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Government Efficiency
Practical and Efficient Shanghai Government actively changes its function and
tries to support foreign invested companies from different ways and improve the
transparency and efficiency. Shanghai is the first city in China to establish an
investment promotion organization – Shanghai Foreign Investment Development
Board to provide foreign investors with comprehensive services. Office
Automation Shanghai goes ahead in terms of government efficiency. Investors can
make enquiries, file consultations and lodge complaints through logging on the
gateway website (www.shanghai.gov.cn) of Shanghai Municipal Government.
Furthermore, Shanghai has made achievements on examination and approval system
and the time to examine and approve foreign-invested projects in Shanghai has
been cut from 5 weeks to 3 weeks. “Great Clearance” Programme As the reform and
opening up is progressing, the import and export volume of Shanghai Port has
increased a lot, and the delivery efficiency has become one key factor in
appraising trade and investment environment. So in June 2000, Shanghai
government started a project, which is called “Great Clearance” Programme, to
speed up port delivery. Through “Great Clearance” Programme, the time of Customs
Clearance for sea transport has been reduced from 120 hours to 24 hours, and for
air transport, form 72 hours to 12 hours. Songjiang Export Processing Zone
enjoys the shortest time, only 4 hours for air transport.
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