China News Service, Shanghai, April 23 Question: 30 years of development and opening up in Pudong: "10 years of butterfly change" in the Expo area highlights the "acceleration" of China's development
Author Li Shuzheng Yu Mei Fan Zhonghua
Ten years ago, the Shanghai World Expo would make this piece of land along the river a "cocoon into a butterfly"; five years ago, the Expo area included in the expansion of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone "fluttered its wings".
Shanghai Free Trade Zone World Expo Area-the former Shanghai No. 3 Factory, Factory Village and Shanty Town, became the central activity area and "World Meeting Room" where central government headquarters, high-end institutions and multinational companies gather. The total area of 9.93 square kilometers always surprises the world.
Around the "one axis and four pavilions" left by the World Expo, large-scale construction of the World Expo area has started one after another: the start of the headquarters of the central enterprise, 13 national enterprises such as China Baowu and China Commercial Aircraft "landing", Qiantan and Houtan development, South Korea International giants such as SK and Tishman Gate are coming one after another.
At present, within the area of 0.2 square kilometers of the Shanghai World Expo Central Enterprise Headquarters Park, there are nearly 80 various companies of 25 central enterprise groups, which is called the region with the highest concentration of central enterprises in the country.
Why "crowded" in the Expo area "Karma busy" (Shanghainese, join in the lively)? "It's suitable for doing business here." The answers given by many central government officials are very simple.
During the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, Zhenhua Heavy Industries completed a total of 35 equipment delivery operations and 2 voyage unloading operations. Among them, the first fully automated terminal in North America, the automated rail crane site in Long Beach, USA, with only 3 personnel, still completed the delivery of 8 equipment during the outbreak.
Among them, the origin-based credit visa system of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone has played a key role. According to Liu Qizhong, vice president of Zhenhua Heavy Industry, through this system, credit companies can directly print the certificate of origin quality audit in overseas offices and give it to foreign customers. From the original on-site application, approval, and then mailed overseas, "upgrade" to fill in the online form to print, which took from one week to one hour. "During the epidemic, it is inconvenient for people to exchange and express mail. This online audit system is too timely for our company, and the goods can be cleared as soon as possible and delivered to customers."
"Getting together" also makes the cooperation between central enterprises closer. Wang Dupeng, general manager of Sinotrans East China Co., Ltd., said that as a central enterprise logistics company, it has overseas cooperation with Sinochem International and Chinalco International, the neighbors next door. "The strategic agreement signed by the Beijing headquarters allows Shanghai to directly conduct business docking, which is the power of gathering."
"Pudong's advantages in trade and finance have laid a good environment for the company to carry out commodities trade." Dong Kegong, Chief Financial Officer of Chinalco International Trade Group Co., Ltd. believes that it is located in the World Expo area between the company and customers, financial institutions, and central enterprises. And the communication between the central and local areas is more smooth. "We currently have cooperation with more than 40 financial institutions and more than 200 trading units."
From the splash of steel flowers to vigorous energy, Shen Feng, deputy director of the World Expo Management Bureau of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Administrative Committee, told reporters that the future World Expo area will work hard on "showing wisdom and wisdom".
"Show" is a gathering place for world-class cultural interpretation. "In 2019, a total of 246 performing arts events were staged in the Expo area." Shen Feng revealed that around 2023, with the completion of 13 world-class large-scale cultural and sports venues such as the Expo stage, Shanghai Opera House, etc., cultural performances seats in the Expo area It will reach 60,000, close to Broadway in New York and West End in London.
"External" is to create an export-oriented economy and create a highly open regional environment. Right now, Wellington International School has been put into use; Raffles International Hospital and the BRICS New Development Bank are about to be completed; major projects such as Shanghai New York University and Shanghai International Equestrian Center have started. Ten international institutions have settled in the Shanghai International Institutions Cluster Area under construction.
"Hui" is the city of wisdom. Shen Feng said that in the future, the World Expo area will integrate economic functions, social management functions, cultural service functions, and government services into one platform to achieve one-screen view of the world and one network management city. With last year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference held here, a series of artificial intelligence applications have been promoted in the Expo area.
"Medium" is the central enterprise with the prefix "中". The World Expo area will continue to build a central enterprise headquarters gathering area, becoming an important growth pole for economic development, ballast stones, boosters and gas stations.
Ten years ago, when the splendid fireworks on the banks of the Huangpu River rose into the sky, the world saw a brand new and vibrant Shanghai; the ten-year butterfly change, the Expo area of the "post-Expo" era, is highlighting the "acceleration" of China's development. (Finish)