Text/Guangzhou Daily All Media Reporter Shen Hui

Recently, at the "Year of Investing in China" investment promotion event held in Guangzhou, Hyundai Motor announced that the world's first overseas hydrogen fuel cell system R&D, production and sales base in Guangzhou will be completed and put into operation.

Today, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, one of the most open and dynamic regions in China, and Guangzhou, one of the core engines of the Greater Bay Area, have become investment hotspots for many indicator multinational enterprises - China Biopharmaceutical Group, a subsidiary of CP Group, has joined hands with Guangzhou to launch the country's first overseas pharmaceutical innovation platform focusing on the introduction of international innovative drugs. BASF, the world's 500 strengthening giant, is actively promoting the construction of the Zhanjiang integration project, and the total investment is expected to reach 2030 billion euros by 100...

The good news keeps coming.

In the past few days, from the China Development High-level Forum in Beijing to the "Year of Investment in China" investment promotion activities in Guangzhou, and then to the Boao Forum for Asia in Hainan, a number of heavyweight forums have been held in China. Heavy Chinese and foreign dignitaries, Fortune 500 companies and industry leading enterprises and other domestic and foreign guests have come to look for "China opportunities". As China moves towards high-quality development, when the world pays more attention to the changes in China's economic growth model and looks forward to cultivating the Chinese market, from the Bay Area to Guangzhou, it is also ushering in a broader development space in the new journey of high-quality development.

The grand event reunited, and the investment enthusiasm continued to be high

Today's flower city Guangzhou is full of spring and "hydrogen" wind.

At a time when the green hydrogen energy industry is being deployed in many countries around the world, Li Hyuk-chan, President of Hyundai Motor Group (China), announced that in the first half of this year, Hyundai Motor's first overseas hydrogen fuel cell system production base in Guangzhou Huangpu, the "HTWO Guangzhou" project, will be completed and put into operation. At present, the project has entered the trial production stage.

Walking into the project exhibition hall, the animation here shows why this ultimate environmentally friendly product without any carbon emissions can become the driving force of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. "Guangdong has industrial advantages in the fields of new energy and new-generation information technology. Hyundai Motor will strive to build a hydrogen energy ecosystem locally, promote hydrogen energy industry clusters, and help achieve China's goal of carbon neutrality." Li Hyuk-chan said.

The grand event came to an end, but the enthusiasm for investing in the Bay Area and Guangzhou has never stopped, and it has also become the epitome of domestic and foreign enterprises competing to invest in China.

"It's great to be back in China and meet old and new friends from all over the world!" No matter which forum, such opening remarks have become the common emotion of almost every overseas guest.

New and old friends, meet and reunite; The forum was packed inside and outside. With the China Development High-level Forum, the "Year of Investing in China" investment promotion activities, the Boao Forum for Asia being held offline, and the upcoming Canton Fair and Consumer Expo, it is enough to see that after three years of the epidemic, a large number of overseas enterprises are looking forward to sharing China's opportunities in China.

As one of the most open and dynamic regions in China, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Guangzhou, one of the core engines of the Greater Bay Area, are not only the launching places of the "Year of Investment in China" investment promotion activities, but also the investment hotspots of many multinational enterprises. "The Greater Bay Area is the fastest growing place in China and the earliest place in reform and opening up. With a strong sense of market and openness, it will continue to play a leading role in China's future opening up. Long Yongtu, chief negotiator for China's accession to the WTO and former vice minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation, said: Manufacturing has always been the foundation of China's economic development. From this point of view, Guangdong's proposal to take charge of the manufacturing industry and "build a new Guangdong" is actually "to build a strong manufacturing industry".

At the forum, many multinational companies around the world expressed optimism about the Chinese market, how to transform this "expectation" into real investment enthusiasm? Many multinational companies are increasing their investment in China and voting confidence in China with practical actions. At the launching ceremony of the "Year of Investing in China" investment promotion activities, "investing in China is not only investing in the present, but also investing in the future" became the "strongest voice". At this grand event, which brought together nearly 74 multinational companies such as BASF, Panasonic and HSBC, the Guangdong special promotion event reached 905 foreign cooperation projects with a total investment of <>.<> billion yuan, which can be described as fruitful.

Choosing the Bay Area to Highlight the Strong "Magnetic Attraction" of the Chinese Market

"Investment in China", "Unity and Cooperation", "China Opportunities"... What is the driving force of global economic recovery has become the most concerned topic in many forums. And from the beginning, several forums illuminated the answer with a theme.

As the propeller and stable anchor of world economic development, China's economy provides market demand and strong impetus for global economic development, and has also become a reliable provider of the world's industrial chain and supply chain. As China moves towards a high-quality development stage, green and low-carbon development and the quality of the consumer market are new investment opportunities for multinational enterprises to develop in China.

As Zhang Jinsong, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, said, the biggest business opportunity for Guangdong in the new era is the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, which is a development opportunity for Guangdong and for global investors. It can be seen that whether it is providing reliable guarantee for the global industrial chain and supply chain, or the coordinated development of urban and rural areas to achieve the expansion and upgrading of the consumer market, or accelerating the construction of a new model of green economic development, these are precisely the advantages of the Greater Bay Area, containing a large number of investment opportunities and development space. Data show that the total economic volume of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area will exceed 2022 trillion yuan in 13, and the overall economic strength is strong. Among them, Guangdong's foreign trade import and export reached 8.31 trillion yuan, ranking first among provinces and cities in import and export scale for 34 consecutive years.

"What we see is the next 30 years! Before coming to Beijing, I had just traveled to Guangzhou to learn about the implementation of high-quality development in the Greater Bay Area and announced a 6 million yuan investment project in Guangzhou. The project mentioned by Amway Global CEO Pan Meilin is the five-year capital increase, production expansion, quality and efficiency plan implemented by Amway to the Guangzhou production base, and build the Amway R&D center and health sharing platform, which is also the tenth capital increase of the base.

With further investment in China, ZF, one of the world's largest automotive suppliers, recently topped out its first R&D center in southern China in Guangzhou and will soon be operational. Wang Runyi, Executive Vice President, President of ZF Group and President of Asia Pacific Operations, said that Guangzhou is the automobile production center in South China, and South China also brings together a lot of electronic products and semiconductor products industrial chain supply chain, as well as a large number of software engineers and electronic industry technical workers, providing a good industrial chain supply chain and talent base for enterprise development. Based on the judgment of the electrification transformation of the automotive industry, ZF decided to locate in Guangzhou, and the new R&D center will provide high-quality technical solutions for South China, the whole of China and the world.

In addition to businesses that have already taken root, there are many more businesses on the way. Zhu Shihui, chairman of Pilot Film Materials Co., Ltd., said that the research and development center they are building is located in Wanqingsha in Nansha, Guangzhou. Today, the prototype of the "chip street" here is taking shape, and it is from here that their products go to the world. Vincent Lo, chairman of Shui On Group in Hong Kong, who was once known for building Shanghai Xintiandi, said he had seen a number of projects in Nansha and other places, hoping to create the next "innovative version" of Shanghai Xintiandi.

Looking at China from a series of high-level forums is like a window to explore China's future development opportunities. The popularity of investing in the Bay Area and Guangzhou, let people witness that the positive willingness of foreign capital to deploy the Chinese market has not stopped, and this investment hotspot is continuously releasing a strong "magnetic attraction" for foreign investment.