"Revitalizing overseas Chinese in South Guangdong and preferential trade with ASEAN"
The 2026 Third ASEAN Young Chinese Businessmen Huizhou Tour of "Residing Overseas Chinese in Southern Guangdong and Facilitating Trade with ASEAN" was held recently. 43 young Chinese businessmen representatives from 9 ASEAN countries shared their nostalgia, discussed cooperation, and sought common development.
The delegation visited the West Lake in Huizhou at night to experience the millennium cultural context and ecological beauty of "Lingdong Famous County"; they visited companies such as Mingbo Smart Home, Enya Musical Instruments, TCL LCD Industrial Park, and Leyitong Technology for on-site inspections to gain an in-depth understanding of Huizhou's industrial development, communicate with entrepreneurs face-to-face, and explore cooperation paths for exporting products overseas and localization.
At the exchange meeting with the theme of "Companion with businessmen to go overseas and overseas Chinese to assist trade", representatives of cross-border e-commerce, printing and publishing, building materials and other industry associations in Huiyang District shared overseas trends and cooperation ideas. Entrepreneurs and ASEAN young Chinese businessmen had in-depth docking around market layout and channel expansion. At the Huizhou famous and high-quality product supply and demand exchange and matchmaking meeting "Business partners going overseas, preferential trade to expand into ASEAN", nearly 30 high-quality companies in Huizhou had "one-on-one" negotiations and precise docking with ASEAN buyers and dealers. Some representatives also went to Boluo Patang to inspect the tea industry and explore new ways to cooperate with agricultural products overseas and rural revitalization. According to incomplete statistics, during visits and exchange activities, 16 docking intentions were reached on site.
The ASEAN Young Chinese Businessmen Huizhou Tour has been held for three consecutive years and has become an important platform for Huizhou and ASEAN young Chinese businessmen to enhance understanding and connect resources, promote "Huizhou manufacturing, Huizhou products" to build bridges with overseas Chinese, and sail to ASEAN.
"Converging tides and working together to create a better future"
From September 25th to 26th, the first Greek Chaozhou Festival and the 2026 Overseas Chinese Prosperity in Southern Guangdong·Overseas Chinese Helping High-Quality Economic Development Conference (Greece Station) were held in Athens, Greece.
With the theme of "Converging tides and working together to create a better future", the event was attended by guests from the Greek political, business, academic circles and representatives of the overseas Chinese community. Through cultural parades, academic seminars, intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, economic and trade signings and other forms, the unique charm of Chaozhou culture was fully demonstrated, and a new platform for cultural exchanges and economic and trade cooperation between China and Greece was established to help Guangzhou go global.
The event promoted the implementation of a series of substantive cooperation results. Guan Chubin, the honorary president of the Federation of Hong Kong Chaozhou Associations, the president of the Greek Chaozhou Association, and the chairman of Guangdong Haibo Group Co., Ltd. and Greece Taibo Investment Co., Ltd., was hired as the "Chaozhou Overseas Chinese Community Investment Consultant." Haibo Group and Liao Chuangxing Enterprise Co., Ltd. signed a letter of intent for strategic cooperation on the Chaozhou Puhan land parcel investment cooperation project and the Xitai commercial complex Indigo five-star hotel project. The Chaohuo Overseas (Greece) Exhibition and Trade Center was unveiled to build an overseas promotion platform for Chaozhou’s high-quality products. The Greek Chaozhou Guild Hall signed a strategic cooperation intention agreement for Guangdong products going overseas with representatives from Guangdong Jinqiangyi Ceramics, Guangdong Hangpai Sanitary Ware, Chaozhou Xianglong Ceramics, Guangdong Zhancui Food, Chaozhou Yuxing Food and other enterprises.
The launch ceremony of the English version of "Chaozhou Code (Light Reader)" was also held at the site, and the "Twelve Styles of Chaozhou Hand-pulled Zhuni Pot" was released overseas for the first time. In the performance section of the first Greek Teochew Festival, traditional ceremonies such as lion dancing and eye-dotting, double lion congratulations, Teochew opera "Beijing City Meeting", British song and dance "Tidal Wave", etc. allow the Greek people to experience the charm of Teochew culture up close.
In recent years, Chaozhou has deeply implemented the strategy of "overseas Chinese assisting high-quality economic development", using overseas Chinese to attract investment, gather talents, develop businesses with overseas Chinese, and spread culture with overseas Chinese. It promotes "trendy goods going overseas" and the return of talented people, assists industrial upgrading, urban and rural renewal, and the integration of culture and tourism, and has achieved rich results.
