上海自贸区成立四年来新增海关注册企业1.8万家 - 2017年10月30日

NEARLY 18,000 firms have registered with the customs authorities in the Shanghai free trade zone since it was launched four years ago, Shanghai Customs said yesterday.

The figure doubled the number of companies that were already operating in the four bonded zones that merged to become the Shanghai FTZ in September 2013, bringing the total now operating within the zone to over 27,000, customs said.

Of the newly-registered companies, 13,600 are privately owned, more than 3,200 are wholly foreign-funded businesses, and 940 are Chinese-foreign joint ventures.