Unified mkt boost for foreign investors

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China's accelerated efforts to build a unified national market will not only eliminate domestic market barriers, but also open broader opportunities for foreign investors, as the country deepens market-oriented reforms and high-standard opening-up, experts said on Monday.

"Building a unified national market is not just critical to smoothing out domestic circulation, but is also key to fostering a key competitive edge in global cooperation and competition," said Wang Chenwei, director of the Macroeconomy Research Office at the National Development and Reform Commission's Economic System and Management Institute.

Wang's comments came after a key meeting of the Central Commission for Financial and Economic Affairs held last week called for heightened efforts to develop a unified national market.