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China (Sichuan) Pilot Free Trade Zone Unveils Strategies to Enhance Quality and Performance
Updated: 2025.03.25

Recently, at the on-site meeting on the development of the China (Sichuan) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ), it was reported that the Sichuan FTZ will deepen its benchmarking and leading initiatives, place greater emphasis on reform and innovative efforts, such as system integration, fostering characteristics, industrial guidance, and collaborative breakthroughs, and focus on promoting institutional breakthroughs and innovations in industries like digital creativity, and strive for differentiated empowerment from the national level.

"In recent years, the Sichuan FTZ has achieved certain breakthroughs in accelerating reform and innovation and supporting economic development. However, compared to advanced regions such as Shanghai and Zhejiang, the Sichuan FTZ still shows a significant gap. For instance, when benchmarking international first-class standards, the Sichuan FTZ has not fully realized its opening-up potential and lacks adequate pioneering and integrated explorations," said a leading official from the Sichuan FTZ.

The 2025 government work report proposes to enhance the quality and performance of pilot free trade zones and grant them more powers to pursue reforms. As a key platform for Sichuan to advance high-standard opening up, the Sichuan FTZ has completed its foundational phase of establishing a robust framework and fully rolled out its initial tasks. It is now transitioning into a new stage focused on transformation and deepening upgrades.

In the new era and new stage, how can the Sichuan FTZ enhance its quality and performance?

Key strategies include strengthening innovation in rules and promoting the differentiated development of distinctive industries. Last year, the Sichuan FTZ prioritized industrial guidance as its foundational support, leveraging reform and innovation to empower the development of new industrial fields and emerging arenas. For instance, capitalizing on a series of measures, such as the pilot program for jurisdiction administration of online games, its digital industry has accelerated the steps in converting creativity into tangible benefits, seeing that more than 600 game companies, including Tencent and Perfect World, achieved annual revenues exceeding 80 billion yuan. "This year, we will intensify efforts to research differentiated policy empowerment for advantageous industries, including digital creativity, low-altitude economy, and international consumption, striving to foster industrial synergy," the official mentioned above said.

Significant breakthroughs in system integration are also anticipated. The Sichuan FTZ continues to advance institutional innovation and system integration, fostering Sichuan's distinctive innovation capabilities and competitive advantages. The official mentioned above outlined that in the next phase, the zone will launch pioneering initiatives and explore the evaluation of the "first-time" measures, aiming to generate a new wave of pilot experience. Additionally, the Chengdu-Chongqing cooperation mechanism will be implemented on a regular basis, enabling both regions to jointly seek greater national-level empowerment for reform and innovation within the pilot free trade zones of Sichuan and Chongqing and collaboratively explore a new batch of institutional innovation achievements.

Statistical data shows that since the Sichuan FTZ was established in 2017, it has cumulatively developed more than 800 institutional innovation achievements. Additionally, 300,000 new enterprises have been established in the zone, representing a 12-fold increase compared to the number of enterprises existing before its launch. Its foreign trade import and export volume has grown at an average annual rate of 14 percent, and the proportion of foreign direct investment in the province's total has risen from 4.3 percent at its inception to 25 percent.

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