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Shanghai Aims to Be International Financial Center
By the year 2015, Shanghai would basically be an international financial center, a spokesman from the Shanghai municipal government said at a symposium in Shanghai recently.
Shanghai's goals are:
- A GDP of 2 trillion yuan and a per capita income of more than US$16,000
- The tertiary industry to account for 70% of the GDP and the high tech industry to account for around 65% of the GDP.
- The volume of trade at Shanghai's port to account for more than 5% of the world's total trade volume, and transit trade to account for more than 70% of that.
- To have more than 700 regional headquarters of multinational companies and have 400 out of the world's 500 strongest companies based in Shanghai.
- The international container loading and unloading capacity to exceed 20 million containers, and have the length of all roads in the city reach 300 kilometers.
- To have the average life span of people exceed 78 years old.
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