A city’s core competency results from development and competition over a
long period of time. It is unique and hard to replicate.Besides, a
city’s competency hinges upon a combination of factors that often have a
definite bearing on optimizing regional resource allocation.The second
China International Import Expo will be held at the National Exhibition
and Convention Center in Shanghai from November 5 to 10, 2019.For
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Against this backdrop, a continued drive to enhance a city’s core
competency is a major prerequisite for it to stay influential and
allocate global resources in the face of an uncertain external
environment.
The second China International Import Expo (CIIE), which runs from
November 5 to 10, has emerged as an important window on Shanghai’s
rising clout and service capabilities.Through CIIE, the key strengths of
Shanghai in areas such as openness, innovation and regional integration
will come to the fore, mirroring an alignment between a city’s improved
capabilities and China’s new round of opening-up.
In the era of globalization, CIIE will demonstrate Shanghai’s role
as a key transit hub in global trade. It will also showcase progress
made under China’s ongoing new round of opening-up.In terms of trade
structure, Shanghai imported goods worth 2.03 trillion yuan (US$290.6
billion) in 2018, up 6.4 percent from 2017.
In the same period, its exports totaled 1.36 trillion yuan, an
increase of 4.2 percent over the previous year. Rising imports at a
faster clip indicate an optimization of Shanghai’s trade structure as
well as its growing status as a trade transit hub.What’s more, this
year’s CIIE has added United Nations Development Programme,
International Trade Centre and other global organizations to the list of
invitees, a move suggesting Shanghai’s deepening ties with multilateral
organizations from around the world.
Over the past 20 years, Shanghai has mainly played a supportive role
in helping domestic industries access the global market. It also
provides an avenue for foreign direct investments in China’s export
manufacturing sector.CIIE will give an impetus to Shanghai’s presence as
the city steps up its efforts to connect domestic industries with the
overseas market.
Shanghai used to be a gateway to developed Western economies, but
now this role starts shifting toward one that gives equal attention to
Western countries, Belt and Road nations and developing economies. In
2017, for example, Shanghai imported 364.9 billion yuan worth of goods
from Belt and Road countries, a surge of 25 percent compared with the
previous year.This volume topped the imports of the US and ASEAN
(Association of Southeast Asian Nations) from Belt and Road countries,
which stood at 207.2 billion yuan and 264.2 billion yuan.
China’s new round of opening-up is driven in part by manufacturing
and in part by consumption. From chasing high-quality growth to leading a
quality life, the change in slogans reflects the gargantuan scale of
China’s consumption market.The country is already home to a vast number
of upper-middle-class consumers with strong buying power. CIIE thus will
deliver more opportunities to countries that choose to exhibit their
products at the fair.
Mexico, for one, is keen to know whether Chinese consumers have an
appetite for the country’s Tequila spirits and avocados. Developments in
China’s healthcare, education and beauty care sectors have presented
global enterprises with immense opportunities.Leading pharmaceutical
firms like Pfizer, Roche, MSD, Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly and
Company registered for CIIE long ago and even planned to launch some of
their new medicine and medical devices that had secured or were awaiting
approval from local FDA authorities in China. Similar examples abound.
In the past, Shanghai was more fixated on economic openness. But
since the introduction of “Shanghai 2035,” a plan for building itself
into an “excellent global city” by 2035, the city has been placing a
premium on innovation and exchange of ideas. Global cities are the
result of globalization.
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