Ten years of agreement, full fire!

　　2024 is the tenth year since the establishment of the Guangzhou International Investment Annual Conference, and it is also the "launch year" of the Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District Global Investment Promotion Year.

　　Go to Huangpu, the advantages and opportunities are stacked, the time is right, the place is right and the people are right!

　　Foreign-funded enterprises are intensively adding positions, the number of newly established enterprises is rising, and high-quality projects are coming in an endless stream... Since the beginning of this year, groups of "good start" data have written vivid footnotes to Huangpu, a fertile ground for global investment.

　　What signals will Huangpu release at this event?

　　The actual utilization of foreign capital ranks first among the economic development zones in the country. Investing in Huangpu is investing in the future.

　　Taking ten years as a scale, the growth history of the Guangzhou International Investment Annual Conference has witnessed the increasingly close connection and integration between the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the world. Huangpu is a heavy "report card" for investment promotion, which more truly explains what investing in Guangzhou and Huangpu means investing in the future.

　　Looking back at 2015, the same year that the first annual investment conference kicked off, a new Huangpu District was born. That year, the original Huangpu District and the original Luogang District merged to form the Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District. When the deep industrial foundation and vigorous development potential are combined, Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District burst out with huge industrial attraction and investment potential, kicking off a new round of global "rush for projects".

　　Large multinational companies are arriving one after another, and the scale of foreign investment continues to expand. In the past 10 years, the actual utilization of foreign capital in Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District has more than doubled, from US$1.15 billion in 2015 to US$3.07 billion in 2023. Up to now, more than 5,000 foreign-invested enterprises have been established in the zone, and the actual utilization of foreign investment has ranked first among the national economic and technological development zones for five consecutive years. It is called the most popular urban area for foreign investment in Guangzhou and even South China.

　　With its first-class business environment and strong investment magnetism, Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District have successively won the United Nations’ “Global Outstanding Investment Promotion Agency Award”, “Top Ten Industrial Parks for International Business Environment Construction” and “District with the Highest Entrepreneur Happiness” "And other honors.

　　Every year, the Huangpu Branch of the Annual Investment Conference is always packed with guests and big names, and the number of sub-forums held is one of the highest in the city. This is not only an important platform for exchanges and cooperation, but also the "first window" for global investors to gain insight into strategic opportunities.

　　Being able to timely grasp the development pulse of Huangpu District, Guangzhou City and even the entire Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area means seizing the cutting-edge opportunities of China's reform and opening up.

　　This year's Huangpu has opened up new development prospects and investment opportunities.

　　From the overall positioning point of view, Guangzhou has already played a "big game" in urban development towards 2049. Huangpu occupies nearly "half of the strategic layout of the eastern center" and is the "Twelve Years of Work to Rebuild New Guangzhou". "Golden home ground". Focusing on the four core functions of the Eastern Center - an important gateway to the international comprehensive transportation hub, a core carrying area for the national advanced manufacturing base, an important engine of the international science and technology innovation center, and a productive service center in the Greater Bay Area, the regional potential is being further stimulated, and investment options are also increasing. greatly broadened.

　　From the perspective of growth momentum, new productive forces are being vigorously nurtured. As Guangzhou's largest manufacturing district and strong innovation district, Huangpu will strengthen strategic emerging industries such as new energy vehicles, integrated circuits, and biomedicine, and strengthen "low-altitude economy, hydrogen energy and energy storage, artificial intelligence, large models and big data, etc." "New track" industry, promoting new industrialization and striving to make breakthroughs.

　　From the perspective of open cooperation, big platforms drive big industries, and big industries create big opportunities. In recent years, Huangpu’s national-level platform “all-star” lineup has continued to expand, and its role in the overall development of the country has become increasingly evident. It holds the only national-level bilateral cooperation project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area - Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City. It has also successively included the National Import Trade Promotion Innovation Demonstration Zone, Guangzhou Knowledge City Comprehensive Bonded Zone, etc., highlighting the advantages of various policies. , the door is opening wider and wider.

　　A promising start for foreign investment. From January to February this year, 63 new projects were signed and introduced.

　　This year, Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District kicked off the Global Investment Promotion Year, sounding the clarion call for a new round of "grasping investment, seizing big investment", and sprinting towards the goal of introducing more than 400 projects throughout the year.

　　To measure a place's comprehensive competitiveness and investment attractiveness, companies' real money "voting with their feet" is undoubtedly the most convincing.

　　With the beginning of the Year of the Dragon, Huangpu has successfully signed and introduced 63 new projects from January to February this year, including the operating headquarters of the most powerful subway brain "Suiteng" OS, the biomedical quasi-unicorn company Ruilaipu, and China Human Resources Junrun Human Resources, one of the top 100 service organizations, has achieved a gratifying start with “signing contracts every day” and “results every month”.

　　The enthusiasm of foreign investors for investment is high, and they have "increased their positions" one after another, strengthening their confidence in deepening the development of Huangpu.

　　The China-Europe Intelligent Network Innovation Center project was signed and implemented, with a total planned investment of approximately 150 million yuan; a team of more than 20 senior executives from the Amway Global Board of Directors visited to explore the future with Bio Island Enterprises and Institutions... It is reported that from January to February only, the entire region The number of newly established foreign-invested enterprises was 33, a year-on-year increase of 37.5%; the actual utilization of foreign capital was US$576 million, a year-on-year increase of 8.62%.

　　Large enterprises "stand tall" and small and medium-sized enterprises "overwhelm the sky". From January to February 2024, 5,950 new market entities of various types were registered in the district, a year-on-year increase of 115.35%.

　　Every increasing number and every enterprise settling in is the "best footnote" to Huangpu's business environment, and it is also an "open embrace" that welcomes guests and friends from all over the world and activates development potential.

　　"The total cumulative investment of GLP in Guangzhou exceeds 10 billion yuan, and Huangpu is our most important investment area in Guangzhou." Zhao Mingqi, co-president of GLP China, said that Huangpu, the "Pearl of the Bay", has full development potential, and the company In the next three years, it is planned to invest no less than 10 billion yuan in Huangpu, including urban renewal projects and new industry carrier projects, which will contribute to the implementation of major investment promotion projects in Huangpu.

　　What are the unique advantages of attracting global investment?

　　The comprehensive cost advantage clearly provides enterprises with stable "certainty"

　　In the new round of investment promotion, megacities generally face constraints on the cost of factors such as land and manpower. Although the "high cost of land" has contributed to the glory of international metropolises, it has also become a constraint on the vigorous development of the manufacturing industry to some extent. .

　　However, the Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District, located in the center of eastern Guangzhou, not only retain a huge industrial space and factor costs are much lower than similar urban areas, but also leverage the effects of business environment, industry and talent agglomeration to create new comprehensive cost advantages .

　　From the perspective of explicit external costs, compared with other central areas, the land cost here is lower, the industrial space is sufficient, and there is no hesitation in investing in advanced manufacturing. Currently, Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District are focusing on Guangzhou’s goal of “adhering to industry first and manufacturing as a city” and are fully ensuring key projects through supply-oriented strategies——

　　In 2023 alone, Huangpu plans to add 104 square kilometers of construction land, 2/3 of which will be used to support industrial projects; the area of ​​new construction land that has been submitted for approval and obtained approval has both reached a record high; and it has strived for 3,500 acres of advanced manufacturing land from the province. , the most in the city.

　　From the Avenue of Creation, Avenue of Science to Avenue of Innovation, each development path not only gave rise to headquarters economic buildings, but also incubated "big incubator" clusters. This year, the area of ​​various industrial carriers in the district will reach more than 30 million square meters. Enterprises can find the most suitable space at any time through the "Industrial Carrier Supermarket".

　　In a word, as long as a project meets the high-quality development needs of Huangpu, there must be "land available and buildings available for rent."

　　"Some time ago, I went to the Beijing-Guangzhou Collaborative Innovation Industrial Park and decided to settle in Huangpu on the spot." Zheng Zeyu, the foreign affairs director of Hunan Huaxiang (Dongguan) Law Firm, said of his choice to come here as "no need to hesitate."

　　In addition to its basic cost advantages, Huangpu also has significant comprehensive cost advantages. The efficiency advantages brought by the reform of the business environment, the agglomeration advantages brought by the gathering of industries and talents, and the cluster advantages brought by the improvement of the upstream and downstream industrial chains all mean huge cost dividends for both entrepreneurship and employment.

　　Comprehensive cost advantage is one of the core keys for corporate investment and settlement. Analysis from the perspectives of land, rent and market acquisition is enough to get a glimpse of the situation, proving the investment advantages of Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District, coupled with the high-quality business environment that has always been well-known. This kind of stable "certainty" is a solid reliance for enterprises in a market full of variables, and brings a warm sense of happiness.

　　Huangpu: Introducing new productive forces to reconstruct a new round of industrial landscape

　　At this year’s investment conference, the investment goals of Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District were extremely clear—to target the “cutting edge” of the industry, introduce new productive forces, and reconstruct a new round of industrial landscape. It is reported that Guangzhou Development Zone and Huangpu District plan to introduce more than 10 chain-building and strengthening projects in each key industry. Accelerate the development of emerging industries such as biomanufacturing, integrated circuits, and new energy vehicles, cultivate and expand strategic emerging industry clusters such as commercial aerospace, and low-altitude economy, and continue to deploy future industries such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology, and hydrogen energy.

　　Text/He Ruiqi

　　(Guangzhou Daily)