PUDONG TRANSFORMS INTO A VIBRANT NERVE-CENTER OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY

• It was a momentous decision when Japanese electronics company Omron flushed money into the new Jinqiao trade zone of the Pudong New Area in 1993.
• The company, a key world player in industrial automation and medical equipment such as blood pressure monitors, essentially grew n the back of the  zone expansion.

During those days, it was still largely a cultivation area,” said Zhu Lianming, a senior ....