According to the press conference of the Information Office of Shandong Provincial People’s Government, the Second Conference of Great Business Partners (“CGBP”) and International Summit on Innovation and Development for Youth Entrepreneurs (“ISIDYE”) will be held on June 30. As briefed by Ren Airong, Vice Governor of Shandong Province, the Conference will be themed on “Seize New Opportunities and Work Together for Common Development”, and focus on investment promotion, cooperation with Hong Kong and Macau, and win-win cooperation. It will be the first high-profile major event of Shandong in the field of opening up and investment promotion.

Eminent guests be present! Over 3,000 guests successfully registered online for the conference

Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, this year’s conference will have varied contents and innovative forms when compared with previous editions. According to Ren Airong, the conference will mainly apply the online mode with its main venue in Jinan and venues in 16 cities, and all guests invited will participate in the conference remotely.

As Ren Airong introduced, focused on key cooperation projects, the conference invited guests from related industries and fields, and some designated guests from Hong Kong and Macau. Up to date, 3,545 have successfully registered online for the conference, and the level, scope and industries of guests are improved when compared with the last CGBP.

With sincerity! 312 selected high-quality projects to be highlighted

“This year’s conference will have varied contents and innovative forms, and is actually an ‘online investment promotion day of Shandong’.” Ren Airong said that this conference selected 312 high-quality projects strictly and carefully from the projects submitted by cities, which would cover a large scope, play a leading role, and involve such fields as major infrastructure, new infrastructure construction, “ten pillar” industries, industrial technical reform, strengthening weaknesses, mixed reform of SOEs, and supporting platforms. The conference would be an overall display of the replacement of old growth drivers with new ones and high-quality investment promotion and talent recruitment in Shandong.

Innovative forms! “Cloud” investment promotion creates new heights of opening up

As learnt by the reporter, the Conference will focus on investment promotion, cooperation with Hong Kong and Macau, and win-win cooperation, and invite guests from related industries and fields, and some designated guests from Hong Kong and Macau for key cooperation projects.

Zhang Deping, Director-General of Department of Commerce of Shandong Province introduced that the win-win cooperation with Hong Kong and Macau would be highlighted, the drivers, vitalities and broad market space of the economic and social development of Shandong would be displayed at all dimensions, investors from all over the world would be invited to share the opportunities in Shandong, the scope of cooperation would be expanded, and Shandong would be developed to a new height of opening up.

Satisfactory services! Carry forward the spirit of assistant to provide high-quality services

“121 projects were promoted in last year’s conference, and 46 of them have already been implemented, the scale of which is 114.35 billion yuan.” At the press conference, Liu Tiandong, Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League said that this year’s conference was planned to promote 36 projects.

Currently the COVID-19 epidemic is still spreading in foreign countries, and the epidemic control will be a regular work in China. Against such background, this conference will help stabilize the base of foreign investment, deepen communications and exchanges with domestic and foreign investors, strengthen the confidence of investors in their win-win cooperation with Shandong, expand new areas and space of cooperation, and shape the new advantages in foreign trade under the new situation at a faster pace; In addition, this conference will also help maintain stable industrial chains and supply chains, further strengthen weaknesses, push forward the work of “maintaining, establishing, extending, supplementing and strengthening the chains”, accelerate the high-end development of industrial bases and the modernization of industrial chains, and constantly enhance the favorable trend of stable development of industrial chains and supply chains in Shandong.