Replicating Shanghai’s High-Standard Trade Rules: China’s 77-Measure FTZ Rollout and the New Inner Mongolia FTZ
- The State Council issued a notice on replicating and rolling out the mature pilot measures for aligning free trade pilot zones with high-standard international economic and trade rules, taking 77 measures beyond Shanghai.
国务院印发关于做好自由贸易试验区全面对接国际高标准经贸规则推进高水平制度型开放试点措施复制推广工作的通知，将 77 条试点措施向更大范围复制推广。
- Shanghai had piloted 80 measures under the November 2023 overall plan, and after more than a year of early and pilot implementation those 80 measures have basically been rolled out.
上海依据 2023 年 11 月总体方案试点 80 条措施，经过一年多先行先试，80 条措施已基本落地。
- Of the 77 measures, 34 are replicated to other free trade pilot zones and 43 are rolled out nationwide.
77 条措施中，34 条复制推广到其他自贸试验区，43 条推广到全国。
- The measures span seven areas; the publicly detailed areas are services trade opening (8), goods trade facilitation (12), high-standard digital trade rules (15), intellectual property protection (8), government procurement reform (15) and “behind-the-border” reform (13).
措施覆盖 7 个方面；公开披露的方面包括服务贸易扩大开放（8 条）、货物贸易自由化便利化（12 条）、高标准数字贸易规则（15 条）、知识产权保护（8 条）、政府采购领域改革（15 条）与”边境后”管理制度改革（13 条）。
- The 15 digital-trade measures split into 5 replicated to other pilot zones (such as data-export negative lists) and 10 rolled out nationwide (such as the data-security management certification system).
数字贸易 15 条中，制定数据出境负面清单等 5 条复制推广到其他自贸试验区，实施数据安全管理认证制度等 10 条推广到全国。
- All 8 intellectual property measures go nationwide, including rules on trademark registration and preliminary-approval announcements and protection of agricultural chemical test data.
知识产权保护 8 条全部推广到全国，包括规范商标注册公告和初步审定公告内容、加强农用化学品试验数据保护等。
- The State Council also approved the China (Inner Mongolia) Free Trade Pilot Zone — the 23rd such zone, with an implementation area of 119.74 square kilometres across three sub-zones.
国务院批复设立中国（内蒙古）自由贸易试验区，为第 23 个自贸试验区，实施范围 119.74 平方公里，涵盖三个片区。
Replicating Shanghai’s High-Standard Trade Rules: China’s 77-Measure FTZ Rollout and the New Inner Mongolia FTZ | 复制推广上海高标准经贸规则：全国 77 条试点措施与内蒙古自贸试验区
Overview
In November 2023, the State Council issued the Overall Plan for Comprehensively Aligning with High-Standard International Economic and Trade Rules and Advancing the High-Level Institutional Opening of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, under which the Shanghai pilot zone tested 80 measures. After more than a year of early and pilot implementation, those 80 measures have basically been rolled out.
The State Council then issued the Notice on Replicating and Rolling Out the Pilot Measures for Free Trade Pilot Zones to Comprehensively Align with High-Standard International Economic and Trade Rules and Advance High-Level Institutional Opening, taking the 77 measures that are mature, demonstrably effective and risk-controllable to a wider scope: 34 measures are replicated to other free trade pilot zones and 43 are rolled out nationwide.
From 80 measures in Shanghai to 77 measures nationwide
The logic of the rollout is that Shanghai acts as the testing ground and the rest of the country is the beneficiary. Measures that have proven workable in the Shanghai pilot zone are separated into two tracks:
- 34 measures go to other free trade pilot zones, where the institutional conditions are closest to Shanghai’s;
- 43 measures go nationwide, where they can be applied without a pilot-zone setting.
That two-track design is the core of the notice: it does not treat the free trade pilot zones as a single uniform bloc, but matches the reach of each measure to how much institutional groundwork it needs.
The seven areas and the two-track rollout
The 77 measures are organised around seven areas. The publicly detailed areas are set out below.
Expanding the opening of services trade (8 measures). Four measures — including optimising the policy for centralised cross-border fund operations of multinational companies — are replicated to other pilot zones; four — including advancing the cross-border application of electronic payments — are rolled out nationwide.
Raising the level of liberalisation and facilitation of goods trade (12 measures). Eight measures — including optimising the operating model of international transit consolidation platforms — are replicated to other pilot zones; four — including encouraging the acceptance of commercial cryptography testing and certification results — are rolled out nationwide.
Taking the lead in implementing high-standard digital trade rules (15 measures). Five measures — including formulating data-export negative lists — are replicated to other pilot zones; ten — including implementing the data-security management certification system — are rolled out nationwide.
Strengthening intellectual property protection (8 measures). All eight — including standardising the content of trademark registration announcements and preliminary-approval announcements, and strengthening the protection of agricultural chemical test data — are rolled out nationwide.
Advancing reform in government procurement (15 measures). Thirteen measures — including improving the transparency of information on limited-competition projects — are replicated to other pilot zones; two — including raising the digital level of procurement platforms — are rolled out nationwide.
Promoting “behind-the-border” management system reform (13 measures).
The Inner Mongolia FTZ: the 23rd pilot zone
The State Council has approved the establishment of the China (Inner Mongolia) Free Trade Pilot Zone, a new zone set up after China deepened its strategy of upgrading the free trade pilot zones, and the 23rd such zone — 22 free trade pilot zones (ports) had previously been approved.
The Overall Plan for the China (Inner Mongolia) Free Trade Pilot Zone was issued in April 2026. Its implementation area is 119.74 square kilometres, covering three sub-zones, of which the Hohhot sub-zone covers 76.28 square kilometres (including the Hohhot Comprehensive Bonded Zone of 0.88 square kilometres).
Inner Mongolia links eight provinces and regions domestically and borders Russia and Mongolia externally. It has 20 opening-up ports, sits on both the eastern and central corridors of the China-Europe freight trains, and hosts Manzhouli, China’s largest land port for trade with Russia, and Erenhot, its largest land port for trade with Mongolia. The previously approved 22 pilot zones (ports) have produced 485 institutional innovation outcomes at the national level. On 18 September 2026, the 2026 Think Tank Forum on the Important Bridgehead for Opening Up Northward was held in Hohhot.
What it means for investors
For foreign investors, the rollout notice is a map of where a given rule can be relied on. A measure replicated to other pilot zones is available in those zones; a measure rolled out nationwide is available wherever the underlying sector rules apply. The digital-trade and intellectual property blocks are the clearest examples of the latter: the data-security management certification system and the trademark-announcement and agricultural-chemical-data rules travel nationwide.
The new Inner Mongolia zone adds a different geography. It is positioned around land connectivity with Russia and Mongolia and around the eastern and central China-Europe rail corridors, which makes it relevant to logistics, resource-processing and cross-border trade operations rather than to the coastal service sectors that dominate the Shanghai pilot. Investors weighing a pilot-zone location should read the two tracks — zone-only and nationwide — before assuming a given measure requires a specific address.
Sources
- 满洲里市人民政府 — 内蒙古自贸试验区及口岸开放相关动态: https://www.manzhouli.gov.cn/News/show/1456699.html
- 内蒙古自治区商务厅 — 自贸区制度创新与开放动态（2026年9月）: https://swt.nmg.gov.cn/ztzl/zymy/zmsd/kfdt/202609/t20260922_2957586.html
- 全国人民代表大会 — 相关法律法规与政策文件（2026年9月17日）: http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/c2/c30834/202609/t20260917_457582.html
- 人民网内蒙古频道 — 国家向北开放重要桥头堡相关报道（2026年9月19日）: https://nm.people.com.cn/BIG5/n2/2026/0919/c192247-41701076.html
- 国家发展和改革委员会 — 9月新闻发布会: https://www.ndrc.gov.cn/xwdt/wszb/9yfbh
Related reading
- see also: Free trade zone admission fast-track (ftz-admission-fast-track)
- see also: Free trade zone data-export negative lists (ftz-data-export-negative-list)
- see also: The CAC data-export Q&A of September 2026 (cac-data-export-qa-september)
- see also: Negative-list sector cuts (negative-list-sector-cuts)
- see also: Hainan’s 23rd batch of institutional innovation cases (hainan-23rd-innovation-cases)
复制推广上海高标准经贸规则：全国 77 条试点措施与内蒙古自贸试验区
概述
2023 年 11 月，国务院印发《全面对接国际高标准经贸规则推进中国（上海）自由贸易试验区高水平制度型开放总体方案》，在上海自贸试验区试点 80 条措施。经过一年多先行先试，这 80 条措施已基本落地。
随后，国务院印发《关于做好自由贸易试验区全面对接国际高标准经贸规则推进高水平制度型开放试点措施复制推广工作的通知》，将成熟、成效显著、风险可控的 77 条试点措施向更大范围复制推广：其中 34 条复制推广到其他自贸试验区，43 条推广到全国。
从上海 80 条到全国 77 条
复制推广的逻辑是：上海作试验田，全国作受益方。在上海自贸试验区已被证明可行的措施，被分成两条路径：
- 34 条推广到其他自贸试验区——这些地方的制度条件与上海最为接近；
- 43 条推广到全国——这些措施无需依托试验区的特殊制度环境即可适用。
这种双轨设计是通知的核心：它并未把各自贸试验区当作整齐划一的一个板块，而是让每条措施的推广范围与其所需的制度铺垫程度相匹配。
七个方面与两条推广路径
77 条措施围绕七个方面展开。公开披露的方面如下。
加快服务贸易扩大开放（8 条）。 其中优化跨国公司跨境资金集中运营管理政策等 4 条复制推广到其他自贸试验区；推进电子支付跨境应用等 4 条推广到全国。
提升货物贸易自由化便利化水平（12 条）。 其中优化国际中转集拼平台运作模式等 8 条复制推广到其他自贸试验区；鼓励采信商用密码检测认证结果等 4 条推广到全国。
率先实施高标准数字贸易规则（15 条）。 其中制定数据出境负面清单等 5 条复制推广到其他自贸试验区；实施数据安全管理认证制度等 10 条推广到全国。
加强知识产权保护（8 条）。 规范商标注册公告和初步审定公告内容、加强农用化学品试验数据保护等 8 条全部推广到全国。
推进政府采购领域改革（15 条）。 其中提高有限竞争项目信息透明度等 13 条复制推广到其他自贸试验区；提升采购平台数字化水平等 2 条推广到全国。
推动”边境后”管理制度改革（13 条）。
内蒙古自贸试验区：第 23 个试验区
国务院批复设立中国（内蒙古）自由贸易试验区，这是我国深入实施自贸试验区提升战略后新设的试验区，为第 23 个自贸试验区——此前已批复设立 22 个自贸试验区（港）。
《中国（内蒙古）自由贸易试验区总体方案》于 2026 年 4 月印发。实施范围 119.74 平方公里，涵盖三个片区，其中呼和浩特片区 76.28 平方公里（含呼和浩特综合保税区 0.88 平方公里）。
内蒙古内联八省区、外接俄蒙，拥有 20 个对外开放口岸，坐拥中欧班列东通道和中通道；满洲里是我国对俄最大陆路口岸，二连浩特是我国对蒙最大陆路口岸。此前 22 个自贸试验区（港）已在国家层面形成 485 项制度创新成果。2026 年 9 月 18 日，2026 国家向北开放重要桥头堡智库论坛在呼和浩特举办。
对外资投资者的含义
对外资投资者而言，复制推广通知相当于一张”某项规则在哪里可用”的地图：复制推广到其他自贸试验区的措施，在这些试验区内可用；推广到全国的措施，则在相关行业规则适用的地方均可用。数字贸易与知识产权两个板块是后者的最清晰例子——数据安全管理认证制度、商标公告与农用化学品试验数据相关规则均走向全国。
新设的内蒙古自贸试验区则带来另一种地理坐标。它定位于对俄、对蒙的陆上联通以及中欧班列东、中通道，因此对物流、资源加工与跨境贸易业务更具相关性，而非上海自贸区所主导的沿海服务业。投资者在权衡试验区选址时，应先分清”仅限试验区”与”推广到全国”这两条路径，再判断某项措施是否必须依托特定地址。
来源
- 满洲里市人民政府 — 内蒙古自贸试验区及口岸开放相关动态: https://www.manzhouli.gov.cn/News/show/1456699.html
- 内蒙古自治区商务厅 — 自贸区制度创新与开放动态（2026年9月）: https://swt.nmg.gov.cn/ztzl/zymy/zmsd/kfdt/202609/t20260922_2957586.html
- 全国人民代表大会 — 相关法律法规与政策文件（2026年9月17日）: http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/c2/c30834/202609/t20260917_457582.html
- 人民网内蒙古频道 — 国家向北开放重要桥头堡相关报道（2026年9月19日）: https://nm.people.com.cn/BIG5/n2/2026/0919/c192247-41701076.html
- 国家发展和改革委员会 — 9月新闻发布会: https://www.ndrc.gov.cn/xwdt/wszb/9yfbh
相关阅读
- 见：自贸试验区准入快速通道（ftz-admission-fast-track）
- 见：自贸试验区数据出境负面清单（ftz-data-export-negative-list）
- 见：国家网信办 2026 年 9 月数据出境问答（cac-data-export-qa-september）
- 见：负面清单行业缩减（negative-list-sector-cuts）
- 见：海南第 23 批制度创新案例（hainan-23rd-innovation-cases）