Free trade zones achieve tangible results

Nation making substantial progress in improving business environment

Free trade zones, from the coastal to the inland provinces, have well implemented the major tasks assigned by the central government in the past five years, a report said on Friday.

The first Shanghai FTZ, set up in 2013, has completed 98.99 percent of the tasks - the highest rate, according to the Report on the Development of China Free Trade Zones. The completion rate for the second batch of FTZs in Guangdong province, Tianjin, and Fujian province exceeded 90 percent, the report said.