陳偉：“亞投行”將幫助重慶保持外向型經濟競爭優勢

□ 文/本刊記者 曾睿

陳偉：“亞投行”將幫助重慶保持外向型經濟競爭優勢

□ 文/本刊記者 曾睿

管理學博士、四川外國語大學國際商學院陳偉副教授在接受記者采訪時表示：“亞投行”設立之后，在對外口岸硬件建設、外向型產業均衡發展、社會輿論環境等多個方面都將會幫助重慶保持競爭優勢，增強重慶的開放與外向型經濟的活力。

成為重慶對外口岸建設可靠的資金渠道

毫無疑問，“亞投行”對未來重慶的開放與外向型經濟的影響將全面而深遠，但“將作為重慶口岸建設可靠的資金渠道”則是陳偉認為最為重要的一個方面。在他看來，通過連續多年大量的資金投入和政策支持，重慶目前已初步形成三大交通樞紐、三個一類開放口岸、三大保稅監管區“三個三合一”的內陸開放平臺，航空、鐵路、水運三方面國家一類口岸均齊備，“渝新歐”也成為了中歐鐵路大通道中的“知名品牌”。但是，要保證重慶外向型經濟和口岸經濟的活力與競爭力，已經建成的口岸基礎設施就必須不斷升級、提升，在各個口岸的附近還要興建一大批投資巨大的配套項目，動輒就是百億工程，如：今年1月重慶西部現代物流園當月開工和簽約的9個子項目總投資達人民幣500億元；重慶目前正在積極爭取的，用于“渝新歐”建設升級的資金更是高達400億美元?！皝喭缎小闭竭\行后，必然將為重慶的對外口岸建設提供一條可靠的資金渠道，對于保證重慶各個口岸的建設進度和維持競爭優勢都具有極大的現實意義。

促進重慶外向型經濟的均衡發展

陳偉還認為，目前重慶的外向型經濟雖然已經取得了巨大的發展，但是同時也應該看到

存在產業發展不夠均衡等結構性問題。比如，重慶筆記本電腦的生產已經占到全球生產總量的三分之一左右，以筆記本為核心的IT制造業在工業產值中外向度的比重已經達到了80%以上，但是，同時跨境電子商務等典型外向型行業的發展應該說還處于起步階段，云計算、大數據、離岸金融等領域的發展也還相對比較緩慢。對于這一現狀，陳偉認為主要的瓶頸問題還是資金，尤其是建設多個大型數據處理中心等基礎設施的建設資金。由于這些投入具有基礎設施性質，也大多需要數十億上百億的投資，投入巨大回收緩慢，所以讓多數企業望而止步，需要像“亞投行”這樣的金融機構積極介入。而一旦突破了資金制約，在重慶已有的完備開放口岸和現代物流的支撐下，重慶的跨境電子商務、云計算、大數據、離岸金融等行業將快速發展，重慶的外向型經濟結構將趨于均衡。

掀起關注重慶對外開放的熱潮

作為一直致力于重慶外向型經濟研究的學者，陳偉副教授一直呼吁重慶應該在公眾范圍加強對重慶對外開放和發展外向型經濟的宣傳普及工作，吸引更多的公眾和企業參與重慶建設西部內陸開放高地。他建議：重慶應該把握住目前“亞投行”話題在公眾中積聚的極高關注度，結合重慶近幾年來在對外開放中取得的巨大成績，系統性地對市民開展重慶對外開放的宣傳普及活動，既全面體現已經取得的巨大成就，喚起重慶人的自豪感，又充分介紹未來重慶在外向型經濟方面所蘊涵的巨大機遇與國家賦予重慶的在外向型經濟發展上的資源優勢，激發重慶本土公眾和企業對外向型經濟的參與熱情，掀起關注重慶對外開放的熱潮。

Chen Wei, PhD in management and associate professor with the School of International Business, Sichuan International Studies University, says in this interview that the AIIB’s establishment will help Chongqing to maintain its competitiveness in various areas, such as the hardware construction of foreign trading ports, balanced development of export industries, and public opinions, so as to boost Chongqing’s opening-up and export economy.

AIIB to become a ReIiabIe Financing ChanneI for the Construction of Foreign Trading Ports in Chongqing

It is beyond question that in the future AIIB will exert an overall and profound influence on Chongqing’s opening-up and export-oriented economy. According to Prof. Chen, the overriding aspect is to understand that AIIB will become a reliable financing channel for the construction of foreign trading ports in Chongqing. In his opinion, thanks to the consecutive years of tremendous capital injection and policy support, the city has by far formed a comprehensive platform for inland opening-up with three transportation hubs, three Class-A ports and three bonded zones under supervision, which include national Class-A ports for air, railway and water transportation as well as the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe Railway which has become a well-known brand among all railways from China to Europe. On the other hand, in order to maintain the vitality and competitiveness of Chongqing’s export and port economy, it needs to constantly update the existing infrastructure of ports. Meanwhile, numerous supporting projects around ports are also necessary, and any of those projects will need no less than tens of billions yuan. For example, in this January, Chongqing Logistic City signed and started nine sub-projects worth a total investment of 50 billion yuan; and this city is now actively seeking for $40 billion to update its Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe Railway. When the AIIB is put into operation, it will with no doubt become a reliable financing channel for the construction of foreign trading ports in Chongqing, which has an immediate significance on ensuring the construction schedule of each port and maintaining its competitiveness.

The AIIB to Promote the BaIanced DeveIopment of Chongqing’s Export Economy

Despite Chongqing’s tremendous achievements in its export economy, Chen added, it should address the imbalance in its industrial development. For instance, Chongqing’s laptop output has accounted for some onethird of the global production, and the export volume of its IT manufacturing industry driven by laptops takes a share of more than 80% in this industry’s total volume; on the other hand, the typical export industry, say, crossborder e-commerce, still stays at a very early stage, and the development levels of cloud computing, big data and offshore finance are comparatively slow. Considering the status quo, Chen pinpointed capital as the bottleneck, especially capital for building several large centers for data processing. He said, the infrastructural nature of such projects usually requires billions of investment which daunts many companies, financial institutions like AIIB are expected to play a role. Once capital is no longer a problem, various industries including cross-border e-commerce, cloud computing and offshore finance will grow rapidly with the support of the existing ports and modern logistics, which will gradually balance Chongqing’s export economic structure.

AIIB to Draw Attention to Chongqing’s Opening up

As a scholar who eyes on the export economy of Chongqing, Professor Chen has long been calling on the municipal government to beef up its publicity work to raise the awareness of the city’s opening-up and development in its export economy, so as to attract more individuals and companies to participate in building Chongqing as a Western inland highland of opening-up. Chen suggested, with the AIIB’s immense popularity and Chongqing’s tremendous achievements in opening-up, the government should seize the propitious time to carry out systematic publicity for raising public awareness on these topics. This is supposed to boost our citizens’ pride for their hometown, as well as to fully introduce them the great opportunities that come with the development of the export economy and the resource advantage given by the Central Government. With the AIIB’s massive exposure, the government should spark local citizens and companies to participate in promoting Chongqing’s export economy, so as to draw the public attention to the opening-up of this municipality.

Chen Wei: AIIB will Assist Chongqing to Maintain its Competitiveness as an Export-oriented Economy

□ Written by Zeng Rui