(Reporter:Lei Pengcheng) On the morning of September 6th, the investment fair of the Tenth China Yangtze River Three Gorges International Tourism Festival was kicked off in Yichang. 40 Projects with a total investment of 34.564 bn were inked, which re-ups a new boom of investment attraction in Yichang. Zhou Ji, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee attended the fair. Zhang Jiasheng, Deputy Secretary of Municipal Party Committee and mayor, presided over the fair.
Entrepreneurs all agree that Yichang is an important node city in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. It has always been great of investment and commercial importance. With abundant historical cultural resources and natural scenery resources, it makes entrepreneurs confident for their investment. They promise that they will turn the strong support from the Municipal Party Committee, municipal government and all citizens into tremendous motive force to invest in Yichang. They will cooperate with the natives in all-round and in-depth way closely surrounding the industrial layout of Yichang, actively participate in the construction of economic, to make greater contributions to Yichang’s goal of “two targets”.
Of the 40 inked projects, 16 projects were over 1 bln yuan, with a total investment in the agreement of 28.5 bln yuan; 17 industrial projects with a total investment in the agreement of 13.297 bln yuan and 23 non-industrial projects with a total investment in the agreement of 21.267 bln yuan.
At the fair, the person in charge of the Municipal China Merchants Bureau made an introduction of the investment environment and key investment attraction industry; persons in charge of High-Tech District , Zhijiang county-level city, Wujiagang District and Changyang Tujia Autonomous County respectively introduced the free-trade zone, investment environment and the investment attraction of related industry.
After the investment fair, the city also held a special seminar on investment attraction in the self-governing area and bio-pharmaceutical industry, the cultural tourism industry, the equipment manufacturing industry and the fine chemicals (new materials) industry. At the meeting, officers from the relevant departments of the city, the counties and towns described Yichang's investment environment, pillar industries, investment attraction policies, etc around the development of related industries to guests and merchants.
Before the fair, by taking this opportunity, Yichang High-Tech Zone and China National Agricultural Means of Production Group Corporation jointly held a groundbreaking ceremony in the Shawan area of Baiyang Industrial Park to promote the settlement of the CA (Yichang) Yuncang Logistics Project with a total investment of 1 billion yuan . They will focus on building a large-scale integrated warehousing and logistics center integrating display, trading, reserve, import and export, and packaging and processing of large-scale agricultural products such as chemical fertilizers, and better serve agricultural and chemical enterprises along the Yangtze River. After the completion of the project, it is expected to achieve an annual transaction volume of more than 5 billion yuan.