International Online News (Reporter Xie Shijia): Shanghai Hongkou was named after the port and prospered because of the port. Hongkou North Bund, which has a history of port and shipping industry development for more than 170 years, is one of the birthplaces of Shanghai’s modern shipping industry. On July 15, the interview team of “Dancing together in the Yangtze River Economic Belt – Watching the Changes in the Yangtze River” came to the North Bund, Hongkou District, Shanghai for inspection. What role does this former “old pier” in Shanghai play now?
Born: The shipping service center creates a high-quality business environment
In July 2017, the unveiling of the Shanghai North Bund Shipping Service Center attracted attention from all parties. The reason is that the center will provide free rental to institutions such as the China Ship Owners Association, the China Ship Oil Pollution Damage Claims Center, and the China Shipping 50-person Forum Secretariat. Isn’t it a loss-making transaction if it is provided for use by functional institutions without rent? However, the reporter learned that the actual situation is exactly the opposite.
Shipping Culture Exhibition Hall on the first floor of the North Bund Airlines Cinema Transportation Service Center Photography Xie Shijia
In the shipping culture exhibition hall on the first floor of the North Bund Shipping Service Center, yellowed old photos tell the historical story of North Bund Shipping. The staff in the exhibition hall told reporters that this was once a restaurant Komiks. In 2016, the District Shipping Office started from the creation of the “high-end shipping service industry” and intends to create an institution that gathers key shipping functions to promote the leapfrog development of the modern shipping service industry. Under this concept, the North Bund Shipping Service Center came into being.
Shen Lan, deputy director of the Hongkou District Shipping Office, explained that the reconstruction project of this 10-story building was determined from the beginning to build a “international shipping information exchange platform”.
”We use zero rent for office use in key functional institutions. This gathers various elements of shipping function.” Shen Lan said that the complete elements have a sustainable boost to the support and development of the entire shipping industry, and will also make the North Bund play a more important role in the construction of Shanghai Shipping Service Center.
It is understood that at present, the China Shipowners Association and China Ship Oil Pollution Damage ClaimsKomiks Business Center, Expert Committee of Shanghai International Shipping Center, Shanghai International Shipping Research Center, China Shipping 50 Forum Secretariat, more than 10 key shipping functional institutions have settled in the North Bund Shipping Service Center. The introduction of these institutions has further supplemented the functional elements of the North Bund shipping industry, pushed up the level of Hongkou shipping, and optimized its business environment. It will invisibly strengthen the high-end gathering of Hongkou Komiks The attractiveness of the shipping business.
Try first: The shipping field has become a number of “first in the country”. North Bund is one of the birthplaces of China’s modern shipping industry. The Hongkou District Party Committee and District Government planned the development direction of the modern shipping service industry as early as the late 1990s. On July 12, 2007, Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, proposed during his investigation in Hongkou: “We must rely on the North Bund planning. Cinema construction, vigorously develop the shipping service industry, and build a shipping service cluster area. ”
In recent years, with the transformation and development of Shanghai’s central regional functions, Hongkou has also based on the location advantages of the North Bund and has increased its efforts to take the lead. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, Hongkou District has clearly proposed a plan for industrial functional layout of shipping “one line, two circles and four centers”, that is, based on the North Bund Riverside, and around the Huoshan Road Circle and Miyun Road Circle, it has built an international shipping exchange center, an international shipping talent service center, an international shipping financial service center, and a shipping innovation enterprise service center, and will build the North Bund into one of the most dynamic and distinctive international shipping business districts in China.
Waterscape next to the Shanghai Shipping Exchange located in the North BundKomiks Photography Xie Shijia
North Bund Street Road Signs Photography Xie Shijia
According to Shen Lan, in the past few years, Hongkou District has put a lot of effort into optimizing the business environment and building a shipping service industry chain. On the one hand, HongkouKomiks District has increased its efforts to attract large and strong shipping companies, and while cultivating the development of original shipping companies in the region, it has continuously improved the energy level of the North Bund Shipping Service Headquarters Base. On the other hand, Hongkou District has actively benchmarked the development experience of well-known international shipping centers such as London, Singapore and Hong Kong, and has comprehensively led the industry’s development in the fields of shipping information data, shipping talent highland, shipping financial formats, shipping insurance and compensation management, etc., and has effectively extended the shipping service industry chain in the region.
Hongkou District has achieved good results in the first trial and trial. The results of Babaylan, in a few years, North Bund has nurtured countless “firsts” in China’s shipping industry: the first pilot program of shipping brokers in mainland China was launched here; China’s first shipping fund management company was established here; China’s first shipping rate derivatives trading platform was established here…
Breaking out of the cocoon and becoming a butterfly: the “old dock” in the past transformed into a “ship service headquarters base”
From the “old dock” in Shanghai to the “ship headquarters base” in today’s “ship headquarters base”, North Bund has completed its own rapid leap. Today, North Bund has become the most concentrated Chinese shipping service companies. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan, Shipping Headquarters Special Examination, the most complete shipping elements, and the most complete shipping industry chain. The shipping service industry has become the “ballast stone” of the Hongkou regional economy.
Komiks Babaylan Floor index of Shanghai International Shipping Center in North Bund, a large number of Chinese and foreign shipping companies have settled in it. Photography Xie Shijia
According to statistics, the number of shipping companies in Hongkou District has increased from 1,601 in 2007 to 4,642 in 2018, with an average annual growth of 276, covering a complete shipping service industry chain such as shipping companies, shipping finance, transaction brokerage, maritime arbitration, information consulting, education and training, shipping agency, freight forwarding, etc. In Hongkou District, there are an average of 197 shipping service companies per square kilometer.Before other domestic developed port and shipping industries.
A large number of leading shipping industry enterprises, domestic vanguards and pioneers have also settled here. According to Shen Lan, at present, port service enterprises represented by the Komiks and above ports, liner transport enterprises represented by China Far Sea Transport, shipping trading platforms represented by Shanghai Shipping Exchange, new shipping think tanks represented by Shanghai International Shipping Research Center, and other companies have settled in the North Bund.
Talking about the future, Shen Lan said that in the future, Hongkou District will continue to adhere to the functions of high-end shipping services, deepen the construction of “Shipping Service Headquarters Base”, improve the radiation power of shipping services and the allocation capacity of shipping resources, and build North Bund into the core brand of “Shanghai Shipping Services”.