On December 15th, the highly anticipated Shenzhen Global Investment Conference arrived as scheduled. The reporter just learned that this year's conference negotiated more than 260 signed projects, involving a total investment of more than 820 billion yuan, and the signed projects and the total investment expected to reach a new high.
The reporter noted that the conference has aroused widespread concern at home and abroad, and the guests attending the conference are also at the heavy level, including the world's top 500, China's top 500, large central state-owned enterprises, leading backbone private enterprises, listed companies, unicorn companies and other guests at the level of vice president or above, as well as foreign embassies and consulates, key business associations and other relevant responsible persons of international institutions. Participating enterprises and institutions involve new generation information technology, high-end manufacturing, new materials, biomedicine, finance, trade circulation, digital economy and other fields.
"No matter how the international situation changes, we must unswervingly do our own thing." The central economic work conference just held proposed to expand high-level opening up, promote institutional opening up, implement the national treatment of foreign-funded enterprises, attract more multinational companies to invest, promote the acceleration of the landing of major foreign-funded projects, and promote deep-level reform and promote high-quality development with high-level opening up.
Under the background of the impact of the new crown epidemic on the global economy and economic globalization, Shenzhen has held a global investment conference for three consecutive years, which is Shenzhen's attitude of promoting deep-level reform and promoting high-quality development with a high level of openness.
The three conferences have achieved a bumper harvest, which not only demonstrates Shenzhen's confidence and determination to expand high-level opening up, but also proves that various domestic and foreign market players are firmly optimistic about China, Guangdong and Shenzhen.
In 3 years, more than 630 high-quality projects were harvested
First, let's take a look at the harvest of Shenzhen's 3-year global investment conference:
In 2019, the first Shenzhen Global Investment Conference, Shenzhen launched 30 square kilometers of concentrated contiguous high-quality industrial land in one go, releasing the signal that "high-quality enterprises and advantageous projects can be landed", and promoting the formation of a new round of investment promotion and industrial development. A total of 128 signed projects were completed at the conference, with a total investment of 562.4 billion yuan, with fruitful results and high gold content;
In 2020, the second Shenzhen Global Investment Conference negotiated and signed projects and the expected total investment amount reached a new high, with 242 projects and more than 780 billion yuan respectively;
In addition, this year, Shenzhen has held a global investment conference for three consecutive years to attract more than 630 projects, with a total planned investment of more than 2.1 trillion yuan.
Industry giants have rushed to the beach, heavy projects have accelerated the landing, the global investment conference has not only become a "golden signboard" to show Shenzhen's economic vitality, innovation power, urban charm, investment potential and urban innovation, but also an important platform to show the outside world Shenzhen's high-level opening up and first-class business environment.
The reporter learned that compared with previous sessions, this year's conference has further innovated in form:
The whole city coordinates and works together. Coordinating the deployment of strategic emerging industries and future industries and other key industries in the city, 12 district-level investment promotion conferences were held to form a series of investment promotion activities system of "one game of chess in the city and one network in the whole region".
Global linkage, charging to set sail. In addition to the main venue in Shenzhen, overseas sub-venues have been set up in 12 cities on five continents, namely Los Angeles, New York, Toronto and São Paulo in the Americas, London, Paris and Brussels in Europe, Hong Kong and Tokyo in Asia, Sydney and Brisbane in Oceania, and Johannesburg in Africa.
Comprehensive display, casting brand. At the conference site, the headquarters enterprises of multinational companies, Shenzhen investment consultants, and outstanding settled enterprises were awarded medals.
The landing of high-quality projects as scheduled has increased investor confidence
Why the Shenzhen Global Investment Conference has attracted the enthusiastic attention of international investors for 3 consecutive years, the reporter analyzed the reasons for at least the following:
After more than 40 years of high-quality development, under the new pattern and new opportunities driven by the "dual zone", the innovation atmosphere is stronger, the industrial support is better, and the investment potential is greater, so that investors look forward to seizing the opportunity, "developing with Shenzhen and sharing the opening dividend".
At present, there are 3.77 million commercial entities in the city, and the number of commercial entities and entrepreneurial density have remained the first in the country for many years, including more than 20,000 national high-tech enterprises, 494 domestic and foreign listed enterprises, and 169 "specialized and special new" enterprises.
Shenzhen has always strived to be at the forefront of the reform of the socialist market economy system and constantly stimulated the vitality of various market entities; has always strived to create an optimal business environment, continued to serve all kinds of market entities to innovate and seek development without distraction; and always strives to achieve its own high-quality sustainable development, and strives to build a broader development stage for all kinds of market entities.
Second, Shenzhen's pursuit of high-quality development and the choice of industry have produced more docking points with the strategic layout of the world's top enterprises.
At the 3-year investment promotion conference, the contracts were all heavy projects that met the needs of Shenzhen's industry, and the investment was not only considerable in quantity, but also in better quality. For example, the Royal Philips Innovation Center of the Netherlands, the R&D and production base of the new crown vaccine of AstraZeneca-Kangtai in the United Kingdom, the headquarters of IOI China in Malaysia, and the semiconductor carrier board production base of Zhending Technology in Taiwan are all high-end projects in line with the new generation of information technology, high-end manufacturing, new materials, biomedicine and other fields that are in line with the development orientation of Shenzhen's industry.
Siemens Healthers Healthers Shenzhen has built the world's largest R&D and production base in Shenzhen, in addition to its headquarters in Germany. Shi An, general manager of the company, said that he hopes to make good use of Shenzhen's positioning as an "innovation capital" and strengthen the digital transformation of the company itself while actively participating in the innovation ecological chain.
Third, the landing of high-quality projects on schedule has further enhanced investor confidence.
For example, at the beginning of this year, the Siemens Energy Shenzhen Innovation Center located in the Shenzhen Loop Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone was unveiled, where three innovation laboratories of smart energy, advanced gas turbines and green hydrogen energy were set up, and after the introduction of global advanced energy technologies, industrialization and commercialization will be realized here. To this end, Siemens Energy China has set up a branch in Shenzhen to further implement relevant measures, which shows that this world-class leading enterprise is favored by Shenzhen.
In Minzhi Street, Longhua District, Shenzhen, the construction of the "Galaxy Market Opener Global Commercial Center" project jointly built by Galaxy Group and American Market Opener is in full swing. In September this year, the project officially obtained a construction project planning permit, and the first market-opening flagship store in South China, which is popular with domestic consumers, will soon open for business, which is expected to set off a new round of consumption boom in Shenzhen and reshape the new pattern of Shenzhen's retail market.
Fourth, after enterprises come to Shenzhen, they personally feel the high-quality business environment, which has become a key factor in attracting international and domestic key enterprises to take root and develop their businesses.
Shenzhen is deepening the reform of "decentralization and management services" around the whole life cycle of enterprises, strengthening the construction of the business environment in the field of rule of law, and at the same time docking international economic and trade rules, actively improving the investment, consumption and trade environment, promoting cross-border trade facilitation, and optimizing foreign trade services. The open and sincere attitude of governments at all levels in Shenzhen has resonated with many enterprises investing in Shenzhen.
In 2019, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) set up a digital center in The Asia-Pacific region in Shenzhen, attracting a large number of high-quality talents, and the company's customers have expanded rapidly, and the business has become more diversified and more refined.
At last year's global investment promotion conference, Sun Xiaoguang, general manager of Wumart South Technology Company, which was rated as the outstanding settled enterprise of the year, said that he personally experienced the company's registration process in Shenzhen and got a business license on the same day, and he was impressed by the efficient and transparent process of Shenzhen. Shenzhen also actively invited Wumart Group to participate in various major activities in the city, highlighting the government's efforts to strengthen interaction and exchanges with enterprises and enhance their sense of participation in deep construction.
"The city of Shenzhen is open-minded and open-minded." Sun Xiaoguang sighed that the government's enthusiasm, trust and advanced vision for enterprises, and its commitment to solving the problems of enterprise development, have strengthened the confidence of enterprises in the deep development.
According to data released by the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Commerce, in the first 10 months of this year, Shenzhen absorbed 20.99 billion US dollars of foreign capital under contract, an increase of 19.8%, and the actual use of foreign capital was 8.8 billion US dollars, an increase of 24.8%. At present, there are more than 110 countries and regions of foreign investment in Shenzhen, among the main sources of investment, Hong Kong, Europe and the United States and other key regions, key countries in Shenzhen investment continued to grow steadily. Shenzhen's attraction of foreign investment has maintained a stable and good trend, and the confidence of foreign investment has been further enhanced.
The fiery heat of the investment conference reflects the great attraction released by Shenzhen's high-level opening up to the outside world.
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Source: Deep Political Observation