On the morning of April 25, Lu Ming, Deputy Chief of the CPC Hongkou District Committee and District Governor of Hongkou District, and Chen Shuai, Deputy District Governor, met with a delegation led by Zou Ciyong, Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
UNIDO is a multilateral technical assistance agency of the United Nations General Assembly.Established in 1966, it officially changed to a specialized agency of the United Nations in June 1985.The headquarters is located in Vienna, Austria. Its task is to help promote and accelerate industrialization in developing countries and coordinate the activities of the United Nations system in industrial development.
In November 2016, UNIDO and the Ministry of Commerce of China signed the project document entitled "Promoting Global Innovation Network for Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development", in a bid to determine the establishment of Shanghai Global Science and Technology Innovation Center project of UNIDO in Shanghai, China and take charge of the management and implementation of the global science and technology innovation network project. In September 2019, Shanghai Hongkou China-United Nations Industrial Development Technological Innovation Center was registered and established as the operating agency of the project in Hongkou, and it operates at Sinar Mas Plaza at the North Bund.
After introducing the situation of UNIDO, Zou Ciyong said that he would actively create platforms for international cooperation, forums and exhibitions, intellectual resources, industrial development, financial support, and technological innovation cooperation by promoting the global innovation network project of UNIDO, forming an innovation ecosystem with multi-field interaction and multi-factor linkage. Besides, it was proposed that the center would build a bridgehead in technological innovation fields such as artificial intelligence, new materials and dual carbon, and upgrade the global innovation network.The center gave a special report on its work since its establishment.
Lu Ming welcomed Zou Ciyong and his entourage. Lu said that currently, Hongkou was striving to build the North Bund of Shanghai and the Golden Triangle of Huangpu River in accordance with the decisions and deployments of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and the Shanghai Government, and accelerating the construction of the North Bund Technology Innovation Headquarters. Meanwhile, Hongkou would further enhance the level of the technology service industry, promote the transformation of technological achievements, strengthen the exchange and cultivation of technological talents, continue to introduce more international organizations and innovation platforms, and focus on building an important bearing area and a nuclear explosion point of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center.Hongkou would further strengthen cooperation and exchange with UNIDO and related projects, and explore more cooperation mechanisms. Moreover, Hongkou would continue to support the project implementation of the Shanghai Global Science and Technology Innovation Center of UNIDO, leverage the platform's influence and channel advantages to achieve industrial development and build Hongkou into an important node in the international technology innovation network.