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According to its blueprint, the period of 12th Five-year Plan is the “functional upgrade” stage of Shanghai’s “Four-Centers” initiative, acting as a link between the former “framework building” stage and its completion by 2020. By 2015, the milestone objectives will have been achieved, and the functions of “Four Centers” expanded and enhanced, laying a solid foundation for the completion of “Four Centers” initiative by 2020.
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In the year 2011, the total contracted value of investment in Shanghai was 20.103 billion US dollars, up 31.3 %, exceeding 20 billion for the first time and marking the beginning of 2.0 era.
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Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences’ global urban research carried out comprehensive study on the global economic flows by looking at the port hub, aviation hub, financial hub, hub staff, data structure (goods, services, people, capital, information). Currently pyramid structure of global cities still exists, and is divided into four different groups. New York, Hong Kong are in the first two group, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Singapore, Dubai and other six cities in the second group, Shanghai, Beijing/Tianjin, Kuala Lumpur, Chicago, Paris, Frankfurt, Washington and other seven cities in the third group, Guangzhou, Brussels, Hamburg, Jakarta, Dallas, Amsterdam, Seoul, Toronto, Miami, Sydney, Vienna and other 11 cities in the fourth group, other cities are in the fifth group.
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BAT are the abbreviation of three domestic internet tycoons, namely, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.
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Xiao, L. (2016). A Globalized SFTZ and the “Four Centers” Initiative in 2020. In: National Test. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0218-2_13
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