CCTV News: On April 18, Meng Huating, Director of the Port Department of the Free Trade Zone of the Ministry of Commerce, said at a press conference that in the face of the complex and severe international situation, the Ministry of Commerce will implement the strategy of improving the free trade pilot zone in depth, give full play to the role of the comprehensive pilot platform for reform and opening up, carry out more innovative and leading reform explorations, form more high-level institutional opening results, better serve the overall situation of the national strategy, and firmly respond to external risks and challenges.
Meng Huating pointed out that the Ministry of Commerce will strengthen classified guidance for free trade pilot zones, expand the authorization of reform tasks for free trade pilot zones such as Guangdong, Tianjin, and Fujian, and give them new reform pilot tasks; support qualified free trade pilot zones to carry out integrated innovation in the entire industrial chain around key industries such as biomedicine, equipment manufacturing, and marine economy; strengthen policy empowerment of free trade pilot zones in the central and western regions and border areas, and support them to better play a demonstration and leading role in serving major national strategies.
