Shanghai Business Bulletin Will Be Held In 2016.

Over the past five years, the import of consumer goods in the city has increased by 20.8% annually, reaching 42 billion 400 million US dollars in 2015, accounting for 30% of the whole country.

This is the information that the reporter obtained from the Shanghai business briefing held in 2016.

Shang Yuying, director of the Municipal Commerce Commission, said at the briefing that the new pattern of foreign trade with service trade, general trade and consumer goods imports as the driving force for growth has already been formed in this city.

Over the past five years, the average annual growth rate of imports and exports of goods is faster than that of imports and exports of goods by 9.3 percentage points.

In 2015, the import and export of technology and offshore services reached 11 billion 300 million US dollars and 6 billion US dollars respectively, which were 2.9 times and 3.4 times of that in 2010. The import and export of new services such as finance, insurance, culture, information and so on also achieved two digit growth every year.

In 2015, the proportion of general trade imports and exports in goods import and export reached 47.4%, 7.2 percentage points higher than that in 2010, and the proportion of exports of high-tech products in goods exports reached 43.7%, 14.9 percentage points higher than that of the whole country.

The new trade advantages of quality, service and core competitiveness are accelerating.

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All over the world, through investment and acquisition of overseas brands and channels, vigorously develop the upstream and downstream industry chain, and build a global supply chain system. The enterprise going global network has involved 178 countries and regions.

The construction of "one belt and one road" has become a hot spot in global value chain cooperation.

In 2015, Shanghai invested 9 billion 500 million US dollars in direct investment, 87 billion US dollars in trade volume, and 5 billion 400 million US dollars in new contracted foreign contracted projects, accounting for 23.7%, 19.3% and 48.2% of the city's total, respectively, and developed from traditional export of goods and services to commodities, services and capital exports.

Foreign investment has formed a new pattern, especially the contribution of headquarters economy has been increasing.

In the past five years, 230 new regional headquarters of MNCs were established. As of 2015, TNCs accumulated 535 regional headquarters in Shanghai, including 41 in the Asia Pacific region, the most concentrated in the regional headquarters of MNCs in the mainland.

The regional headquarters of TNCs, which account for about 1% of the total number of foreign-invested enterprises in the city, contribute about 9% and 15% of the total revenues and profits of the foreign-invested enterprises in the city.

In the past five years, 75 newly invested R & D centers, totaling 396, including more than 120 of the world's top 500 enterprises, accounted for 1/4 and 1/3 of the whole country respectively, providing an important carrier for promoting Shanghai's participation in global R & D.