The meeting of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Leading Group was held, focusing on key areas to introduce substantial reform and opening measures.

The meeting of the leading group for the promotion of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone was held today. Gong Zheng, Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, Mayor, and Leader of the Leading Group, pointed out that the focus should be on leading the way, making efforts to promote new breakthroughs in reform and opening up. It is necessary to adhere to a systematic, holistic, and collaborative approach, target key areas with application scenarios and the conditions for breakthroughs, introduce more substantive reform and opening-up measures, further optimize policy supply, expand platform functions, optimize the business environment, and better play a leading role in demonstrating the overall reform. Focusing on function cultivation, efforts should be made to achieve new breakthroughs in the construction of a global resource allocation hub. Actively connecting to international high-standard economic and trade rules, deepening the comprehensive pilot program for expanding the opening up of the service industry, cultivating and developing cross-border and offshore businesses, improving the overseas comprehensive service system, comprehensively enhancing the level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, promoting the efficient allocation of various types of resource elements, and accelerating the core support area for the construction of the "five centers".