The east tower of the Lingdingyang Bridge in the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel, the west artificial island and the Shenzhen city in the distance (photographed on June 7, 2022). The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor is 24 kilometers long and integrates bridges, islands, tunnels and underground interconnections. It connects Shenzhen and Zhongshan cities in Guangdong Province on the east and west sides of the Pearl River Estuary. It is expected to be completed and opened to traffic in 2024. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Deng Hua
Xinhua News Agency Guangzhou, December 23, title: "One Bay Gathers the World" Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area 2.5 trillion new investment reflects "China's gravity"
Xinhua News Agency reporters Wu Tao and Hong Zehua
853 cooperation projects have been reached with a total investment of 2.5 trillion yuan. Investment entities include Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., Fortune 500 companies such as ZF Group and Carlsberg Group... At the 2022 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Global Investment Conference held on the 21st, hundreds of companies gathered in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to invest in China in fields such as advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, new generation information technology , and food health.
's eye-catching data reflects the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's growing attraction to global capital. China continues to provide the world with new opportunities through its own development.
Carlsberg Group, the world's leading beer company, signed an agreement with Foshan City, Guangdong Province at this conference to build a factory with an annual output of 500,000 tons of beer and a total investment of 3 billion yuan.
"The Foshan production base will become one of Carlsberg's most important beer production bases in China. The factory will reach the world's first-class level in terms of intelligent manufacturing and green production, ensuring the company's supply in the South China market while also radiating into surrounding markets." said Li Zhigang, President of Carlsberg Group China.
At the meeting, Siemens Energy AG announced the official establishment of Siemens Energy (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. Christian Bruch, the company's president and CEO, said that Siemens Energy will work hard to improve the level of collaborative innovation, strengthen cooperation with local industry, academia and research circles, and help the Greater Bay Area comprehensively build a green, low-carbon circular economic system and a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient energy system.
“In the past five years, we have witnessed that the vision of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to build an ‘international first-class bay area’ is turning from a blueprint into a reality.” said Yao Zhenguo, Global Senior Vice President of Siemens Energy.
Currently, Siemens Energy has provided a total of 18 heavy-duty gas turbines and 41 industrial gas turbines to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with a total installed capacity of more than 10 GW, and together with local partners, it has provided power to nearly 17 million households.
The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area covers Hong Kong, Macau and nine cities in the Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province. It is one of the most open and economically dynamic regions in China, and has become the fastest growing and most dynamic bay area in the world.
"The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is a major regional strategy for China. The total GDP in 2021 will reach 12.6 trillion yuan, accounting for 12% of the country's GDP with less than 1% of the country's land area and 5% of the total population." said Zhu Wei, executive deputy director of the Guangdong Province Greater Bay Area Office.
Shenzhen Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone taken on December 8, 2022. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liang Xu
Nansha, Guangzhou is the largest area of Guangdong Free Trade Zone. Wang Jian, director of the Investment Promotion Bureau of Guangzhou Nansha Development Zone, said that Nansha is seizing the opportunities brought by the implementation of the "Guangzhou Nansha Deepening Comprehensive Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao facing the world" and is striving to build the country's first international talent zone, accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system driven by two wheels of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, and striving to build Nansha into a major strategic platform based in the Bay Area, cooperating with Hong Kong and Macao, and facing the world.
Nansha Macau Health and Technology City Project Leader and President of Aoxing Health Technology (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. Wu Weien said that Nansha has convenient transportation and industrial clusters. "We are very optimistic about the prospects of development in Nansha and have chosen to deploy in the three fields of technology, biomedicine and cultural tourism."
Nansha is the epitome of Guangdong's implementation of the opening-up policy. Zhao Qing, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Commerce, said that in order to attract foreign investment, Guangdong has launched a package of support policies covering financial incentives, taxation, technological innovation, finance, land use, energy use, labor employment, environmental protection, etc., and compiled the "Guangdong Province Strategic Industrial Cluster Investment Map", which foreign-funded enterprises can compare and understand and focus on investment.
According to statistics from the Guangdong Provincial Department of Commerce, up to now, Guangdong has used foreign-invested special funds to support more than 200 qualified foreign-invested projects (enterprises), cashed in reward funds of more than 3.5 billion yuan, and leveraged actual foreign investment of more than 150 billion yuan.
Expanding opening up is China’s unswerving choice. The recently concluded Central Economic Work Conference proposed that we insist on promoting high-level opening up and steadily expand institutional opening up such as rules, regulations, management, and standards.
"China's economy provides a broad space for foreign businessmen. Multinational companies can achieve a win-win situation in China, gain development and profits in China, and also contribute to China's economic development." said Hurun Report, Chairman and Chief Research Officer of Hurun Report.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
