The 2021 Overseas Chinese and Chinese Entrepreneurship Development Fair opened in Wuhan on November 16.

Combining the current situation of epidemic prevention and control and the need for post-epidemic recovery, this China Innovation Conference focuses on inviting overseas Chinese professionals, high-level overseas Chinese business representatives, high-level foreign business associations, Fortune 500 companies, and foreign high-tech companies to attend the meeting.

A total of more than 400 overseas representatives from 52 countries and regions attended the conference.

  Focusing on the industrial layout of Hubei’s "Optical Core Screen Terminal Network" and other industries, China Innovation Conference this year released 1,731 projects globally, including 116 overseas projects, 1,615 domestic projects, and 120 contracted projects. The total contracted amount was nearly 70 billion yuan (RMB, The same below), the project quality and investment scale are both higher than in previous years.

Among them, 77 projects with an investment of more than 100 million yuan, 20 projects with an investment of more than 1 billion yuan, and 30 investment and intelligence projects were signed at the opening ceremony.

The project covers biomedicine, modern manufacturing, IT optoelectronics, energy saving and environmental protection, modern agriculture and other fields.

  Since its establishment in 2001, the China Innovation Association has been held for 20 consecutive sessions in Wuhan.

In the past 20 years, the China Innovation Association has focused on recruiting talents, attracting investment, and promoting Sino-foreign cooperation and exchanges. It has invited more than 20,000 overseas Chinese professionals, overseas Chinese businessmen, and overseas students from 100 countries and regions to participate in the conference. , Accumulatively signed and introduced more than 2,500 projects, with an investment of more than 490 billion yuan, becoming a well-known brand for the national overseas Chinese affairs system to attract investment and an important platform for the innovation and entrepreneurship of overseas Chinese.

  (Reporter Zou Hao)

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]