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Chinese president Xi Jinping calls for greater free trade zone results

1 minuto Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for more coordinated planning, reform and innovation of the country’s Free Trade Zones. His instruction came during a meeting in Shanghai on Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of the development of pilot FTZs in China, reports state-backed news agency Xinhua. He urged more effort in terms of freeing people’s mind and proactively exploring ways to continue raising the level of FTZ development, as work related to the zones has allowed for major progress over the last five Continue lendo→

China’s Xi Jinping hails his free-trade zone policy as a milestone in country’s reform

3 minutos Xi hailed his government’s free-trade zone (FTZ) policy as a “milestone” for a “new era” of reform in a message to a high-level forum marking the fifth anniversary of the opening of the country’s first FTZ in Shanghai. Ahead of his tour of southern China, there had been hopes that the trip – held 40 years after the country embarked on its economic reforms – might provide some indication of new efforts to liberalise the economy and support an ailing private sector. But Continue lendo→

Special economic zones: engines of development or sites of exploitation?

menos de 1 minuto Special economic zones (SEZs) have spread rapidly over the past 20 years, including in many low- and middle-income countries keen to attract private investment for industrial development. But while much debate has focused on their economic performance and success factors, there are concerns over land expropriations, poor labour conditions and lost public revenues. These concerns are often partly rooted in the legal regimes that underpin SEZs — their failure to protect affected people, their exempting SEZs from national laws or Continue lendo→

ZPE Ceará é premiada pela Revista Financial Times pelo terceiro ano consecutivo

1 minuto No início de outubro, foi realizada a XXII Conferência das Zonas Francas das Américas, na Guatemala, e a Zona de Processamento de Exportação do Ceará (ZPE Ceará) foi premiada pela publicação Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), do jornal inglês Financial Times, sendo reconhecida pelo terceiro ano consecutivo como uma das mais importantes Zonas Francas do mundo e como uma grande oportunidade de negócio para investidores internacionais. Neste ano a ZPE Ceará foi vencedora em cinco categorias: Zona Franca da América Latina altamente recomendada Continue lendo→

Governo do Ceará se reúne com montadora Nissan em São Paulo

menos de 1 minuto O Governo do Estado se reúne na próxima semana com a diretoria da Nissan em São Paulo. O objetivo é estreitar negócios para a implantação de uma montadora de veículos na Zona de Processamento de Exportação do Ceará (ZPE). “Essa reunião foi indicação da Nissan japonesa. A ideia é se aproximar com esses players”, disse ao Focus o titular da Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Econômico (SDE), César Ribeiro. Em setembro, o Estado visitou as companhias Nissan, Toyota e Hyundai no Japão e na Continue lendo→