By Yin Jianhua
On June 8, Hongkou held the "Conference on Signing Agreements on Key Projects at North Bund and Optimization of Business Environment". Guo Fang, Party Chief of Hongkou District, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Hu Guangjie, Deputy Party Chief and District Governor delivered a welcome speech. Zhou Rong, Member of Standing Committee of Hongkou District Party Committee and Executive Deputy District Governor, Chen Shuai, Deputy District Governor, and representatives of contract-signing enterprises attended the event.
The signing activity was carried out in the form of video connection. Hongkou District Government signed the contracts on key projects with 30 enterprises, including ChinaCo-opCereals and Oils Co., Ltd., Bose Audio Video System (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Wall Technology System Co., Ltd., with a total investment of more than RMB 10 billion, gathering foreign capital, central enterprises and headquarters enterprises in finance, shipping, commerce, science and innovation and other fields.
Guo Fang said in the discussion that the centralized signing of key projects is a concrete action of Hongkou District to thoroughly implement the instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, "The pandemic should be prevented, the economy should be stable, and the development should be safe". It is also a practical measure to accelerate the economic recovery and revitalization. Hongkou will further consolidate the achievements of pandemic prevention and control, strengthen enterprise services, optimize the business environment, to do its best to help enterprises take root in Hongkou and develop at ease.
Guofang stressed that it is necessary to strengthen confidence and firmly grasp the great opportunity of the development and construction of the North Bund. Under the impact of the pandemic, the fundamentals of long-term economic development in Hongkou and even the North Bund have not changed, with the important position of "Shanghai North Bund and Pujiang Golden Triangle" becoming increasingly prominent. Hongkou will further strengthen the recruitment of key enterprises, speed up the implementation of major projects, to lay a solid foundation for the high-quality development of Hongkou. We should strengthen services and make every effort to create a first-class business environment that benefits the near and attracts the far. We should actively implement a series of enterprise relief policies issued at the national and urban levels, combine the large-scale visits and investigations of "pandemic prevention, economic stability and safety", timely and accurately meet the needs of enterprises, further strengthen talent policies, optimize talent services, so as to attract talents from all over the world and China to Hongkou. We should work together to prevent pandemics and further consolidate the achievements of pandemic prevention and control by further strengthening the training and guidance for enterprises and helping enterprises standardize pandemic prevention measures, to jointly hold the hard won prevention and control achievements and spare no effort to promote the recovery of economic and social development.
It is reported that this centralized signing marks that Hongkou has pressed the accelerating key of resuming the work, production, business and marketing. In the next step, Hongkou will continue to increase policy support, continue to build a high-quality industrial ecosystem, and constantly polish the gold-lettered signboard of the "North Bund".