(Let Pudong start again) 30 years of Pudong in the eyes of "pioneers": the best memorial is to create new miracles

　　China News Service, Shanghai, November 12 (Li Shuzheng and Yu Mei) The 30th Anniversary Celebration of Pudong Development and Opening-up was held in Shanghai on the 12th. The builders of Pudong Development and Opening-up were filled with emotion.

　　Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone is the first free trade zone in China.

"The early development conditions of Waigaoqiao were very difficult, with a table lamp, a box of stationery, and a bicycle," said Liu Hong, secretary of the party committee and chairman of Shanghai Waigaoqiao Group Co., Ltd. All “households” received by the team on the first day of work.

　　Thirty years later, the Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone is already an international trade city where thousands of merchants gather. Commodity sales and industrial and commercial taxes have accounted for half of China's customs special supervision zone for many years.

　　The 30-year development of Lujiazui has witnessed the speed and height of Pudong's development.

Nowadays, Yincheng Middle Road, lined with skyscrapers, used to be a mud crossing road with "pedestrians passing by without good clothes" 30 years ago.

　　From the mud to the influx of funds.

Zhang Yuxiang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Lujiazui Administration Committee of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone Management Committee, said that at present, Lujiazui Financial City has become one of the regions with the richest financial factor market, the most concentrated financial institutions, and the most active financial transactions in the world. It is facing the Wall Street in New York. , The City of London, speeding up its move towards a world-class financial city.

　　Zhangjiang, known as China's "Science and Innovation Landmark", was a reed swamp 30 years ago.

　　A group of scientists are the "pioneers" of Pudong basic scientific research.

"In the past 30 years, I have personally experienced and witnessed the development of the Zhangjiang biomedical industry from scratch, from small to large, from weak to strong." said Chen Kaixian, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former director of the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

　　In 2003, the new site of Shanghai Institute of Medicine in Zhangjiang was completed and put into use, becoming the first national-level biomedicine core research institution to be relocated to Zhangjiang under a reorganization system.

Subsequently, the Drug Metabolism Research Center, the Traditional Chinese Medicine Innovation Center, and the Model Animal Center sprung up in Zhangjiang, and a national innovative drug research and development technology platform system was gradually established in Pudong.

"Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceuticals itself is also developing rapidly on the hot land of Zhangjiang, becoming one of the most influential research centers in the field of new drug research in my country." Chen Kaixian said,

　　Right now, Zhangjiang has gathered three major industries: biomedicine, integrated circuits, and artificial intelligence, with large scientific device clusters, universities and top scientific research institutions standing here.

This also means that Pudong has taken on the important task of developing China's science and technology "innovation source" in the new era.

　　Yuan Tao, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shanghai Zhangjiang (Group) Co., Ltd., said that in the future, Zhangjiang will further focus on the world's cutting-edge technology, forward-looking layout of strategic emerging industries, and accelerate the improvement of Zhangjiang Artificial Intelligence Island, Zhangjiang Robot Valley, and Zhangjiang Cell Industrial Park. The industrial energy level of the park.

And further optimize the innovation and entrepreneurship ecology, promote more leading enterprises to open up innovation resources to empower small and medium enterprises, strengthen in-depth cooperation with more leading venture capital institutions to promote Zhangjiang's corporate financing and listing, and create a good pattern for the development of large and small enterprises.

　　After 30 years of vicissitudes of life, Pudong has attracted the attention and attention of the world, and has also brought the "oceans" of China's economy into the global economic community.

Statistics show that in the past 30 years, Pudong has attracted a total of US$102.95 billion in foreign investment, amassed 36,200 foreign-funded enterprises in 170 countries and regions, and 346 of the world's top 500 companies have investment projects in Pudong.

　　As an "old friend" of foreign companies in Pudong, "PwC has witnessed and participated in Pudong's 30-year magnificent development process. I am confident in Pudong, Shanghai, and China's future development." PwC China Shanghai Leading Partner Huang Jia said that in the future, he will continue to "go all the way" with Pudong, and will empower the country and the world with the experience of serving Pudong.

　　Right now, Pudong is standing at a higher starting point.

"Thirty years old is the most energetic time in life. Pudong, when he was in his first year, is the most able to overcome difficulties and start a business." said Weng Zuliang, secretary of the Pudong New Area District Committee of Shanghai.

"The best memorial is to create a new miracle." said Hang Yingwei, the mayor of Shanghai's Pudong New Area.

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