A round table meeting between Jiangsu Province and foreign Consul Generals in Shanghai was held Wednesday in Nanjing. Governor Wu Zhenglong attended the round table meeting and delivered a speech
Wu Zhenglong expressed his warm welcome to all the guests and friends and his gratitude to the foreign representative office in Shanghai for their concern about and support for Jiangsu.
He said that in today's world, open cooperation and mutual benefit are the general trend of development. Last year, China celebrated the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up and issued a mobilization order for the new era of reform and opening up. This year's session of the National People's Congress reviewed and approved the "Foreign Investment Law of the People's Republic of China", proclaiming China's clear stance of pursuing a mutually beneficial and open-win strategy and actively promoting the construction of an open world economy.
As the meeting point of the “Belt and Road” initiative, Jiangsu is a beautiful and fascinating land and also a place to create miracles and achieve dreams, the governor said.
Wu noted that in the past decades Jiangsu has ranked foremost in the country in its reform and opening up and its high quality development will continue to rally support from the opening up drive.
The high quality development of Jiangsu will provide many new opportunities for countries around the world, the governor said, adding that with friends coming from all over the world, Jiangsu will further strengthen its exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries in the fields of economy, trade, scientific and technological innovation, talents and humanities, grasp new opportunities for opening up, share new development results, and write a new chapter of cooperation and development.
Consul-generals of foreign countries to Shanghai show confidence in cooperation with Jiangsu
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Prior to the round table meeting, Hello Jiangsu interviewed some consul-generals participating the meeting. They have showed their confidence on the general environment for foreign investment of Jiangsu and hoped to have closer relations with Jiangsu in the future.
Present at the meeting were consul-generals from Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the United States, Austria, Belarus, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Panama, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates , Vietnam, France, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Slovenia.
With Jiangsu being the forefront of attracting foreign investment in China, consul-generals from Japan and Slovenia to Shanghai showed their confidence in having more cooperation with Jiangsu.
Consul-generals from Switzerland and Portugal have showed their sincere hope for closer relations with Jiangsu in the future.
