Multiple national firsts! These key core technologies have achieved major breakthroughs in Shanghai

Journalist Fang Zhuoran

At 9:00 a.m. on January 20, 2022, the Sixth Session of the 15th Shanghai Municipal People's Congress was officially opened, and Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng made a report on the work of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government.

Gong Zheng said that in 2021, Shanghai will pay more attention to relying on innovation to promote sustained and healthy economic development, and accelerate the implementation of the "Shanghai Plan" for the three major industries of integrated circuits, biomedicine and artificial intelligence.

At the same time, the results of the inspection and assessment of the national intellectual property protection work are leading the country. The number of high-value invention patents per 10,000 population reached about 34.

Gong Zheng introduced that Shanghai has introduced the implementation of global asset management centers, international green financial hubs, international reinsurance centers to support the construction of policies, promote the first wholly foreign-owned securities company and a number of financial industry opening projects to land, launch crude oil options, bond connect "southbound", "magnolia bonds", carbon neutral bonds, public real estate investment trust funds and other financial innovation products and services, launch the capital market financial technology innovation pilot, today, licensed financial institutions added 58, the total transaction volume of financial market exceeded 2500 trillion yuan, An increase of 10.4 per cent.

In addition, the total port trade of Shanghai remains the first place in the world, the energy level of the international trade center has been greatly improved, the total port trade has remained the first place in the world, the Asia-Pacific demonstration electronic port network has expanded to 24 member ports, and the 100 billion-level bulk commodity trading platform has reached 7. The container throughput of Shanghai Port reached 47.033 million standards, ranking first in the world for 12 consecutive years.

In terms of promoting the sustained and stable recovery of the economy, Shanghai took the lead in cultivating and building an international consumption center city, held major consumption promotion activities such as the "May Five-Year Shopping Festival", vigorously expanded new consumption formats and new models, added 1,078 new stores, maintained the first place in the country, and the total retail sales of social consumer goods increased by 13.5%.

Shanghai launched a number of major tourism projects to start construction, major project investment completed 195.75 billion yuan, an increase of 14.6%, built a total of 61 kilometers of rail transit lines in some sections of Line 14 and Line 18, and the total length of operating lines reached 831 kilometers, continuing to maintain the first city in the world. The western section of Shanghai Beiheng Corridor and the Jiangpu Road Yuejiang Tunnel and other important infrastructure were put into use, and 8 rail transit projects such as Jiamin Line, Line 21 Phase I and Line 23 Phase I were started, and 59 industrial projects with an investment of more than 1 billion yuan such as high-end ships and new energy vehicles were started.

At the same time, Shanghai further improved the approval and filing management of foreign investment projects, the actual use of foreign capital reached 22.55 billion US dollars, an increase of 11.5%, 60 new regional headquarters of multinational companies, a total of 831, 25 new foreign-funded research and development centers, a total of 506; to promote the accelerated development of a number of new foreign trade formats and new models, the opening and operation of the "Shanghai" China-Europe express train, the total import and export volume of foreign trade reached more than 4 trillion yuan, an increase of 16.5%, and the proportion of service trade in the country increased to 30% around.

In terms of building a digital city, Shanghai has built a total of 54,000 5G outdoor base stations, promoted more than 700 double gigabit demonstration applications, and accelerated the deployment of next-generation Internet scale. Accelerate the implementation of digital benchmarking applications; carry out digital yuan pilots, actively cultivate 15 industrial Internet platforms, build 40 smart factories, lay out online new economic ecological parks such as "Changyang Xiudai" and "Zhangjiang Online", and start the construction of the first batch of 7 digital transformation demonstration zones. Shanghai has formed 11 digital life benchmarking scenarios, such as convenient medical treatment and less waiting, one-click service for the elderly, quick parking assistance, digital hotel smart housekeeper, and digital empowerment demonstration school.

In terms of improving the modernization level of urban governance, reducing pollution and reducing carbon, Shanghai has formulated the implementation opinions on carbon peak carbon neutrality, the carbon peak implementation plan, and the national carbon emission trading market has been put into operation in Shanghai; the eighth round of environmental protection three-year action plan has been launched, 1,042 industrial enterprises have completed the treatment of volatile organic compounds, 84,000 national third diesel vehicles have been eliminated, 254,000 new energy vehicles have been promoted and applied, and the cumulative number has reached 677,000, and the construction of Zhuyuan-Bailonggang sewage connection pipes and 5 rainwater storage ponds has been completed 350 kilometers of river improvement, the completion of the old port wet garbage phase II and other terminal disposal facilities, to achieve zero landfill of native domestic garbage, pollution prevention and control effectiveness assessment ranked first in the country.