of Commerce’s “Several Policy Measures for Promoting Stable Growth of Foreign Trade” (Shangmaifa [2024] No. 288) and the relevant requirements of the “Beijing Municipal Measures for Promoting Stable Growth of Foreign Trade,” combined with the actual conditions of Haidian District, these measures have been formulated.
Centered on serving the national strategy of high-level opening-up, fully leveraging Haidian’s advantages—abundant science and technology resources, vibrant outward-oriented economy, concentration of international factors, and leadership of leading enterprises—focus on constructing a new pattern of high-quality foreign trade development characterized by “technology-driven, digitally empowered, strengthened main players, and optimized ecosystem,” promoting continuous leaps in the scale and level of foreign trade. Strive to cultivate over 200 import-export enterprises with annual turnovers exceeding RMB 100 million by 2027, drive steady growth in total foreign trade volume, significantly increase the proportion of service trade, and foster the emergence of new models and formats in foreign trade, ultimately building a globally influential hub for technology-driven foreign trade innovation.
(1) Promote stable scale and optimized structure of foreign trade.Focus on sectors such as electronic products, mechanical and electrical equipment, integrated circuits, and medical devices to help enterprises expand their markets. For foreign trade enterprises participating in international exhibitions and receiving municipal-level support, fully subsidize any remaining booth fees, with individual exhibition support capped at RMB 300,000. Encourage enterprises to conduct business activities within the Haidian Cluster of the Beijing Free Trade Zone’s Technology Innovation Area.
(2) Encourage upgrading customs credit ratings.Establish a cultivation pool for AEO Advanced Certified Enterprises and intensify support for specialized, refined, distinctive “little giant” and “hidden champion” enterprises. Award a one-time bonus of RMB 300,000 to enterprises obtaining Customs AEO Advanced Certification for the first time. Grant a one-time subsidy of RMB 100,000 to those who successfully re-certify after undergoing customs review.
(3) Cultivate new models and formats in foreign trade.Guide technology enterprises to expand overseas channels through new models such as cross-border e-commerce and overseas warehouses. Encourage cross-border e-commerce platforms to provide customized services tailored to foreign trade enterprises in areas such as platform traffic, brand promotion, logistics delivery, and payment settlement, and support eligible enterprises in building independent cross-border e-commerce websites, cultivating a group of digital export demonstration enterprises. Encourage enterprises to develop new foreign trade models and formats such as bonded R&D, bonded maintenance, bonded leasing, and bonded display trading, providing each enterprise with financial support not exceeding RMB 500,000. Support enterprises in innovating other new foreign trade models and formats, with individual enterprise support capped at RMB 100,000.
(4) Support international qualification certification.For enterprises obtaining international qualifications in fields such as bonded R&D, bonded testing, or bonded maintenance for the first time, provide an additional subsidy of 30% of certification costs on top of Beijing municipal support, with no more than RMB 100,000 per project and a cumulative annual subsidy limit of RMB 100,000 per enterprise for international certifications.
(5) Boost high-quality development of service trade.Implement tiered cultivation strategies for service trade and digital trade enterprises, fostering new growth points in service trade. Encourage the development of service export sectors such as digital services, high-end design, R&D, supply chains, inspection and testing, accreditation, and intellectual property, providing financial support not exceeding RMB 100,000 based on enterprise R&D investment and service export growth rates. For service trade enterprises participating in international exhibitions, subsidize up to 50% of booth fees, with individual exhibition support capped at RMB 300,000.
(6) Support orderly cross-border data flows.Support enterprises in conducting compliant and orderly cross-border data flow activities. For enterprises achieving compliant data export for the first time through safety assessments, standard contract filings, personal information protection certifications, and other means, grant a one-time financial support not exceeding RMB 500,000.
(7) Strengthen diversified financial support.Advance pilot programs to facilitate foreign exchange receipts and payments, encourage banks to innovate financing products, improve exchange rate management and fund settlement service quality, and adapt to the diverse financing needs of different types of foreign trade enterprises. Encourage financial institutions to reduce fees, optimize guarantee measures, and lower margin requirements, providing more exchange rate risk management products for foreign trade enterprises and lowering the threshold and cost of exchange rate hedging for small and micro-enterprises. Encourage enterprises to utilize credit insurance tools to mitigate trade risks and enhance export competitiveness.
(8) Build a new ecosystem for overseas expansion.Strengthen synergy and integration of various resources to create a full-chain overseas expansion service system, providing professional services to enterprises going abroad. Launch targeted training and exchange initiatives focusing on market development, compliance management, risk prevention and response, intellectual property protection, antitrust compliance, and overseas rights protection, helping enterprises successfully enter international markets.
Financial support provided under these measures, along with other similar policies in our district, will be implemented according to the principle of “favorable terms without duplication,” allowing enterprises to choose independently.
The Haidian District Bureau of Commerce, in collaboration with relevant departments, is responsible for interpreting these measures; detailed rules and implementation of financial support fall under the jurisdiction of the Haidian District Bureau of Commerce and related departments.
These measures shall take effect from the date of promulgation.