Hong Kong businessmen invest in Chongqing: "The mainland is a fertile ground for Hong Kong people to cultivate their careers."

　　China News Service, Chongqing, January 21, headline: Hong Kong businessmen invest in Chongqing: "The mainland is a fertile ground for Hong Kong people to cultivate their careers."

　　Author Zhang Xu

　　"The mainland is a fertile ground for Hong Kong people to cultivate their careers." Chongqing's Two Sessions are being held there. Li Jingwei, member of the Chongqing CPPCC and director of Hong Kong Lee & Man Paper Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Lee & Man Paper), told a reporter from China News Service on the 21st that entering Chongqing from Hong Kong After more than 10 years of investment and business development, we have regarded Chongqing, which we know and love, as our "second hometown."

　　Lee & Man Paper is one of the world's largest paper companies. It was formally established in 1994 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2003.

Lee & Man Paper has production bases in Yongchuan, Chongqing, Dongguan, Guangdong, Changshu, Jiangsu, Ruichang, Jiangxi, as well as in Malaysia, Vietnam and other places.

　　"Lee & Man Paper has taken advantage of the huge demand for packaging paper in the mainland manufacturing industry in the past 20 to 30 years and expanded the company to its current production capacity." Li Jingwei said that the booming e-commerce in the mainland has further increased the demand for packaging paper. The demand for packaging boxes has brought benefits to the development of Lee & Man Paper.

　　The Sichuan-Chongqing region is an important bamboo production area. Yongchuan in Chongqing has rich bamboo forest resources, which can provide bamboo pulp to papermaking companies.

In 2006, Lee & Man Paper established Chongqing Lee & Man Paper Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Chongqing Lee & Man) in Yongchuan, Chongqing.

Over the years, Lee & Man Paper has invested a total of 12 billion yuan, developing Chongqing Lee & Man from a paper mill producing packaging paper to a large enterprise with more than 6,000 employees and covering the entire paper industry chain.

　　Chongqing is located inland, with no border or sea. While strengthening the construction of inland open highlands, it is vigorously promoting the construction of a new land-sea corridor in the west.

By 2023, the New Western Land-Sea Corridor will reach 490 ports in 120 countries and regions around the world.

　　"The New Western Land-Sea Corridor has brought us logistics efficiency. For us, this is competitiveness, wealth and opportunity." Li Jingwei believes that the New Western Land-Sea Corridor has effectively solved the international logistics problems in western China and provided enterprises with cost reduction and efficiency improvement. new path.

　　He said that Chongqing Lee & Man has long imported recycled pulp from Southeast Asia, South America and other places, which complements the bamboo pulp from Chongqing Yongchuan and other places and is an important papermaking raw material.

According to calculations by Chongqing Lee & Man, the actual logistics cost of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor is basically the same as that of the Jiang-Sea Intermodal Transport. It saves more than 15 days of transportation time and can save 1 million yuan in financial costs every year.

　　Therefore, Chongqing Lee and Man has become a staunch participant in the construction of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor.

According to statistics, from 2017 to 2023, the freight volume transported by Chongqing Li & Wen via the New Western Land-Sea Corridor increased 113 times, and the value of goods increased 90 times. It is one of the companies with the largest shipment volume of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor.

　　Li Jingwei once organized an exchange meeting on the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, and through personal experience and other methods, drove more companies to ship import and export goods through the New Western Land-Sea Corridor.

According to reports, since 2019, driven by Chongqing Li & Man, companies in its park have been exporting goods to the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and other places through the New Western Land-Sea Corridor.

　　Li Jingwei told reporters that since settling in Chongqing, Chongqing Lee and Man has received strong support from all aspects, including support from the local government, cost reduction and efficiency improvement of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, etc., and has truly felt a good business environment.

He revealed that with the authorization of the board of directors, Lee & Man Paper plans to invest an additional US$1.6 billion in Chongqing in 2024 to further expand output value and scale, better feed back the local area, and share development opportunities.

　　In addition to being a member of the Chongqing CPPCC, Li Jingwei also serves as the executive vice president of the Hong Kong Chongqing Federation and chairman of the Economic and Trade Cooperation Committee. He hopes to contribute his own strength in promoting economic and trade cooperation between Chongqing and Hong Kong.

In recent years, he has also felt that Chongqing and Hong Kong are seriously increasing cooperation and exchanges, which "makes me very encouraged." He hopes that he can bear witness to the long-term mutually beneficial cooperation between Chongqing and Hong Kong and seriously participate in it step by step.

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