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日新月异的金桥地区 - 2020年08月03日
A one-time backwater catapults to the forefront of 'smart' technologies
It was a fortuitous decision when Japanese electronics company Omron invested in the new Jinqiao trade zone of the Pudong New Area in 1993.
The company, a world leader in industrial automation and medical equipment such as blood pressure monitors, essentially grew with the zone.
“Back then, it was still largely a farming area,” said Zhu Lianming, a senior manager in strategy planning at Omron Shanghai. “It took me almost three hours to travel from People’s Square downtown to the company site 20 kilometers away. All the way, the view from window was just countryside. Roads were not named and addresses were not given.”