Jinan, May 5 (Zhongxin Net) -- The reporter learned from a press conference held by the Shandong Provincial People's Government on May 11 that since the establishment of Jinan's "Overseas Chinese Mengyuan", it has attracted more than 5,11 experts and overseas high-end talent teams from more than 50 countries and regions to come to Lu for exchanges, and has reached more than 1500 cooperation intentions, with an intention amount of more than 350 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), polishing the signboard of the word "Overseas Chinese".

Feng Shangwei, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and director of the Provincial Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, said that Shandong has used concrete measures to support overseas talents to innovate and start businesses in Lu, and set up three special funds: the "Qiaomengyuan" industrial investment fund of 10 billion yuan, the loan guarantee of 1000 million yuan of "Qiaomengyuan" and the risk compensation and patent pledge financing of 1000 million yuan, and introduced government equity investment to support the accelerated development of overseas Chinese enterprises. It has built "Qiaomengyuan International Talent Port" and provided "golden card" services for overseas talents, which has attracted more than 500 overseas high-level talents (teams) to settle in. Relying on Jinan's "Talent Value" evaluation system, the "Overseas Chinese Valuable" brand was launched to empower overseas Chinese enterprises, and the first batch of 7 enterprises obtained a credit line of nearly 5 million yuan.

At the meeting, Li Faxin, deputy director of the United Front Work Department of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and spokesperson of the press, introduced that the 2023 High-level Talents Enter Shandong Jinan "Overseas Chinese Dream Garden" and the Chinese Business Enterprise Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation and Exchange Conference (hereinafter referred to as the China Fair) will be held from May 5 to 14. In recent years, Shandong has focused on the development of overseas Chinese enterprises, introduced relevant support policies, built a gathering area for overseas Chinese enterprises, and attracted overseas Chinese to come to Lu to innovate and start businesses, and achieved a series of results.

"The 'China Fair' is the largest brand activity related to overseas Chinese investment and wisdom in Shandong, which has been held in Shandong for 8 consecutive sessions, with a total of 701 signed projects and a total of 2117.39 billion yuan of agreed funds." Li Faxin said that this year's "China Fair" with the theme of "cohesion of overseas Chinese and win-win cooperation", focusing on green, low-carbon and high-quality development, scientific and technological innovation, economic and trade exchanges, etc., taking project docking and negotiation as the top priority, focusing on the field of "top ten industries", taking high-tech projects as the focus of cooperation and exchanges, and focusing on attracting talents and wisdom, promoting investment attraction, telling Shandong stories well, enhancing Shandong's overseas influence, and expanding Shandong's overseas "circle of friends".

According to Li Faxin, this year's "China Fair" will play the role of attracting overseas Chinese and attracting investment through business, and invite high-level overseas talents with international vision and unique advantages to participate in the meeting. Up to now, more than 30 overseas Chinese businessmen and high-level talents from more than 230 countries and regions have signed up to participate in the conference, including well-known overseas Chinese businessmen, foreign academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering and high-level talents of various professional associations. (End)