People in the overseas Chinese community continue to be optimistic about the opportunities in Pudong and hope to contribute to creating a new miracle of reform and opening

(Let Pudong start again) People in the overseas Chinese community continue to be optimistic about the opportunities in Pudong and hope to contribute to creating a new miracle of reform and opening up

　　China News Agency, Shanghai, December 1 (Reporter Xu Jing) Since the first horn of development and opening was officially sounded in Pudong, Shanghai in 1990, one after another "China's No. 1 and World No. 1" was born here in 30 years.

Among the builders participating in the development and opening up of Pudong, there are a large number of overseas Chinese who came to Pudong to invest and start businesses with capital and technology.

　　Practice has proved that people in the overseas Chinese community are an important force in promoting the development and opening up of Pudong.

They said that in the next 30 years, they will give full play to their own advantages, better serve Pudong's reform and opening up, and start from the overall situation, and contribute to creating a new miracle of high-level reform and opening up in the new era.

　　In 1998, Chang Zhaohua, the vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and the chairman of Shanghai MicroPort Medical Devices (Group) Co., Ltd. came to Zhangjiang, Pudong, where "the river was dotted and the farmers' crops were everywhere", and founded MicroPort Medical Devices (Shanghai) Limited company.

At that time, very few "returnees" participated in the development and entrepreneurship of Pudong, and almost none knew about heart stents.

　　Chang Zhaohua lamented that at the beginning of his business, Pudong did not neglect him because he was not a Fortune 500 company brought by a returnee entrepreneur, nor did he give up support for minimally invasive because of the indifference of the high-end medical industry.

　　Today, MicroPort has incubated nearly 20 high-tech medical companies, developed hundreds of high-end medical device products such as heart stents, heart valves, and large-scale industrialization, rewriting China's past history of relying on imports in this field.

　　Chang Zhaohua said that in the future, he will continue to strengthen his belief in independent innovation, adhere to the concept of global collaborative innovation, adhere to a higher level of high-quality development, improve the level of the industrial chain, accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into actual productivity, and benefit the general public. Contribute to the national "14th Five-Year Plan" and 2035 long-term goals.

　　Chang Zhaohua's life story is just one of the countless foreign students who have poured into Pudong.

　　"In the golden autumn of 1996, my husband and I gave up the family business we created in the United States, returned to Shanghai, the city where I grew up, and started our business in the Pudong Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park." said Zhou Min, general manager of Gil Biochemical (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. , Jier Biochemical is gradually growing with the help of the east wind from the development and opening of Pudong.

　　After more than 20 years of hard work, Jill Biochemical has developed into an enterprise with the most complete varieties of peptide reagents and special amino acids in the world.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gill Biochemical developed and produced about 4,500 antigen peptides, which were provided to multiple research institutions for the development of COVID-19 vaccines and specific drugs.

　　Zhou Min said that Pudong, which has been in its 30s, has regained the forefront and embarked on a new journey of "restarting". Gil Biochemical will also break through the waves and continue to develop its products and services in the original research peptide field, allowing Chinese brands to serve. The whole world contributes to human health.

　　People from the overseas Chinese community who have roots in Pudong, in addition to steadily advancing on the road of entrepreneurship, have also turned their attention to serving "returnees".

　　Cheng Dong served as the vice chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, the vice chairman of the Pudong New Area Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, the chairman of the Pudong New Area Returned Overseas Chinese Federation, and the chairman of the Zhangjiang High-tech Park Overseas Chinese Federation Branch. He went to Germany to study in 1990 and returned to China in 1998 to start a business. Founded Shanghai Yingta Information Technology Co., Ltd. and other enterprises.

　　Cheng Dong boldly proposed the corporate work concept of "integrating global talent resources and serving China's innovation and development", and led the League of Remains to initiate the establishment of the "Pudong International Talent Development Alliance" and the establishment of the Pudong International Talent Development Center as the institutional carrier of the alliance.

　　Cheng Dong told reporters that looking back on the past 30 years, the development and opening up of Pudong has provided a huge stage for returnees from studying abroad, allowing them to contribute their youth, sweat and make a difference.

Looking forward to the next 30 years, Pudong should lead the trend and introduce the wisdom and technology of the world to practice in this hot land. I believe that overseas Chinese can also find more opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship.

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