Beijing is accelerating development of the city's "two zones", introducing a series of business-friendly policies and continuing the city's opening-up to the outside world.
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In the financial sector, an RMB international investment-and-loan fund has been approved in Beijing. In the medical sector, the first eight pilot hospitals in Beijing providing medical services for foreigners are advancing real-time settlement with international insurance companies.
Di Xia, a staff member at Beijing s first one-stop platform for services catering to international talent, said that the platform has enabled foreign workers to apply for Chinese work visas without bothering with trips to different offices like they used to.
Set up in July 2020, the Chaoyang District-based one-stop platform was one of the landmark features of the two zones policies, integrating 120 service items of 19 functional departments, with applications for foreigners work and residence permits handled in one place.