Spring is the time of plans and projects. —Leo Tolstoy

Advances in flavors and fragrances

The 2025 Changning District Reading Festival and Coffee Culture Week, known as the “Coffee Flavor and Book Fragrance,” opened at Hongqiao Park on April 23. 

The rich aroma of coffee is intertwined with the ink fragrance of book pages, blending the diverse wonders of culture, tourism, commerce, ecology, and art, bringing a unique spring feast to the people.

Landmark where to join the Golden Week crowds

At present, spring is in full bloom, and at the Columbia Circle is full of vitality, step by step. To welcome the arrival of the May Day holiday, the park will hold a variety of activities such as a coffee drama festival, market, performance, handicraft workshop, etc.

Local businesses highlight auto show with latest updates

Bosch, Eaton China, and iFlytek from Changning Linkong Park have participated in the Shanghai Auto Show consecutively, and have also arrived as scheduled this year, bringing a series of new products and technologies in areas such as electrification and artificial intelligence.

At this year’s auto show, Bosch, a company in the Linkong Park, showcased its software and technological innovations for future automotive architecture under the theme of “Intelligent Driving Together for Long Range Development.” 

In 2024, Bosch Intelligent Mobility Group’s sales in China increased by 4 percent, reaching 116.6 billion yuan (US$16 billion). In the same year, 65 percent of the new business acquired by Bosch in China for the next five years was related to intelligent and electrified solutions.

The intelligent power management company Eaton’s Vehicle and Vehicle Electrification Group showcased Eaton’s innovative power management technology and green solutions in the passenger and commercial vehicle fields at the 2025 Shanghai Auto Show, with the slogan “Green and New, Because We Are Different.”

At the auto show, the iFlytek booth was highly popular. The iFlytek Spark Automotive Intelligent Agent Platform made its debut, and the Spark Intelligent Cockpit Demo car showcased a wide range of intelligent agent applications.

Camp reshapes consumption logic

Big lawn, sofa, creative booth, a market was held on Yuyuan Road by Jiangsu Road Community on April 25 and 26.

The “Yuyuan Urban Camping Festival and Urban Vacation Plan” featured a dozen high-quality consumer brands not only deeply involving with the theme of urban vacation, but also integrating rich interactive experiences.

The community launched the “Yuyuan New Market” last year, continuously enhancing the consumer appeal of Yuyuan Road. Building the market is to precisely meet the diversified needs of consumers, reshape consumption logic with innovative experiences, transform influencer’s impact into consumption increment, and inject new momentum into the regional economic development.

Roundtable maps out auto plan worldwide

The third “Most Hongqiao” International Business Roundtable Conference - a special session for multinational car companies was held in Changning on April 27.

Representatives of leading enterprises in the automotive industry chain within the district exchanged and shared information on their business operations, development plans, industry prospects, challenges, and opportunities. 

Government agencies responded at the scene to the issues raised by the enterprises.

As an important gateway for Shanghai to connect with the Yangtze River Delta and face domestic and international markets, Changning has always attached great importance to cooperation and exchanges with multinational enterprises. 

In the field of the automotive industry, multinational car companies have made important contributions to the development of the global automotive industry with advanced technology, excellent management, and innovative concepts. 

They have also injected strong impetus into regional economic development and are an important force in promoting industrial upgrading, technological innovation, and upgrading urban levels.

Edited by Shanghai Daily