-Open your heart to all rivers.
If you are a foreigner and walk in Hong Kong Middle Road, you will find that the city is very familiar-it smells like new york, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Many financial institutions and business outlets live next to each other, and many office buildings such as Qingdao International Financial Center, Fenghe Plaza, China Merchants Bank Building and Everbright International Financial Center naturally gather. In this street with the reputation of "Financial Street", you can choose conventional banking services such as deposit and withdrawal, and you can also see a wide range of financial products and enjoy more humanized financial services such as online banking, telephone banking and self-service banking. In the past five years, Qingdao * * * has introduced 0/4 foreign banks and 60 financial institutions. At present, it has developed into a city with the most complete types of financial industry in the province-the birth of "Financial Street" and the opening up of the financial industry are just a microcosm of our city's opening up and the development of export-oriented economy.
Opening to the outside world is the advantage, potential and motive force of Qingdao's development. As early as 1984, Qingdao became one of the first coastal open cities in China. In recent years, the radiation of Olympic opportunities has made an unprecedented breakthrough and promotion in Qingdao's opening and internationalization: shaking hands with Qingdao in the centennial Olympic regatta means that through this large-scale sports and cultural "Expo", on the one hand, it can promote us to grasp sports standards, cultural exchanges, service etiquette and many other fields according to international standards and modern standards, and let us know more about the world; On the other hand, it can show the new image of Qingdao's reform, opening up and social progress to the world more directly, enhance the charm and international reputation of the city, let the world know more about Qingdao, and let the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition surpass itself and truly become a symbol of Qingdao's further internationalization and modernization. Today, this coastal city that pursues Excellence is opening its mind to the world.
This year, international and domestic eyes will pay more attention to Qingdao, which is an important opportunity to show Qingdao's new achievements in reform and opening up, a new image of urban civilization and strengthen international exchanges and cooperation. Qingdao should seize this opportunity to show the world the vitality and vigor of Qingdao, an open city.
The wave of opening up has stimulated the vitality of the city.
Accelerate the construction of "World Office"
2008 is the Olympic year, and China will celebrate the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up. Qingdao is not only the venue of sailing competition for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, but also one of the first coastal open cities in China. For Qingdao, it is an important task for Qingdao this year to seize the opportunity of the Olympic Games and show the world the vitality and vigor of an open coastal city.
Wu Tiejun, director of the Municipal Bureau of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, said that this year, in terms of foreign trade, he will make full use of the opportunity of the Olympic Sailing Competition held in Qingdao to make all-round efforts in attracting investment in key projects, expanding international trade, holding major exhibition activities, innovating ways of attracting investment, improving the quality of utilizing foreign capital, accelerating the transformation of foreign trade development mode, further optimizing the foreign trade structure, and striving to improve the level of "going global" work. Create a more harmonious and perfect investment environment, carefully organize economic and trade activities in key countries and fields, make full use of the theme of the 2008 Olympic Sailing Competition, and invite overseas important merchants to come to Qingdao to discuss and promote cooperation projects, so as to promote the sound and rapid development of our open economy.
In order to seize the opportunity of the Olympic Games and improve the level of open cities, Qingdao should strive for greater achievements in developing service outsourcing. Wu Jing of Qingdao Academy of Social Sciences said that since the reform and opening up, Qingdao's manufacturing industry has developed rapidly in the opening up. Qingdao has become one of the world's important "processing factories" by comprehensively undertaking the transfer of the world's processing manufacturing industry, and has promoted "Made in China" to become famous in the international market. In the future, one of the important directions for Qingdao to achieve a higher level of development in opening up is to actively develop service outsourcing and build a world office base. Wu Jing suggested that Qingdao should learn from India's successful experience, actively develop Qingdao's service outsourcing, and make Qingdao a "world office". At the same time, give full play to the advantages of port, humanities and openness, actively promote trade in services such as logistics, tourism, finance and software, and enhance the image of Qingdao as an open city.
Environmental facilities should be internationalized.
The investment environment is aimed at "gold medal"
Relying on the Olympic Games, Qingdao's urban infrastructure construction has entered the "fast lane". At present, various supporting facilities in Qingdao's urban construction are constantly being established and improved in the direction of internationalization. Urban infrastructure is gradually in line with international standards, and the investment environment is constantly optimized. The foreign investment service hall insists on providing fast, efficient and high-quality "one-stop" and "one-stop" services for foreign investors, which has been widely praised by foreign investors. In 2004 and 2005, it was twice rated as "the best business city in China" by American Fortune magazine (Chinese version). In 2006, China was awarded the "Gold Medal City" by the World Bank. From June 5438 to February 2007, Qingdao also won the "Urban Openness Index Award" at the 2 1 century annual economic conference and the first 2 1 century urban development forum.
"The impact of the Olympic Games on Qingdao's export-oriented economy should not be underestimated. It is one of the important manifestations to comprehensively optimize the open environment and promote the integration of environmental facilities with the international community. " Wang Xiyuan, a member of CPPCC National Committee, believes that these honorary titles show that Qingdao's modern urban construction and supporting facilities are winning the favor of more and more foreign businessmen. Qingdao should seize this opportunity, further optimize the investment environment, establish a convenient and efficient administrative service environment and build a good legal environment. At the same time, we should speed up the training of foreign-related talents, effectively solve the problems of foreign businessmen's medical treatment and children's enrollment, actively create a social atmosphere of "pro-business, safe business and wealthy businessmen", and enhance foreign businessmen's sense of identity and belonging to Qingdao.
An open city must be international in financial ecology. This is an important criterion to measure the internationalization of a city. As the frontier of Shandong's financial opening to the outside world, Qingdao has many Chinese and foreign financial institutions. At present, Qingdao is preparing for a rainy day and actively building Olympic finance. Wang Xun, president of Qingdao Central Branch of the People's Bank of China, said that this year, the People's Bank of China will actively strive for POS machines to enter key areas such as tourist attractions and transportation. Strive for the acceptance of bank cards to enter key tourist attractions, civil aviation, railway and highway ticket sales fields. By the end of June, the number of bank card merchants, POS machines and ATM machines in the city will increase by more than 30% compared with the end of 2006. The penetration rate of bank card merchants in the city has reached more than 60%, and the penetration rate of special merchants in key Olympic areas has reached more than 90%. Accelerate the construction of foreign card acceptance market, actively expand the scope of foreign card acceptance, increase the number of foreign card acceptance machines, and ensure the accessibility of foreign card swiping. In addition, it is necessary to scientifically plan and add foreign currency exchange points, and design and make a map of foreign currency exchange services in the city to facilitate exchange.
"Go out" and "Please come in"
Constantly broaden the field of friendship city exchanges
The preparation of the Olympic Sailing Competition has expanded the field of Qingdao's international exchange and cooperation, and brought many investment and trade opportunities.
In terms of "going out", many large enterprises such as Haier, Hisense and Tsingtao Brewery have implemented the globalization strategy, attacked the city in foreign markets, and also carried out strategic cooperation with world-renowned enterprises. It has formed a "going out" pattern of cluster development integrating overseas investment, foreign contracted projects, foreign labor cooperation, foreign consulting and design, and foreign aid. In recent years, the establishment of foreign financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank and world-renowned accounting firms such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG, as well as the foundation stone laying of a number of circular economy and environmental protection projects such as the Spanish seawater desalination project, all mark that Qingdao's opening up has entered a new stage.
In recent years, the scale of international activities undertaken by Qingdao, the number of foreign dignitaries and celebrities received and the number of international organizations and multinational companies received are unprecedented. Qi, a lecturer at the Party School of the Municipal Party Committee, said that Qingdao should further expand its opening to the outside world and make new breakthroughs in friendly cooperation among international cities. It is suggested that Qingdao's sister city work should be strengthened in the future. First, plan sister cities, constantly expand new sister city resources, and pay attention to finding cities that have a strong pulling effect on Qingdao's key goals and long-term development to become sister cities; The second is to classify and screen the resources of sister cities, determine the friendly exchange activity plan according to each other's characteristics and Qingdao's needs, tap and integrate the resources of sister cities, broaden the exchange fields of sister cities, and focus on promoting exchanges and cooperation in economy, trade, culture, science and technology, sports and tourism in our city; The third is to establish a sister city evaluation mechanism to ensure scientific selection of partners, actively promote friendship with well-known foreign cities, and further improve our sister city layout. Actively broaden the channels of foreign exchanges and do a good job in the docking of "bringing in" and "going out".
"With the approach of the Olympic Games, Qingdao's popularity is getting higher and higher, and many large-scale world-class festivals and exhibitions have been held in Qingdao, which shows that Qingdao is consciously opening to the world and has become the foundation and soul of Qingdao." Hu Xin, chairman of Qingdao Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, said that the Olympic Sailing Competition will be the best opportunity for Qingdao to go abroad and go to the world. Through the strong media publicity attracted by the Olympic aura, Qingdao will appear on the international stage under the global attention, which is a rare opportunity for Qingdao. In this year's work plan, the Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese will hold a theme inspection of key overseas guests and overseas Chinese media will focus on Qingdao Olympic Sailing, organize overseas Chinese businessmen and returned students to welcome the Olympic Sailing to Qingdao, actively invite overseas guests to visit Qingdao, and hold a summit forum on cultural exchanges and development between overseas Chinese at home and abroad. Through these activities, the bridge between overseas Chinese and the world will be further extended, and the image of Qingdao as an open city will be enhanced.
Festivals and exhibitions highlight the Olympic theme.
Building an internationally renowned conference destination city
Convention and exhibition industry is a yardstick to measure the internationalization level of a city. It can not only bring considerable economic and social benefits to the host city, but also has inestimable significance to enhance the visibility of the city and expand the image of an open city.
August is the most charming season in Qingdao every year. The annual International Beer Festival and other international festivals attract many tourists and businessmen from home and abroad to gather in Qingdao to share the openness, romance and warmth of Qingdao and appreciate its tolerance, enthusiasm and hospitality. It can be said that many international festivals and exhibitions provide convincing "proof" for the opening of Qingdao.
In 2007, Qingdao further promoted the introduction and going out of exhibition enterprises and projects, and the internationalization process of existing exhibitions was accelerating. The participation of internationally renowned convention and exhibition institutions in the development of Qingdao convention and exhibition industry has been further deepened, and the number of international exhibitions has reached 52, accounting for 65% of the total number of exhibitions. "This figure shows that the open cooperation of Qingdao convention and exhibition industry has been continuously strengthened, and the internationalization level of convention and exhibition industry has been improved." Professor Zhou Shengsheng from the International Business School of Qingdao University said that this is mainly due to the interactive combination of convention and exhibition industry, external publicity, urban publicity and Olympic promotion. He suggested that Qingdao highlight the theme of urban characteristics this year and strive to create a series of exhibitions with distinctive characteristics. Dig deep into the connotation of the Olympic city, further combine Olympic propaganda with city promotion, take exhibition as an important theme of city image promotion, increase external publicity and attract more exhibition projects to settle in Qingdao. At the same time, with the goal of building an internationally renowned conference destination city, we should give full play to Qingdao's unique advantages in environment and resources, improve various infrastructure functions, improve the level of supporting software and professional services, comprehensively expand external publicity, cultivate and introduce a number of international exhibitions and conferences with higher grades and greater influence, and gradually build Qingdao into an internationally renowned conference destination city mainly hosting mid-to high-end conferences.