The Successful Cases of Inland Free Trade Zones and Inspirations to China

摘要

The free trade zones (FTZ) are developed from the free ports, usually located in the coastal areas. But with the further development of a country's' economy, some industries moved to the hinterlands where location are key to a country, this laid the foundation of inland free trade zones. The development mode of inland free trade zones is different from that of coastal free trade zones due to heterogeneous geographical location and production factors. This paper summarized the establishment process of China's inland free trade zones, made statistical analysis current theoretical research on inland free trade zones by knowledge map, and combined with the status quo of several typical inland free trade zones in foreign countries, then finally provided suggestions for the development of China's inland free trade (pilot) zones which was established in 2017.