Major Advantages
Advantages on commercial capability level. Jing An District is one of the famous long-standing commercial districts in Shanghai, within which there are now nearly 5000 commercial spots. Jing An Nanjing Rd. is one of the most prosperous business and commercial centers in Shanghai.
Advantages on commercial centralization. The finished commercial building area has reached 2.3 million sq-meters, among which over 60 buildings possess the foreign-related qualities. The A-class commercial buildings enjoys very high station rate. Star hotels concentrate in the district, totally 17, in which 4 are 5-star hotels.
Advantages on human recourses. Jing An District is a “national advanced culture district” with rich culture accumulation and concentrated media. Shanghai TV Station, TRS, Shanghai Culture Union, Philharmonic Orchestra and so on are located in the district.
Advantages on comprehensive services. Jing An District has a rich education resource and many qualified teachers. It is the only “district with standard science, chemistry, biology and nature labs of all the elementary and middle schools in Shanghai. Jing An District enjoys a developed medical system and a perfect community service system. Many famous hospitals like Huashan Hospital, East China Hospital, Shanghai Children’s Hospital are here. There is a complete physical exercising facility in the district. The Jing An Physical Center Swimming Stadium is awarded as the national advanced swimming stadium.
 
  Industrial Feature
The modern service industry is the major industry in Jing An’s industrial structure. Jing An District is exerting itself in the construction of industrial system with the core of modern service industry of its own features. The six industries in the system are commerce and trade circulation industry, specialized service industry, real estate industry, tourism and exhibition industry, culture and living service industry and new-style urban industry.
Commerce and trade circulation industry: including retail, food, wholesale trade and etc. With Jing An Nanjing Road as the axis and large-scale stores like Westgate Mall, CITIC Square, Plaza 66, City Square as the main body, theme shops, flagship shops and monopolized shops expand in the area. The district is constructing into a symbolic area of Shanghai international shopping center to further project the international influence of Jing An Commercial circle.
Specialized service industry: including advertisement, accounting, designing, lawyer, financial investment, consulting, information service industry and etc. Comparative advantages and centralization effects continue bringing into play in the whole city, forming industrial group with a reasonable layout and meeting the need of the market.
Real estate industry: including development, management, intermediate service and property administration in real estate. The reasonable development of commercial and residential building forms mutual support, good interactive and healthy developing real estate industry.
Tourism and exhibition industry: including accommodation, travel agency, tour sight spot project, meeting and exhibition. It forms a high-quality integration of sightseeing, business exhibition, entertainment, food and accommodation and a harmonious development situation with tour industry boosting business and business promoting tour industry, and the combination of culture and tour, service and tour.
Culture and living service industry: mainly including culture, entertainment, education, training, sport, fitness, medical treatment, health care, fashion, and community service. It forms a people-oriented service industry system matching the construction of Two-High district.
New-style urban industry: including urban industry, manufacture service industry, creation industry. Building featured zone of urban industry to project its function of centralization and innovation.
 
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