[Building the ＂Belt and Road＂ and Authoritative Interview] Shanghai has opened wider to the outside world and expanded new areas and spaces for cooperation.

　　Cctv news(News Network): Shanghai, as the vanguard of China’s opening to the outside world, has been deeply involved in building the "Belt and Road" for ten years, and has held five consecutive import expositions, greatly expanding the cooperation fields and space between China and the co-built countries. In the future, how can Shanghai better serve and build the "Belt and Road" and promote all-round and high-level opening at a deeper level, in a wider field and with greater intensity? Today (October 6), "Building the Belt and Road Together" Authoritative Interview ",let’s see an exclusive interview with Huayuan, deputy mayor of Shanghai.

　　During this time, the sixth China International Import Expo is being prepared in Shanghai. This year, the China International Import Expo(CIIE) National Exhibition will be fully resumed offline, and more than 60 countries have confirmed their participation. With the help of the platform of China International Import Expo(CIIE), countries that jointly build the "Belt and Road" can focus on showing their development achievements and negotiating investment. Anchored with high-level interconnection, Shanghai continues to strengthen major platform traction and breakthroughs in key areas, creating more opportunities for complementary advantages and win-win cooperation with co-construction countries.

　　By pooling superior resources together, Shanghai will strengthen the docking of policies, mechanisms and projects with countries that have jointly built the Belt and Road Initiative, and further promote cooperation in key areas such as infrastructure and people’s livelihood projects to build China — A number of landmark projects such as Qingshan Park in Indonesia Comprehensive Park and Haifa New Port in Israel. In the past ten years, Shanghai has invested more than 33.6 billion US dollars in countries that have jointly built the "Belt and Road", and the contract value of contracted projects has exceeded 81.1 billion US dollars.

　　At present, Shanghai is actively building the country’s first "Silk Road E-commerce" cooperation pioneer zone, and four national pavilions have settled in. Facing the future, Shanghai will further open its channels, continuously improve the scale and energy level of economy and trade, enhance cross-border financial and foreign-related legal services, and provide high-level professional service support and a high-level opening platform for the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road".