我国高标准自由贸易区建设:动因、现状及路径

The Construction of High-standard FTAs in China:Motivation, Status and Approach

加快自贸区建设既是中国全面深化改革开放的内在要求,也是应对全球经贸环境恶化的必然选择,更是中国参与全球经济治理、提高制度性话语权的重要途径。当前,全球自贸协定不仅在数量上快速增长,其涉及到的议题范围也在持续扩展,规则深度不断提升,表现出越来越明显的网络化发展趋势。尽管近年来签署的自贸协定数量快速增长,但是整体而言,中国FTA的签订数量偏少且条款规则深度不深,同时已签署FTA的伙伴国主要为发展中国家和亚太国家,FTA伙伴国的覆盖面还有待进一步拓宽。适时加快推进中国高标准全球自贸区建设步伐,需要从中国已有自贸协定的有效升级、新签自贸协定的有序推进、不同自贸协定的深度融合、与国内自贸试验园区的有机对接、与"一带一路"倡议的相互呼应等方面出发,多点发力,齐头并进。

Speeding up the construction of FTAs is not only the inherent requirement of China’s deepening reform and opening up, but also the inevitable choice to deal with the deterioration of the global economic and trade environment. It is also an important way for China to participate in global economic governance and improve its institutional discourse power. At present, the number of global FTAs is not only growing rapidly, but also the range of issues involved is expanding. Furthermore, the depth of clauses is improving and showing an increasingly obvious trend of network development. Faced with new trends and new features in the development of global FTAs, it is urgent for China to accelerate the construction of high-standard global FTAs. Although in recent years, China’s FTA construction has achieved remarkable results, and the number of FTA signed has increased rapidly. On the whole, the number of FTA signed in China is relatively small, and the depth of terms and regulations is not deep.At the same time, the partner countries that have signed FTA are mainly developing countries and Asia Pacific countries, and the coverage of FTA partner countries needs to be further expanded. Accelerating the pace of China’s high-standard global FTAs construction in a timely manner requires effective upgrade of China’s existing FTAs, orderly progress of newly signed FTAs,deep integration of different FTAs, cooperation with domestic free trade experimental parks and interaction with the Belt and Road Initiative.