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2. (I) The role of the World Expo in promoting Shanghai's industrial development
Shanghai's successful bid to host the 2010 World Expo has brought great opportunities and challenges to Shanghai's urban construction, environmental protection, economic and social development, and the enhancement of the city's taste and the comprehensive quality of its citizens. Hosting the Expo can promote the adjustment of Shanghai's industrial structure, drive the upgrading of infrastructure construction, optimize the urban environment, promote tourism development, increase employment opportunities and so on.
1, the adjustment and development of high-tech industries. The World Expo has brought a rare opportunity for the development of high-tech industries in Shanghai. Expo venue construction, communications, urban transportation, green environmental protection are inseparable from the support of high-tech. Such as environmental protection technology, building energy-saving technology, water-saving technology, digital communication technology and so on. The use of Expo project construction, optimize the spatial layout of high-tech industries, drawing on the Expo platform for scientific and technological and cultural exchanges, to enhance the scientific and technological bandwagon of China's high-tech industry development and support, and to solicit the talents needed for high-tech development, to promote the convergence and use of talents, so that Shanghai is close to the world's high-tech frontier, and to become the core of the high-tech industry in the city.
2, the promotion of tourism. The six-month Shanghai World Expo will attract global attention and provide a good opportunity for Shanghai to accelerate the development of tourism. Before and after the Expo, Shanghai will attract domestic and foreign tourists with its unique convention and exhibition tourism, modern city tours and beautiful scenery tours. It is expected that Shanghai will attract 70 million tourists in 2010, which will pull Shanghai's GDP growth of about 5% that year, and the direct income from tickets, food and beverage, tourist souvenirs, etc. will be close to 11 billion yuan, and the indirect tourism income from transportation, accommodation, etc. will be 80 billion yuan, and at the same time, a large number of employment opportunities will also be created. Such a large passenger flow and economic benefits, will prompt Shanghai to speed up the pace of urban infrastructure construction, significantly improve the level of hardware facilities to meet the requirements of passenger transportation. By then, Shanghai Pudong - Hongqiao two airports annual passenger throughput will reach 5 million, the construction of 650 kilometers of highway network, the annual passenger traffic will reach 40 million; Shanghai travel distribution center has more than 100 lines, and will open up the World Expo special tourism lines, the formation of well-connected transportation network. This is very favorable to the development of tourism.
3. Improvement of urban infrastructure and ecological environment. "Better City, Better Life", as the theme of the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, fully embodies the concept of coordinated development of man and nature - economy and environment in the process of urban development in the 21st century. Shanghai, as the host city, is also actively working to reflect this theme.
After the success of the Expo bid, the government has planned a huge renovation project to show its determination. It is expected to spend $45 billion to upgrade infrastructure and build new transportation hubs so that by the time the expo opens in May 2010, Shanghai will have two new airports, a subway system that almost rivals New York's, and a new cruise ship terminal, as well as spending $700 million to open up walks along the riverside, build new parking lots, roads and bridges, relocate 18,000 homes and about 270 factories, cleaned up the largest source of pollution along the Huangpu River, and designated 5.28 square kilometers of land along the river as the Expo site. Through a series of expansion and renovation of the city's public **** infrastructure, such as roads, transportation, greening and environmental protection, Shanghai has been transformed into a world-class eco-city.
(2) Shanghai World Expo boosts economic integration of Yangtze River Delta
Shanghai World Expo will involve more than 200 countries and international organizations, and it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to showcase the image of cities in the Yangtze River Delta region on the world's biggest stage to promote the integrated development of the regional economy.
1, for the Yangtze River Delta tourism industry to provide an unprecedented historical opportunity. 2010 Shanghai World Expo, visitors from home and abroad will reach 70 million, of which at least 35% of the visitors will visit the well-known attractions in the Yangtze River Delta, according to the Shanghai World Expo Bureau booking data show that during the Expo, Shanghai accommodation resources gap of about 60,000 beds / day, the extreme peak day gap will reach 400,000 beds. The response to this problem is to divert some of the tourist accommodation to the neighboring cities in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces in the 1-2 hour bus circle, by which time the occupancy rate of hotels in the neighboring cities can be increased by about 12%. In order to better integrate the Yangtze River Delta into Expo tourism, all cities in the Yangtze River Delta have carried out work to integrate traffic signs at tourist attractions.
2. Promote the formation of a new pattern of integrated economic development. The convening of the Shanghai World Expo will certainly form a strong radiation effect and wealth spillover effect on the major cities in the Yangtze River Delta region. During the preparation for the Shanghai World Expo, the pull of the Expo economy on investment in the Yangtze River Delta region around Shanghai is about 30% or more. 2010 World Expo will pull more than 50% of the investment in the Yangtze River Delta region around Shanghai. The Expo's market development program will bring numerous development opportunities to the YRD region, providing various opportunities and platforms for YRD enterprises to participate in the Expo market development. At present, there are obvious intra-regional differences in the total economic scale, development level and degree of industrialization of the cities in the YRD region, with a ladder-like industrial structure and a low degree of agglomeration of some industries. A few years ago, 16 cities in the Yangtze River Delta signed the Opinions on Accelerating the Linkage Development of Cities in the Yangtze River Delta by Taking the Hosting of the World Expo as an Opportunity. Moreover, the first national inter-administrative regional plan, the Outline of the Regional Plan for the Yangtze River Delta, has also been issued, and the Memorandum of Cooperation on the Construction of the Yangtze River Delta Region's "Great Customs Clearance" among the municipal governments of Suzhou, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and the 11th Five-Year Plan for Cooperation in Informatization of the Yangtze River Delta Region have also been issued. Planning" and other professional areas of planning have come out, through the market mechanism and the organic combination of government action, so that the Yangtze River Delta region to achieve resource integration, industrial linkage, complementary functions and benefits **** enjoy, promote the integrated and coordinated development of the Yangtze River Delta economic integration, and thus China's overall economy in the future to achieve a comprehensive recovery to provide a huge impetus.