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Beijing shifts development zone focus to “new quality productive forces” amid FDI slump

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On May 21, the Ministry of Commerce (MofCom) unveiled a new blueprint for reforming China’s National Economic and Technological Development Zones. ICYDK: These zones – descendants of Deng Xiaoping’s original Special Economic Zones – have been a mainstay of China’s opening-up strategy since the 1980s...



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