On September 18th, the 2nd Western China international Fair Import and Export Expo & Western China (Sichuan) International Investment Conference Closed were successfully concluded. Our reporters have learned from the press conference then held by the news office of provincial government that more than 20,000 guests from 75 countries and regions participated in this conference, and 82,000 people watched the exhibition. 692 formal contracts with investmentof above 20 million yuan weresigned; the total investment reached 632.981 billion yuan.

　　This conference, an integration of exhibition, trade negotiation and investment cooperation, washeld for the first time in Western China International Expo city.In the exhibition part, more than 1,300 enterprises exhibited themselves. All these actively displayed new opportunities for opening up cooperation of Sichuan, and vigorously promoted the construction of the Sichuan Free Trade Zone, China-Europe Express (Chengdu-Europe Express Railway) and import and export ports.With"Belt and Road"a key task,we are building exhibition halls of countries and regions along the way of "Belt and Road” to display the cooperation projects guided by “going global" strategy between our province and countries and regions along the way. What’s more, we also need to show our competitive industries of aerospace, electronic information, new energy, health care, tourism rail transportation as well as the development of emerging industries of the Internet, networking, virtual reality, intelligent equipment and biological technology to multi-dimensionally demonstrate the broad prospect of the world market which “made in Sichuan” will penetrate.

　　The investment and promotion part of this conference involves many high-level guests. 900 well-known enterprises including 73 of the World Top 500, 56 of China's top 500, participated in related investment promotion activities of provincial level, projects in"7 competitive industries,7 strategicemerging industries and 5 high-end developing industries, 5 leading service industry"of SichuanProvinceaccounted for more than 50% of investment among the total investment signed. Each city (prefecture) held 26 special featured investment promotion activities and organized participants to visit the sitesfor further communication, thus ushering in more investment and cooperation intentions.