[Chen Jining meets with Australian BHP Billiton Group CEO Concord] September 17th, Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Secretary Chen Jining today met with Australian BHP Billiton Group CEO Concord and his delegation. Chen Jining said that as China's economic center city and the frontier window for reform and opening up, Shanghai has unswervingly expanded high-level opening up to the outside world and consistently provided a long-term, stable and predictable development environment for Chinese and foreign enterprises. BHP Billiton is a world-renowned leading mining company. It welcomes the opportunity to seize the opportunities of digital intelligence and green transformation, strengthen the connection with Shanghai's urban functions and development strategies, and make full use of Shanghai's reform and opening up advantages, technological innovation advantages, industrial ecological advantages, supply chain management advantages and talent gathering advantages, to further deepen and expand cooperation areas, and promote the development of more new businesses, new technology applications, and new product launches. We will listen carefully to the opinions and suggestions of enterprises, continue to optimize the business environment, accelerate the improvement of the regulatory system and legal system that is compatible with high-level opening up, actively build an internationally competitive multi-level commodity market system, and support enterprises to achieve better development in Shanghai. Concord introduced the company's development strategy and operations in Shanghai and said that China and Shanghai have always maintained a stable and open development environment, which is very important for the company's strategic decision-making and strategic investment. BHP Billiton cherishes the long-term good cooperative relationship, will be based in Shanghai, develop deeply in Shanghai, continue to increase trade and investment layout in Shanghai, strengthen mutual learning of experience and tap cooperation potential around bulk trade, technological innovation, green development, etc., and contribute more to the construction of Shanghai's "Five Centers".