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Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, November 9Title: From Financial City to Science City to see the “starry sky” of Pudong’s high-quality development
Xinhua News Agency reporters He Xinrong, Shen Cheng, Yang Youzong
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the development and opening of Shanghai Pudong. At first, four national development zones, Lujiazui, Waigaoqiao, Jinqiao and Zhangjiang, were established one after another, becoming the main carriers of the development and opening of Pudong. Today, the four main development zones have become “four cities”: Financial City, Business City, Smart City, and Science City. From its growth, one can see the fruitful results of deepening reforms and opening Pudong.
From “permanent financial street” to “the closest place to the world”
From the Bund, the three skyscrapers of Lujiazui Financial City, the 420.5-meter-high Jin Mao Tower, the 492-meter-high World Financial Center, and the 632-meter-high Downtown Shanghai outline the beautiful skyline. from the city.
Wang Ande, the first general manager of the Lujiazui Commercial and Financial Zone Development Company, recalled that Lujiazui was the first development zone named after a “commercial and financial zone” in China. At the top of the list, everyone didn’t know how to do it and was groping in a blank spot.
Develop as you explore. At present, Lujiazui Financial City, with an area of only 31.78 square kilometers, has brought together more than 10 national factor markets and functional financial infrastructure, more than 6,000 financial institutions and more than 300,000 financial talents. Among the 285 commercial buildings in the area, there are 102 buildings with a tax of 100 million yuan, of which there are 30 buildings with one billion yuan and 4 buildings with 5 billion yuan. As a result, there is a saying in the industry: “Every building in Lujiazui is a permanent financial street.”
Like Lujiazui, the Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone, China’s first free trade zone, was still a reed swamp at the beginning of its listing. Shortly after its listing, Shanghai ITOCHU Corporation was incorporated into Waigaoqiao, becoming China’s first wholly foreign-owned trading company. Mori Takashi, General Manager of ITOCHU China Group Co., Ltd. said: “At that time, it was totally unexpected that Pudong could become what it is now!”
In 2013, Waigaoqiao was included in the list to establish China’s first free trade zone, further accelerating regional development. The consolidated area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone with Waigaoqiao as the main body, in 2019, sales of goods exceeded 2 trillion yuan, and the total volume of import and export exceeded one trillion yuan, ranking first among more than 150 special customs supervision zones in the country.
“In more than 230 countries and regions around the world, the Shanghai Free Trade Zone has trade contacts with more than 220 of them. This is the closest place to the world and an excellent window to observe the interaction between China and the Global economy”. Shanghai Free Trade Zone, said Chen Yanfeng, deputy director of the management committee.
Keep the pulse of quasi-industry at the forefront of technology
With the rapid development of science and technology, the development of the four major development zones has not been easy.
5G + smart transportation, 5G + smart factory, 5G + smart mine … In the 5G Application Innovation Center of China Mobile Shanghai Industrial Research Institute in Jinqiao Development Zone, you can see a variety of 5G application scenarios .
In March 2020, the Jinqiao 5G Industrial Ecological Park was inaugurated, becoming the first 5G industrial park in Shanghai. Huawei’s Shanghai 5G Innovation Center and four other functional platforms have settled down one after another, with around 55,000 5G talents arriving.
“Jinqiao has a development law of ‘seven years in a cycle’.” Yang Ye, director of the Jinqiao Management Office of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, said that basically every seven years, Jinqiao will complete an iterative upgrade. From the “household appliances in the family” in the 1990s to the later “cars in the family”, Jinqiao seized the opportunity to become a mountainous area of advanced domestic manufacture. Starting in 2019, Jinqiao has seized the opportunity of the “first year of 5G” to expand into the field of smart manufacturing. Various butterfly changes have formed the “golden bridge sample” of the transformation and improvement of Shanghai.
Looking south, in the central area of the Zhangjiang Science City, there is a building that resembles a “Nautilus” – Shanghai light source. This world-class scientific device is a “super microscope” that helps scientists explore the unknown world.
“A lot of analysis work that couldn’t or needed to be done on an overseas line can now be completed at our doorstep,” said Huang Yuying, deputy chief engineer of the source line station. Shanghai light. Since its opening for 10 years, Shanghai Light Source has been turned on for about 7,000 hours per year, and its research results cover many fields such as life sciences, condensed matter physics, materials, etc.
Relying on large scientific facilities such as light sources, Zhangjiang’s innovation ecology is becoming more and more perfect, and the results of innovation continue to emerge. Taking integrated circuits as an example, SMIC’s 14-nanometer chips in Zhangjiang have been mass-produced and progress has been made in developing 12-nanometer processes, helping Pudong to become the most concentrated area, the Highest level of comprehensive technology and the most complete industrial chain in China’s chip industry.
Opening for sailing, innovation for oars, four “characteristic cities” to promote the high-quality development of Pudong
From the four major development zones in the beginning to the four cities with their own complementary characteristics and functions, Pudong has achieved high-quality development by continuously promoting openness and innovation.
In March 2020, JPMorgan Chase Securities (China) Co., Ltd. officially opened in Lujiazui. This is the first recently approved foreign portfolio securities company in China since the opening of the new round of the financial industry in China.
“Affected by the epidemic earlier this year, some foreign employees were unable to enter the country. The New District government took the initiative to provide help, which gave us the feeling of a ‘mother’,” said Pu Xueqian, president from JPMorgan Securities (China) Co., Ltd.
A good business environment requires not only caring services, but also a superior open environment. Pu Xueqian said that the reason he settled in Lujiazui was to take the lead in Pudong institutional innovation and maximize the effect of financial clusters, where various factor markets such as the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Stock Exchange met. of Shanghai Futures, involving banks, securities, futures, currencies, Gold, etc., provides a stage for global financial institutions.
Zhang Yuxiang, director of the Lujiazui Administration Office of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, said that in the future, the Lujiazui Financial City will actively assess the highest standards and the best standards in the world, and continue to play its role as industry leader in global asset management center, fintech center and international insurance center. .
From the “core of China” to “innovative medicine”, the industrial cultivation of the “hard core” of Zhangjiang Science City is at the forefront of the country. The artificial intelligence island of Zhangjiang, recently launched in 2019, has attracted many industry giants such as Microsoft and Ali. It is estimated that by the end of 2020, there will be more than 100 companies on the island and more than 7,000 scientific researchers.
Yuan Tao, chairman of the Zhangjiang Group, said that in the future, Zhangjiang will also promote the construction of eight characteristic industrial parks to attract the gathering of leading companies in the sub-industry. Take for example Zhangjiang Robot Valley, with a planned area of 3.9 square kilometers, the goal is to become a mountainous and innovation hub for the robotics industry with global influence.
“In innovation in the Yangtze River Delta region, Shanghai’s role is focused on creating sources of innovation,” said Peng Song, Shanghai Deputy Executive Director of Science and Technology, and hoped that multiple “peaks of science and innovation “on the innovation” plateau “in the Yangtze River Delta. Zhangjiang Science City should strive to be the “highest peak” among them.
