Xinhua Silk Road - Belt and Road Portal, China's silk road economic belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Website Xinhua Silk Road - Belt and Road Portal, China's silk road economic belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road Website
Subscribe CustomBlackClose

Belt & Road Weekly Subscription Form

download_pop

Research ReportCustomBlackClose

The full edition of the report is available at Xinhua Silk Road Database. You can click the “Table of Content” to have a general understanding of it.

Click on the button below to create your account and get immediate access to thousands of articles.

Start a Free Trial

Xinhua Silk Road Database
Local

2019 Kunshan Autumn Investment Promotion Fair harvests fruitful results

November 04, 2019


Abstract : The 2019 Kunshan Autumn Investment Promotion Fair recently kicked off in Kunshan City of east China’s Jiangsu Province, attracting about 1,000 guests who are engaged with different industries to attend the fair.

BEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- The 2019 Kunshan Autumn Investment Promotion Fair recently kicked off in Kunshan City of east China's Jiangsu Province, attracting about 1,000 guests engaged in different industries to attend the fair.

During the fair, a total of 100 projects with a total investment of over 80 billion yuan have been contracted, of which there were four projects each worth more than 10 billion yuan with combined investment of 33.73 billion yuan.

Since setting up a development zone at its own expense, Kunshan has carved out a specific developing route that embraces high-quality development. In 2019, the city topped the ranking of China's Top 100 County-Level Cities by comprehensive strength for 15 fifteenth consecutive years.

In 2018, Kunshan became China's first county-level city with GDP exceeding 380 billion yuan. The city established 196 new foreign investment projects from January to September this year, with the combined registered foreign capital reaching 1.28 billion U.S. dollars.

Photo: An intelligent valley town in Kunshan

During the fair, enterprises that have made contributions to Kunshan in terms of foreign capital, foreign trade, industrial output, and output benefits in 2019 were commended, with eight awards conferred, such as "Award for Outstanding Contributions to Stable Foreign Capital Increase."

Photo: Project contracting at the fair.

Meanwhile, Kunshan launched the first batch of projects worth a total of 50 billion yuan on the industrial supply-demand platform and a document about the best practices in investment promotion and protection theme month of 2019.

To improve business environment in Kunshan, the city has thoroughly carried out 23 policies and ten supporting measures, and joined hands with the Belt and Road (B&R) countries in developing seven R&D platforms.

Photo: Du Xiaogang, secretary of Kushan Municipal Party Committee

Kunshan is striving to embrace the multiple opportunities brought by the advancement of the Belt and Road Initiative and other national strategies such as the pilot free trade zones, leading the way in quality development and modernized pilot city in the new era. (Contributed by Xiao Xinyue, Shi Wen; Edited by Jiang Feifan)

Scan the QR code and push it to your mobile phone

Keyword: Kunshan international-cooperation

Reading:

CIIE-Impression-Exhibitors make final adjustments for 2nd CIIE

58 Turkish firms to attend China Int'l Import Expo

Thailand to push for 13 economic plans to be delivered

China, ASEAN should further finance & taxation co-op under BRI, experts

China Ningbo Containerized Freight Index (U.S. Route) up over 10 pct

Write to Us belt & road login close

Do you want to be a contributor to Xinhua Silk Road and tell us your Belt & Road story? Send your articles to [email protected] and share your stories with more people.

Click on the button below to create your account and get im http://img.silkroad.news.cn/templates/silkroad/en2017te access to thousands of articles.

Start a Free Trial

Ask Us A Question belt & road login close

If you have any questions, please enter them in the box below.

Identifying code Reload

Write to Us belt & road login close

Do you want to be a contributor to Xinhua Silk Road and tell us your Belt & Road story? Send your articles to silkroadweekly@xinhua.org and share your stories with more people.

Click on the button below to create your account and get im http://img.silkroad.news.cn/templates/silkroad/en2017te access to thousands of articles.

Start a Free Trial