Tech City a cross-border feat
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LINGANG Songjiang Tech City broke ground recently on a development that will feature the world’s longest corridor at 1.5 kilometers.
The complex located in southern Songjiang will be sited on 82 hectares. When completed, Tech City will be a platform for technology commerce, trading and cultural exchanges.
The first projects standing in line to make their homes in the park include the Swiss Pavilion from the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and the China Corporation United Pavilion from the 2015 Milan Expo.
No completion date has been given yet.
Designed by award-winning Uruguayan architect Rafael Vinoly, Tech City will feature 26 80-meter-high office buildings, upmarket hotels, restaurants, a shopping mall and a conference center. They will mix along the meandering corridor with outdoor cafes, fountains and greenbelts.
Each building’s first three floors will be in a courtyard style, and rooftops will be sky gardens and solar panel installations.
Tech City is being built to cater to fast-growing, high-technology companies. But it will also cater to visitors who want to enjoy duty-free shopping, a playground for children, entertainment facilities and fine dining.
Tech City is being developed through the joint efforts of Songjiang and the Lingang Group from the Pudong New Area as another chapter in Shanghai’s “district-to-district” cooperation plan.
Under the 2016-20 Five-Year Plan, the two parties are committed to developing similar high-tech cities in the Songjiang towns of Xinqiao, Jiuting, Zhongshan, Dongjing and Sheshan Hill. The grand plan will cover almost 10 square kilometers and will attract 70,000 residents.
This is not the first time Songjiang has collaborated with other districts.
In 2013, the Caohejing High-Tech Park in the Xuhui District signed a contract with Songjiang to work jointly on Songjiang’s New Industrial Zone. Today that construction project is nearing completion.
The project was part of Shanghai’s district-to-district industrial parks policy, aimed at addressing a growing scarcity of space for technology expansion in more inner areas of the city.
The Songjiang towns of Xinqiao, Jiuting and Sheshan Hill, and the Zhongshan Community have signed agreements with the New Industrial Zone.
Enterprises such as Shanghai Manheng Graphic Design Information Co, online children’s games developer TaoMee Inc. and software developer TCSoft are going to set up shop there.
“The cooperation between Xuhui and Songjiang is a model for utilizing land resources to their optimum and attracting homeless yet high-tech companies,” said Li Yaoxin, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization “It also sets a good example for the integration of manufacturing and services industries.”
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