l General Introduction Jing An District locates at the downtown Shanghai, and is named after the ancient Jing An Temple. The district has an area of 7.62sq-km including 7.57sq-km land and 0.05sq-km river way, has 5 sub-district offices, namely Jing An Si, Cao Jia Du, Jiang Ning Lu, Shi Men Er Lu and Nan Jin Xi Lu. According to the strategic goal of constructing the district into “a high-quality district for business and commerce and a high-quality district to live in”, Jing An fastens the development of regional economy and promotes steadily the urban rebuilding and environment construction and enhances the function of centralization and radicalization and comprehensive service and was awarded as nation sanitation district, national civilization district, national advanced culture district, national community constructing demonstration district and national two advocacy model district. l Major Advantages Advantages on commercial capability level. Jing An District is one of the famous long-standing commercial districts in Shanghai, within which there are now nearly 5000 commercial spots. Jing An Nanjing Rd. is one of the most prosperous business and commercial centers in Shanghai. Advantages on commercial centralization. The finished commercial building area has reached 2.3 million sq-meters, among which over 60 buildings possess the foreign-related qualities. The A-class commercial buildings enjoys very high station rate. Star hotels concentrate in the district, totally 17, in which 4 are 5-star hotels. Advantages on human recourses. Jing An District is a “national advanced culture district” with rich culture accumulation and concentrated media. Shanghai TV Station, TRS, Shanghai Culture Union, Philharmonic Orchestra and so on are located in the district. Advantages on comprehensive services. Jing An District has a rich education resource and many qualified teachers. It is the only “district with standard science, chemistry, biology and nature labs of all the elementary and middle schools in Shanghai. Jing An District enjoys a developed medical system and a perfect community service system. Many famous hospitals like Huashan Hospital, East China Hospital, Shanghai Children’s Hospital are here. There is a complete physical exercising facility in the district. The Jing An Physical Center Swimming Stadium is awarded as the national advanced swimming stadium. l Industrial Feature The modern service industry is the major industry in Jing An’s industrial structure. Jing An District is exerting itself in the construction of industrial system with the core of modern service industry of its own features. The six industries in the system are commerce and trade circulation industry, specialized service industry, real estate industry, tourism and exhibition industry, culture and living service industry and new-style urban industry. Commerce and trade circulation industry: including retail, food, wholesale trade and etc. With Jing An Nanjing Road as the axis and large-scale stores like Westgate Mall, CITIC Square, Plaza 66, City Square as the main body, theme shops, flagship shops and monopolized shops expand in the area. The district is constructing into a symbolic area of Shanghai international shopping center to further project the international influence of Jing An Commercial circle. Specialized service industry: including advertisement, accounting, designing, lawyer, financial investment, consulting, information service industry and etc. Comparative advantages and centralization effects continue bringing into play in the whole city, forming industrial group with a reasonable layout and meeting the need of the market. Real estate industry: including development, management, intermediate service and property administration in real estate. The reasonable development of commercial and residential building forms mutual support, good interactive and healthy developing real estate industry. Tourism and exhibition industry: including accommodation, travel agency, tour sight spot project, meeting and exhibition. It forms a high-quality integration of sightseeing, business exhibition, entertainment, food and accommodation and a harmonious development situation with tour industry boosting business and business promoting tour industry, and the combination of culture and tour, service and tour. Culture and living service industry: mainly including culture, entertainment, education, training, sport, fitness, medical treatment, health care, fashion, and community service. It forms a people-oriented service industry system matching the construction of Two-High district. New-style urban industry: including urban industry, manufacture service industry, creation industry. Building featured zone of urban industry to project its function of centralization and innovation. l Development Layout In the future Jing An District will form 4 future symbol areas with different functions. First, symbolic area of Shanghai international shopping center. With Jing An Nanjing Rd. as the main body it forms a international commercial area with complete equipments, harmonious views and the integrated functions of commerce, business, tour, shopping, food, entertainment. Through upgrading the industrial pattern level, centralizing commodity category, optimizing the market environment, improving internationalization level and personalization service, let Jing An become a rendezvous for top brands and new-style services, and an important region for international and domestic trade. Second, nuclear area of Shanghai international specialized service industry. Fasten the development of modern service industry taking building economy as a major carrier, create modern management concepts and patterns consistent with international practices, to cultivate characteristic industry. Project the leading role and effect of Jing An predominant industries in the centralized belt of modern service industry of the whole city. Third, mainstream area of Shanghai international culture and fashion center. Make full use of Shanghai culture, diversified commercial patterns, large-scale exhibition equipments and urban tour resources to create Jing An creative, casual and relaxed living space, and elegant, civilized, comfortable culture atmosphere, making Jing An the leader in fashion trends and front line in cultural consumptions. Fourth, international modern residential area in the city center. Counting on first-class commerce and business, perfect high standard functional equipments, community administration and services, create personalized space with affinity, and form complex function, diversified lives and exquisite environment urban living area, to reach the international and modern city life standard. l Investment Environment Jing An District lies in the middle of the East-West development main axis of Shanghai, enjoying a predominant location. The transportation in the district is convenient. There are over 70 major transportation roads, over 40 major public transportation lines, together with Metro Line 2, Yan’an Elevated Rd, Chengdu Elevated Rd, In-Town Check-In Hall, forming a three dimensional transportation network extending in all directions. 19 departments like foreign economics, industry and commerce, tax, environment protection, public health have entered the business solicitation service center. They are operating with the principle of “single receiving, joint approval, quick management and one-off charging”. They provide “one-stop” service to the enterprises in the district and offer “fast track” for the major and important projects. All government functions adopt such systems as 1st person responsibility, political affair publication and periodical tracking. l Enterprises in Jing An 946 foreign-invested companies had stationed in Jing An District by the end of 2005. Jing An District has become one of the most concentrated regions with headquarters of multi-national companies, banks and financial institutions and modern special services. Along the Jing An Nanjing Rd. there are more than 2000 business institutions including GE, Pfizer, Akzo Nobel, L'Oreal, Founder. Over 30 companies or RHQ from the top 500 enterprises or multi-national companies have been stationed in the district. There are nearly 100 branches of banks, 10+ branches of domestic and international insurance companies. In the field of specialized services, there are 70+ lawyer's offices, 30+ accounting offices including KPMG, 350+ advertisement companies including the Toppan Advertising LTD. l Solicitation Projects Modern service industry projects and modern urban industry projects. l Service System Operating institutions: Jing An District Foreign Economic Commission, Shanghai The district foreign economic commission is the function department that takes charge of foreign economy and trade affairs of the district. The major functions are to implement the national guidelines, policies, laws and regulations on foreign economy and trade, to attract foreign investment and foreign affairs, to approve non-restricted foreign-invested companies within the limitation; to primarily approve and submit restricted foreign-invested projects out of the limitation; to supervise and inspect foreign-invested companies to carry out relevant laws, regulations, rules and contracts. The commission is also responsible for the guidance, coordination, approval and administration on process trade with coming or bought material. Add: 3F, 58 Jiaozhou Rd. 200040 Shanghai Tel: 62156655 Fax: 62535522 Jing An District Foreign-Invested Enterprises Association, Shanghai Jing An District Foreign-Invested Enterprises Association established with the approval of the government. It is a non-profit professional social organization composed of joint ventures, cooperative companies, sole-invested foreign companies, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao-invested companies, and other relevant institutions or persons. It was founded in May, 2005 and has over 180 company members. The purpose of the association is to protect the legal benefit of its members, to promote the understanding and cooperation between the government & companies and companies & companies, and to enhance the development of companies, and to build an information platform between the government and companies. Add: 1303, 58 Jiaozhou Rd. 200040 Shanghai Tel: 62551843 Fax: 62551843 
Index for the procedure: Operating institution: Jing An District Foreign Economic Commission Address: Reception Hall on the 1st Floor of 58 Jiaozhou Rd. Time: working days 8:30a.m. – 11:30a.m. 1:30p.m. – 5:30p.m. Telephone: 62584908, 62156655-15 Time limit: 10 working days for approval, 3 working days for sign and issue of certificate. l Ways to contact Zhang Ren Liang Magistrate of Jing An District People’s Government, Shanghai 62472188 Shen Min Vice Magistrate of Jing An District People’s Government, Shanghai 62472188 Jing An District Foreign Economic Commission, Shanghai Xie Hong Qiao Director 62156655 Zhang Bei Deputy Director 62156655 Wang Li Ping Deputy Director 62156655 Add: 3F, 58 Jiaozhou Rd. 200040 Shanghai Tel: 62156655 Fax: 62535522 |
