By Cheng Jiajia
"Changyang Xiudai", an online new economic park was unveiled recently in Shanghai.
The park started construction in the Binjiang area of Yangpu District, which is home to most industrial relics. It plans to attract, cultivate and develop more than 30 leading online new economy enterprises and over 3,000 innovation-based companies in online new economy, with a combined scale of over 300 billion yuan by 2025, becoming a budding highland of online new economy, a paradise for start-ups in this industry, and one of the areas with the highest economic density in China.
As part of the economic measures responding to the epidemic, Yangpu District launched a 3-year action plan to develop new digital infrastructure, promote online economy and cultivate new growth drivers, proposing development plans and measure for 11 industries for further development. In the first three quarters of 2020, the added value of Yangpu's software and information services represented by the new generation of Internet companies increased by more than 20% year-on-year. According to the third-quarter financial report, the revenue of three Bilibili companies increased by 73.54% year-on-year, 85.5% for Dada Group, 102.9% for http://daojia.jd.com/, 80.8% for Agora, and 52.87% for Ucloud. Currently, there are 561 online new economy enterprises in the park, with a total output of nearly 70 billion yuan.
The park will be built into a pioneering zone for upgrades of growth drivers, a carrier zone for economic dual-cycle development, a test zone for disruptive innovation models, and a gathering zone for online economic factors. The responsible persons of the Yangpu District Planning Bureau and Natural Resources Bureau revealed that the park is divided into "one belt and two districts", with a total planned land area of 11,190 mu (3,750 mu of them are developable land), and a total planned construction area of 7.96 million square meters.
One belt: the park will build a new economic belt along the Huangpu River which integrates the ecological belt, cultural belt and innovation belt, and push forward with the introduction of new technologies, new models, and new business forms into the park.
Two districts: the park will focus on the development of two districts. The first is the "Headquarters" district, located in the southern section of Yangpu Riverside, from the west plant of the Power Station Auxiliary Equipment Factory to the International Fashion Center area. The second is the "R&D and Innovation Park" district, which extends to the Huangpu River in the east, Liping Road in the south, Jungong Road in the west, and the Yangpu District boundary in the north.
It is understood that the new economy park will carry out four action plans to attract, gather and develop resources and talents to build a high-quality industry ecosystem, and roll out various pilot projects with high standards.
