Officials hail role of Shanghai in opening-up

SHANGHAI: Zheng Haiao, deputy director of the Policy Research Bureau at the Management Committee of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, described his job as something like a “woodpecker”.

By working out measures for reform and innovation, Zheng said he and his colleagues manage to “peck off” the institutional barriers that might affect international market players in the pilot FTZ, in order to make their business development more “simplified, efficient and free”.