China News Service, Shanghai, January 27 (Reporter Chen Jing) In an interview on the 27th, Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng said that Shanghai will play its role in opening up two sectors to the outside world, and build it into a central node and The strategic link of the domestic and international double cycle.
Gong Zheng pointed out, “We must benchmark CPTPP and other high-standard international economic and trade rules, and explore higher-level institutional openness.” He said that Shanghai is continuing to strengthen the political ecology of building green waters and mountains, and meticulously build streamlined and efficient government affairs. Ecology, a vigorous entrepreneurial and innovative ecology, a charming natural ecology, and a social ecology of honesty and rule of law, provide more "sunshine and rain" for all kinds of enterprises.
Gong Zheng said that Shanghai is still one of the first choices for the industrial chain layout of multinational companies.
Last year, Shanghai’s actual utilization of foreign capital increased by 6.2% against the trend, reaching US$20.23 billion, a record high.
Shanghai will unswervingly expand opening up, actively carry out comprehensive pilot projects for expanding the opening up of the service industry, and promote the opening up of telecommunications, Internet, cloud services, medical care, and culture.
He very much welcomes multinational companies to bring more high-level projects and high-level businesses to Shanghai and share Shanghai's market opportunities, investment opportunities, and development opportunities.
He said that Shanghai has introduced a version 4.0 plan for optimizing the business environment and proposed 207 new reform tasks.
Gong Zheng is very confident in hosting the 4th International Import Expo in a wonderful and effective manner, and hopes to promote the transformation of exhibits into commodities and exhibitors into investors.
On the same day, the Fifth Session of the Fifteenth Shanghai Municipal People's Congress closed.
Under the epidemic prevention and control, the duration of this year's meeting has been shortened.
At the press conference of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government held after the closing ceremony, Gong Zheng said that the epidemic prevention and control in Shanghai is orderly, accurate and effective.
Generally speaking, the epidemic in Shanghai is under control, and we are confident that we will do a good job in dealing with it.
Facing the impact of the epidemic, Gong Zheng said: "This year we will continue to expand the effectiveness of tax and fee reductions, so that the majority of market entities can not only survive, but also live, focusing on'one reduction and one increase'." Gong Zheng explained, "Decrease" means to continue to maintain certain tax and fee reduction efforts; "increase" means to enhance the integrated effect of fiscal, financial, industrial, and employment policies.
Since the launch of the Sci-tech Innovation Board in 2019, the market has developed very fast.
At the press conference held on the same day, Gong Zheng pointed out that the Sci-tech Innovation Board is an important integration point between the construction of the Shanghai Sci-tech Innovation Center and the construction of the financial center.
The demonstration, scale, and agglomeration effects of the Sci-tech Innovation Board are accelerating.
He said that Shanghai will take the registration system reform pilot program as a guide, provide a good system supply, accelerate the creation of an important investment and financing platform for national science and innovation enterprises, and support and encourage more hard and technological innovation enterprises to go public.
Regarding the hot topic of urban digital transformation, Gong Zheng said frankly that Shanghai’s important entry point is the "three modernizations": digitalization of economy, digitalization of life, and digitalization of governance.
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