Vision of 'good harvest' led to call for growth of FTZ in Shanghai

China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, the first of its kind in the country, has been working as a driving force of deepened reform and opening-up, with the number of innovative ideas and policies duplicated and promoted worldwide as President Xi Jinping called for in 2014.

According to the Shanghai Development and Reform Commission, 116 administrative licensing items, including the reform in the commercial registration system, have been promoted to the 10 other such zones in the country, as well was a number of eligible national-level innovation demonstration zones and national high-tech industrial development zones.

This is in line with a statement that Xi made a visit to the Shanghai zone in March 2014.