On 5 and 6 November, Yichang delegation participated in the first China International Import Expo (CIIE)and held the Presentation Session of Yichang Yangtze River Delta Region Environmental Investment & Signing Ceremony of Purchasing Import Goods. Zhang Jisheng, Deputy Secretary of Yichang Municipal Committee of the CPC and Mayor of Yichang, met with the foreign businessman representatives and witnessed the signing ceremony. Zhou Zhengying, the Vice Mayor of Yichang, attended related activities together with Liu Xiaohua, the director of the New Area Management Committee of Three Gorges Tourism.

　　Zhang Jiasheng met with Thomas Pierce, China Manager of Swiss Louis Dreyfus, Deng Shuai, the Regional Manager of Sonyville Group in Netherland, and Huang Li, General Manager of Hungary's Semilab CO. Ltd representatively. He spoke highly of the current development situation when he learned that Yichang had been cooperating with foreign enterprises for many years. And he said that taking the CIIE as an opportunity, the two parties should create a better condition and provide thoughtful services, so as to promote a further cooperation and share the openness. While the foreign representatives agreed that Yichang is a city full of humanistic glamour and great development potential, and they will continue to strengthen cooperationswith Yichang enterprises, and work together in various fields to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

　　On behalf of Yichang Municipal Committee of the CPC and Yichang Municipal Government, Zhang Jiasheng expressed his heartfelt gratitude to all entrepreneurs who have long been concerning and supporting Yichang’s development. In his speech, he said that as the site of Three Gorges Dam and the cradle of Qu Yuan (a Chinese poet in the Warring States Period ) and Wang Zhaojun (a Chinese beauty in Western Han Dynasty), on the new journey of high-quality development, we are focus on attracting investment and project construction, vigorously promoting ecological priority and green growth, so as to speed up the process of building Yichang into a deputy provincial city with stronger comprehensive strength, a regional central city in the upper and middle reaches of Yangtze River and a World famous hydropower and Tourism City. As a node city on the route of “Belt and Road Initiative” and Yangtze River Economic Zone, Yichang, under the opportunity period of accelerating the transformationof growth momentum, we will continue to promoting the reforms of delegating power, streamlining administration and optimizing government affairs service to create a business environment with lowest cost, highest efficiency and best services, and build a booming investment filed with high-quality governmental services, so as to boost the high-quality development of economy. And he also expressed his prospect that the enterprises on the Yangtze River Delta Region shall pay more attention on Yichang, learn more about Yichang and invest in Yichang, so that we can share the business opportunity of transformation development and create a beautiful future together.

　　At CIIE, six enterprises of Yichang singed successfully with overseas companies, such as Allmed Medical Products CO. Ltd and Swiss Louis Dreyfus, Angel Yeast Co., Ltd and Netherlands’ Sonyville Group, Yichang CSG Polysilicon CO. Ltd and Hungary's Semilab CO. Ltd, etc.The principal of Yichang Merchants Group and Yichang Free Trade Zone Management Committee promote the environment climate as well.

　　In his stay in Shanghai, Zhang Jiasheng also visited the Shanghai headquarters of Haichang Ocean Park and Outlets Business Operation Management Co. Ltd for a field trip. (Reporter: Gao Wei)