More than 4,300 registered reporters, including nearly 1,000 foreign reporters, provided coverage of the second China International Import Expo (CIIE) held in Shanghai from Nov 5 to 10. CIIE News Center designed eight off-site interview routes to help reporters better understand Shanghai's urban development. As the only route with an all-day schedule, Lin-gang Special Area received huge attention from the reporters.

By visiting the fourth phase of Yangshan Port's Automatic Container Terminal, Future LAIV, Lingang Sci-Tech City and other distinctive locations, reporters saw world-leading technology and experienced the speed of a special area in China that "sprints from the start".

A group of CIIE Chinese and foreign reporters visit Lin-Gang Special Area. [Photo/WeChat account: shlgguanweihui]

A reporter from China Radio International under China Media Group said that with the good weather and high visibility, it was unquestionably a good day to interview and take photos in Yangshan.

A Cambodian reporter said that container throughput between Shanghai and the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) increased by 18 percent this year, boosting the confidence of ASEAN nations. A reporter for Hong Kong's Economic Information Agency said that what he saw in the exhibition hall was less impressive than what he saw outside the hall.

The reporters were interested in network usage at the container terminal, the condition of shipping lines, the possibility of applying unmanned driving technology, the cargo throughput between China and ASEAN, and the flow of cargo in and out of the container terminal during CIIE.

Chinese and foreign reporters at CIIE visit Lin-Gang Special Area. [Photo/WeChat account: shlgguanweihui]

A financial reporter for Xinhua News Agency said she was interested in off-site interviews during the previous CIIE, but couldn't visit Shanghai last year. This year, she set aside a day for Lin-gang Special Area and found the visit inspiring. She only knew the special area as a national strategy before the visit, but after visiting several cutting-edge domains, she got a deeper and more intuitive understanding of the area. In the future, she will look for deeper topics and entry points in some macro reports.