What they say

Expanding the Shanghai FTZ will provide more space to test the effects of reform in foreign investment management, services opening-up, supervision and government management reform. The free trade zone will also play to the advantage of Shanghai's Pudong New District. The three additional new districts will complement services already available in the zone and help with further reforms.

Gao Hucheng, Minister of Commerce

Unlike the Shanghai FTZ, the three new FTZs have more complicated administration regions and layers, thereby adding to management difficulties. It is important to establish special institutions to resolve these issues.