Innovation center has worldwide ambitions
The North Hongqiao Innovation Center of the National Base for International Cultural Trade (Shanghai) has been established in Jiading’s Jiangqiao Town to support intellectual property trading, games exchange and trading and comprehensive services enabling Chinese games to go global.
Lu Fangzhou, Party secretary of Jiading, said Jiading will be paying more attention to building a complete games industry system.
The next stage will be promoting innovative and integrated development of new formats and new models of the games industry, building games platforms, creating various incubators and industrial parks, and making it a gathering place for China’s games industry.
Greater Hongqiao area with Jiangqiao included will work with Waigaoqiao in the Shanghai free trade zone where the national base locates to provide enterprises with a variety of services in finance, tax, administrative approval and other scenarios.
FFT headquarters
Meanwhile, construction of the global headquarters of FFT, a Fulda, Germany-based automated and flexible turn-key solutions provider, was launched in Jiading.
With a total investment of 5 billion yuan (US$719 million), it will be completed in 2022.
The future global headquarters of FFT is at 400 Yuanda Road in Anting Town. Covering an area of nearly 6 hectares, it will include an office building, a global R&D center, installation and commissioning workshops and logistics warehouse.
Top experts from FFT Germany will work there.