The role of the car:
For many people, cars can change their lifestyles and make their lives more exciting. Automobile is a powerful booster to accelerate the process of urbanization. To some extent, it reflects the level of social, economic development and technological progress. In a specific region and space, it also embodies the humanistic concept with great eastern and western cultural characteristics.
In a word, cars are wonderful, and they are often branded with different economic, technological, cultural and even political brands.
The development of automobile and automobile-related industries has created a new space for social development and attracted worldwide attention.
Today, when all mankind is extremely concerned about the sustained and coordinated development of social economy, Shanghai vigorously promotes the development of automobiles and automobile-related industries, and determines that the "super-strong" industry supporting Jiading's key development is the production of automobiles and automobile parts.
At present, on the basis of accelerating the construction of Shanghai International Automobile City and the rapid development of automobile and auto parts manufacturing industry, Jiading has formulated the development policy of "two priorities" according to the actual situation of regional economic and social development, that is, giving priority to the development of advanced manufacturing industry and modern service industry focusing on automobile and auto parts production, further accelerating the pace of urbanization and comprehensively promoting the construction of a well-off society.
In this development process, we are still thinking deeply, for example, what opportunities and challenges will the popularization of automobiles and the development of related industries bring to the sustainable development of economy and society?
How to cultivate healthy related cultural industries while promoting the rational integration of the automobile industry and moving towards urbanization? How to promote the coordinated development of economic and social undertakings?
With the reality that cars are entering the lives of more ordinary citizens and the new requirements for urban construction and urban management, how to effectively protect the natural and human environment from the perspective of future development strategy?
These problems are not only the benefits that cars bring to human beings, but also forward-looking and positive thinking.
In addition, in the process of accelerating urbanization, we must pay attention to the positive and negative effects of automobiles on society, economy, environment and humanities, and study the implementation of industrial policies and the choice of related development strategies.
Shanghai International Automobile City under construction needs to build a platform for the intersection and exchange of information and ideas, and provide an information hub to "link" China and Shanghai with the world automobile industry and discuss automobile culture, so as to gather the wisdom and strength of the whole world and the whole country and promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of the automobile industry and society.
It is for this reason that we launched the "Jiading Automobile Forum" and decided to take "Automobile and Social Life" as the theme.
At this year's conference, around the topic of "automobile and urbanization", we sincerely invite experts and entrepreneurs in the automobile industry to discuss these issues together, so as to help us understand the essential attributes and characteristics of automobile society and automobile culture more deeply, grasp opportunities and meet challenges more clearly, and plan and discuss countermeasures for scientific development and perfect management more reasonably and comprehensively.
This is of great significance to Jiading, which has a profound cultural and historical background, when it welcomes the F 1 event.
Jiading has a good foundation for the development of automobile industry. Today, Jiading is moving towards the goal of building a medium-sized city with high-tech level, comprehensive radiation function and hub modernization.
Within the area of 463 square kilometers in Jiading, the future development strategies of the four major plates of South, North, Central and West have been determined.
The orientation of industrial development in each region is: the southern plate is a comprehensive development plate of "three industries" focusing on the development of commercial services, modern logistics and professional markets;
Build an advanced manufacturing base in the northern region, focusing on the development of auto parts, optoelectronics, biomedicine, modern information technology and other industries;
The central plate, namely the planned Jiading New Town plate, is the political, economic and cultural center of Jiading, and a comprehensive modern urban area integrating education, scientific research, transportation, tourism and residence.
The western plate is a well-known Shanghai International Automobile City with Shanghai International Circuit.
In order to let all the guests here know more about the planning and construction of Shanghai International Automobile City, I will briefly introduce its various functions.
This area is a space carrier for Jiading to build an automobile manufacturing and business center facing the Asia-Pacific region and the whole country.
Its main functions are vehicle and auto parts manufacturing, automobile trade, automobile exhibition, automobile research and development, etc. It will build a national automobile industry highland, and at the same time build a modern residential area with advanced environmental protection concepts and distinctive features-Anting New City.
In a country or region, the sales, service, finance, insurance and other related and derivative industries formed by automobile production are relatively mature, and the supporting municipal public infrastructure construction and operation management can provide a fairly high proportion of employment opportunities for the society, which plays a strong pulling role in the growth of gross national product and the improvement of people's quality of life.
It is estimated that in Germany, one in every 4 ~ 6 employees has a job related to automobiles; In Canada, employees in automobile-related industries account for 10% of the national population.
Under the economic environment of the rapid development of China's automobile industry, we plan to basically build Shanghai International Automobile City in 5- 10 years, cultivate commercial functions such as automobile trade, automobile exhibition and automobile exposition, introduce and digest international advanced automobile design technology, strengthen the research and development of automobile core technologies with independent intellectual property rights, and strive to build a highland of automobile manufacturing technology.
Such planning, orientation and development direction reflect Shanghai's innovative thinking which is different from other parts of China.
On July 28th, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Hu Jintao came to Shanghai International Automobile City, one of the four major industrial bases in Shanghai, and inspected Shanghai Motor Vehicle Testing Center and Shanghai Volkswagen No.3 Factory.
Seeing the automated production line and high-level development and test base here, he said with emotion: "What a change!" .
He urged Shanghai to continue to be at the forefront of the country, accelerate the strategic adjustment of economic structure, actively develop high-tech industries and modern manufacturing industries, and strive to achieve sustained, rapid, coordinated and healthy economic development.
We believe that the construction of Shanghai International Automobile City should reflect such ideas and work requirements.
In today's tide of rapid development of science and technology, industry and information, the role of automobile as an engine to promote economic growth has greatly surpassed the significance of automobile industry itself to accelerate economic development.
Therefore, the brand effect and radiation effect of automobile city must be reflected in the comprehensive development of the whole region.
Most successful automobile cities in the world have multi-dimensional development space, which plays a positive role in the social development of their regions, and is more reflected in the promotion of social undertakings by automobile culture nurtured by automobile and automobile-related industries.
Therefore, the basic strategy of Jiading's economic and social development is to rely on the cultivation, development and utilization of various functions of the automobile city, expand the regional development space from various fields such as automobile industry development and automobile culture construction, make use of the agglomeration effect of F 1 events, give play to the radiation role of Shanghai International Automobile City, and seek the exchange, communication, interaction and integration of economic and cultural information on a global scale.
Similarly, our "Jiading Automobile Forum" is also centered on the theme of "automobile and social life", aiming at discussing the issue of promoting the integration and development of automobile and urbanization, automobile and social humanities, and bringing more fashion, excitement, charm and hope to our society that has come from tradition and is constantly moving towards modernization.
At present, cars are gradually becoming the main means of transportation in our lives, and in a certain period, it has also become one of the important symbols of the wealth of a country and region.
In the past 100 years, driven by the maturity of industrial technology and the growing needs of people's lives, it has developed rapidly under the objective requirements of urbanization.
At the same time, in turn, it further accelerates the process of urbanization. It is a very active and growing factor in the global environment of the world economy and the macro-economic development of China. The development of automobile industry plays an active role in the process of building a well-off society in an all-round way and realizing modernization in China.
At present, the central area of Shanghai is expanding exponentially, and the urbanized areas are rapidly expanding to the suburbs.
With the general improvement of citizens' quality of life and the "upgrade" of consumption expenditure, citizens who have embarked on the road of rich life and some farmers who have stepped into a well-off life have entered the stage of private car consumption.
This situation is particularly obvious in Jiading. Shanghai International Automobile City already has a "automobile village". It is nothing new for villagers to drive to work. Some farmers even buy two cars at home.
In rural urbanized areas, the identity of farmers is vague, and their lives are far from pure farming life. This is the perfect combination of the development of automobile industry and the progress of urban construction, and it is also a vivid embodiment of our people-oriented Scientific Outlook on Development.
In Jiading, which has a history of automobile production for decades and has always been open-minded, in such a specific humanistic environment, it can not only meet the requirements of talents, ideas, technology, market and cultural background, but also create new employment opportunities, form new economic vitality in the surrounding areas, maintain sustainable development, build a new urban-rural integration relationship, and promote harmony, prosperity, nature and convenience.
The construction of Shanghai International Automobile City and the holding of F 1 Games are unfolding a colorful picture of the interaction between the development of automobile industry and urbanization.
This kind of interaction, in Shanghai and Jiading, will promote the formation of new social life concepts and new codes of conduct.
In this socio-economic system with automobile as the pillar industry, this is not only the work of our people's government, but also the responsibility to citizens, and it is also an important measure to maintain social stability and healthy development.
These achievements brought by automobiles are basically positive.
However, cars have also brought social problems such as environmental pollution, traffic congestion, energy consumption, personal injury and death, and many unexpected cultural and social negative effects.
Because of the social and ecological crisis brought by the accelerated movement of cars and individuals, the negative effects such as social injustice reflected by cars also appear.
Obviously, the idea of sustainable development and ecological progress is in serious contradiction with many negative results brought by automobiles.
Facing China's national conditions and Jiading's reality, we need to adopt a positive and enterprising attitude, choose a scientific and reasonable development strategy in line with specific conditions, and put forward future-oriented solutions to avoid major structural fission and technical anomie.
The purpose of our "Jiading Automobile Forum" is to invite everyone to discuss how to promote the sustainable development of automobile and society, and it is also an effort to gather the wisdom of experts and entrepreneurs to comprehensively discuss this multi-dimensional problem from different angles.
Because the above issues involve a wide range and have a multi-dimensional perspective, we envisage that the Jiading Automobile Forum with "Automobile and Social Life" as its core content will be turned into a series of annual forums, which will be held once a year and a special topic will be determined every year.
This year's theme is "Cars and Urbanization", and our slogan is: "Cars make life more exciting".