China News Service, March 28. The State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences on the theme of "Promoting High-Quality Development" on the 28th, introducing Shanghai's focus on "focusing on the 'five centers' to accelerate the construction of a modern socialist international metropolis with world influence." "Related circumstances. Gong Zheng, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and mayor, revealed at the meeting that the container throughput of Shanghai Port reached a new high last year and led the world for the 14th consecutive year, achieving 49.158 million TEUs.
Gong Zheng said that accelerating the construction of an international economic center, financial center, trade center, shipping center, and scientific and technological innovation center is an important mission assigned by the Party Central Committee to Shanghai, and it is also the only way for Shanghai to achieve high-quality development.
As an international economic center, Shanghai achieved a total GDP of 4.72 trillion yuan last year and continues to rank among the world's cities.
As an international financial center, the total transaction volume of Shanghai's financial market reached a new high last year, reaching more than 3,300 trillion yuan. Licensed financial institutions continue to gather in Shanghai. By the end of last year, there were 1,771 licensed institutions in Shanghai, including 1,771 foreign-owned institutions. The number of licensing institutions also reached 548.
As an international trade center, Shanghai's port trade volume reached a new high last year, reaching 10.7 trillion yuan, accounting for 3.6% of the total global trade and continuing to rank first among global cities.
In terms of international shipping centers, the container throughput of Shanghai Port reached a new high last year and led the world for the 14th consecutive year, achieving 49.158 million TEUs.
Regarding international science and technology innovation centers, there are three encouraging data: one is that the proportion of R&D investment in the whole society in GDP has increased to 4.4%, the second is that the number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 people has reached a new high, reaching 50.2, and the third is that The first is that in the latest round of scientific and technological innovation cluster rankings of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Shanghai ranked fifth in the world.