CHINA: Measures Rolled-out for Further Reform & Innovation in Pilot FTZs

Friday November 23 2018

The Chinese government has rolled out a series of 53 new measures to support pilot free trade zones and deepen reform and innovation, according to a circular released on 23 November.

These aim to improve the investment environment, trade facilitation, financial innovation and the human resources sector within the FTZs.

The new measures include:

• The ratio requirement for foreign technical personnel in foreign-invested construction and engineering design enterprises, as well as restrictions on recruitment agencies, to be relaxed;
• land use for pilot FTZs in some provinces and municipalities to be given priority in the overall layout;
• Qualified pilot zones will be encouraged to conduct pilot programs on parallel import automobile businesses; and
• Efforts to be encouraged to simplify administrative approval procedures for insurance branches, and establish and improve the information sharing system about enterprises’ demand for insurance in pilot FTZs

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