What they say

Dilma Rousseff, president of the New Development Bank

The Shanghai FTZ is a bold and pioneering initiative. By maintaining the growth of foreign trade-related activities and expanding reforms to strengthen the financial and high-tech industries, Chinese and Shanghai authorities are once again elevating the process of economic transformation and modernization.

Sustaining modernization requires consistency of innovative policies and a long-term structural vision. This is precisely what the Shanghai FTZ has achieved by expanding export policies, trade growth, services, finance and technology.