On November 18, the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee’s Financial Office officially released the “Implementation Plan for Building Tianjin into an Internationally First-Class National Leasing Innovation Demonstration Zone to Better Serve the High-Quality Development of the Real Economy (2026-2030)” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”), proposing 28 pragmatic and innovative measures to comprehensively promote the upgrading of the leasing industry’s capabilities. The “Plan” specifies that by the end of 2030, the total assets of leasing companies in the city should strive to reach 2.8 trillion yuan. While consolidating traditional advantages, it will actively expand into emerging areas such as computing power leasing, and fully commit to building an internationally first-class national leasing innovation demonstration zone.
Consolidating Advantages and Expanding New Fields Simultaneously
This five-year development roadmap sets clear quantitative targets for Tianjin’s leasing industry: in traditional core areas such as aircraft, ships, export offshore leasing, and green leasing, it will continue to maintain a leading position nationwide. Specific targets include cumulatively completing 3,000 aircraft leasing transactions, 1,600 ship leasing transactions, and achieving a green leasing asset scale exceeding 650 billion yuan.
The “Plan” also explicitly proposes expanding into new leasing tracks, promoting leasing services for new quality productive forces such as computing power leasing and low-altitude economy equipment to reach scale, seizing development opportunities in emerging fields, building a “computing power leasing highland,” and injecting new momentum into the real economy.
28 Measures Across Ten Dimensions for Precise Policy Implementation
To achieve the above goals, the “Plan” establishes a comprehensive support system from ten dimensions, including financing, judiciary, talent, and business innovation.
In terms of solving financing difficulties, the “Plan” indicates a “multi-pronged approach.” On one hand, it will actively seek special credit policies from the headquarters of banking financial institutions and promote local institutions to provide more favorable and convenient financing services. On the other hand, it will vigorously expand direct financing channels, encourage leasing companies to issue corporate bonds, asset-backed securities (ABS), green bonds, and other products, and explore support provided by relevant districts and development zones in accordance with laws and regulations.
Regarding judicial safeguards, it will fully leverage the professional advantages of the Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone Financial Leasing Court, improve the diversified dispute resolution mechanism of “professional mediation + commercial arbitration + judicial adjudication,” establish data sharing and risk notification mechanisms with the court system, and create a stable, fair, and predictable judicial environment for leasing business.
In terms of talent introduction and cultivation, the policy will focus on the core talent needs of key enterprises in the leasing industry, providing support for talents from high-quality leasing companies in areas such as household registration and incentives. Simultaneously, it will strengthen school-enterprise cooperation, build specialized leasing disciplines and talent training bases, and enhance the overall professional level of the industry through platforms like the “Leasing Grand Lecture Hall.”
Policy and business innovation are the core highlights of the “Plan”: allowing financial leasing companies to provide direct foreign currency loans to project companies; supporting operating leases to collect rent in foreign currency; piloting the expansion of the scope of the positive list for leased objects, promoting the aggregation of innovative leasing businesses such as new energy equipment, mining machinery, agricultural machinery, and satellites; allowing aircraft engines and large equipment leases to be applicable to customs supervision policies in different locations, and gradually expanding pilot programs for more leased objects based on actual industry needs.
At the leasing business level, the “Plan” encourages leasing companies to deeply integrate with the industrial chain; develop export leasing, deepen cooperation with China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation, research and establish an export leasing risk-sharing mechanism, and promote the “going global” of domestic high-end equipment; refine and specialize in operating leases, actively explore innovative business models such as “leasing + industrial investment,” “leasing + asset management,” “leasing + bonded maintenance,” and extend the industrial value chain.
Building a World-Class Industrial Cluster
The “Plan” proposes leveraging the role of professional leasing forum brands, building a national high-end leasing industry think tank, and shaping an internationally first-class leasing service brand. It supports high-quality core enterprises in the industrial chain to invest in compliant leasing enterprises, achieving complementarity between industry and finance, and promoting the growth and strengthening of high-quality leasing enterprises.
The “Plan” clearly states the goal of creating a cross-border leasing cluster with international influence, supporting the Dongjiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone in building a global aircraft leasing center, an internationally first-class ship leasing center, and a globally influential export offshore leasing center, benchmarking against internationally first-class regions like Singapore and Hong Kong, China, to optimize the business environment. Simultaneously, it will high-level construct the “Green Leasing High-Quality Development Zone” to lead the industry’s green transformation. Supporting infrastructure will be strengthened; relying on the Dongjiang National-Level Leasing and New Financial Industrial Park, the construction of leasing industry-themed parks will be accelerated to build an ecological zone that provides comprehensive support for the innovative development of the leasing industry.
While promoting development, the “Plan” also emphasizes strictly guarding the bottom line of risk, promoting the digital and intelligent transformation of supervision, building a big data intelligent supervision platform, strengthening regulatory coordination between central and local governments and various departments, forming synergy, and building a solid risk defense line for the stable development of the industry. (Reporter Yue Fuyu)
