Regional situation

On September 21st, the Global Partnership Conference on Service Trade in the Lingang New Area of Shanghai Free Trade Zone was held at the Dishui Lake Financial Bay. At the meeting, the Implementation Plan for Supporting the Deepening of High level Institutional Opening and Promoting Innovative Development of Service Trade in the Lingang New Area was officially released. The plan proposes that by 2025, the total import and export volume of service trade in the Lingang New Area should reach 200 billion yuan in five years, and the cross-border digital trade volume should achieve an average annual growth of 10%. The proportion of total import and export volume of service trade to the total service trade in the city will significantly increase. The Service Trade Innovation Business Base of Agricultural Bank of China Shanghai Branch was unveiled at the same time. Chen Qichang, Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Agricultural Bank of China Shanghai Branch, stated that Agricultural Bank of China established the first Lingang New Area Branch in August 2019 and has always been committed to participating in the construction and service of emerging financial ecosystems in the new area

Recently, the brand release ceremony for the New Era Civilization Practice Characteristic Block in Xuhui District was held at the Fenglin Life and Health Industry Park. The new era civilization practice "Fengshang Health Street" in Fenglin Street was launched simultaneously, and the "Radiant and Joyful Sports Street" in Xujiahui Street and the "Qinghe Respect for the Elderly Street" in Changqiao Street were also released on the same day. In April this year, Hunan Road Sub district of Xuhui District took the lead in launching the construction of "wutong Music · Music Block", and built the first music block with characteristics of civilization practice in the new era in Shanghai. Subsequently, the Propaganda Department of Xuhui District Committee took the lead and innovatively launched a number of vibrant and distinctive civilized practice block brands, taking into account the resource endowments, residents' needs, and cultural and historical backgrounds of all streets and towns in the district. Among them, the Fenglin area in Xuhui is one of the most densely distributed areas of clinical medical resources and life and health industry resources in China, with three

The opening of Toyota Synthetic China headquarters and research and development center; The expansion project of Solvay China Research and Innovation Center has been completed; Since September, the production and research and development integrated base of the UK's Haomai Group in the Asia Pacific region has opened, with 15 subsidiaries settling in... Good news has been circulating in the Xinzhuang Industrial Zone, and many foreign companies have announced a significant increase in their investment in the Chinese market. Two months ago, 7 major industrial projects in Xinzhuang Industrial Zone began construction, with Junjian Junze, Bolimuo, Xiongke, and others all being foreign-funded projects. According to statistics, from January to August this year, Xinzhuang Industrial Zone added 24.6 million US dollars in foreign investment and received 360 million US dollars in foreign investment, with a growth rate of 180% compared to the same period in 2021. In the current situation, how can Xinzhuang Industrial Zone attract foreign investment and implement large-scale projects one after another? What are the reasons behind well-known foreign companies expanding their investment, research and development, and production

Editor's note: In September 2013, the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially established. Since then, there have been 21 pilot free trade zones in China, basically forming a reform and opening up innovation pattern covering the east, west, north, south, and central regions. Over the past decade, the pilot free trade zone, which accounts for less than 4% of the country's land area, has contributed more than one sixth of the country's total import and export value and total foreign investment absorption, providing strong support for China to cultivate new drivers of economic development and consolidate new advantages in international competition; At the same time, it has also played a leading role in institutional innovation, created a vivid model of open development, promoted the in-depth implementation of major strategies, and played an important role in China's reform and opening up process. In the past few months, journalists from Liberation Daily and Shangguan News have visited six pilot free trade zones in Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin, Beijing, Hubei, Zhejiang, and Hainan

Editor's note: In September 2013, the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially established. Since then, there have been 21 pilot free trade zones in China, basically forming a reform and opening up innovation pattern covering the east, west, north, south, and central regions. Over the past decade, the pilot free trade zone, which accounts for less than 4% of the country's land area, has contributed more than one sixth of the country's total import and export value and total foreign investment absorption, providing strong support for China to cultivate new drivers of economic development and consolidate new advantages in international competition; At the same time, it has also played a leading role in institutional innovation, created a vivid model of open development, promoted the in-depth implementation of major strategies, and played an important role in China's reform and opening up process. In the past few months, journalists from Liberation Daily and Shangguan News have visited six pilot free trade zones in Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin, Beijing, Hubei, Zhejiang, and Hainan

Starting from the capital, taking a train with the prefix G only takes half an hour to reach Tianjin Binhai Station. This is probably the closest high-speed railway station to CBD. Yujiapu Financial District, a place full of high-rise buildings along the Haihe River, resembling Lujiazui, is separated from Binhai Station by only one Jinhe Road. Since the establishment of Tianjin Pilot Free Trade Zone on April 21, 2015, Yujiapu and Xiangluowan on the opposite bank of the river have announced their decoupling from their thousands of years of fishing village history with a fast-paced construction pace, becoming the central business district of the free trade zone. Binhai Station has also become a window for external observation of the Tianjin Free Trade Zone: the high-speed rail station is closely connected to the "Global Shopping" underground commercial street, where people sit on trains to place orders and get off the train to go to the commercial street to pick up goods. The initial understanding of the free trade strategy by ordinary people was from these rich and cheap cross-border routes

On September 21st, the Implementation Plan for Shanghai to Implement Several Measures for Pilot Connection with International High Standards and Promoting Institutional Opening in Conditional Free Trade Pilot Zones and Free Trade Ports was officially issued, consisting of 31 articles in 8 aspects. The plan aims to continuously promote the reform and innovation of China's Free Trade Pilot Zones and Lingang New Area, actively increase stress testing efforts, and better undertake the major mission entrusted by the country. According to the plan, in addition to pilot measures that require relevant national departments to issue implementation rules or require accelerated implementation, the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone and Lingang New Area will focus on promoting the implementation of various pilot measures in areas such as goods trade, service trade, digital trade, temporary entry of business personnel, and optimization of the business environment within one year. In promoting innovative development of goods trade, Shanghai Free Trade Pilot

On September 21st, the Autumn Conference of Dishui Lake Emerging Finance -2023 Cross border Finance Theme Conference was held in the Lingang New Area of Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone. The "Lingang New Area Listed Company Federation" was unveiled, comprehensively enhancing the international competitiveness of listed enterprises. At the meeting, Liu Wei, Vice President of Lingang Group, stated that the Lingang New Area is accelerating the development of new financial formats and models such as cross-border finance, offshore finance, technology finance, and green finance; Construct major functional platforms such as the International Financial Asset Trading Platform, Shanghai Oil and Gas Trading Center, and Reinsurance International Board, and introduce over a hundred top domestic and foreign financial institutions such as Ping An Property Insurance, Sumitomo Mitsui, and Allianz Fund. Currently, "going abroad" is one of the key words for the development of Chinese enterprises. Data shows that as of August this year, 4566 companies have disclosed their semi annual reports

Recently, the 2023 "Industrial Bank Cup" Shanghai Urban Amateur League and the 4th Shanghai Farmers Sports and Fitness Week Tai Chi Group Performance Competition, with the theme of "Celebrating Harvest and Promoting Harmony", was held in Huizhong Village, Pujiang Town, Minhang District. More than 100 athletes from nine agricultural areas showcased the sports charm of Tai Chi. It is reported that the series of farmer sports and fitness week events are hosted by the Shanghai Agriculture and Rural Committee, Shanghai Sports Bureau, and Shanghai Farmers Sports Association, and hosted by the Minhang District Sports Bureau in Shanghai. The activity aims to use agriculture as a medium, running as a medium, empowering with sports, and releasing the light of sports. Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese martial arts with a long and profound history. It is guided by ancient Chinese philosophical concepts such as Tai Chi, Yin Yang, and the Five Elements, and integrates various aspects such as fitness, health preservation, self-defense, and mental cultivation

In the evening, on the south bank of Minhang River, a Jinping Road known as "Minhang Street", the autumn market and people's stage attracted residents from far and near to come to the market. The scene was crowded and lively. From September 21st to September 23rd, the three-day "Jinping Night" 2023 Shanghai Zero Bay Street Art Festival will be held on Jinping Road. The event is themed "Jinping WALK" and features two major stage performances, three themed markets, and various fun interactive games, allowing citizens to experience the unique fireworks of the Zero Bay. At six or seven o'clock in the evening on the People's Stage, both stages were already fully booked, and many residents came to perform on the stage. At 7:30, amidst the crisp and stirring sound of hand drums, the dance "Dancing the Happy Drum" kicked off the stage performance of "Golden Night". Stage performances have always been "golden"

Recently, the bilingual version of "Yangpu Overview 2023" H5, produced by the Information Office of the People's Government of Yangpu District, Shanghai, was officially launched. The "Yangpu Overview 2023" manual presents a brilliant picture of Yangpu's innovative development from six dimensions: "Entering Yangpu", "Technological Innovation", "Business Environment", "Livable Life", "Leyou Urban Area", and "High Quality Service". The "Yangpu Overview 2023" H5, which was launched this time, is the first H5 interactive new media product launched by Yangpu District. Through data visualization, image interpretation, touch screen interaction and other methods, it showcases the rich achievements of Yangpu's four major functional areas construction, "Beautiful Home" construction, "One Belt, One Zone, One Ring" digital economic new landmark, and Binjiang industrial transformation. Using lively music and lively color schemes, lead readers to experience Yangpu's "Jia" in 5 minutes

Economic census is a systematic project that requires not only the organization and implementation of various levels of government and strengthened cooperation among departments, but also the joint efforts of the whole society. It requires the vast number of census subjects to comply with the National Economic Census Regulations and fulfill their legal obligations. This year marks the year of economic census and the 40th anniversary of the promulgation of the Statistics Law of the People's Republic of China. On September 22nd, the 14th China Statistical Open Day, the main venue of the "New Era of Economic Census", was held at the Pudong Urban Planning and Public Art Center in Shanghai. The event is hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Statistics and the Shanghai Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics, and hosted by the Pudong New Area Bureau of Statistics and the Pudong Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics. There are still 100 days left until the fifth national economic census household registration on that day. At the meeting, a set of data and images were presented to the public, showcasing Shanghai and Pudong

On September 22nd, the unveiling ceremony of the Xuancheng Science and Technology Innovation Center of the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor in the Yangtze River Delta was held in Songjiang, Shanghai, to promote joint research and development of the nine city innovation community, accelerate the optimization and efficient flow of innovation elements. It is understood that as the first G60 industry collaborative innovation center project in Shanghai in Xuancheng, the Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Xuancheng Science and Technology Innovation Center is an important window for Xuancheng to attract high-level talents and projects. In June 2020, Songjiang and Xuancheng signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to jointly build the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor Xuancheng Science and Technology Innovation Center project in the Yangtze River Delta. In August of that year, it officially settled in Songjiang and launched a new cross regional collaborative development model of "research and development in Shanghai, transformation in Xuancheng". The project is located at No. 6, Phase I of Chuangzhi in Lingang Songjiang Industrial Park, with a total construction area of over 10000 square meters. Through three years of joint efforts, the Yangtze River Delta G60

On the afternoon of September 22nd at 2 o'clock, Mr. Zhu was thrilled as he watched his daughter press the start button for the lottery and room allocation. He is from Yangxing Town, Baoshan District, and originally lived in Xijie Village. Since the first phase of the renovation of the "urban village" in Yangxing Town began, their family has been looking forward to this moment. As the text on the big screen scrolled rapidly, the dust settled in the room separation results. "The 6th, 9th, and 18th floors are not bad!" Mr. Zhu smiled and said, "I will retire next year, and I will leave all three of these houses to my daughter. The decoration work will also be entrusted to them." As one of the practical projects of the Yangxing Town government in 2023, the Chenghe Jiayuan relocation and resettlement housing project's lottery and allocation will start this week. The sequence number will be drawn on September 20th and 21st, and the room number will be drawn on September 22nd and 23rd. Lottery work in Baoshan District

A few days ago, the Shanghai Urban Amateur League "Xiaokunshan Cup" Shanghai Third Rural Ironman Triathlon kicked off at the Xiaokunshan Modern Agricultural Park in Songjiang District. More than 550 triathlon enthusiasts gather here to enjoy the dual fun of sports competition and rural scenery. Not long ago, the 7th Rural Parent Child Health Run of the 2023 "Xiaokunshan Cup" in Shanghai, known as the "First Rural Run in Shanghai", has just ended, and the heat has not dissipated. The sports activities and competitions between green mountains and clear waters, one after another, have given local rural tourism a new acceleration. "Many contestants arrived one or two days in advance to familiarize themselves with the competition. Some stayed overnight and consumed as tourists on a family basis." Lu Xuefeng, the Party Secretary of Xiaokunshan Town, told reporters that fast hotels such as Vienna and Quanji in the town have "sold out". "

On September 22nd, Pudong New Area once again launched relevant policies and implementation plans for commodities, vigorously promoting the accelerated development of commodity trade. Zhejiang Aluminum Tuo Technology Co., Ltd., New Tianshan Cement and other enterprise projects have signed contracts, and heavyweight units such as Shanghai Nonferrous Metals Industry Association, Shanghai Nonferrous Network Metal Trading Center, Haitong Securities Shanghai Branch, CITIC Futures Co., Ltd. have reached strategic cooperation with the World Expo Management Bureau of the China Pilot Free Trade Zone Management Committee. The policy continues to upgrade and focuses on institutional innovation. On July 31, 2015, the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone's commodity spot market was launched, marking the official operation of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone's international commodity spot market. Afterwards, the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone continued to promote the development of bulk commodity trade in the World Expo area, successively launching the No. 20 rubber and low

On September 22, 2023, the Huangpu Exhibition Area of the Shanghai Urban Space Art Season kicked off at the Bund Source by the Suzhou River. The exciting display and series of activities will continue until the end of November. The Huangpu Exhibition Area of the Art Season focuses on the theme of "Ten Thousand Lanterns: Sustainability in an Ordinary World". Through low-carbon lifestyle demonstration sample exhibition areas, art installations, exhibitions, and activities, it promotes environmental protection concepts and calls on citizens to pay attention to sustainable lifestyles, making Shanghai a low-carbon, green, and sustainable "city without waste" and a resilient ecological city. On site, an environmentally friendly lifestyle show was created by the School of Design and Creativity at Tongji University, Shanghai Tongji Huangpu Design and Creativity High School, Huoshixing Fashion, and fashion design enthusiasts and primary and secondary school students from universities in the Yangtze River Delta, presenting a new trend of urban environmental protection. The exhibits of the Environmental Life Show are sourced from the Old Clothes Fashion Workshop, teacher

From September 22 to October 6, the 2023 Shanghai Liantang Jiaobai Festival, a series of activities of the Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival, was held in Liantang Town, Qingpu District. During this year's Jiaobai Festival, Liantang Town will launch characteristic agricultural products, boutique homestays, and tourist routes to attract citizens and tourists to fully experience the charm of the ancient water town of Liantang. In the western part of Qingpu, on the banks of the Taipu River, there is an ecological conservation forest covering an area of about 20000 acres with winding paths, including ponds, forests, and 12 kilometers of hiking trails. This original ecological forest has a poetic name: Jiuzhou Wonderland. On the afternoon of September 22nd, the opening ceremony of the Jiaobai Festival was held at Jiuzhou Wonderland Square. Fresh Jiaobai, dried Jiaobai, Jiaobai leaf woven products, local dyed fabrics, rice cakes and other local specialty agricultural products from Liantang were showcased, attracting many citizens and tourists to stop and purchase. The event is still taking place in Liantang Ancient Town, Dongzhuang Village

On September 22nd, the 17th "Wu Gen Yue Jiao" Fengjing Water Town Wedding Ceremony was held in Fengjing, a millennium old ancient town in the suburbs of Shanghai. Twenty couples from all over the country met to experience the beauty and romance of traditional wedding customs. It is reported that as one of the major theme activities of the 2023 Shanghai Tourism Festival, this year's Fengjing Water Town Wedding Ceremony combines the characteristics and advantages of the ancient town to create a 120 meter water wedding ceremony T-platform, reproducing the traditional Chinese wedding style. It combines weddings with culture and tourism more closely and directly, and makes a new appearance by inheriting classics and iteratively breaking through boundaries. The traditional wedding customs have broken the circle. The 20 newlyweds at this year's wedding ceremony are from Shanghai

On September 22nd, the "2023 Big Model Entrepreneurship Conference" with the theme of "Smart Seeing Big Model · Driving a New Future" was held in Yangpu District. The conference invited leaders of Internet platforms, university research institutes, industry leaders in subdivisions and vertical entrepreneurial companies to gather in Yangpu, Shanghai, to focus on the entrepreneurial ecology of domestic large-scale model industries and talk about the innovative future of large-scale model industries. The new generation of artificial intelligence, represented by large models, is rapidly emerging and has a profound impact on various fields of society, becoming an engine for promoting industrial upgrading and economic and social development. Yang Pu District Party Secretary Xue Kan stated that Yang Pu District has unique advantages in the field of artificial intelligence. Yang Pu District is one of the urban areas in Shanghai with the highest innovation density and the strongest entrepreneurial atmosphere. It has a large number of upstream and downstream enterprises in the artificial intelligence industry chain, as well as a series of innovative platforms.

Wuning Road in Putuo District is located at the entrance of the G2 and G42 expressways in Shanghai, and is a land transportation hub connecting the Yangtze River Delta. It gathers a group of universities and technology-based enterprises, making it the area with the highest innovation concentration in Putuo District. In April this year, Putuo initiated the establishment of the "Wuning Innovation Community", focusing on "large universities and famous enterprises" along the Wuning Road, and leveraging the agglomeration effect of scientific and technological innovation strategies. How to build the Wuning Innovation Community into a "nuclear explosion point" for scientific and technological innovation in the central urban area is an important issue for Putuo District to integrate and amplify the technological and industrial innovation resources of the entire district, and deeply integrate into the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. On September 22, 2023, the Suzhou River Forum was held in Putuo. The theme of this forum is "Construction of Wuning Innovation Community and Industrial Innovation Highland", based on the science and technology innovation resources and industrial foundation of Putuo District,

On September 22nd, the "Gathering Talents to Build Dreams in Silicon Alley" Changning District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and Huayang Road Sub district jointly organized the "Shanghai Silicon Alley" special event of the Changning District Human Resources and Social Security Service in Building Graduates Recruitment Interview, which was held at the multimedia square located in the Zhongshan Park commercial district. Considering that many overseas students hope to choose careers in China at the same time, this job fair will be held in a "online+offline" format, mobilizing more than 60 companies in the "Shanghai Silicon Lane" science and technology innovation block to launch more than 700 recruitment positions, covering multiple job categories such as research and development, sales, procurement, logistics, human resources, etc., attracting more than 1000 young people such as college graduates to participate. With the pilot construction of the "Shanghai Silicon Lane" science and technology innovation block with an area of approximately 1.48 square kilometers in historical style blocks such as Yuyuan Road and Wuyi Road in Changning District, urban renewal is underway

As the Mid Autumn Festival and National Day approaches, the "Shanghai Style Trend New Landmark" Jinchao Lane 8 located on Sichuan North Road in Hongkou District has once again presented a beautiful and picturesque "Shanghai Style Jinchao · Lighting Art Season 2.0- Yueyang Shihua Mid Autumn Festival Lantern Festival Series". The eight crisscross alleys, including 12 sets of lighting art installations that reflect China-Chic calligraphy and contemporary art, also have the Mid Autumn atmosphere scenery all over the outdoor plazas, and there are many activities such as immersing in games, hanfu experience, national style lantern shop, intangible cultural heritage flash flash and so on, so that the visiting citizens can stroll around the lanterns and trees day and night, revel in the national style aesthetics, and feel the romantic collision between Shanghai style alleys and the great beauty of China. This lantern festival strongly invites the famous contemporary calligrapher Zhu Jingyi, who is "most popular among young people born in 1995," to write Mid Autumn Festival poems, led by a well-known design team

Recently, the Management Committee of the Lingang New Area of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone, together with the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, formulated and released the Implementation Plan for Supporting the Deepening of High level Institutional Opening and Promoting Innovative Development of Service Trade in the Lingang New Area, which clearly pointed out the need to strengthen digital infrastructure construction and promote data security and orderly flow. On September 22nd, the "Science and Technology Afternoon Tea" event, jointly organized by the Pudong New Area Big Data Center and Shanghai Digital Industry Development Co., Ltd., specifically focused on exploring data flow security issues in the high-level institutional opening process. Experts, business leaders, and leaders of various committees and bureaus warmly shared and exchanged ideas, working together to explore innovative paths for establishing a data security defense line. Yang Shanshan, Director of Data Operations at Shanghai Digital Industry Development Co., Ltd., pointed out that the protection and construction of data security is not a one-time solution

At night, outside the Gumei Park, under a street corner light, a three member band was playing and singing as if there were no one around, gradually gathering a group of squatting, sitting, or standing listeners in front of them; From September 22nd to September 23rd, the 7th Gumei Jazz Festival was held in Gumei Park, with the theme of "Music, Youth, Future, and Attitude". A series of diverse and rich music performances were launched around various music stages in different directions within the park, attracting residents from far and near to enjoy the music feast. Participating in this music festival are the Enigma Percussion percussion band from South America, the American jazz band Isabelle Quartert Peng Peng Quartet, and the gypsy style Hot Club of Shan