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An advanced industrial cluster to serve world’s leading enterprises

Qingpu District is stepping up efforts to develop an advanced industrial cluster as it aims to leverage its geographical advantages and favorable business environment to appeal to more Chinese and foreign-funded companies.

The district, which is located in west Shanghai, is taking advantage of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region to foster a group of industries that can help accelerate the shift of economic growth drivers.

Established in 1995, Shanghai Qingpu Industrial Park covers 56.2 square kilometers. It consists of two national-level development zones, Qingpu Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Zhangjiang Qingpu High-tech Park. After nearly 25 years of development, Shanghai Qingpu Industrial Park has gathered more than 2,000 high-quality domestic and foreign enterprises, including 23 Fortune Global 500 companies, together with more than 50 regional corporate headquarters or research and development centers. It has 149 enterprises and 37 listed companies or their affiliates. Nearly 20 companies in the park are in the pipeline for public listings.

The park focuses on a raft of sectors including high-end equipment, auto parts, biomedicine, new materials, printing and media, fast-moving consumer goods, electronics and information, as well as artificial intelligence.

The park now has 109 European enterprises, including 39 from Germany. Among them are world-leading machinery and equipment engineering company Dürr, skincare brand Nivea, a century-old family business Vorwerk, printing equipment company Heidelberg, Fortune Global 500 conglomerate BASF, specialty lubricant manufacturer Klüber and textile machinery maker Trützschler. These Germany companies post a combined annual output of 4.4 billion yuan, accounting for 20 percent of total output of all foreign-invested enterprises and 82 percent of all European enterprises in the industrial park.

Zhangjiang Qingpu
High-tech Park

The area of Zhangjiang Qingpu High-tech Park has been expanded from 12 square kilometers to 21 square kilometers, with the number of companies rising to more than 600. The park’s enterprises can enjoy all the preferential policies in Zhangjiang High-tech Park in the Pudong New Area. This includes offers of funding support to cutting-edge Chinese and overseas research institutes, key laboratories and functional headquarters. The park is committed to incubating enterprises, fostering technology innovation, cultivating talent and facilitating research results.

Qingpu Comprehensive
Bonded Zone

The Qingpu Comprehensive Bonded Zone covers 1.58 square kilometers, and it is in the bonded zone closest to the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai).

It is home to 48 enterprises that specialize in export processing and manufacturing, aircraft engine maintenance, bonded logistics and cross-border e-commerce. It features a cluster of high-quality projects by leading global and Chinese companies in the fields of aviation, oil equipment, automotive systems and electronic materials.

Qingpu government has unveiled a raft of supporting policies to encourage companies to settle down in the industrial park, with special efforts to provide high-quality commercial services as well as education and healthcare for people who work for companies in the park.

Also with 120 newly added bicycle rental points and five parking lots, the industrial park aims at improving the mobility of people who work there or live in nearby areas. It also offers shuttle buses for people to commute from Metro Line 17 to the park, and residential space for rent to people who work in the park.




 

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