China News Service, Shanghai, November 12th, title: A higher level of opening up Pudong's new positioning link "new pattern"

　　Author Fan Zhonghua

　　"Central Node", "Strategic Link" and "Important Hub", the three heavyweight words make Shanghai Pudong attract the attention of the world again.

　　At the celebration meeting for the 30th anniversary of the development and opening up of Pudong held on the 12th, Chinese President Xi Jinping mentioned the coast of the East China Sea, an area of ​​only 1,210 square kilometers, and the national strategy to build a new international and domestic "double cycle" pattern. Pudong in 2010 gave the key mission of "high-level openness".

　　In fact, as China's first "new district", the development and opening up of Pudong has been from a higher perspective from the very beginning.

　　Pudong was born because of opening up.

Unlike many "special zones" separated by fences and developed independently, the development of Pudong first started with building bridges and roads, and was geographically connected with Puxi's multiple quarters and integrated into the development of Shanghai.

　　The Pujiang Thoroughfare brings Puxi's economy and talents into Pudong. It also transforms the space advantages of Pudong's top-level design and the pioneering practice of opening up modern service industries into a powerful engine for transforming Shanghai from a "planned economy fortress" to a "market economy outpost" , Let Shanghai make the leap from a "backguard" that protects the national economy to a "forward" that promotes development through reform and opening up.

　　Pudong is moving forward to explore the road to openness.

Thirty years ago, when the international political landscape was changing, the socialist system was being challenged on a global scale. How to expand and open up and rejuvenate the socialist system, Pudong took on this important task.

　　Born in the same year, the Shanghai Stock Exchange across the river became one of the sources of financing for the development and opening up of Pudong; the innovative model of "financial funds idling and land lease transfer" found the government to take the lead in initiating investment and leveraging the marketization mechanism. "Balance point"; stubbornly withstood the Asian financial crisis and concentrated factor markets, Pudong became a "hot spot" for foreign investment...

　　The first foreign-invested insurance company, the first Sino-foreign joint venture commercial retail enterprise, the first bonded trading market, the first foreign bank... Compared with the “special zone” which was mainly open to industrial manufacturing at that time, Pudong is in The opening policy in tertiary industries such as commerce is eye-catching. It is considered to be the first to open a new chapter in the opening up of China’s modern service industries such as finance and commerce, leading China’s opening up from the secondary industry to the tertiary industry with a higher level of vision .

　　The "market economy" and the "socialist system" complemented each other in the exploration of Pudong's development and opening up. In those days, the "New York Times" keenly captured the signal of further expansion of reform and opening up released by China's "trump card": "China still On the field, China is building a financial center in Asia."

　　Eat reform, take an open road, and play innovative cards.

Over the past 30 years, this piece of land has only occupied 1/8000 area of ​​China, creating 1/80 of GDP.

It 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. Nine of the world’s top ten asset management companies have settled in Pudong; the service industry has expanded and opened up in foreign-owned hospitals and foreign companies. A number of national first projects have been implemented in 55 areas including wholly-owned automobile manufacturing, wholly foreign-owned certification agencies, and wholly foreign-owned vocational skills training; the total number of regional headquarters of Pudong multinational companies has reached 350.

　　Xi Jinping also concluded in his important speech that day: Pudong’s remarkable achievements in the 30 years of development and opening up provide the most vivid proof of the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and the most vivid evidence for reform, opening up, and socialist modernization. Practice portrayal.

　　Pudong is making the road of opening wider and wider.

In recent years, facing high-level reform and opening up, the "three major tasks" assigned by the party and the state to Shanghai are closely related to Pudong.

　　The establishment of the Sci-tech Innovation Board and the pilot registration system provide a source of fresh water for science and innovation companies. Pudong’s financial and technological “two-city linkage” has 16 companies listed on the Sci-tech Innovation Board, with a market value of 604 billion yuan, accounting for 20% of the country.

　　The Lingang New Area of ​​the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone is benchmarking against the highest international standards and the highest level, constantly challenging the "stress test" in institutional innovation, and becoming a pioneer of institutional opening in international competition and cooperation.

　　The integration of the Yangtze River Delta provides a vast "economic hinterland" for Pudong's reform and innovation achievements. Through the development and opening of Pudong, the concept of "using Shanghai as a base to develop the Yangtze River Delta and the Yangtze River Basin" has achieved results.

　　As the French scholar Joel Le Cheman said, Pudong development is the largest project for contemporary China to participate in the process of economic globalization, and it is a new lever for China to enhance its international prestige in the future.

　　In the year Pudong was established, major changes unseen in a century have made China once again usher in the key node of reform, development and stability.

Xi Jinping clearly pointed out: "Pudong should strive to become the central node of the domestic cycle and the strategic link between the domestic and international double cycles" and "become an important hub of the global industrial chain supply chain value chain."

　　New era, new positioning, new mission.

As the "ace" of China's reform and opening up, Pudong has again stood at the forefront of the dialogue on behalf of China and the world with its deep soil for innovation and pioneering entrepreneurial spirit, taking the heaviest burden and gnawing the hardest bones. It is worth looking forward to how "Pudong of the World" will take on new missions and challenge new heights with the wisdom and courage to look at the world and embrace the world.

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