BUSINESS registration of innovative companies and government services will be facilitated with Shanghai’s release of an official classification of emerging industries.

The new classification clarifies more than 200 previously unspecified industries, such as Big Data, artificial intelligence, 3D printing and new-energy research, the Shanghai Administration for Industry and Commerce announced yesterday.

It also lay down standards to fit new industries into an existing national industry classification and coding system to unify tax policies, statistical methods and government supportive measures citywide.