China Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Research Articles

Analysis of transportation accessibility in China Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone Lin-Gang Special Area

In the field of territory spatial planning, transportation accessibility is an important index to measure regional transportation networks. It represents how easy it is for regions to communicate with each other. As a new area of Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, Lin-Gang special area will carry a huge trade market. Therefore, high demands have been put forward on both passengers and freight transport in this region. Based on GIS spatial analysis technology, this paper analyses two types of factors affecting traffic accessibility in the Lin-Gang special area. The first type is road attributes, like road length, road area, road density and road accessibility index. The second type is the spatial pattern of construction land. The results show that the transportation network in Lin-Gang special area is extremely developed, especially the southern area of Pudong International Airport, where the proportion of highway is more than half. The transportation accessibility time to Lin-Gang special area is less than two hours all over Shanghai.

Los motivos tras el establecimiento de la zona franca de Shangai

This paper seeks to identify domestic and global forces, as the interaction between interests and institutions behind the establishment of the China Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone (SHFTZ). Chinese central Government launched the Shanghai free trade zone Program on September 29, 2013 trying to diminish administrative interventions, ease restrictions on investments, further open up its financial system, and internationalize the Renminbi (yuan) to booster mainly shipping, logistics, and commerce. To analyze the reasons for the establishment of the free trade zone of Shanghai, I use a synthetic approach of the international political economy (IPE) based on the second image reversed. First, I present some thoughts about the establishment of the Shanghai free trade zone coming from qualitative data in an ipe framework. The results give evidence that the SHFTZ is an important step for China’s new leadership searching for greater economic liberalization and management innovation. The Shanghai free zone is just the beginning of a new wave of reforms, restructuring China’s economy. Furthermore, this new direction and focus of China’s economic initiatives regarding free trade seems to be a response to global pressures such as the regional free trade agreements that United States has recently negotiated.