CCTV News (News Network): As my country's largest economic center city, how will Shanghai strengthen its confidence and do its best in the new year, and promote high-quality development to achieve new and greater results? This issue of "Authoritative Interview: Looking for Development and Launching a New Chapter" sees the exclusive interview with Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng by a reporter from the Taiwan Taiwan.
In 2024, Shanghai expects the city's GDP to grow by about 5%, and the urban economic scale enters a new stage of more than 5 trillion yuan. The scale of the three leading industries of integrated circuits, biomedicine and artificial intelligence reached 1.8 trillion yuan, and the total foreign trade import and export volume reached 4.27 trillion yuan, setting a new record high. Gong Zheng said that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, Shanghai's new momentum is constantly cultivated and strengthened, and the dividends of reform and opening up continue to be released.
The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that it is necessary to use scientific and technological innovation to lead the development of new quality productivity and build a modern industrial system. This year, Shanghai will implement a new round of "Shanghai Plan" for the three leading industries in depth, cultivate and expand strategic emerging industries and future industries such as new energy vehicles, smart terminals, and low-altitude economy, and accelerate the creation of four trillion-level industrial clusters: electronic information, life and health, automobiles, and high-end equipment.
Taking the expansion of domestic demand as the strategic basis, we will make every effort to maintain stable economic growth. In the new year, Shanghai will implement special actions to boost consumption, pay more attention to promoting the expansion and upgrading of service consumption; deepen the construction of international consumption center cities, and increase the expansion and implementation of major consumption promotion activities such as the "Two New" actions, and continue to amplify the linkage effect of business, tourism, culture and sports exhibitions.
