As the theme “Boosting Domestic Demand to Sustain the Economic Growth and Strengthen the Cooperation with Overseas Market” continues to exert its influence in China, the development of China’s urban rail transit is now entering into an unprecedented stage of the development this year. After the 9 years of successful experience, The 10th City-Rail Summit has enjoyed a great reputation in the rail industry and also is named as “Spring Gala for Metro People”.

As far as August, 2011, 50 subway lines have already been construction, which covered 1568km. So far, there are 96 urban rail transit project in 29 cities have been approved to construct, which will cover around 2200km. Till 2020, the total running mileage will be expanded to 7395km, the 4.3 times of current mileage, and the financial investment will be around 3 trillion. By the end of 2050, 289 metro lines covering 11700 km will be expanded. The year 2015 marks a boiling point in the development of Chinese rail industry definitely.

The purpose of this letter is to cordially invite you, on behalf of Shanghai Municipal Transport Commission to attend the 10th City-Rail 2016 in rail transit industry. The 10th City Rail 2016 will take place from 16th to 17th of November 2016 in Shanghai. This event has the full support from Shanghai Municipal Transport and Port Authority, Shanghai Urban Construction & Communications Commission, Shanghai Shentong Metro Corporation Limited and Shanghai Tunnel Engineering & Rail Transit Design and Research Institute.

Meanwhile, with the rapid and booming development of South-east Asia Urban Rail market, it has a very strong and tense demand for the Chinese enterprises, either. This time, we will specially set the seminar of South-east Asia Urban Rail Communication to further strengthen the cooperation with China. We gather together to think about the future development of that region.

We warmly welcome your participation and hope that we can enjoy this industry gala together!

Shanghai Municipal Transport Commission is the Government Association which is responsible for the designing and law-making of the local policies and other decisions.
1. Implementing laws, regulations, policies and measures concerning domestic and foreign trade and international economic cooperation; drafting local laws, regulations, and policies together with related government departments on the city’s economy and trade and its investment introduction in commerce and trade.
2. Formulating development strategy and implementing plans of Shanghai’s domestic trade, foreign trade, and international economic cooperation according to the general plan of the city’s socio-economic development.
3. Responsible for pushing forward the restructuring of distribution industry by supervising the reform of distribution companies and the development of community commerce; responsible for the administration of the service sectors in commerce and trade by proposing suggestions to promote the development of SMEs in commerce and trade; promoting the standardization of distribution industry and the development of modern distribution formats like chain operation and commercial franchising; responsible for drafting and enabling policies, measures, standards and principles of E-commerce, organizing related supervision and promoting the development of modern logistics.
4. Supervising and coordinating the plan for wholesale market; coordinating urban and rural commercial network; promoting the development of the rural market system; organizing and implementing modern distribution network in rural areas.
5. Leading the drafting of policies and measures on regulating the market; organizing the supervision of commodity market; regulating distribution order and implementing responsibilities of law enforcement in commerce and trade; launching initiatives to crack down IPR violations and business frauds in commercial areas; responsible for the commercial and trade operation of the city by monitoring and analyzing macro operation of the commerce and trade as well as handling emergencies and serious problems in trade and commerce.