China News Service, Wuhan, August 8 (Reporter Zhang Qin) The 2020 (14th) China Brand Festival Annual Conference, co-sponsored by the Brand Alliance and Wuhan Municipal Government, opened in Wuhan on the morning of the 8th. After the “restart” of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Wuhan once again attracted the attention of investors.
This year's China Brand Festival Annual Conference attracted more than 600 representatives from companies including Alibaba, Lenovo, Haier, China Nonferrous Metals Group, and Sinopec.
"We have always been optimistic about Wuhan, which will also become a very important area for Alibaba's future development." Alibaba Group partner and chairman of the Alibaba Charity Foundation Sun Lijun introduced that during the epidemic, Alibaba purchased medical supplies from all over the world to help Wuhan, I am very happy to see Wuhan regaining vitality now.
Since the establishment of an industrial park in Wuhan in 2002, after more than ten years of development, the output value of Wuhan Haier Industrial Park last year exceeded 9 billion yuan (RMB, the same below). According to Li Huagang, Vice President of Haier Group, Haier Group has more than 20,000 employees in Hubei, and did not dismiss one person during the epidemic, and tried every means to protect their rights.
Li Huagang introduced that Haier Group has already built production bases for air conditioners, water heaters, and refrigerators in Wuhan. In the future, the group will increase its investment in research and development in Wuhan, and use its regional advantages to build a logistics center in central Haier. The original industrial park will continue. Expand, move out. "Our sales target in Hubei this year is 10 billion yuan." He said.
"Our largest tablet production base is here." Qiao Jian, senior vice president of Lenovo Group, introduced that many people currently use online education and work at home, and the demand for tablet computers is increasing. Last quarter, Lenovo's global sales of tablet computers increased by about 50%, and now the Wuhan plant is working overtime to produce at full capacity.
Qiao Jian said that Lenovo has always attached great importance to the development in Wuhan. Here is Lenovo Group's largest mobile device production base in the world, and it is also a very important research and development base. She revealed that next month, Lenovo's first 5G folding screen mobile phone will roll off the assembly line in Wuhan.
It is reported that in the second quarter of this year, Wuhan's economy rebounded back to the same period last year, and market confidence continued to increase. In the first half of the year, a total of more than 200 well-known companies such as the world's top 500 and China's top 500 went to Wuhan to negotiate, and the actual funds in place were nearly 400 billion yuan. (Finish)