short supply and special talents, approval for direct household registration of attracted domestic talent and returned overseas Chinese students, and recommendation from key talent attraction agencies. In terms of housing supply, a number of measures were announced to ensure the diversification of housing supply and the encouragement of renting an apartment.

According to the provisions of Several Measures, Lin-gang Special Area Administration will recommend key talent attraction agencies based on the layout of key industries and actual development needs. Once an employer is certified as a key institution, its core business personnel with skills in short supply, bachelor's degree or above, and at least two years' working experience in the related area can directly apply for Shanghai household registration.

Domestic 1.Approval from Lin-gang Special Area: attracted talents and retumned overseas students can directly apply for talents: household registration.

2.Reduced wait time for the transition from residence permit to household registration: the wait time for the transition is reduced from 7 years to 5 years (with the applicant working in Lin-gang Special Area for at least 3 years). The wait time may be further reduced to 3 years when certain conditions are met (with the applicant working in Lin-gang Special Area for at least 2 years).

3.Bonus points for residence permit: those who hold a Shanghai residence permit will get 2 points for every full year of working and living in Lin-gang Special Area. The bonus points start to count toward the total points from the end of the 3rd year, and the maximum of the bonus is 20 points.

4.Bonus points for fresh graduates employed by public welfare establishments. Fresh graduates from outside Shanghai will have 3 bonus points for their application for Shanghai household registration if they are employed by public welfare establishments such as schools and hospitals.

5.Channels for talent attraction are expanded: the talent attraction catalog is published.

1.Overseas practitioners can practice in Lin-gang Special Area after proper registration: professionals holding overseas qualifications for finance, architecture, planning or design can practice in Lin-gang Special Area after proper registration. Their work experience overseas can be counted toward their work experience in China. 2.Overseas talents may attend vocational qualification exams. Overseas talents working in Lin-gang Special Area may attend vocational qualification exams for real estate appraiser and certified urban and rural planner. 3.Returned overseas students and overseas talents are encouraged to start their own business. Lin-gang Pioneering Park was established to provide special support to start-up projects that meet certain conditions. Foreign students who intent to start their own business in Lin-gang Pioneering Park will be granted a work permit Their start-up experience in the park will be deemed as work experience.

4.Outstanding foreign students are encouraged to work in Lin-gang Special Area. Outstanding foreign students who have obtained a bachelor's degree or above in a famous foreign university, when certified by Lin-gang Special Area Administration, can directly go through the procedures for foreigners working in China, apply for residence permit (work type), and work in Lin-gang Special Area.

5.Overseas Talent Residence Permit (B Permit): returned overseas Chinese with a foreign nationality who work in Lin-gang Special Area may apply for the long-term (maximum validity of 10 years) Overseas Talent Residence Permit (B Permit) and are exempt from applying for a work permit.

6.Work permit for foreign talents: employment restriction on ages, education and work experience may be relaxed for foreign talents who meet certain conditions. They will receive a work permit with a validity of 2 years or above.

7.Bonus points for foreigner's work permit and talent visa: a maximum of 10 additional points as local incentives for work permit and talent visa for foreigners recommended by Lin-gang Special Area Administration.

Guide to Applying for Certificate of Employment in Lin-gang Speciad Aren of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone for Outstanding Foreign Graduatey from High-level Foreign (Overseas) Universitios

Guide to Applying for Letter of Certification for Foreign Students in Shangluai Uuiversities Starting Part-time Business by Lin-gang Special Aren Admanistrutioni of China (Shanghesi) Piot Free Trade Zone (Recenmueudatiou for Addug "Stut Business" on Residence Pennit for Sttdy)

Housing Policies:

Tweaks of house purchasing policies for certain talents: for those who meet certain conditions and work in industries in line with regional development and industrial orientation, the apartment purchase quota of talents without Shanghai household registration is counted based on individuals, instead of households. They are allowed to purchase one commodity apartment in Lin-gang Special Area. Talents without Shanghai household registration must pay personal income tax or social security in Lin-gang Special Area for a certain number of years before they can purchase a property in the area. The minimum payment period is shortened from at least 5 years consecutively to at least 3 years consecutively.

Priority in choosing and buying apartment: the permanent residents in Lin-gang Special Area with a stable employment in the area may have priority in choosing and buying an apartment if they meet the requirement of apartment purchase.

Public rental housing that is "rented before sold": the apartment will be rented out as public housing within 10 years of its completion. 50% of such property may be purchased by enterprises or organizations in the form of entire building to use as rental housing for their employees. After 10 years, the property can be sold on the market as individual apartment.

Sevenad Measures to Support Talent Deyelopment in Lin-gang Special Aren of China (Shuaaghai) Pitot Fiee Inude Zone

Scope ofAaplication and Operation Methods of Talent Apartmient Policy in Lin-gangt Special Ares of China (Shanghai) Pilot Fre Trade Zone

Business Environment 3.0 is benchmarked against the most competitive free trade zones and the international economic and trade agreements of the highest standards that are widely recognized in the world. It will take Lin-gang Special Area 3 years to make itself into a role model of sound business environment in Shanghai and China, while enjoying international fame.

Lin-gang Special Area Business Environment Development Report was released on 12 June 2020, which shows that according to the Doing Business Index of the World Bank, the business environment of Lin-gang Special Area is at a world-leading level.

The Report adopts an assessment system of “18+N” indicators, including 10 World

Bank indicators, 8 national indicators, and 6 Lin-gang indicators for business environment. The World Bank's Doing Business indicators study the whole life cycle of enterprises and give scores that are comparable among different counties and regions. They include starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts, and resolving insolvency. In general, the business environment in Lin-gang Special Area is in the upper echelon in the world, with some of the indicators at world-leading level. At the same time, Lin-gang Special Area has a mature mechanism to safeguard major investment projects, a high-quality service system for domestic companies, and improving public services.

Implementation of 3-year Action Plan

1: Replicate and roll out in large scale the administrative approval model of Tesla

9: Focus on full life of enterprises and propose 9 innovative projects to help companies

X: Comprehensively implement a series of reform measures prescribed in Shanghai Business Environment 3.0

In the next three years, Lin-gang Special Area will endeavor to replicate the success of Tesla Gigafactory and apply the same administrative approval model to other investment projects. Also, it will streamline and integrate administrative approval procedures by 4 "subtraction” (i.e. "subtraction" in application documents, approval items, approval procedures, and administrative charges) and 4 “addition" (i.e. "addition" in integrated service, service menu, service capacity, and integrity system).

Lin-gang Special Area has proposed 9 innovative projects throughout business life cycle, tackling possible problems in business registration, foreign-related legal issues, talent service, international trade, cash flow, infrastructure support, reduction of charges and taxes, innovation and starting up business. Combined with the all-in-one portal for online government services, they significantly enhance the easiness of business activity and embody the policy advantages in Lin-gang Special Area.

Following the World Bank's and national Doing Business Index and the reform tasks in Business Environment 3.0, Lin-gang Special Area, with an eye on the most competitive free trade zones in the world, the experience and practices of advanced economies, and intemational norms, will publish a series of reform measures to cover the periods before, during, and after business licensing, and continuously improve its business environment.

Lin-gang Special Area Business Enviroment Developmnent Report

Implementation Plan to Comoprehensively Deepened the Construcfion of World-leading Business Eaviroument in Lin-gang Special Area of China (Shaughai) Pilot Free Trade Zone

Featured Business Environment Indicators

In the Implementation Plan, it is also stated that a leading group for business environment will be established to coordinate the construction of business environment in Lin-gang Special Area, and that a “18+N” featured indicator system will be set up to continuously evaluate the business environment. These measures aim to safeguard the stable and rapid development of business environment in Lin-gang Special Area

To meet the requirement of "one screen to cover every corner of the city", Lin-gang Special Area has set up a“1+3+6” City Brain to effectively handle various issues. "1" stands for one platform of City Brain. “3” stands for the three main areas in urban governance, namely "Al + urban districts", "Al + tourist attractions", and “Al + industrial parks". “6” stands for the six basic abilities for urban governance, namely visualization, sensing, management capacity, data collection, graphic representation, and computing power. The "1+3+6” City Brain makes possible an Al-powered refined urban management system that can actively detect problems, automatically push the problem to respective department, and handle the problem in a close-loop.

Lin-gang Special Area is also constructing a "1+1+6” operation management system: One portal: Lin-gang's urban operation and management portal

One center: city operation and management center

Six platforms:

Technology-enabled supportive platform, Global sensing and collection platform, City-wide coordination platform, Urban safety management platform, City Operation and management platform, Precise public service platform.

The integrated information management and service platform in Lin-gang Special Area is an online portal for all the business-related administrative affairs in the City-Industry Integration Zone.

It joins forces with the Administration, competent authorities of industry, local enterprises, and relevant operation entities, makes use of the latest technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G, and big data, integrates the information from competent national authorities with the operation and management information in Lin-gang Special Area,

combines the functions of the online administrative affairs portal with the unified management platform, established an accurate prediction and early warning system for risk prevention based on digital governance, and provides assurance to institutional innovation and further opening-up. Whole life-cycle service from project application and approval to business credit management is provided to construction projects. The goal is to achieve “Five 100”, namely 100% document submission with one visit to the window or less, 100% online application, 100% coverage of "Get it Done" packages, start of construction within 100 hours of land grant, and 100% traceability of administrative behaviors.

The Platform 2.0, which will be launched in Lin-gang Special Area very soon, will innovate the mode of supervision. With the upgrade of information technology, the new platform will balance the risk management in all aspects and in key areas, combine the close-loop risk monitoring of the whole life cycle with the dynamic early warning of risks, and integrate information from different department to coordinate the risk supervision at a higher level.

Intensify regulation in key areas:

Establish information management and service platform:

Enhance the prevention of financial risks:

Improve monitoring and early warning:

Strengthen the supervision of border security:

Risk prevention in Lin-gang Special Area

Lin-gang Special Area has a risk prevention system that is based on an integrated platform for information service and management. The system effectively prevents risks by its differentiated, coordinated and intelligent supervision, innovates the methods of govermment administration, pushes for a comprehensive regulatory system comprising self-disciple of enterprises, co-governance of the industry, public scrutiny, and govemment supervision, comprehensively enhances the capacity of risk prevention and safety regulation, and assures the comprehensive and high-quality opening-up in Lin-gang Special Area on deeper levels, in broader areas, and with stronger determination.

Lin-gang Special Area improves the regulation of the security review of foreign investment, anti-monopoly investigation, industrial management, user authentication, and behavior auditing in key areas such as investment, trade, finance, Intemet, ecology and environment, culture safety, immigration, anti-terrorist and anti-secession, and public ethics, and enforces strict, precise and effective supervision.

Lin-gang Special Area has an integrated information management and service platform covering the Administration, competent authorities of industry, local enterprises, and relevant operation entities. The platform provides enterprise with facilitation in international trade and project registration, using the information technologies for risk analysis, prevention and control.

With the mandate from national financial authorities, a unified and efficient financial management system is set up to strength the coordination with national financial regulators. Latest technologies are employed to enhance the capability of financial service and supervision, fight against all kinds of illegal financial activities, and effectively ward off financial risks.

Lin-gang Special Area established an accurate risk monitoring system for areas such as inspection and quarantine, country of origin, intellectual property rights, international conventions, and cross-border capital flow. It provides real-time risk monitoring for the entire process, as well as a dynamic early warning system for risk management.

Lin-gang Special Area implement categorized credit management for businesses. It has improved the basic rules and standards for credit rating, so that companies with a high rating will get preferential treatment in terms of policy application and institutional facilitation. Misconduct of companies will be disclosed. Those on the blacklist will be denied market access or forced to withdrawn from the market.

Lin-gang Special Area has advanced and smart infrastructure for regulation. Regulatory information is shared and recognized among different government departments. The immigration control is improved. The import and export of goods are subject to better supervision.

As a waterside city, Lin-gang boasts abundant coastal water, forest, and wetland resources. The Dishui Lake, located in the downtown area of Lin-gang, is the largest artificial landscape lake in China, which has a diameter of 2.5 km and a surface area of 5.56 km2. Three picturesque islands sit at the north, west and south of the lake. In 2009, Dishui Lake was selected as a national scenic spot for water conservation. The green and water coverage in the downtown area of Lin-gang reaches 65%, helping to maintain the annual average of PM2.5 reading at around 30. Lin-gang Special Area will strengthen the conservation of ecological zones for river, lake, forest and wild animal, build green pathways, suburban parks and urban parks along the coast, and encourage the integration of ecological space and resort area.

Garden City:

Garden City is one of the projects in the ecological strategy of Lin-gang Special Area. It targets the management and repair of ecological environment and goes hand in hand with other environmental projects such as increasing green ratio, fighting air pollution, and treating black and stinky rivers. The planning of Garden City is combined with the overall urban planning to improve the construction of urban green land. Related information of projects pending approval, under construction, or under renovation shall be shared in time to make sure that both short-term and long-term needs are considered. The detailed plan is now being studies according to the Green Land and Forestry Land Planning in Lin-gang Special Area for the 14th Five-Year Plan. It will be improved and specified in accordance with the overall planning of urban construction in Lin-gang Special Area in the principle of "high-level planning, high-standard construction, and high-efficiency management"

Waste-free City:

Another important concept in building an ecological city in Lin-gang is the Waste-free City. Its main idea is promoting an innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development model. By encouraging green development and lifestyle, Lin-gang will continue to reduce the amount of solid waste from its origin, increase garbage recycle, cut landfill and incineration as much as possible, and minimize the negative impact of refuse on city environment.

Waste-free City does not mean that Lin-gang will not discharge any waste, nor does all refuse will be recycled as resources. Rather it is an advanced idea of city management to minimize the production of solid waste, maximize the recycle of trash, and ensure the safe treatment of garbage.

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The increase of population in Lin-gang Special Area will accelerate. Its permanent population will reach 1 million by 2025, and 2.5 million by 2035. To meet the basic living demands of such a large number of inhabitants, Lin-gang Special Area is working hard to ensure the supply of comprehensive and varied living facilities and avoid becoming a "ghost city" at night. The community life should be attractive enough to make people want to stay and prevent "tidal effect" in daily commute. In addition, issues such as ecological conservation, green ration, environmental protection, and energy conservation should also be managed properly. With the ideas of a future city in mind, Lin-gang is planning functions such as central business district, large resident community (international community), and supportive service zone. International high-caliber talents will easily find residence, commerce, education, health care, ecological, culture, sports, leisure and entertainment facilities in this modern city with deep city-industry integration, diversified culture, and balanced ratio of employees to local inhabitants.

Lin-gang Special Area has improved the supply of public resources in social causes. In terms of basic resources, 8 public schools and 2 community health care service centers are under construction, and the construction of Luchaogang Nursing Home, Wanxiang Culture and Sports Center, Lin-gang Youth Activity Center will start in this year. In terms of high-quality resources, famous schools and hospitals in downtown Shanghai have opened campuses in Lin-gang. Shanghai Middle School will have a senior high department in its East Campus. Premium private schools will be opened in Lin-gang Science and Technology City and Jinqiao Lin-gang Park. The construction of the international center of Shanghai No. 6 People's Hospital (East Campus) will be started. Private hospitals and clinics are encouraged in Lin-gang Special Area.

Public Cultural and Tourist Facilities

Haichang Polar Ocean Park

China Maritime Museum

Shanghai Binhai Forest Park

Shanghai Astronomy Museum

Nanhuizui Park

Medical and Health Care Resources in City-Industry Integration Zone

Hospitals

Shanghai No. 6 People's Hospital (East Campus)

Luchaogang Community Health Care Service Center

Shuyuan Community Health Care Service Center

Nicheng Community Health Care Service Center

Wanxiang Community Health Care Service Center

Situan Pingan Community Health Care Service Center

Education Resources in City-Industry Integration Zone

Senior Care Resources in City-Industry Integration Zone

Public pension institutions

S.H. Shuyuan Xinyuan Nursing Home

Universities

S.H.Haiwan Nursing Home

S.H.Dianji University

Private Senior Care Institutions

S.H.Maritime University

China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao 'Tong University (secondary college)

Sino-Foreign Cooperative Education

S.H.Jian Qiao University

S.H.Ocean University

S.11.University of Electric Power

S.H.Fengxian Situan Nursing Home

The (Sino-French) Institute of Arts and Design Management, tral Academy of Fine A
(Sino-foreign cooperative education)

Secondary Technical School

S.H. Chunlei Senior Care Center

Shanghai Lin-gang Science and Technology School

S.H. Jianguo Senior Care Center

S.H.Wanxiang Leling Nursing Home

S.HI. Mingjia Senior Care Center

S.H. Jiajiale Nursing Home

S.H. Renai Senior Care Center

S.H. Private Hugang School

S.H. Huakang Hengyu Nursing Home

S.H. Wanxiang School

S.H. Fengxian Wusi School

S.H. Pudong Qiu Ping School

Nine-year Schools

Nicheng Adult School

Adult Schoolst

Wanxiang Adult Technical School

Shuyuan Adult Cultural and Technical School

Nanhui Adult Cultural and Technical School

S.H. Lingang Senior Care Center

Nanhui Community (Elderly) School

Twelve-year School

Shanghai Jinri School

Lingang Foreign Language School Affiliated to WFL Education S.H. Fengxian Pingan School

S.H. Fengxian Shaochang School

Primary Schools

Spatial Layout with Multiple Centers and Clustering Development

The spatial layout is an extension and expansion of the "Shanghai 2035 Master Plan". The downtown area of Lin-gang Special Area is an expansion of the former Nanhui New City to underline the modern city and special economic functions. The center of the former Nanhui New City is enlarged to build a central business district for Lin-gang Special Area. It is in essence a sub-center of Shanghai that focuses on the core functions of Lin-gang and demonstrates the image of a coastal city. The layout of residential and industrial areas in surrounding townships such as Huinan and Fengxian New City are coordinated to promote synergy in development.

Spatial Layout of "One Belt, Three Cores, Three Corridors, Nine Zones"

The spatial layout of "One Belt, Three Cores, Three Corridors, Nine Zones" is set to strengthen the clustering of the coastal belt, improve the resource allocation of transport, industries, coastal line and space, and ensure the balanced development of the east and west ends of Lin-gang.

One Belt: the coastal development belt is situated on the coastal transport corridor, connecting the core zone, industrial zones and residential zones of Dishui Lake.

Three Cores: one main core consists of the functional core of the downtown area, which focuses on the clustering of new trade, cross-border finance, headquarters economy, and shipping service; two support cores are the functional cores of Bay

Area and Fengcheng Area, which play a leading role for the development of surrounding places.

Three Corridors: the ecological corridor of the Dazhi River, Pudong-Fengxian ecological corridor, and the ecological corridor along S3-Punan Canal-Dalu Line (Tuanlu Port)-Bailong Port.

Nine Zones: The ecological corridor is divided into 9 zones with proper size and complete functions, which include 4 zones in downtown area (Dishui Lake Core Zone, Comprehensive Industrial Zone, Advanced Manufacture Zone, and Emerging Industrial Zone) and 5 zones in surrounding areas (Fengcheng Residential Zone, Bay Area Functional Zone, Rural Green Zone, Qingcun Waterside Zone, and Jinhui Residential Zone). The industries among different zones are mutually enhancing, with easy connection of transport and spatial design in harmony, to achieve the integrated development of urban and rural areas. Two ecological centers are planned in the Emerging Industrial Zone and Bay Area Functional Zone, namely Lin-gang Green Heart and Shanghai Haiwan National Forest Park.

International, Modern, and Comprehensive Communities

Local communities have strong features of Lin-gang Special Area in providing living and leisure services such as retail, culture, sports, tourism, and health care. They are appealing enough to make people want to visit and stay in Lin-gang.

The consumption cluster in the downtown area provides high-end cross-border shopping experience comparable to that in Dubai, Singapore, or other free trade ports. It is attractive to domestic consumers, foreign tourists in China, and outbound Chinese tourists alike. Commercial facilities in the communities will be upgraded to form a more convenient and accessible retail network for everyone.

Such communities will eventually become urban commercial centers for international culture, tourism and vacation, and city-industry integration zones for international culture, tourism, vacation, entertainment, and consumption in Lin-gang and the Yangtze River Delta.

Culture, Education, and Neighborhoods

Public facilities closely related to people's life (such as those for culture, education, and health care) are built in sufficient numbers. Famous cultural companies in China and abroad are registered in Lin-gang Special Area to enhance the capacity of cultural industry in the area. Educational institutions from kindergartens to universities are opened to nurture a sound educational environment. Hospitals and nursing homes are easily accessible to local inhabitants. All these efforts have made Lin-gang Special Area a cozy place to live, where soft environment is warm and welcoming, and hard infrastructure is sound and complete.

Investment Promotion and Service Center of Lin-gang Special Area, China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone

Investment Promotion and Service Center of Lin-gang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (hereinafter referred to as Investment Promotion Center) (formerly known as Business Service Bureau of Lin-gang Area) was unveiled on 28 November 2019. It is a statutory body under the Lin-gang Special Area Administration of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, operated on a market basis by Shanghai Lin-gang Business Service and Development Co., Ltd. Lin-gang Special Area Administration has tasked the Investment Promotion Center to strengthen business attraction, investment attraction, and business service in a well-planned, integrated, coordinated, and comprehensive way, and enhance the communication with the municipal investment promotion center. According to the socio-economic development goals of Lin-gang Special Area, the Investment Promotion Center takes charge of the management of Nanhui New City Business Service Center, coordination of the investment attraction, business service, and talent service of the townships (Nicheng, Wanxiang, and Shuyuan) and developers in Lin-gang Special Area, improvement of resource allocation, attraction of various businesses that are in line with the development need and industrial direction of Lin-gang Special Area, create a sound environment for investment, and support the high-quality development of Lin-gang Special Area.

Lin-gang Special Area Administration, China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone

According to the Article 5 and 6 of Chapter Il of the Administrative Measures for Lin-gang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone, China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone Lin-gang Special Area Administration (hereinafter referred to as the Administration) is an agency of Shanghai Municipal People's Government, and it is responsible for the implementation of various pilot reform tasks in Lin-gang Special Area, economic management of Lin-gang Special Area, and overall management and coordination of relevant administrative affairs in Lin-gang Special Area. In pursuance of the Administrative Measures, the Administration shall perform the following duties: (1) Organizing the implementation of development plans, policies, and measures of Lin-gang Special Area, and formulating relevant administrative systems. (2) Taking charge of the administrative management of investment, trade, financial services, planning resources, etc. (3) Leading or coordinating the relevant administrative management of agencies located in Lin-gang Special Area, and establishing a mechanism of cooperation, coordination, and joint law enforcement with the agencies located in Lin-gang Special Area and relevant departments. (4) Planning and promoting the development and construction of Lin-gang Special Area, guiding the industrial layout and function development of Lin-gang Special Area, and coordinating the construction of major investment projects. (5) Carrying out the requirement of "one website for all services", implementing the "Internet Plus Government Service" in an all-round way, and providing guidance, consultation, and services to enterprises and related institutions in Lin-gang Special Area. (6) Leading the administration of Nanhui New Town, making overall planning for the economic management of other towns in Lin-gang Special Area, and coordinating and administrating the social affairs of Lin-gang Special Area in cooperation with relevant districts. (7) Performing other duties granted by Shanghai Municipal People's govemment.

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