Nation to bolster growth through more pilot FTZs

Municipalities and provinces already working to establish free trade ports

Editor's Note: The annual two sessions are expected to sharpen focus on China's opening-up process and economic reforms. Not surprisingly, both Chinese businesses and foreign companies and investors are keenly awaiting the outcome of the deliberations of the 13th National People's Congress, the top legislature, and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the top political advisory body. Here, China Daily reporters focus on policies related to opening-up that may be unveiled during the two sessions, and how foreign companies could benefit.

Many of China's pilot free trade zones, including in Shanghai and the provinces of Zhejiang and Sichuan, plan to build both coastal and inland free trade ports this year to put the country's economic growth on a firmer footing, government officials said.