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htmlOn November 5, the 4th China International Import Expo "Yunnan Province and Multinational Corporation Industrial Cooperation Symposium" was held in Shanghai. The event was themed "Green Development, Open Cooperation, and Enhanced Win-Win" and had in-depth exchanges with representatives of multinational companies, signed on-site project contracts, and set up a demonstration of cooperation and exchanges between Yunnan Province and foreign-funded enterprises at the venue.has representatives from 45 companies from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, South Korea, Japan and other countries, as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan. Among them, representatives from more than 10 Fortune 500 companies in China, including Marubeni Corporation, Mitsui Products , Mitsubishi Commercial , Ruisui Bank , DuPont , Bayer , senior executives of more than 20 leading multinational companies in the industry, including Pudefu, IKEA (China), Diageo , Costda, Copley, Meidong Culture and Tourism, as well as representatives from well-known international organizations such as United Nations Industrial Development Organization , KPMG , Deloitte, and Dede Asphalt Bank attended the event. The guests and corporate specifications were the highest in previous years.
Yunnan Province leaders shared Yunnan's investment environment and development opportunities. The guests and representatives at the meeting had in-depth exchanges, actively provided suggestions for Yunnan to achieve high-quality development of , talked about new opportunities to promote Yunnan to accelerate all-round opening up and promote high-quality development, further clarify investment cooperation intentions, and effectively promote multinational companies and well-known companies to invest in Yunnan.
Representatives of Diageo, the top three theme parks in the world that signed a contract with Yunnan Province recently, ranked first in Europe and France, and China's first "zero carbon" whiskey production project, attended the event and made speeches. Li Qi, chief development officer of Pudefu Asia, said that the company has received great support in Yunnan and has signed an investment agreement of billions of yuan with the local government of Dali . "Yunnan's investment department is very efficient and has a very professional investment team, which makes us feel that investing in Yunnan is very attractive. We are now promoting this project, hoping to make our theme park complete and open in 2025, becoming a benchmark project for southwest China and even the entire China's cultural and tourism." During the
event, the Yunnan Provincial Trading Group signed 24 cooperation projects, using a combination of on-site signing and off-site signing. Among them, there were 14 investment cooperation projects, with a contract amount of about RMB 20.585 billion, and 10 imported commodity procurement projects, with a contract amount of about US$1.683 billion, all higher than the previous amount. The cooperation content covers energy, tourism and culture, modern agriculture, finance, mining and other fields.
It is reported that this Yunnan theme event fully utilizes the role of the "four major platforms" such as international procurement, investment promotion, cultural exchanges, and open cooperation of the CIIE to promote Yunnan to well-known domestic and foreign enterprises, Fortune 500 companies and multinational companies, further expand Yunnan's high-level opening up to the outside world, attract more companies to pay attention to Yunnan's new blueprint for development and new opportunities for cooperation, and play an active role in stabilizing the basic foundation of foreign investment and foreign trade, maintaining the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain, and promoting the formation of a new development pattern of dual circulation.
Yunnan.com reporter Zhao Gang Peng Xi
