Xi calls for more results from FTZs

Coordinated planning, innovation sought to boost reform, opening-up

President Xi Jinping has called for more coordinated planning, reform and innovation to develop China's pilot free trade zones into new leading areas of reform and opening-up for the new era.

In an instruction released on Wednesday, Xi, who is also the general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, urged more effort to free people's minds and proactively explore ways to keep raising the level of development for pilot free trade zones.