Intl media tour highlights Shanghai governance, innovation

The delegation also toured Shanghai Baosteel Park, witnessing traditional heavy industry transform into modern, intelligent, and environmentally conscious manufacturing. Delegates walked through the 2050 Hot Rolling Production Line, a landmark facility operational since August 1989 as China's first steel rolling line with a width exceeding two meters.

Reporters also visited a zoo inside the park, where sika deer, blue peafowl, and pigeons have lived on site for three decades as biological monitors of environmental quality surrounding steel operations.

Aleksandre Sharikadze, a business reporter and researcher at Palitra News in Georgia, shared his observations on the integration of modern automation within long-standing industrial facilities.

"It is impressive how China managed to adapt new technologies and make them coexist with old technologies," he said.

Luo Bin contributed to this story.