BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhua) -- According to Shaanxi Provincial Department of Commerce, China (Shaanxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Shaanxi FTZ) development forum will be held on May 12 in Xi’an, capital city of Shaanxi Province.
Themed on “the Construction of Inland Pilot Free Trade Zone”, the forum will invite well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad to discuss how to build Shaanxi FTZ into a comprehensive reform and opening experimental field and an opening-up new height.
The forum is hosted by Shaanxi Provincial Government, and is co-organized by Shaanxi Provincial Department of Commerce, Office of Shaanxi FTZ and the Belt and Road Institute of Free Trade of Xi’an Jiaotong University.
As an important activity of the Third Silk Road International Exposition, the forum has invited nine guests to deliver speeches, including Long Yongtu, Chairman of Center for China and Globalization and Graham Mather, Chairman of World Free Zone Convention. (Contributed by Tong Wei, tongwei@xinhua.org, edited by Zhang Aifang)