China News Agency, Beijing, November 16 (Reporter Wu Kan) "In 1996, I returned to China from New Zealand to start a business and went to Zhangjiang, Pudong for an inspection. At that time, it was still farmland. I took a two-hour long-distance bus ride and walked for another hour. Arrived." Recalling the scene of the year, Wei Zhengkang, chairman of Shanghai Luhuan Machinery Co., Ltd., is still vividly remembered.

  That visit enabled Wei Zhengkang to see the broad development prospects of Pudong. In 1997, he founded Shanghai Luhuan Machinery Co., Ltd. in Zhangjiang High-tech Park, which is also the first entrepreneurial enterprise for returnees in Pudong. The company develops solid waste comprehensive treatment. The installation has changed the traditional garbage collection and transportation mode in Shanghai.

  Thirty years ago, the clarion call for the opening of Pudong was blown. Many overseas Chinese businessmen and overseas students like Wei Zhengkang came to Pudong to invest and start businesses with capital and technology. As the first batch of "trendrs" who innovated and started businesses in Pudong, they witnessed and participated. Development and opening up in Pudong.

  In 1997, Chinese Canadian Zhao Jian went to China to develop. With his expertise in the field of multimedia digital electronic walls, he founded Dadao Computer Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (later renamed "Dadao Network Shanghai Co., Ltd.") in Pudong.

  At the beginning of its establishment, the company encountered many difficulties in product research and development, capital, and talent reserves. The Shanghai Overseas Chinese Affairs Department and the Pudong New Area Government have all given great assistance.

"For example, in terms of loan guarantees, Pudong has made innovations in loan policies with several of our companies as pilot projects, which has solved our urgent needs." Zhao Jian said.

  He said that the construction and development of Pudong also brought many business opportunities and benefits to the company.

"Our company mainly provides users with monitoring and dispatching command center solutions. Over the years, we have participated in the construction of Pudong Airport Monitoring Center, the construction of Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel and Bridge Monitoring Center, and the construction of Yangshan Port terminal automation."

  When it comes to the development and changes of Pudong, Zhao Jian described it as earth-shaking.

"From rice paddy farmland to modern industrial park, from complicated procedures to all kinds of matters, from the difficulty of finding a supermarket to complete living facilities, Pudong has made a qualitative leap in infrastructure, business environment, and living standards."

  In 2005, American Chinese Hu Tiefeng returned to China to start a business. With the idea of ​​"to be a Chinese localized medical device preclinical research platform", he came to Pudong Zhangjiang Medical Device Industrial Park and established Huizhiyinghua Medical Technology R&D ( Shanghai Co., Ltd.

  “At that time, there was no similar platform in China and there was no successful precedent. After I shared my ideas with the person in charge of Zhangjiang Park, they expressed their strong support.” Hu Tiefeng said that the development of the company is inseparable from Pudong’s financial, taxation, financial, and Preferential policies for talents and other aspects, "Zhangjiang is a'blessed place' for entrepreneurs, where I can concentrate on doing things and live with peace of mind."

  Pudong will start a new journey at the beginning of the year, which will also bring new opportunities for the development of overseas Chinese businessmen and enterprises. They said that they will continue to take root in Pudong, serve the country, link the world, and strive to be a new miracle creator in Pudong.

  "In the past 23 years since I started my business, I have participated in and witnessed the great changes in Pudong, and also participated in witnessing the rapid development of China's environmental protection industry." Wei Zhengkang said that accelerating the promotion of green and low-carbon development is an important task in China's "14th Five-Year Plan" period. The market demand will become greater and greater, and the company is considering applying AI technology to solid waste comprehensive treatment equipment to develop highly intelligent products.

  Hu Tiefeng said that the company is currently planning to establish an innovative service and incubation platform for the medical technology industry.

"In the future, Pudong will create a new highland of independent innovation. We will also strengthen our independent innovation capabilities and do our best to promote the localization and industrialization of medical device technology innovation."

  Zhao Jian said that Pudong will promote high-level institutional opening in the future. We will also focus on the domestic market while looking at the world, further expand overseas markets, and participate more in the new infrastructure construction projects of countries along the "Belt and Road". Pudong accelerates development together.

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