Foreigners Looking at Free Trade Pudong | General Manager | Foreigners
The tide rises in the East, and the sound of Pudong spreads for thousands of miles. On September 19th, the press conference for the "Pudong Moment - Shared Future in Pudong" urban image film and the "Foreigners Looking at Free Trade" series of special films was held at the Pudong Art Museum.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone. Under the guidance of the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department and the Municipal Party Committee External Propaganda Office, the Pudong New Area Party Committee Propaganda Department is leading the planning and production of a series of special films on "Foreigners Watching Free Trade", telling the story of free trade in the eyes of 10 foreigners who have witnessed, witnessed, and created the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone.
10 episode feature films, after more than 200 days of interviews and filming, visited more than 20 foreign nationals in five major areas including Waigaoqiao, Lujiazui, Jinqiao, Zhangjiang, and the World Expo, and ultimately selected 10 of them to film and produce a series of feature films.
Michael, the General Manager of Shanghai New International Expo Center, said with deep emotion, "The Free Trade Zone has provided many preferential policies, and I am very confident that in the next 10 to 20 years, more and more companies will seek to invest in Pudong.". Pang Jiade, Managing Partner of the German Business Center at Ernst&Young Greater China, stated that "the opening up of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone to the outside world has provided greater flexibility for consulting services.". Fernando Sanchez, CEO of Shanghai Paidile Sports and Culture Development Co., Ltd., admitted that "the free trade zone is highly attractive to foreigners, international investors, and multinational enterprises, and Shanghai's sports industry has unlimited potential.".
"Zhangjiang is a great place for scientific research and a research network composed of different research institutions," said Wadim Grienko, a scholar at the Li Zhengdao Research Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Alex Zavoronkov, founder and CEO of Yingsi Intelligence, bluntly stated that "setting the company's R&D headquarters in Zhangjiang, Pudong is one of the best decisions we have ever made.".
"The Shanghai Free Trade Zone has formed a link between Eastern and Western cultures," said Scott, Project Director of GKN Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. Chris Hardy, the chief designer of the East Library of Shanghai Library, said, "The library is a gift from the city to its citizens, and it is also a gift that I have left for this city.". Kan Kuangyan, Managing Director of Sumitomo Mitsui Marine Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., said, "The world looks at China, China looks at Shanghai, Shanghai looks at Pudong, I love Shanghai, I love Pudong very much.".
I am very much looking forward to the next 10 years in China, and the door to opening will only continue to widen. The words of Da Fu, the director of the Spanish Pavilion at Waigaoqiao's "Global Gathering," represent the voices of foreign entrepreneurs. Kang Huate, General Manager of Shanghai Bolaike Xinyi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., has lived in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone for 10 years. He said that our future is not only "for China", but also "for the world".