上海自贸区(国外英语资料).doc

上海自贸区 Why does Shanghai need the free trade zone more? At that time, the worlds largest port, Singapores annual throughput of more than ten million standard containers. Singapore has been able to become the worlds largest port for Chinese mainland, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong and Macao and the Russian Far East and Europe from Africa to the goods passes through the Malacca strait. On the one hand, the ships freight is much lower than the ships freight, on the other hand, because the ship is too large, the destination of the ships goods are often not single, and many ports can not dock ships (such as Shanghai). Therefore, shippers often choose to make transshipment at singapore. It means to ship the goods to Singapore first, then to Singapore, then to the boat, and then to here. This is because Singapore is almost equidistant from China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Hongkong, Macao, Russia and the far east. It is also a must for a big ship, plus Singapore is a free trade port. So even though futures trading in mainland China is in Shanghai, the delivery place is still in singapore. Almost all the bulk goods listed on the Shanghai stock exchange are delivered to singapore. Singapore only delivers more than $2 trillion a year in futures deliveries. As we all know, the center of the logistics must be the center of the capital flow. The center of the capital flow must be the center of the finance. The financial center will surely derive a commercial center, a life center and a service center....... In order to handle their own goods, banks all over the world need to set up branches in singapore. A country with a population of less than 5 million, there are thousands of foreign banks, banks need hundreds of thousands of employees, financial services industry needs more people. This is the root cause of Singapores development. In fact, almost all developed cities in mainland China are now forced to trade ports after the Opium war. Shanghai