China News Service, Beijing, December 6 (Zhu He and Yang Chengchen) At the 24th Beijing-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Seminar (hereinafter referred to as the Beijing-Hong Kong Fair) held on the 6th, 11 contracts were signed on the spot between Beijing and Hong Kong. The project, the amount is equivalent to 8.814 billion U.S. dollars.

  The signed projects include 1 cooperation agreement and 10 investment projects, involving key areas such as biomedicine, artificial intelligence, life and health, and new energy.

After the signing of the contract, a number of global leading Hong Kong companies will land in Beijing to help Beijing's industrial development.

  Wang Shulin, director of the Beijing Center of Hong Kong Simou Group, one of the contracting parties, said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that the group intends to establish an intelligent headquarters in Beijing, which will give full play to the advantages of independent core technologies and application solutions in scenarios, and fully lead the digital upgrade of Beijing's industry. , To help Beijing build a "Beijing Smart Manufacturing" brand and a benchmark city for the global digital economy.

  At the Beijing-Hong Kong Cooperation Promotion Conference held in the morning of the same day, people from both places said that Beijing and Hong Kong have complementary advantages, mutual benefit and win-win, and there is a broad space for cooperation.

Fang Shunwen, President of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, pointed out in a video speech that there are opportunities for cooperation between Beijing and Hong Kong in the three new development engines of green finance, digital economy and innovative technology.

  Yang Jinbai, deputy mayor of Beijing, introduced the distinctive features of Beijing from two aspects: the active integration of high-end elements and the superimposed release of dividends from the "two districts".

He said that Beijing and Hong Kong have significant advantages. In the future, Beijing and Hong Kong will go hand in hand and move in the same direction to comprehensively enhance the level of cooperation between Beijing and Hong Kong.

  "Hong Kong is Beijing's most important source of foreign capital and one of its most important trading partners. It is also the preferred platform for Beijing enterprises to expand overseas markets." Yuan Wu, Chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, said in a keynote speech that the country's economy has maintained rapid growth. , To open up a wider space for exchanges and cooperation between Beijing and Hong Kong in various fields.

It is expected that the two places will work together to build a platform for precise docking between the two sides, and jointly open a new chapter of cooperation in the new structure and under the new situation.

  The 24th Beijing-Hong Kong Fair was held from 6th to 7th, with venues set up at the National Convention Center and Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center.

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