Shanghai Municipal People’s Government General Office

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the opening and development of Pudong, the 5th anniversary of the important speech delivered at the 30th anniversary celebration of Pudong’s opening and development, and the final year of the “14th Five-Year Plan”. The opening and development of Pudong is a cross-century national strategy made by the Party Central Committee. Under the care of the central government and with strong leadership from the municipal party committee and government, as well as support from all sides, Pudong has persistently dared to explore and pioneer, acting as a pacesetter in reform and opening up and a forerunner in innovative development. From farmland, it has built a modern new city with concentrated functions, complete elements, and advanced facilities. In 2024, its regional GDP reached 1.78 trillion yuan, with a per capita GDP of $43,100. Occupying 1/8000 of the nation’s area, it contributes 1/76 of the GDP and 1/17 of the total goods import and export volume, providing the most vivid real-life example of the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics…

Huangpu District is the economic, administrative, and cultural center of Shanghai. During his work in Shanghai, the General Secretary positioned Huangpu as the “heart, window, and business card” of the city. Since the “14th Five-Year Plan”, Huangpu has focused on building a core leading area and the main development line of “new functional heights and new quality benchmarks”, striving to promote high-quality development, create a high-quality life, and achieve efficient governance. The district’s development capacity and comprehensive competitiveness have steadily improved. By the end of 2024, Huangpu’s regional GDP reached 334.4 billion yuan, with an average comparable annual growth of about 4.5% in the first four years of the plan. The regional economic density reached 16.3 billion yuan per square kilometer, maintaining the top position in the city and among the highest in the country. The district-level general public budget revenue reached 29.9 billion yuan, with an average annual growth of over 6%…

As the core area of Shanghai’s central city, Jing’an has a high degree of internationalization, concentrated high-end elements, and a developed service economy, consistently leading the city’s regional economic and social development. The “14th Five-Year Plan” period has been an extraordinary five years in Jing’an’s development. Following the requirements of the municipal party committee and government, and aiming to “accelerate the construction of an outstanding modern international urban district”, Jing’an has coordinated efforts to promote high-quality development, high-level reform and opening up, a high-quality life, and efficient governance, striving to create a model of Chinese-style modernization at the district level…

Priority has been given to livable and affordable housing. Urban renewal efforts have been continuously intensified, and the pace of relocation and renovation has accelerated. In five years, three goals have been achieved and three steps have been taken: by 2022, the renovation of old houses below the secondary standard was fully completed; by 2024, the task of renovating small beam and thin slab houses was finished; and this year, the era of “carrying a toilet” has ended. Over these five years, a total of 421,000 square meters of old housing has been renovated, fulfilling the “livable dream” and “settlement dream” for over 20,000 households. At the same time, concepts such as landscape preservation, age-friendliness, park city, and resilient safety have been integrated into urban renewal, advancing the construction of