Sichuan is becoming an important strategic choice for home and foreign investors. On the afternoon of April 9, 200 major project, including China Merchant Group (Chengdu) Tianfu net valley project, were signed together in Chengdu with the total investment volume of 341.6 billion yuan. There are 906 investment contract programs over 30 million yuan signed on Well-known Enterprises from Home and Abroad Entering into Sichuan Activity with the total investment volume of 879.1 billion yuan. Mr. Wei Hong, vice secretary of Sichuan Provincial Committee of the CPC and governor of Sichuan Provincial People’s Government, attended the signing ceremony and delivered a speech.
The investment cooperation projects Sichuan signed with well-known enterprises from home and abroad include electric information, equipment manufacturing, vanadium and titanium rare earth, automobile manufacturing, modern agriculture, modern services, and other sectors. Among them, there are 836 home-funded projects, whose investment volume amounts to 818.2 billion yuan. Besides, there are 70 foreign-funded projects with the total volume of 60.9 billion yuan. The average investment volume of these projects reaches 970 million yuan. There are 290 projects over 1 billion yuan of investment for each and a total of 655.9 billion yuan. Moreover, there are 26 projects over 5 billion yuan of investment for each and a total of 162.4 billion.
On behalf of Sichuan Provincial Committee of the CPC, Sichuan Provincial People’s Government and people of Sichuan, Mr. Wei Hong congratulated on the signing of these cooperation projects. Mr. Wei said that in China’s economy map, Sichuan had always been one of the most important economic centers in western China and enjoyed an outstanding position in the layout of national development. Sichuan was becoming a new opening frontier and an important strategic choice for home and foreign investors. In the crucial phase of upgrading China’s economy development, Sichuan would insist on the combination of expanding opening up and deepening reform, enhance opening cooperation carriers and the construction of opening economic corridor. He also mentioned that the government determined to build Sichuan into a popular investment place for home and foreign investors to create fortune and enlarge their business.
Mr. Wei stated that these projects signed on this activity were in line with national industrial development direction and our development vision. These projects would boost enterprises to benefit and improve efficiency and exert positive and profound influence on the transformation and upgrading of Sichuan’s economy. Sichuan Provincial Government would continue to carry out ideals of caring and befitting businessmen, try best to create more positive conditions to construct a platform for enterprises to expand rapidly and healthily, and offer comprehensive coordinate services for these projects. He sincerely hoped that enterprises could carry out these projects and start construction earlier in accordance with relevant national policies and industry standards.
Mr. Gan Lin, vice governor of Sichuan Provincial People’s Government, presided over the ceremony. Mr. Cui Baohua, vice chairman of Sichuan Provincial CPPCC, Mr. Chen Fang, vice chairman of Sichuan Provincial CPPCC, Mr. Ge Honglin, mayor of Chengdu, also attended the ceremony.
