On April 6, the Shanghai Global Investment Promotion Conference was successfully held at the World Expo Center, with 26 large-scale and high-level representative projects signed on site, with a total investment of 67.4 billion yuan. Among them, two technology innovation projects in Hongkou were signed.
The projects signed with Hongkou perfectly align with the development goal of increasing innovation. The two contracted enterprises are both innovative enterprises engaged in synthetic biology with advanced technology, and are at the top level in China and the world in the field of subdivision. By using unique methods such as microbial fermentation, plastic and other biomass materials synthesized from vegetable oil can be completely degraded, or high-quality green fuels and feed proteins can be synthesized from industrial waste gas. In terms of green environmental protection and energy conservation and carbon reduction, there are enormous potential and broad development prospects.
At present, the innovation factor in Hongkou is constantly active and is continuously striving to enhance the concentration of regional innovation. Hongkou actively embraces the wave of "from Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and technology to return to the city", targets Shanghai's three major leaderships, six pillars, four new tracks, and five future industries, and vigorously creates an innovation ecosystem of "scientists daring to work, capital daring to invest, enterprises daring to venture, and governments daring to support".
Since the beginning of this year, Hongkou has been guided by the "New Benchmark of Building a Business Environment on the North Bund", is continuously optimizing the business environment. Officers go out for attracting investment, invite investors come in and sign contracts, and promote the investment introduction.
With the overall rise of the North Bund, emerging industries are rushing to the North Bund for investment and prosperity, and high-quality major projects are landing one after another.At present, a number of major projects such as the Shanghai Real Estate Center Theater and the Maritime Building have been completed. The design plan for the North Bund Navigation Park has been released to the public, and significant progress has been made in the construction of a 4.5-kilometer-long air corridor. The Top Luxury Brand Home of Shanghai Huamao Center has been successfully completed, and science and technology innovation enterprises such as Newsky (Shanghai) Environment & Tech Co., Ltd., CIMC Logistics Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Nahong Microsphere Technology Co., Ltd. have flocked to the North Bund, enriching new formats such as the green, low-carbon, new energy and the digital economy as well as injecting new momentum to the economic development of Hongkou.
The continuously optimized business environment attracts enterprises from afar. According to statistics, with the continuous development of the North Bund, the number of enterprises settling in Hongkou District is also growing, and the number of headquarters enterprises has quadrupled in the past three years. Next, Hongkou will further promote the development concepts of transforming technological achievements, developing the technological service industry and gathering technological innovation headquarters, in a bid to stimulating regional innovation and creativity and promote technological innovation work to a new level.