RCEP投资便利化条款及其影响

为分析《区域全面经济伙伴关系协定》(RCEP)对区域内产业链重构、中国供应链重构以及自贸试验区发展的影响,对RCEP中的投资便利化条款、中国与RCEP成员国家的投资便利化发展渊源进行研究。研究认为,RCEP有争端预防和外商投诉等协调解决措施,相对于中国与东盟、中日韩、中国与澳大利亚、中国与新西兰近年来签署的有关贸易协定,其关于投资便利化的条款规则更加详细,执行性和操作性较好; RCEP将推动亚太地区形成一个自由的、统一的大市场,促进区域内的产业融合和分工格局优化,推动投资自由化和资本流动自由化; 在RCEP高水平区域合作框架下,发挥中国超大规模国内市场和完善的制造业配套体系优势,发挥国内自贸试验区的作用,加快投资相关法律和机制环境建设,推动高水平“引进来”和高质量利用外资; 中国企业应加大在RCEP区域内的投资,提升供应链全球布局对国家经济社会发展的支撑能力,建立更符合供应链全球布局及发展的“走出去”框架,加快产业升级。

RCEP investment facilitation provisions and their implications

In order to analyze the impact of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership(RCEP)on the industrial chain restructuring in the region, China’s supply chain restructuring and the development of pilot free trade zones, this paper studies the investment facilitation provisions in the RCEP and the development sources of investment facilitation between China and RCEP member countries. According to the study, the RCEP has more detailed provisions and rules on investment facilitation, better execution and operability, compared with the relevant trade agreements signed in recent years between China and ASEAN, China, Japan and South Korea, China and Australia, and China and New Zealand in terms of dispute prevention and coordinated settlement of foreign investors’ complaints. RCEP will promote the formation of a free and unified market in the Asia-Pacific region, promote industrial integration and optimization of division of labor in the region, and promote the liberalization of investment and capital flow. Within the framework of high-level RCEP regional cooperation, we should leverage China’s advantages of a large domestic market and a complete comprehensive supporting manufacturing system, give full play to the role of China’s pilot free trade zones, accelerate the development of investment-related legal and institutional environment, and promote high-quality "inward investment" and high-quality utilization of foreign investment. Chinese enterprises should increase investment in RCEP regions, enhance the supporting capacity of global supply chain layout for national economic and social development, establish a "going out" framework that is more in line with global supply chain layout and development, and accelerate industrial upgrading.