The Shanghai Free Trade Zone’s version of the negative list has been “downsized”

“Special Management Measures for Foreign Investment Access in the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Negative List) (Revised in 2014)” was released on July 1. Compared with the 2013 version, the new version of the negative list is significantly slimmer. The number of special management measures in the list has been adjusted from the original 190 to 139, a “downsizing” of 26.8% year-on-year.
On this basis, the number of special management measures in the revised negative list has been adjusted to 139, 51 less than the 2013 version. Among them, 14 items were substantially canceled due to the expansion of opening up, 14 items were canceled due to restrictions on domestic and foreign investment, and 23 items were reduced due to classification adjustments.
In terms of openness, in addition to canceling 14 special management measures, the new version of the negative list also relaxed 19 items, and the proportion of further opening up reached 17.4%.
According to reports, the new version of the negative list continues to use my country’s National Economic Industry Classification as the classification standard.
In accordance with common international practice, the “2014 Negative List” includes management measures in areas involving resources, people’s livelihood and national security such as agriculture, mining, financial services, telecommunications services, aviation services, infrastructure, and my country’s traditional industries such as handicrafts. reserve.