Thursday,28 January 2021 NantongDaily A5 Nantongreport

Over 2000 foreign experts work in Nantong Nantong held foreign experts New Year party

Yancheng- Nantong High- speed Rail- By Wang Weili On 22 December 2020, Nantong for- eign experts New Year party was held at way went into operation officially Nantong international conference center. 19 foreign expert representatives who have made significant contributions to social and economic development attend- ed the event. Nantong is a city which admires cul- ture and education, respects and loves talents. In the past few years, the rapid development could never be achieved without supports from various types of talents, including contributions from for- By Zhu Beining are Yancheng, Yancheng Dafeng, eign experts. In the present more than Dongtai, Hai ’an, Rugao south and 400 companies in our city hire more than Yancheng- Nantong High- speed Nantong west stations. 1200 various types of foreign experts. Railway was open and went into oper- Yancheng- Nantong High- speed Every year there are more than 2000 for- ation officially on 30 December 2020. It Railway is an important part of‘ Eight eign experts who work in short term or is the first real high speed railway in vertical and eight horizontal high- long term in Nantong. A batch of excel- Nantong. speed railway network ’coastal corri- lent foreign experts play important roles Yancheng- Nantong High- speed dor. The line starts from Yancheng sta- in promoting key technological break- Railway starts from Yancheng in the tion of Qingdao- Yancheng Railway in throughs, Chinese and foreign techno- north, goes south and passes Dafeng the north, connects Xuzhou-Yancheng logical and cultural communication and district, Dongtai, Hai ’an and Rugao, High- speed Railway, joins Nantong high level talents cultivation. and ends in Nantong. The length of the west railway station of Shanghai- Su- line is 158 km. It is the first high zhou- Nantong high speed railway speed railway of 350 km/h design straight to Shanghai. It will improve 2020 the association of speed in the entire length in north Ji- the transport conditions in east Jiang- Nantong merchants angsu area. There are 6 stations which su efficiently. abroad Nantong members conference held Nantong merchants’overseas legal service center founded

By Jin Shuai On 18 December 2020, Nantong held 2020 the association of Nantong mer- chants abroad Nantong members confer- ence and Nantong merchants ’ overseas legal service center establishment cere- mony. In the past few years, overseas Nan- tong merchants have grabbed ‘ the Belt and Road ’ development opportunities, taken their unique advantages, worked Travel time from downtown area to Tongzhou district will be in fields such as promotion of infrastruc- ture, trade and logistics, industrial parks reduced to less than 20 minutes after completion buildings of countries along the belt and achieved a lot. However, ‘ the Belt and Road ’ involves more than 60 countries along the line, the development degrees Jianghai Avenue east extension project started and legal systems are different in these countries, which brought many legal By Lu Zhaoxin minutes. It will provide pow- The length is 10.6 km. The to- sage connecting downtown problems such as employment and tax of erful support for full integra- tal planned investment is 4.49 area and Tongzhou district. It companies. This time, Nantong bureau of On 29 December 2020, tion of Tongzhou district and billion Yuan. The main fly- has multiple collection and justice, foreign affairs office and overseas Jianghai Avenue east exten- downtown area. over is estimated to be open distribution transport func- Chinese office led in establishment of sion project was started offi- Jianghai Avenue exten- by the end of next year. Be- tions, will provide better ‘ Nantong merchants ’overseas legal ser- cially. After its completion, sion project starts at east side fore June 2022, the project conditions for integrated de- vice center ’, whose target is to protect travel time from downtown of Zongyi group in the west, will be completed and open. velopment of Tongzhou dis- legal rights of overseas Chinese mer- area to Tongzhou district will ends at Yangtze River road in Jianghai Avenue east ex- trict and downtown area. chants and held them in the road of be reduced to less than 20 Tongzhou district in the east. tension project is a rapid pas- ‘ walk out ’.

The 1st smart tax service center in Nantong open

By Zhang Liang hall, the 24 hour self-service tax service area attract peo- On 29 December 2020, ple’ s attention. It is the 1st smart tax service cen- equipped with three tax ser- ter in Nantong was open. It vice terminals, can provide is located at No.247 Gong services such as invoice col- Nong road (diagonally oppo- lection, invoice issue, per- site Nantong Intermediate sonal income tax payment re- To create a good foreign affairs ser- People’s Court. It can pro- cord, social security fund en- vice management environment and let vide convenient and fast quiry and payment. Tax pay- more foreigners work and stay in Hai’an ‘one stop’ self- service tax ers can have tax services at ease, on 23 December 2020, police services for tax payers. without restrictions of time. from immigration control unit of Hai’an The service hall of more This year Nantong tax public security bureau went to compa- than 500 square meters floor has been working on build- nies in their jurisdiction, visited and area is bright and wide, with ing 15 minutes tax service greeted foreigners. 11 areas including tax guide circle. Previously it worked On the day, the police went to service area, online tax ex- with Nantong post, set up ‘Hong Lan Huang’kindergarten, talked perience area, self- service 220 tax and post coopera- with teachers from Britain, Ukraine, tax service, VRM tax service tion stations to make tax France, South Africa etc. and communi- and social service areas. payers convenient to pay cated to learn about their work and life. Walking into the service tax nearby. Photo by Qiu Wenshan