《國家智庫報告：“一帶一路”建設(shè)中的港口與港口城市（英文版）》：
　　A. The advantages of Shanghai in the building of the Belt and Road Initiative
　　-Location Advantage. Shanghai is located in the Yangtze River estuary, facing the East China Sea in the east, adjacent to Hangzhou Bay in the south, connecting Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Provinces, which jointly forms the Yangtze River Delta Economy Circle with Shanghai as the core. It is not only the eastern border city of the Silk Road Economic Belt, but also the origin city of the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. It is the rendezvous point of the Belt and the Road, the inland and the coast, which enables it to have the strategic position connecting "the inside and outside", and provide congenital location advantages for Shanghai to integrate into the Belt and Road Initiative.
　　-Relatively complete and high-quality industrial system. Besides the weak mining industry, Shanghai occupies a prominent position among the domestic provinces and cities with its comprehensive industry category and substantial industrial strength. Among them, the strength and level of the financial industry and service industry are among the best in China. Such kind of industrial system provides favorable conditions and possibility for Shanghai to participate in the multi-category and comprehensive development of large scale cities along the Belt and Road as a whole.
　　-Quite complete communication channels with the relevant countries and cities along the Belt and Road. There are dozens of countries which have Consulate General in Shanghai. Shanghai has communicated with friendly cities or cities of friendly communication in more than 70 countries, with more than 100 news organizations from dozens of countries or regions. Among the above countries, at least half are along the Belt and Road. In addition, there are natural relations between Shanghai and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Industrialists' Committee, and BRIC Bank.
　　- Talent and technology advantages. As China's most economically dynamjc region with the highest degree of internationalization, Shanghai has a large number of talents with consciousness of innovation, dynamic and most innovative, among which about 1/4 are returning brains. Shanghai has basically completed the most complete regional scientific and technological innovation system, formed a number of industrial clusters of international advanced level and active technological innovation, and several key subjects with international advanced level and technical advantages; in the key fields it has a number of science and technology leaders of international advanced level and internationally renowned entrepreneurs in the key industries; it has several scientific research bases and research and development centers of international advanced level, and a number of major scientific and technological achievements of international advanced level.
　　-Strong integration of resources. The successful implementation of the construction of Jinshan Petrochemical since the 1970s, the construction of Shanghai Baosteel from the 1980s, the development and opening up of Pudong in 1990s, and the China World Expo in the first decade of the 21st century, all these systematic large projects have tempered Shanghai, which enables it to have special resource integration capability under the national strategy. The times are moving forward and the mechanism has changed, therefore the role of the government has to keep up with the times. The richness, complexity and arduous nature of the strategy of the Belt and Road Initiative require strong resource integration capability of the government. And Shanghai, as an international metropolis at the forefront of reform and opening up, has already possessed such ability.
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