Hongqiao Flower Market, the largest fresh flower trading venue in Shanghai, is bustling as people plan to decorate their homes with festive flowers to celebrate the coming Spring Festival, which falls on Jan 22 this year.
Calligraphers write Spring Festival couplets and the Chinese character "Fu" for travelers at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station on Jan 13.
Shanghai has unveiled a plan to promote its robot industry in the next three years, including having 10 industrial leading robot brands, realizing 100 robot application scenes, and expanding the city's robot industrial scale to 100 billion yuan ($14.75 billion) by 2025.
Shanghai has passed its COVID-19 infection peak of the current surge, the city's epidemic prevention and control authorities claimed on Tuesday.
International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), a leading flavor and fragrance brand from the United States, recently set up operations in the IBP International Business Park in the Shanghai Hongqiao International Central Business District.
The total exposure of the fifth China International Import Expo has exceeded 5.6 billion hits and that of all five sessions of the annual event combined has surpassed 10 billion hits.
The "Silk Road e-commerce" Spring Festival Shopping Festival which is hosted by the Hongqiao Import Commodity Exhibition and Trade Center was launched in Shanghai Hongqiao International Central Business District on Jan 13.
Shanghai has set a GDP growth target of above 5.5 percent for 2023 and experts say the fulfillment of this "achievable goal" will support China's sustainable development in the long term.
