Ren Xuefeng, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Guangdong Provincial Committee and secretary of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee, and Wen Guohui, deputy secretary of the CPC Guangzhou Municipal Committee and mayor of Guangzhou, met with Rachel Duan, Senior Vice-President of GE, and President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Greater China and   Kieran Murphy, Life Sciences President and CEO of GE Healthcare.

 

Ren and Wen welcomed Ms. Duan and Mr. Murphy first. Ren said Guangzhou is gathering innovation resources and elements across the world, and accelerating establishment of new competitive industrial clusters, including the biopharmaceutical and healthcare industries with a good foundation. It is expected that GE will give play its leading role in the biopharmaceutical industry, attract more biopharmaceutical companies to Guangzhou, strengthen cooperation with local pharmaceuticals companies, improve the industrial chain and ecosystem of the biopharmaceutical industry and help Guangzhou build a leading pharmaceutical base in China and the world as well. Ms. Duan said Guangzhou’s biopharmaceutical industry enjoys great development potentials and GE attaches high importance to cooperation with Guangzhou and will promote the agglomeration and development of the biopharmaceutical industry relying on innovation in technology, type of business and business model.

 

Source: Translated from Invest Guangzhou, July 1, 2016