China plans more steps to lift overseas investment

Private companies may get nod for developing, running industrial parks

Manufacturing and modern services firms from overseas will get incentives to invest in China's economic and technological development zones as part of the country's ongoing efforts to boost foreign investment, an official said on Wednesday.

Tang Wenhong, head of the department of foreign investment under the Ministry of Commerce, said at a news briefing that the country will further unleash the potential of its national economic and technological development zones to attract overseas investment.