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The Baiyun Airport Comprehensive Bonded Zone is to support key industries including cross-border e-commerce, biomedicine, bonded logistics and trade shows, financing and leasing, aircraft manufacturing and maintenance, and innovation research and development. These support policies will be in force until 7 July 2025. More

Issued recently by the National Development and Reform Commission, a programme for new urbanisation during the 14th Five-Year Plan period calls for efforts to deepen reform of the household registration system, remove all settlement restrictions on cities with a permanent resident population of under 3 million, and promote urban renewal. More

Recently issued by the Guangdong Provincial Medical Products Administration, a new set of epidemic prevention and control guidelines for the import of goods by medical device companies specifies how medical device enterprises are to receive, unpack, disinfect, store and dispose of packaging materials, and how to utilise in production the raw materials, dental moulds and other items imported during the period of epidemic prevention and control. More

The Shenzhen municipal government recently rolled out a raft of measures to promote steady economic growth in its effort to implement the “30 relief measures”, “30 measures for promoting consumption” and other policies it adopted earlier this year. These measures include easing the burdens of market entities, providing greater financial support to the real economy, tapping the potential of the consumer market, and easing congestion in logistics to reduce operating costs. More