Retailers enjoy holiday sales boost
TWENTY-SEVEN major retailers in Jiading reported 2.3 billion yuan (US$356 million) of sales from February 4 to 17, which included the Spring Festival, up 22.3 percent from the same period a year ago.
Commercial complexes in the district launched sales promotions during the holiday. Among them, Nanxiang Incity Mega, one of the largest retail developments in Shanghai, outperformed with 166 million yuan of sales in the first half of February, ranking the best overall.
Life Hub@Anting, a commercial complex connected with the Metro Line 11, reported a 16.23 percent year-on-year increase.
The sales of food, clothing, cosmetics, jewelry and other New Year goods were on the rise, particularly sales of gold. Two major gold retailers in Jiading reported more than 10 million yuan in sales in the first half of February, nearly five times that of the previous year.
Seven major
catering enterprises in Jiading reported more than 16 million yuan in sales, an increase of 87.1 percent over the same period last year.
Online sales achieved 1.74 billion yuan, a growth of around 5 percent year on year. Cosmetic products and consumer electronics were among the buyers’ favorites.
SHANGHAI Jiushi (Group) Co Ltd and Jiading government have signed agreements to launch cooperation projects aimed at building a global sports city.
The first six projects include a national sports industry demonstration base, a youth basketball training base, a sports reserve talent social training base, a F1 eSports China championship, Jiading-Wenzhou-Kunshan-Taizhou cycling competitions and an integration station of sports and health care.
Chen Qun, Shanghai vice mayor, said at the signing ceremony that Jiading has good conditions to promote the high-quality development of sports, while Jiushi Group has a number of advantageous resources in the field of sports. Cooperation between the two is of great significance to improve the quality of public services and help Shanghai build a globally famous sports city.
Chen also said both sides should, on the basis of running existing top-level sports events, introduce more high-level events, accelerate the planning and construction of Shanghai Citizen Sports Park Phase 2 and Phase 3, jointly build a social training base for reserve sports talents and accumulate more experience and practices for the development of the city’s sports industry.
The two parties will focus on the construction of Jiading New City, accelerate the creation of a national sports industry demonstration base and build a cluster of scale, unique functions and firstclass services.
The district will focus on the construction of a healthy Shanghai, rely on the advantages in sports facilities, talents and technology, actively participate in organizing the Yangtze River Delta Sports Festival and strive to create a national model fitness area.
In the future, the two sides will further promote the sharing of sports resources, organization of events, industry prosperity and branding through the cooperation and work together to make Jiading an important bearing area of a world-famous sports city.
According to the agreement, Jiading and Jiushi Group will play their respective strengths to develop a 5.3-square-kilometer “sports space” around Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai Citizen Sports Park and surrounding areas to create a “first-class event center, popular sports paradise, urban sports landmark and a national motorsports industry cluster.”
AN upgraded crash laboratory for automobile safety testing has been built by the Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Certification and Tech Innovation Center (SMVIC).
It is the first vehicle crash laboratory in East China with EuroNCAP 2020 capability.
The new 6,000-square-meter laboratory in Anting Town costs more than 100 million yuan (US$15.4 million). It can accurately reproduce nearly 60 safety test scenarios. A robot sitting in the car carries more than 130 sensing devices to provide experimental data for Research and Development personnel during a collision test.
“We have carried out technical transformation and capacity expansion of the original crash test capability,” said the company’s Zhang Jianwen. “The completed technical capacity can meet both the latest test requirements of Europe, the United States and other test requirements for new product development of enterprises, while also achieving an increase in the original test capacity, which can provide more complete technical services for the automotive industry.”
The laboratory takes the special characteristics of newenergy vehicles and intelligent vehicles into consideration as well. So that enterprises can complete car crash experiments in China to meet foreign standards.
As the only independent third-party public technical service enterprise with all domestic motor vehicle testing qualifications in East and South China, SMVIC has built 12 testing and research laboratories in the field of traditional testing.
It has completed research on collision safety testing technology for new energy vehicles and parts, the construction of testing platforms and services, established a new energy vehicle safety testing method that meets the technical characteristics of China and upgraded the testing and research capabilities of key technologies for intelligent vehicles.