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Shanghai Open Up More Service Industry, Allowed More Wholly Foreign-Owned Company

8/14/2019

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Tourists at the Bund area of Shanghai. [Photo by Wang Gang/For China Daily]
Source: Shanghai Daily

Shanghai municipal government has announced a total of 40 policies to further open up the city's service industry, in the hope of creating a comprehensive round of opening-up of Shanghai and further enhancing the city's competitiveness in the international market.
​Another eight policies have been introduced to relax the limits for foreign service providers, including lowering the capital requirement for setting up investment companies in Shanghai and allowing the establishment of wholly foreign-owned performance agencies and travel agencies.

The foreign investment company: now require $ 0.2 billions USD capital (previously $ 0.4 billions USD)
Allowed wholly foreign-owned company: Art Performance Agency, Travel Agency, Auction Company (in Free Trade Zone)
Other: encouraging Foreign Investment in medical and healthcare industries, allowed foreign investment in Music and Video product in specific zone, improving Cruise Traveling Business, support more Tax Refund for foreign visitors (when leaving), accelerate Sport Event business (to build “capital” of sports event), develop more global, branding and professional exhibition services, promote tax refund for services trading.
Meanwhile, for the multinational companies which have set up their regional headquarters in Shanghai they are permitted to apply to set up only one business altogether and establish multiple chain operations in the city. Prior to that, each chain operation had to apply for a business license. But with the new policy, they only need to file their operation location.

"Multinational companies will save much time in applying for business licenses. With the new policy, they will be able to expand in Shanghai at a much faster pace," said Peng Wenhao, deputy head of Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau.


​Five of the newly released supportive policies are aimed at facilitating the city's goal of building Shanghai into an international science and technology hub. Efforts will be made to set up a digital trade transaction and promotion platform in the city.

In addition, the municipal government will study the possibility of designating a cross-border digital trade service zone in Shanghai to allow qualified overseas companies to provide value-added services in this area.

According to Zhu Min, deputy director of Shanghai Municipal Development and Reform Commission, it is the first time that such a plan regarding digital trade has been initiated at the municipal level.



​Shanghai rolled out the first batch of favorable policies to attract regional headquarters in 2002. During the first seven months of this year, a total 26 multinational companies have set up regional headquarters in Shanghai and another nine multinational companies established regional research and development centers in the city.

By the end of July, Shanghai had attracted a total of 696 regional-headquarters and 450 regional R&D centers.

"Shanghai has always been the Chinese mainland city accommodating the largest number of regional headquarters and R&D centers. We can see that substantial progress has been achieved steadily over the past two decades," said Yang Chao, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce.

French industrial group TLD chose to build its regional headquarter in Shanghai 10 days ago. Shanghai's easy connection to the other parts of the Asia-Pacific region in terms of transportation, the large scale of the Chinese market, and the sufficient supply of manufacturing talents in Shanghai, have made Shanghai the perfect choice as the regional headquarters for TLD, said Ing Thomas Dorn, the company's Asia chief executive officer.

Statistics from Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce showed that the city attracted a total of foreign contracts worth $22.9 billion during the first half of 2019, up 6.3 percent from a year earlier. Among the registered amount of contract capital, $9.8 billion has come in place by the end of June, up 13.9 percent year-on-year. Propelled by technology and commercial services, the received foreign capital in the service industry surged 17.4 percent year-on-year during the first half of this year.
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