Shanghai will promote a new round of reforms and opening-up, Mayor Ying Yong told the city’s political advisers yesterday.

Ying said at a meeting of the Shanghai Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference that the city government has worked out a plan with 10 special action programs to achieve that goal. The reforms would be in accordance with highest international standards.

“China has insisted on reform and opening-up as a basic national strategy for 40 years, and it has proven that opening-up brings development, while locking doors against the world will make us lag behind,” Ying said.