上海筹划建立自由贸易港 - 2017年10月20日

SHANGHAI is planning a free trade port and striving to become a scientific innovation center with global influence, the city’s Party Secretary Han Zheng said yesterday.

The free trade port, based on the city’s pilot free trade zone, has entered the planning stage and will be implemented after approval from central government, Han told a press conference on the sidelines of the Party’s 19th National Congress in Beijing.

The government approved a plan to comprehensively expand the opening-up of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone in May. Han said that marked the “3.0 version” of the FTZ following its establishment in 2013 and the first growth in its opening-up in 2015.