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Since its first edition in 2007, the Global Advisory Conference has successfully hosted 11 events, bringing together more than 2,000 investment cooperation projects totaling 1.14 trillion yuan.
China News Service, Changsha, September 16 (Reporter Lu Yi) The Hunan Provincial Government Information Office held a press conference in Changsha on the 16th to announce that the 12th Global Hunan Business Conference will be held in Hengyang from September 22 to 24. This is the first Hunan Business Conference held in the first year of Hunan’s “15th Five-Year Plan”.
This conference is hosted by the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Hunan Provincial People's Government, and hosted by the Hunan Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, the Provincial Department of Commerce, and the Hengyang Municipal Committee and Municipal People's Government. With the theme of "Hunan's construction of high ground and business opening of a new chapter", the conference closely followed the "15th Five-Year Plan" and focused on Hunan's modern industrial system and 12 key industrial chains, highlighting the "strengthening industry" orientation. More than 1,000 people attended the conference.
The conference has main activities and parallel activities, and organizes on-site inspections for project docking. The conference simultaneously organized overseas and overseas Hunan chambers of commerce and entrepreneurs to participate online, and set up key regional sub-venues to realize cloud linkage and joint participation of global Hunan businessmen in the grand event.
Compared with previous conferences, this conference focuses more on the theme of "Strengthening Industries" and has newly established foreign investment special sessions, covering key industrial fields such as medicine and health, intelligent robots, and smart scales. For the first time, it has set up a "Her Power" special session to highlight the unique contribution of female entrepreneurs to high-quality development.
Hu Jianxin, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and Party Secretary of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, said that the Global Hunan Business Conference is not only an important window for Hunan businessmen at home and abroad to understand Hunan, enter Hunan, and layout Hunan, but also builds a high-quality platform for enterprises in the province to broaden their horizons, update their development concepts, and lay out emerging tracks. The conference will promote the deep integration of global high-quality capital and scientific and technological innovation resources with Hunan's modern industrial system and local development potential. It will not only help Hunan's industrial transformation and upgrading, but also help Hunan businessmen to open up new blue oceans for their careers, achieving mutual progress, mutual benefit and win-win results.
Since the first Global Hunan Business Conference was held in 2007, it has been successfully held for 11 times, and has promoted more than 2,000 investment cooperation projects with a total investment of 1.14 trillion yuan. It has played an important role in the growth of Hunan's real economy, the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and the construction of a modern industrial system.
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