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China will establish new pilot free trade zones (FTZs) in six provinces across the country, extending strategic trials to border regions to help improve trade ties with neighbouring countries and expand the reach of the Belt and Road Initiative. The move, announced on Monday, also adds free trade zones in underdeveloped provinces, making them more attractive to high quality manufacturing in a bid to support their local economies and help weather the impact from the escalating trade war with the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The six new FTZs are located in the landlocked province in Yunnan in the southwest; Heilongjiang, the northeastern-most province of China\u2019s rust belt; the southern autonomous region Guangxi and the coastal provinces of Shandong, Jiangsu and Hebei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the south, Yunnan province borders Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar; while Guangxi also borders Vietnam. In the north of the country, Heilongjiang borders Russia. In addition, Shandong to the east is one of China\u2019s major gateways for trade and investment flows with South Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe FTZs will tap into respective geographical advantages to deepen trade and economic cooperation with neighbouring countries and regions,\u201d Chinese Vice-Minister of Commerce Wang Shouwen said at a press conference on Monday. \u201cThe arrangement will not only help to optimise the strategic distribution of pilot FTZs, but also serve major national strategies such as the Belt and Road Initiative,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The announcement followed last Friday\u2019s dramatic escalation of the US-China trade war, with both countries increasing tariffs and reinforcing concerns of a decoupling of the world\u2019s two largest economies and the rising risks of global recession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
US trade tariffs had already forced many factories to relocate from the Chinese mainland to other countries in Southeast Asia, and boosted trade relations between Beijing and Moscow on energy and agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Heilongjiang FTZ would boost trade cooperation with Russia by easing the movement of goods and people across the border and encouraging companies to look for opportunities abroad, according to plans released by the State Council, China\u2019s cabinet, on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Guangxi FTZ is intended to further Beijing\u2019s goal to build a new international land-sea trade corridor with the 10 Asean countries, as well as to promote cross-border trade, logistics and labour cooperation through the maritime Silk Road to Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the State Council, the Yunnan pilot FTZ will promote the expansion of a major international corridor connecting South Asia with Southeast Asia while the Shandong FTZ will push forward economic cooperation among China, Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The addition of Shandong, Jiangsu and Hebei means China will have FTZs in all its coastal provinces. Jiangsu and Shandong had the second and third largest provincial economies in China in the first half of the year, according to data released by provincial statistical authorities. In contrast, the gross domestic products of Guangxi, Yunnan and Heilongjiang were among the lowest of China\u2019s 31 provincial-level regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beijing hopes that establishing FTZs with distinctive missions will help the development of these remote corners of the world\u2019s second largest economy. \u201c[The move is intended] to strengthen internal drivers for high-quality development through deeper reform and to show our resolve to support an open world economy via higher-level opening-up,\u201d Wang said during Monday\u2019s briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe overall plans include distinctive and differentiated pilot reform tasks in keeping with the strategic positioning and local features of the pilot FTZs.\u201d Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the decision to launch the six new free trade zones \u2013 without disclosing their locations \u2013 in a keynote speech delivered at the G20 in Osaka on June 28, making them a critical part of Beijing\u2019s new economic initiatives to further open up its market and provide incentives for more foreign investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The strategy has also been initiated by the ruling Communist Party\u2019s Central Committee, which is head by Xi, to explore new ways to deepen reform and further integrate the country into the global economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China launched its first pilot FTZs in Shanghai in 2013. As of today, the country has 18 free trade zones. Earlier this month, the Chinese government doubled the size of the Shanghai free-trade zone, and announced new tax incentives and import duty exemptions for companies working in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the first half of the year, foreign direct investment (FDI) in the 12 established free trade zones across China reached nearly 70 billion yuan (US$9.8 billion), accounting for roughly 14 per cent of the overall FDI in the country and an increase of 20 per cent from the same period last year, Wang said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pace of expansion was much faster than the country\u2019s overall FDI, which rose 7.3 per cent in yuan terms in the first seven months of this year, according to the data released by the Commerce Ministry earlier this month. \u201cForeign investors, including those from Europe and the US, are all strongly interested in investing in [China\u2019s] free trade zones,\u201d Wang said. \u201cWe believe the six newly approved free trade zones will also become hot destinations for foreign investment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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