Between March 18 and 20, Ren Xuefeng, deputy secretary of CPC Guangdong Committee and secretary of CPC Guangzhou Committee, and Wen Guohui, deputy secretary of CPC Guangzhou Committee and mayor of Guangzhou, led a delegation to attend the 2017 China Development Forum, participated in the opening ceremony, economic summit and closed-door round table, and met leaders from 30 renowned enterprises and institutions home and abroad.

The persons Ren Xuefeng met at the forum include Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, Jon McNeill, President of Tesla Motors, Inc., Keith Williams, President & CEO of UL LLC, Gregory Hayes, Chairman & CEO of United Technologies Corporation, Henry M. Paulson, Chairman of the Paulson Institute, Andrew N. Liveris, Chairman & CEO of The Dow Chemical Company, David A. Ricks, President & CEO of Eli Lilly and Company, Derek Aberle, President of Qualcomm Inc.,  William Cohen, Chairman & CEO of The Cohen Group, Doug Devos, President of Amway Corporation, Oliver Bäte, Chairman of the Board of Management (CEO) of Allianz SE, Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE, Roland Busch, Managing Board Member of Siemens AG, Stuart Gulliver, Group Chief Executive of HSBC Holdings plc, Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator of Financial Times, Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP plc, Olivier Brandicourt, CEO of Sanofi, Paul Bulcke, Chairman Designated of Nestlé S.A., Joseph Jimenez, CEO of Novartis AG, Pierre Beaudoin, Executive Chairman of the Board of Bombardier Inc., Wong Kan Seng, Chairman of Ascendas-Singbridge Pte Ltd., Lu Mai, Secretary-general of China Development Research Foundation, Terry Tai-Ming Gou, President of Foxconn, Zhang Yuliang, Chairman of the Board of Greenland Group and Hugo Shong, Chairman of the Board of IDG Ventures. Ren Xuefeng introduced the economic and social development of Guangdong and Guangzhou, especially the achievements in boosting reform and opening-up and accelerating sci-tech innovation. Ren extended gratitude to domestic and foreign enterprises and institutions for their active cooperation and contribution to the economic and social development of Guangdong and Guangzhou.

Guangzhou is energetically developing new-generation IT, artificial intelligence, bio-medicine and other strategic emerging industries to boost the construction of shipping, aviation and sci-tech innovation strategic hubs, and build the hub-type network city, said Ren Xuefeng. Ren hoped the multinationals to grasp the golden period, window period and opportunity period for Guangzhou’s development, further deepen cooperation and realize reciprocal and win-win solutions. 

Wen Guohui and Ren Xuefeng jointly met directors of Apple, Tesla, Nestle and BASF, as well as Neil Shen, Global Executive Partner of Sequoia Capital, Dominic Barton, Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company, Lim Chow-Kiat, Managing Director & CEO of GIC Private Limited and Liu Liehong, General Manager of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation. Guangzhou has attached great importance to international cooperation and exchanges and been dedicated to forging the first investment destination and best development land for global enterprises, said Wen Guohui. Wen hoped domestic and foreign enterprises to grasp opportunities to invest in and cooperate with Guangzhou and drive joint development.

According to persons in charties to invest in and cooperate with Guangzhou and drive joint dege of all companies and institutions, Guangzhou, boasting increasingly improved commercial and ecological environment, reasonable living and operating cost, greater capability in amassing talent, technology, capital and other high-end resources, has attracted a number of renowned enterprises, institutions and talent from home and abroad to settle down. Guangzhou is a vital and energetic international city. They are full of confidence to the development of Guangzhou and will attach more importance to the cooperation with Guangzhou, actively expand the investment and business in Guangzhou.

Guangzhou municipal leaders Chen Zhiying and Pan Jianguo, Guangzhou Municipal Government’s Secretary-General Ye Niuping, and directors of the municipal development and reform commission, municipal commercial commission, municipal foreign affairs office and other districts attended relevant activities. Guangzhou Automobile Group, as a representative of domestic enterprises, attended the “Front Edge Innovation Exhibition”.

 

Source: Translated from Invest Guangzhou, Mar. 21, 2017