In mid-summer, Chongming is covered with green trees and lush. In the agricultural base, the ears of rice are swaying, and the melons and vegetables are fragrant. The guesthouses are "full of customers", and the high-end high-tech projects in the industrial park are in full swing... The tourism and the modern agriculture are both booming, and the green industry is in the ascendant. From the fields to parks, there is a vibrant scene.

In recent years, Chongming has firmly grasped the concept of ecological priority and green development, accelerated the transformation of ecological advantages into development advantages, and vigorously built the "Five New" Ecological Industrial System, including vigorously building new modern agriculture, new marine intelligent manufacturing, new ecological culture and tourism, new vitality health, new green technology to fully stimulate the vitality of industrial development and promote the high-quality development of Chongming's ecological economy. Chongming is rising as a black horse and playing a magnificent role in taking off.

Science and Technology Enabling the Agricultural Production

In Youyou Sino-Dutch Agricultural Innovation Park, the world-class plant factory located in Zhongxing Town, strings of small tomatoes like grapes hang on the vines. They are full and colorful, which makes people salivate. The taste is even more amazing. It is the taste of tomato in earlier time. It is sour, sweet and delicious. An official told that this string harvest tomato is cultivated by high technology. Through advanced technologies such as intelligent control throughout the process, it can not only ensure that the appearance and quality are standardized. Tomatoes have the same size, taste and color, but also increase the output to 20 times that of ordinary farmland.

This is the epitome of Chongming's vigorous development of modern new agriculture. In recent years, Chongming has taken agricultural science and technology as an important starting point to accelerate agricultural modernization, introduced a number of high-tech projects, and created a gold-lettered signboard of modern agriculture. Projects such as Youyou Sino Dutch Agricultural Innovation Park, Chongming Intelligent Ecological Flower Park, and Zhengda Chongming Laying Hens Farm have been completed and put into operation. Chongming Intelligent Ecological Flower Park applies the world's advanced production facilities and equipment to realize the whole process automation of domestic seedling raising, with an annual output of more than 200 million flower seedlings.In Zhengda Chongming Laying Hens Farm with the scale of 3 million laying hens, all links such as water feeding, feeding and egg collection are automatically controlled with the realization of standardizing, refining and intelligent breeding. The annual output of eggs can reach 800 million. Science and technology enable the agricultural production, promote the quality and efficiency of agricultural products and promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional agriculture to new agriculture in a short time.

In the next step, agricultural technology will fly higher with innovation wings. Focusing on the development goal of high technology, high quality and high added value, Chongming is strengthening the gathering, exchange and cooperation of Chinese and foreign agricultural scientific and technological innovation institutions, putting agricultural scientific and technological innovation in the forefront, making every effort to tackle key core technologies such as seed source and seed industry, striving to improve the content of agricultural science and technology, building a world-class agricultural scientific and technological innovation island, and promoting the development of agricultural modernization to a new level.

Agricultural brand building is a key link in the development of modern agriculture. To this end, Chongming has strengthened the protection of geographical indications and trademarks of agricultural products, created regional public brands, and constantly strengthened its agricultural competitiveness. At present, Chongming has 8 geographical indication certification trademarks such as Chongming Fragrant Crisp Taro and Chongming White Lentil, 4 geographical indications of agricultural products such as Chongming Narcissus and Chongming Shawutou Pig. Agricultural products with "Chongming" brand in large supermarkets and e-commerce are very popular with customers.

In order to realize the sustainable development of modern agriculture, Chongming also actively cultivated new agricultural business entities and a number of new farmers who understand technology and are good at operation and management. Chongming has accumulatively certified 20 doctoral-level farms, evaluated 199 municipal-and-district-level demonstration cooperatives of farmers' professional cooperatives and 30 key leading enterprises of agricultural industrialization in Chongming District and Shanghai. As a major force, those new agricultural business entities play an important role in improving the comprehensive efficiency of agriculture and promoting rural revitalization.

The Tourism Becomes A New Internet Celebrity

"There are more and more interesting scenic spots in Chongming. Homestays and hotels are all booming. The tourism industry here is becoming increasingly full of content. Every time I come to Chongming, I have a different surprise, which makes me fall in love with Chongming again and again", said Wang Qi, a citizen who came to Chongming for the third time in this year.

Wang Qi's words confirmed the changes in Chongming's cultural tourism industry in recent years. Taking advantage of the construction of world-class ecological islands, Chongming's tourism industry has been injected new vitality, and a new cultural tourism of Chongming has emerged, embarking on a road of upgrading.

In 2020, Chongming successfully created a national tourism demonstration zone. A large number of A-level scenic spots, high-quality hotels and star rated homestays have been built one after another. With new ideas, new qualities and new experiences, they have become new network celebrities for tourists.

In every August, rice field paintings with unique shapes and colorful colors in "Yongfeng Art Garden" scenic area of Fengle Village, Hengsha Township attract countless tourists.The total area of the scenic spot is 330 mu, with colorful rice paintings as the main elements. There is a sea of flowers composed of large areas of flowers of different colors, mazes and other amusement facilities.

"The rice field painting is so spectacular". "There are all kinds of agricultural activities and experiences, which are extremely interesting". The tourists praised Chongming a lot. From a field to a scenic spot, it is full of creativity. Yongfeng Art Garden has become a hit. Being accredited as the National AAA Scenic Spot in 2021, it has become a landmark scenic spot of Chongming Island, attracting more than 100,000 tourists to experience it every year.

It is learned that at present, the number of National A-level Scenic Spots in Chongming has increased to 24, and the number of high-quality scenic spots ranks the 2nd in Shanghai. Over the past five years, the annual growth rate of tourist reception and tourist income has remained above 10%.

Homestays have also sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, and after years of development, the scale has grown continuously. At present, there are more than 1,000 homestays. Fashionable and exquisite, idyllic and exotic... Chongming's homestay has its own characteristics, becoming a unique landscape, attracting many tourists to come and experience. Brands like "Haishang Huadao", "Home Accommodation Cluster on East G20 Flower Island", "Uncle Gu" and "Zhigu" have formed certain influence. "One room is hard to get" during holidays has become the new normal of Chongming homestay. The continuous popularity of homestays has also led to the improvement of the rural environment, the sale of agricultural products and the increase of farmers' income, providing industrial support for rural revitalization.

With the further improvement of the tourism industry level and the continuous improvement of tourism supporting facilities, Chongming's tourism industry has become more and more diversified, and the integrated development of multi tourism has embarked on the fast track. Donghe Jiugu Happy Farm takes rice culture as the theme and creates agricultural tourism integrating agricultural experience, vacation and leisure, popular science education. Companies such as Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. launched the "Great Nation’s Craftsman" industrial tourism route. All kinds of sports activities such as marathon, bicycle race, kayak and football are deeply integrated with tourism resources. There are also various special festivals such as Huachao Festival integrated with the flower industry. All of those have become beautiful business cards of Chongming’s new cultural tourism.

The Green Technology Contributes to the Low-carbon Development

How to promote low-carbon development with the green technology? Chongming is carrying out a vivid practice.

In Yu'an Aquaculture Farm in Chenjia Town, on the sparkling aquaculture pond, photovoltaic panels glowed blue under the sunlight. The "fish-light complementary" photovoltaic power generation project covers an area of 3,390.6 mu. It is a landmark project that the proportion of new energy power generation in Shanghai reaches the national requirements during the 13th Five-year Plan, and is also the largest demonstration project of fish-light complementary in Shanghai.The annual power generation of the project is 140 million KWH, which can save nearly 40,000 tons of standard coal and reduce nearly 100,000 tons of carbon dioxide emission.

With Chongming's in-depth implementation of the "plus ecology" and "eco plus" development strategies, the main line of ecological priority and green low-carbon development continues to deepen, and the promotion of the development of green new technology industry has become a key move for Chongming to build a world-class ecological island and a "carbon neutral" demonstration area. Therefore, in recent years, Chongming began to use green technology to create a new engine of green development. Chongming has built a number of photovoltaic power generation projects in Chenjia Town, Luhua Town, Hengsha Township and other places to promote energy conservation, consumption reduction and emission reduction. It is reported that by the end of 2021, the proportion of renewable energy power generation in the region has exceeded 30%. In other words, nearly one-third of the electricity used by Chongming people is green electricity that does not emit carbon, ranking the first in all districts of Shanghai.

At the same time, Chongming's manufacturing industry, service industry and other industries have accelerated the green upgrading. Through the application of digital technologies such as the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence, we will transform the production mode, achieve the goals of energy conservation, consumption reduction and quality and efficiency improvement, and realize high-quality, green and sustainable development. It is learnt that Chongming has joined hands with Chongming Unicom and Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co., Ltd. to promote the digital transformation of 5G + intelligent manufacturing. Through the use of 5G, industrial Internet and other new technologies in combination with the ship production process, the production elements of "people, machines, materials, methods and environment" are fully connected, so as to realize the transparency and visibility of production in the manufacturing workshop, improve production efficiency and production management level, and reduce energy consumption. "The personnel input in the corresponding production process is reduced by 10%, rework hours are reduced by 5%, and energy consumption decreased by 3%.", said an official of Jiangnan Shipyard (Group) Co., Ltd.

In addition, in terms of new marine intelligent manufacturing, Changxing Industrial Park has introduced the Changxing Marine Laboratory of Shanghai Jiaotong University, the National Key Laboratory of Shanghai Ship and Shipping Research Institute Co., Ltd. and other scientific research institutions and platforms. Lingang Changxing Science and Technology Park, Phase II of Changxing Marine Science and Technology Port and other projects are all under constructionto help Changxing Island build a 100 billion level marine industrial cluster and build a world-class modern marine industry. In terms of "vitality and new health care", Chongming has actively developed high-end medical care, health care for the elderly, TCM health care, medical beauty and other fields. At present, in the eastern part of Chongming alone, six projects involving health care and medical beauty have been completed or are under preparation, and the industrial agglomeration effect is gradually taking shape.

In the future, Chongming will take the building of the "Five New" Ecological Industry System as the focus to enhance the core competitiveness of the ecological island, comprehensively promote agricultural modernization, accelerate the gathering of high-end manufacturing, expand the achievements of the whole tourism demonstration area, build a health service industry development system, and enrich the new digital business. By 2026, we will have comprehensively built the "Five New" Ecological Industry System with more Chongming characteristics and more vitality and tenacity.