China News Service, Nanning, October 23 (Reporter Huang Yanmei) Liang Peizheng, director of the Nanning Municipal Bureau of Commerce, Guangxi, introduced on the 22nd that from January to September this year, 17,100 new enterprises were established in the Nanning area of the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone, a year-on-year increase of 252.9 %.
Nanning will make every effort to build a cross-border industrial chain for ASEAN and promote the overall quality improvement of the "Nanning Channel".
The first meeting of the 15th Nanning People's Congress closed on the same day, and Liang Pei was making the above introduction at the press conference.
Nanning is China's closest provincial capital to ASEAN and an important node city for the organic connection of the "Belt and Road" initiative.
The Nanning Area of the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone (hereinafter referred to as the Nanning Area) was established with the approval of the State Council of China in August 2019. It is one of the three free trade areas in Guangxi.
Nanning area is located in the core area of Wuxiang New District, with an implementation area of 46.8 square kilometers, focusing on the development of five major industries: modern finance, digital economy, cultural, sports and medical care, smart logistics, and emerging manufacturing.
Up to now, the Nanning area has accumulated over 25,000 newly established companies, attracting well-known companies such as DHL Group, China Taiping Insurance Group, Greenland Group, Inspur Group, Alibaba, and iFlytek.
According to the official introduction of Nanning City, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Nanning will give full play to the advantages of multiple national strategies, focus on promoting trade and investment freedom, innovation in systems and mechanisms, and improving the business environment, so as to build the Nanning area into a high standard leading China-ASEAN open cooperation. High-quality free trade pilot zone.
The Nanning area will build an ASEAN-oriented investment and trade pilot zone, accelerate the construction and operation of the China-ASEAN economic and trade center, and promote the cooperation of the China-ASEAN cross-border electronic information industry chain and the China-ASEAN cross-border automobile industry chain.
In addition, promote the construction of China-ASEAN Cultural and Art Exchange Center, China-ASEAN Multimodal Transport Platform, China-ASEAN Financial City, China-ASEAN Commodity Trading Platform, and China-ASEAN Industrial Cooperation and Exchange Center.
Inspur Group is a leading cloud computing and big data service provider in China.
Since the launch of Inspur (Nanning) Science and Technology Center in 2020, it has introduced more than 700 registered companies.
"Inspur will rely on the ASEAN operation headquarters with a total investment of about 2.5 billion yuan, and take advantage of Nanning's location advantages to lay out the industrial sector, and build the Inspur ASEAN operation headquarters into a digital industry highland based in Nanning and radiating ASEAN." Inspur Group Guangxi Company Deputy General Manager Wang Dawei said.
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