At the beginning of spring, Hongkou worked hard to optimize the business environment, and promoted the investment introduction. On the morning of February 3, the "Optimizing Business Environment and Recommendation Conference for Key Enterprises of 2023 in Hongkou District" was held at the Shanghai Institute of Innovative and Creative Design, which is the former site of The Henry Lester Institute of Technical Education, an excellent historical building in Shanghai. At the meeting, the "6.0 Version of Action Plan (Draft for Comments) of Business Environment in Hongkou District" was issued, which commended a number of key enterprises and key office and business buildings (industry parks), issued letters of appointment for the first batch of business environment experience officers in 2023, and awarded the investment promotion service stars in Hongkou in 2022. The signing of key projects at the North Bund was launched.
Guo Fang, Standing Member of the Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Mayor and Chief of the District Party Committee, Lu Ming, Deputy Chief of the District Party Committee and District Governor, Zhu Qinhao, Chair of the Standing Committee of the District People's Congress, Shi Baozhen, Chairman of the CPPCC District Committee, and Du Songquan, Deputy Chief of the District Party Committee, attended the event and awarded enterprises with the "Special Contribution Award". Attending the meeting were Zhou Rong, Standing Member of the CPC District Committee and Vice District Governor, Guan Yetong, Standing Member of the CPC District Committee and Vice District Governor, and Vice District Governors Liu Guoqing, Chen Xiaojie and Chen Shuai.
Version 6.0 of the Action Plan Helps to Build A New Benchmark of Business Environment
The "Hongkou District’s 6.0 Version of Action Plan (Draft for Comments) on Business Environment" was officially released, and opinions and suggestions were solicited from the society and entrepreneurs.
In recent years, Hongkou has always taken the optimization of the business environment as the key to improve the core competitiveness of the urban area, and it has successively implemented version 1.0 to version 5.0 of the Action Plans, which has effectively promoted the continuous improvement of the regional business environment. This year is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the sixth year for Shanghai and Hongkou to promote the construction of business environment. It is of great significance to strengthen the efforts to optimize the business environment for the start of the region's economy.
The Hongkou’s Action Plan focuses on the direction of marketization, legalization and internationalization, focuses on responding to the demands and expectations of market subjects, and puts forward 138 minor measures in 27 major items of 6 aspects. Among them, 84 measures in the Shanghai Plan were implemented and 54 measures reflected the characteristics of Hongkou.
In terms of continuing to build a fair and convenient investment environment, Hongkou expanded the scope of electronic registration for establishment, change and cancellation concerning market entry and exit at the unified Digital Service Platform for Enterprises’ Registration of Shanghai and provided the enterprises with whole-process electronic services.For financial services, Hongkou increased the financial support to the real economy. As of tax service, it strictly implemented various tax and fee reduction policies to further reduce the tax burden of enterprises. For another example, in terms of continuous improvement of quality and efficient administrative efficiency, a new batch of "one thing handled in one time" items are promoted in a project-based way for the whole-life-cycle government services for enterprises and individuals, and the handling links, application materials and handling time and efficiency are significantly reduced. In addition, a series of practical measures have been launched to continuously provide normative and considerate government services and continuously improve the scientific and perfect legal system. A large number of new practices and new systems are dazzling.
It is worth mentioning that in promoting reform and innovation in key regions and fields, Hongkou also strengthens institutional innovation, especially in the development and construction of the North Bund, the construction of service trade highlands, and the nuclear explosion point of technological innovation, and continues to create an international first-class business environment with the most convenient investment, the highest administrative efficiency, the most standardized government services, and the most complete legal system. Hongkou strives to build the North Bund into a new benchmark of business environment to further enhance the international influence of its business environment.
The Investment in the North Bund Continues to Soar
With the continuous development of the North Bund, the number of enterprises settling in Hongkou is also growing. The number of headquarters enterprises has quadrupled in the past three years. Meanwhile, Hongkou attaches great importance to technological innovation and entrepreneurship, creates a good innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, and cultivates and introduces a large number of high-energy and high-growth innovation demonstration enterprises. Over 50 key enterprises were awarded this time, including enterprises with great economic contribution and innovative and growth enterprises. Ten technological innovation enterprises, including Shanghai Zhijing Information Technology Co., Ltd., Wayon Electronics Co., Ltd., Shanghai Shunru Fenglai Technology Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Anlogic Infotech Co., Ltd., won the 2022 Hongkou District Innovation Demonstration Enterprise Award.
The signing ceremony of key projects at the North Bund was held at the conference site. More than 30 key projects, including the project of Design Innovation Institute Shanghai settling in the Lester Institute of Technical Education, the project of Shanghai Radiance Sofitel Hotel, the Yangtze River Delta Multimodal Transport of Shanghai International Port (Group) Co., Ltd., the project of Shanghai COSCO Green Water Shipping Co., Ltd., and Newsky (Shanghai) Environment & Tech Co., Ltd., have been signed, bringing about a total investment of about 56 billion yuan. It not only involved traditional finance, shipping, commerce, technology, but also new business forms such as digital economy, green and low-carbon, and new energy. All these helped Hongkou to seize the new track and inject new energy into Hongkou’s economy.
It is learnt that according to the goal of "creating the image in three years, functioning in five years, and completing the project in ten years on the whole", the development and construction of the North Bund in 2022 has taken full swing. The design plan of the 480-meter new landmark in Puxi Area has been confirmed, the Shanghai Real Estate Center Theater, the Maritime Building and other major projects have been completed,the design plan of the North Bund Navigation Park has been released, the significant progress has been made in the construction of the 4.5-kilometer air corridor, the Top Luxury Brand Home of Shanghai Huamao Center has been successfully completed, the leading enterprises such as AIA Life Insurance Co., Ltd. have settled down here, and 56 key projects such as Zijin Mining Group Company Limited have invested in more than 41.6 billion yuan.
In the new year, the North Bund is full of opportunities. Hongkou will take the North Bund as the guide, focus on key projects, major projects and important activities, promote the development and construction of the North Bund, and help the North Bund become a new investment highland. Besides, it will upgrade and improve the action plan for optimizing the business environment again to constantly create a market-oriented, legal and international first-class business environment, promote the continuous improvement of the regional business environment, and drive the high-quality development of the regional economy.