On the afternoon of November 25, as a special guest speaker, Yu Shicheng, Director of Shanghai International Shipping Institute and Party Committee Secretary and President of Shanghai Maritime University, delivered a special lecture at the COSCO Lecture Hall at Lingang New Campus for the “Oriental Rostrum” of Shanghai TV Comprehensive News Channel. His keynote speech of “Shanghai Initiates the Construction of an International Shipping Center” resulted in positive responses.

Around “port promotes a city”, “the construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center is a national strategy”, and “the breakthrough in further promoting the construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center”, Mr. Yu Shicheng described in detail to the audience the progress of the construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center. When reviewing the long history of the Port of Shanghai, he talked from Jiangnan Shipyard, China Merchants Energy Shipping, to Wusong Merchant Marine School. He also introduced “Yangshan Deep-water Port”, “the Yangtze River Deep-water Channel Control”, “5+2 Customs Clearance” and other major breakthroughs in the construction of the shipping center. Mr. Yu Shicheng explained the close relations between shipping and people’s lives, trade and finance. In addition, he put forward views on its future plan from the perspectives of vigorously developing the service industry, exploring the establishment of a comprehensive experimental zone for the development of international shipping, promoting and regulating the development of the cruise industry, transforming governmental functions, and gathering shipping talents, etc.

According to the program group of “Oriental Rostrum”, this program was the first expert lecture focusing on shipping produced by Shanghai television media. As a renowned program with social popularity and high ratings in Shanghai and even the Yangtze River Delta Region, the recording and broadcasting of this program will play an important part in the popularization of shipping knowledge and culture and the promotion of the shipping center construction. This program is expected to premier on “Oriental Rostrum” of Shanghai TV Comprehensive News Channel at 16:30 on December 26 (Sunday), and rebroadcast at 16:05 on December 30 (Thursday).