Shanghai Let’s Meet!

During the 2nd China International Import Expo (CIIE), with the theme of “Embracing the CIIE Sharing a Future”, the 2019 Shanghai City Promotion Convention” was convened yesterday. By demonstrating the city’s open market, dynamic innovation and inclusive eco-system, the convention aims to promote deeper collaboration with enterprises and professionals from all over the world to write moving stories and to deliver new miracles of Shanghai’s development in the new era. It’s the aspiration of Shanghai to have businesses and professionals know more and invest more in this place, to feel the warmth of the city and the vibrancy of Shanghai’s development.

Want to know more about Shanghai? Let’s check out how Shanghai presents its resume.↓

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The 70 years’ vicissitudes of Lujiazui

Lujiazui, once barren farmland, is currently not only the global financial highland but also the only designated Financial and Trade Zone in China. Nowadays, Lujiazui is home to 43,000 businesses which employ over 500,000 white-collar employees working in the 260 plus office buildings in the area. The total tax revenue of Lujiazui exceeds 200 billion yuan in 2018. By now, more than 600 FIEs, central government-owned enterprises, Shanghai SOEs and private companies have chosen Lujiazui as the base of their headquarters, including 108 regional headquarters of MNCs, which accounts for almost one-sixth of Shanghai’s total. In addition, Lujiazui is the base of over 340 institutions invested and established by Global Fortune 500 companies.

CENTENARY SHANGHAI • ORIENTAL PEARL

TODAY’S SHANGHAI • FULL OF CHARM

The second China International Import Expo(CIIE)

Keyword:Open

Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone

Yangshan Deep-Water Port

Shanghai’s bustling airports

Shanghai Shopping Festival

Keyword:Innovative

Fudan University

Shanghai Jiaotong University

Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, known as“Shanghai light source”

Zhangjiang AIsland

New-energy taxis

Keyword:Inclusive

Shanghai Grand Theatre

National Intangible Cultural Heritage - Yuyuan Spring Folk Artistic Lantern Festival

Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix

The Shanghai Rolex Masters

“Windshield wiper” style diversion of human flow on the Bund

Over the past 4 decades since the reform and opening-up policy, the average dispensable income of Shanghai’s urban and rural citizens has grown by factors of 166 and 103 respectively. Per capita housing area of urban citizens has increased from 7.4 m⊃2; to 37 m⊃2;. Average life expectancy has been raised from 73.35 to 83.63. The number of higher education institutions has jumped from 45 to 64.

Green space area per capita has significantly improved from 0.132 m⊃2; per person to 8.2 m⊃2; per person.

Shanghai’s expanding Metro network

The newly launched satellite terminal of Pudong International Airport

Gubei citizen center

Yangpu Binjiang public space

Future Shanghai•Striving for Excellence

Welcome to an open Shanghai！

Pudong: Openness, Innovation, Quality

Pudong is the pioneer of China’s reform and opening up and is the epitome of Shanghai’s modernization drive. With only one-fifth of Shanghai’s land and a quarter of the city’s population, Pudong contributes over RMB 1 tn. in GDP, which is a third of Shanghai’s total economy. The district also represents 40% of Shanghai’s strategic emerging sectors, 50% of the city’s added-value of financial sector as well as 60% of total import and export, making it at the core of Shanghai’s mission to become an international hub for economy, finance, trade, shipping as well as science and innovation.

Lingang – A Rising New City

High-Efficiency and Low-Carbon Gas Turbine Research Facility – The National Major Science and Technology Infrastructure Project

At the initial stage of the development of Lingang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, RMB 291.2 bn.’s worth of fix asset investment has already been committed. Lingang Special Area has attracted over 500 industrial projects and has seen 30% of annual growth of the Area’s industrial output. These projects demonstrate high technological content with huge number of innovations and breakthroughs, which play leading roles in their respective sectors and has created sound industrial eco-systems with great development momentum. The Area is home to a large number of technologies and products that made national firsts and world’s firsts: High Power Low Speed Diesel Engine with the largest cylinder diameter (980mm) in the world and its matching marine crankshaft; the world’s largest High Speed Dynamic Balance Test Station of Turbine Rotor with a weight of 350 tons; and the world’s most advanced JU2000E Self-elevating Drilling Platform.

Hongqiao: an open hub connecting the world

Hongqiao Integrated Transportation Hub is the largest transportation hub in the world which provides up to eight kinds of transportation including airway, high-speed railway,and etc. The complex is a construction of 1.5 million square meters, receiving 1.1 million passengers on a daily basis, adding up to over 400 million per year. These numbers outrun the rest of the world. The National Exhibition and Convention Center, the largest exhibition complex currently in the world, is built here with a total construction area of 1.47 million square meters and a floor area of over 500,000 m⊃2;. Till today, the cumulative exhibition area has exceeded 20 million m⊃2;.

Zhangjiang: an ideal place for innovation, entrepreneurship and life

Rendering of Tsung-Dao Lee Institute

Home to over 70,000 scientific and technological companies of innovation, 368 Global Fortune 500 companies and a few industrial clusters with over RMB 100 bn. Turnover.Zhangjiang gathers global innovation resources and connects global innovation network. Every day, over 1000 authorized patents are invented here. Every month, over 30 innovative software isdeveloped. Every 30 seconds, one person in the world is using the product innovated in Zhangjiang.

The new Light Show along the Huangpu River during the 2nd CIIE（Knews）

Source: Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce (Some of the pictures are obtained from the Internet with acknowledgment)

Editor: Gu Yiyi

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原标题：《Shanghai Let’s Meet!》