Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news

Shanghai expects to have a "friendly, loyal and reliable" electronic government system by 2007, vice Mayor Yan Junqi announced yesterday.
Yan"s report entitled "The E-city Development and the Practice of Shanghai's E-city Engineering Project" was delivered to a network engineering and informatization forum at the ongoing 2004 World Engineers' Convention in Shanghai.
In the report, Yan pointed out that e-governance system, covering the government, individuals, corporations and organizations, enhances a city's management, service and communication capabilities via modern information technology.
She believed the framework of Shanghai's e-city governance will be based on five features: convenience, cooperation, share, safety and openness.
The four-day World Engineers' Convention is jointly sponsored by the China Association for Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the municipal government of Shanghai.
Some 3,000 engineers from 70 countries and regions are attending the event, which ends tomorrow.