Pudong's development and opening up is a national strategy made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council in the early 1990s and organized and implemented by the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China once again put forward the new requirement of "encouraging special economic zones and Pudong New Area in Shanghai to take the lead in system innovation and opening up", which further highlighted Pudong's strategic position in national development and opening up. In the new century and new stage, Pudong's development and opening-up must continue to adhere to the principle of "developing Pudong, revitalizing Shanghai, serving the whole country and facing the world", obey the overall situation of national development, obey the goal of serving Shanghai to build an international economic, financial, trade and shipping center, seize the opportunity of the World Expo, strive to strengthen functional construction, and strive to become the core functional area of Shanghai's construction of "four centers".
Focusing on this development orientation and combining with the Tenth Five-Year Plan, Pudong New Area should seize the opportunity to accelerate its development in 2003-2005, strive to become the growth pole of Shanghai's economic development, become the vanguard of Shanghai's "Huashan Natural Danger Road" to revitalize the city through science and education, and become a booster for Shanghai to expand its functions as an economic center city.
Pudong today
Pudong, the leader of the Yangtze River, is located in the triangle east of Huangpu River and west of the Yangtze River estuary, at the intersection of China's coastline and the Yangtze River estuary, close to the historic old city of Shanghai and backed by the Yangtze River Delta, which has a unique geographical advantage. Pudong New Area covers an area of 522.75 square kilometers, and the registered population at the end of 2004 was 65438+809,000. Pudong has been developing and opening up since the early 1990s. After 65,438+00 years of development, opening up and construction, it has become a bright pearl on the Yangtze River.
economic development
Since the development and opening up of Pudong, the industrial upgrading, functional development and system innovation have been vigorously promoted, and the role of demonstration, radiation and driving has been fully exerted. The regional economy has been higher than the average growth level of the whole city for 13 years. The added value of Pudong New Area 1 90 was only 6.024 billion yuan, which exceeded 100 billion yuan in 2006 and reached 178979 billion yuan in 2004, an increase of 9./compared with190 at comparable prices. Among the added value of the new district in 2004, the added value of the secondary industry was 94.282 billion yuan, an increase of 65.438+07.2% over the previous year; The added value of the tertiary industry was 84.033 billion yuan, an increase of 65.438+05.7%.
Hot land for investment
The development of Pudong adheres to the construction of urban infrastructure first, builds a multi-functional and radiant modern new city skeleton, and constantly optimizes urban functions and investment environment, thus becoming a "hot spot for investment" for Chinese and foreign entrepreneurs. Since 1990, the investment in urban infrastructure construction in Pudong New Area has been141200 million yuan, and infrastructure projects such as Pudong International Airport, Pudong Information Port Hub, Rail Transit Line 2 and maglev train demonstration line have been built one after another. The urban infrastructure system with transportation, communication and energy as the main body has been further improved. By the end of the year, foreign investors from 86 countries and regions had invested in 1 1730 projects in Pudong, with contracted foreign investment amounting to $2521600 million. There are 8,583 domestic enterprises of various provinces and cities registered in Pudong, with a registered capital of 510.90 billion yuan.
Financial and trade zone
The financial agglomeration effect and radiation function of Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone have been further enhanced, and the position of regional financial and trade center has been basically established. By the end of 2004, 3 1 1 Chinese and foreign financial institutions had gathered in the trade zone. The scale of market transactions of securities, futures, property rights and other factors continued to expand. The regional headquarters of a number of multinational companies and the headquarters of large domestic enterprises (groups) have successively settled in Lujiazui, such as Shanghai Branch of Northwell Bank, Siemens, Alcatel, Tomson, Huayuan, Asia Pacific Headquarters of Citibank and Ping An Insurance Company. The functions of real estate, commerce, tourism and exhibition in the trade zone have been further expanded. At the end of the year, there were 1082 high-rise buildings built or under construction in this area, and the occupancy rate of buildings in this area reached 9 1.7%.
Free trade area
Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone is one of the most important free trade zones and logistics bases in China. It will give full play to the policy advantage of "linkage between regions and ports" and expand the function of entrepot trade. In 2004, the cargo throughput of Waigaoqiao Port reached 79.955 million tons, an increase of 43.4% over the previous year. The container throughput was 943 1 1,000 TEUs, up by 42.6%. The operating income of logistics enterprises in the whole region was100233 million yuan, an increase of 26.4% over the previous year. The re-export trade volume of warehouses in the area increased by 1.3 times over the previous year.
export processing zones
Jinqiao Export Processing Zone is one of the most important advanced manufacturing bases in Shanghai, and its industrial level is constantly improving. By the end of 2004, 4 10 foreign-invested enterprises had settled in Jinqiao with a total investment of110.64 million US dollars, and the actually utilized foreign capital was 36110 million US dollars. The total industrial output value is 654.38+023.407 billion yuan. Among them, the output value of high-tech industries was 65.754 billion yuan, accounting for 53.3% of the total industrial output value. High-tech industries such as automobiles and parts, microelectronics and computers, modern communications, biomedicine, opto-mechanical integration, and new home appliances have accelerated development.
Hi-Tech Park
Zhangjiang Hi-tech Park vigorously develops high-tech industries, and is the core base of domestic microelectronics industry, national software industry export base and biomedical industry base. By the end of 2004, there were 1 10 R&D institutions in the whole region. In the whole year, the total output value of electronic information products manufacturing in the whole region was1165438+22 million yuan, an increase of 1.9 times over the previous year; The total output value of biomedical manufacturing industry was 3.58 billion yuan, up by 18.3%. There are 340,000 square meters of incubating base and 4 13 incubating enterprises. Five of the world's top ten integrated circuit equipment manufacturers have settled in the park. Pudong Software Park has a strong development momentum, with an annual sales income of 654.38+0.2 billion yuan, an increase of 654.38+0.7% over the previous year. By the end of the year, 327 enterprises including Citigroup, Sony, Bi Bo and Kyocera had settled in Pudong Software Park.