On September 17, according to a press briefing on the Well-known Chinese and Foreign Enterprises' Visit to Sichuan 2025, Sichuan has accelerated the attraction of major and high-quality projects this year through synchronized efforts in domestic and foreign investment. Key foreign-invested projects have been expedited, their industrial contribution has become more pronounced, and project investment attraction is demonstrating a new vitality.

Securing Domestic Investment

"Inter-departmental Coordination + Targeted Scheduling" Attracts Major, High-Quality Projects

"In the first half of this year, 380 projects were signed through provincial-level platforms with a total investment nearing 350 billion yuan, while newly utilized actual investment from industrial projects introduced from other provinces exceeded 460 billion yuan." The Provincial Bureau of Economic Cooperation is the lead organizer for this "Visit to Sichuan" event. At the press briefing, the head of the bureau's Project Management Division reported that this year, the provincial economic cooperation departments have effectively boosted newly utilized actual investment by focusing on key industries to build ecosystems, strengthen chains, establish platforms, enhance connectivity, and promote projects.

Behind these figures lies the growing momentum for investing in Sichuan. In the first half of this year, senior representatives from numerous prominent enterprises and business associations visited the province to explore cooperation opportunities and deepen collaborative ties. These engagements facilitated the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement between the provincial government and iFlytek, as well as the landing of several major, high-quality projects, including a new energy vehicle production base by the Dongfeng Motor Corporation.

How are major, high-quality projects secured? The "Inter-departmental Coordination + Targeted Scheduling" mechanism has played a crucial role. The official mentioned above elaborated that by establishing a key industrial chain investment promotion mechanism involving "chain leaders + chain leader offices (lead departments) + economic cooperation departments + host locations", the province has formed a full-chain closed-loop management system from strategic planning and project attraction to service delivery. This system effectively integrates resources, enhances coordination, and enables targeted efforts to extend, consolidate, and strengthen key industrial chains. Data shows that in the first half of this year, the Provincial Bureau of Economic Cooperation, in coordination with relevant departments and municipal (prefectural) governments, organized 43 thematic investment promotion events. Through provincial-level platforms alone, 108 key industrial chain projects were signed.

Concurrently, by exploring the establishment of a "three-tier coordinated scheduling mechanism for major negotiating investment projects province-wide", the bureau has constructed a work system based on "project scheduling pool + issue list + tiered consultation" to conduct comprehensive reviews of projects under negotiation and specifically implement tiered and categorized scheduling when resolving difficulties and blockages encountered during the signing and landing phases.

"A total of 234 projects were scheduled for coordination in the first half of the year, with 69 issues resolved through this process. This mechanism has facilitated the rapid landing in Sichuan of several core industrial chain projects with key catalytic roles, such as the Guangdong KuangChi Science Advanced Low-Altitude UAV Industrial Chain Headquarters Base," the aforementioned official stated.

Attracting Foreign Investment

Four-Pronged Measures Launched to Secure Sichuan's Top Position in FDI Scale across Central and Western China

"From January to July this year, the province established 475 new foreign-invested enterprises," with "actual utilized foreign direct investment (FDI) reaching 1.255 billion U.S. dollars, maintaining its leading scale in central and western China." These figures revealed at the briefing represent a "vote of confidence" in the Sichuan market cast by multinational corporations through their concrete actions. In terms of shifts in the industrial structure, foreign capital is increasingly flowing into high-value-added sectors. Multinational companies have transitioned their investment strategies in Sichuan from "scale expansion" to "deep cultivation".

Foreign investment serves as a critical bridge connecting domestic and international markets, playing a vital supporting role in stabilizing economic growth and employment, as well as in constructing a new pattern of development. Particularly, the high-tech industry is leveraging its robust growth resilience to offset risks from sluggish demand, emerging as a key pillar supporting the overall stable performance of foreign investment.

This year, Sichuan has rolled out an action plan for stabilizing foreign investment. It puts forward a series of measures in four aspects: facilitating high-standard opening-up, improving the promotion of foreign investment, boosting the efficiency of open platforms, and strengthening the service and guarantee for foreign investors, sparing no effort in ensuring the stability of foreign investment in 2025. Meanwhile, the Provincial Bureau of Economic Cooperation has stepped up the publicity and implementation of the tax credit policy for reinvestment of profits by overseas investors and, in collaboration with the Sichuan Provincial Tax Service, studied and formulated the process for enjoying the policy to earnestly carry out actions to stabilize foreign investment.

It not only takes a more proactive approach to "going global" for investment promotion, but also continuously seeks efficiency through refined services. Since the beginning of this year, the economic cooperation system across the province has thoroughly implemented the "Services and Guarantees for Foreign-invested Enterprises" service initiative in 2025, visited over 400 foreign-invested enterprises, and coordinated and resolved more than 100 problems. One landmark foreign-funded project has been included in the national special workgroup for foreign investment guarantee. These efforts have effectively enabled 95 existing foreign-funded enterprises, such as Albemarle from the United States and Keymed Biosciences, to increase their contracted foreign investment by 448 million US dollars.