As one of the most internationalized districts in Shanghai, Changning District has gathered nearly 6,800 foreign-funded enterprises, more than 1,500 permanent representative offices of foreign enterprises and nearly 80 multinational corporations. Headquarters, the registered overseas population of the whole district accounts for about 1/5 of the total overseas population of Shanghai. There are also 27 consulates in Shanghai in the region, accounting for about one-third of the total in Shanghai.
Concentrate efforts to build an international boutique city with world influence , In 2020, Changning District created the first district-level external recognition award in Shanghai – “Hongqiao Friendship Award”, to encourage and commend foreigners who have made outstanding contributions to regional economic construction, social development, and promotion of foreign exchanges and cooperation. At the same time, the “Hongqiao Friendship Award” was established. “Friendship Alliance” provides a communication platform for outstanding foreign talents in various fields.
This year, another group actively participated in the economy of Shanghai and Changning Foreign talents with social development come into the public eye. After the test of the epidemic, they took root in their respective fields and continued to shine, expressing their true feelings with their own words: “Although we are from all over the world, we are fortunate to gather in Shanghai to contribute, and we will walk side by side with the city, because we all love Shanghai!”
“Shanghai has built many Channel, multi-field, multi-level service platform.”
September 2020, in Shanghai Friendship Association and Changning With the support of the district government, a two-day three-industry exchange meeting of “Entrepreneurship, Employment, and Industrial Development” was held in Shanghai Mart. Nearly 1,100 people, 87 institutions, 114 booths, and 295 institutional representatives participated in this event. Professional exchange activities organized by expatriates in Shanghai.
The initiator of this event, Linda Painan is a Singaporean Chinese who has worked and lived in Shanghai for 23 years. Now, she is the person in charge of the foreigner service project of Shanghai Amanjia Family Service Center. In 2020, she was nominated for the “Hongqiao Friendship Award” in Changning District, and later became the first batch of “Great Hongqiao International Experience Officers”. International cooperation, industrial development, business environment, urban development… These are the topics that she continues to focus on as a “new Shanghai native”.
Building a bond of public welfare
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Xu Lingna has a very good personal resume: In 1993, at the age of 17, she was admitted to Boston She was admitted to the university and became the youngest student at the school; she worked for Deutsche Bank; in May 2000, she founded PFI, a company mainly engaged in the management of health food and retail distribution, and sold the company two years later, and began to work in Shanghai Business management work.
In addition to her rich career experience, Xu Lingna is very He has long been associated with social welfare. In 2012, as a volunteer of Shanghai Amanjia Family Service Center, she enthusiastically participated in a number of public welfare services. Later, through the company she established in Shanghai, she set up a special poverty alleviation project to support children in impoverished mountainous areas in Sichuan to go to school. At present, more than 60 children have received full tuition assistance and completed their studies.
In January 2018, Xu Lingna officially served as the chairman of the Shanghai Expatriate Center (TEC). The center officially settled in the Gubei Civic Center located in Hongqiao Street, Changning District. It was also from this time that Xu Lingna, relying on a larger and more extensive platform from Changning District and Hongqiao Sub-district, established a bond for foreigners in Shanghai to communicate and exchange, do business and start a business, and participate in public welfare.
In December 2020, the Center for Foreigners gathered more than 500 Chinese and foreign friends , held a New Year charity event with the theme of “A Gift of Hope”, and raised more than 850,000 yuan for five charitable organizations in Shanghai. In the same year, Xu Lingna also led the Center for Foreigners and the American Chamber of Commerce (Shanghai) to donate 20,000 yuan to the Shanghai Charity Foundation to support the “Orphans Not Orphans” poverty alleviation project established by Changning District for the impoverished mountainous areas of Yunnan. In February 2021, Xu Lingna made another personal contribution and donated 13,000 yuan in the name of the Center for Foreigners to help the seriously ill families in Hongqiao Street.
Xu Lingna knows that charity and public welfare have a long way to go, but she also firmly believes that “giving is more blessed than receiving “. In October 2021, under her initiative, the Center for Foreigners independently developed a bilingual volunteer public welfare platform that connects volunteers, caring companies and beneficiary institutions, and a small program called “TEC Blessing” was officially launched. At present, the platform has become a dedicated volunteer team for foreigners on the Shanghai Volunteer Platform, constantly bringing positive influence to Shanghai’s international exchanges.
Let more people get involved Shanghai
In order to let Foreigners feel more at ease working in Shanghai. Xu Lingna led the team to introduce consulting services for foreigners to come to China to apply for work permits. At the same time, they regularly invite government departments to give lectures on tax policy guidance and foreign-related legal consultations in conjunction with Hongqiao Street every year. The number of services has reached more than 5,000. person-times. At the same time, in order to make the lives of foreigners more comfortable in Shanghai, Xu Lingna cooperated with nearly 60 institutions and units to set up six major programs including public welfare lectures and policy guidance for foreigners, language exchange, cultural exchange, medical health, foreign-related laws, and children’s schooling. class theme courses.
During the new crown epidemic, Xu Lingna personally invested more than 830,000 yuan to purchase and escort supplies overseas in person, and brought them back in batches More than 100,000 pieces of anti-epidemic materials were donated to more than 70 units in Shanghai, covering streets, communities, charities, universities, institutions for the elderly, hospitals, etc. In order to let foreigners keep abreast of Shanghai’s epidemic changes and epidemic prevention policies, she organized a group of foreigners to participate in voluntary services, and established a one-stop epidemic information service center for foreigners in English, covering policy guidance, self-protection, and epidemic notification. and other aspects to provide consultation, timely and accurate information delivery has been well received by everyone.
During the Spring Festival last year, Xu Lingna responded positively to the In order to celebrate the New Year in the Land, we joined hands with Hongqiao Street to invite families of foreigners to celebrate the Chinese New Year, and cooperated with the Shanghai Mass Art Museum to organize a unique Lantern Festival folklore experience for foreigners. Nearly 60 foreigners and families enjoyed traditional Chinese folk music. Experienced the splendid Chinese New Year custom culture. A series of activities full of New Year’s flavors made foreigners fully feel the sense of belonging of “this is home” living in Shanghai.
In July 2021, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Shanghai Center for Foreigners and Huacao International Community Development Promotion Association , invited more than 250 foreigners from nearly 30 countries in Shanghai and their families to the Bund to participate in the cruise light show and witnessed the great achievements of the century-old party. As a representative of foreigners, Xu Linna said sincerely: “We are in this land, and we can regard this place as our home away from home, precisely because Shanghai has built multi-channel, multi-field, and multi-channel for people from all over the world. The layered service platform makes us truly feel that this is home!”
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Editors: Yan Man, Gao Qin
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