Meeting with Shanghai FTZ scholars

2015-01-14 | Shanghai

On January 14, EUCCC (Shanghai) General Manager Ioana Kraft and Senior Government Affairs Manager Helei Fu met with Prof. Sun Yuanxin, Vice Dean of Institute of Free Trade Zone at SHUFE and discussed recent developments of the FTZ. The Institute was founded in May 2013. It provides consultancy and policy suggestions to the Shanghai Municipal Government and has so far published several research papers and books. Some reports were submitted directly to Shanghai and central authorities. During the meeting, both sides discussed the expansion of the Shanghai FTZ and the 2015 Negative List. According to Prof. Sun, the expanded areas will take into effect on March 1 and the new version of the Negative List will likely be shortened from 139 to 80-90 items.