On the afternoon of September 6, taking the opportunity of the 10th Yangtze River Three Gorges International Tourism Festival, the International Economic & Trade Resources MatchmakingMeeting was held, attracting nearly 80 guests from 18 countries and regions around the world. Enterprise executivesof the world's top 500 enterprises,such as L'OréalGroup, AllnexUSA Inc., Mitsui&Co.Ltd.and Mitsubishi Corporation, were present foreconomic and trade exchanges and cooperation. 19foreign enterprises signed cooperation orders of 393 million US dollars with our city. Zhou Ji,member of theStanding Committee of HubeiProvincial Committee of CPCand secretary of the Yichang Municipal Committee of CPC, addressedthe meeting, which is chaired byZhang Jiasheng,mayor anddeputy secretary of Yichang Municipal Committee of CPC.

　　Baimukhanbe Murat, president ofSezKhorgos-EasternGateManagement Co., Ltd., Chauveau Olivier,vice president of L'OrealAsia-Pacific Operation Center, Fons Lamboo,chief representative the WuhanOffice of Netherlands Council for the Promotion of International Trade,Nathanael Cassian Mbena,president of Tanzania Military Area CommandGeneral Hospitaland Yang Qingsong, member of Party Leadership Group of the Departmentof Commerce of Hubei Province and deputy director of Hubei Port Office, delivered speeches. Officials such as Liu Jianxin, Zhou Zhengying and Jiang Zhengxiongattended the meeting.

　　Entrusted by Jiang Chaoliang, secretary of HubeiProvincial Committeeof CPC, and Wang Xiaodong, governor of Hubeiprovince, Zhou Ji, on behalf of the Hubei government, the Yichanggovernment and the people of the whole city, extended sincere welcome to all guests coming from afar and expressed sincere thanks to all friends who cared about and supported Yichang's development. He said that Yichang is a city of long history and rich culture.With its beautiful landscape,good ecological environmentandabundant resources, this highly open city containsunlimited business opportunitiesin itsthriving industries. Yichang is wherethe world famous Three Gorges Project lies, and it is also the city with the largest installed hydropower capacity in the world.Uniqueadvantagesinlocation, resources, industries, opennessand ecologyhave attracted a large number of domestic and foreign enterprises to settle in Yichang. We sincerely welcome friends from all walks of life to visitand have a look, andknow, feel andfall in love with Yichang, and to sharethedividends of all-round openness andhigh-quality development. We will createwith better servicesa platform for cultural exchangesanda stage fordoingbusiness in amore open and pragmatic manner for domestic and foreign businesses to share opportunities and seek common development.

　　Representatives of foreign enterprises believedthat the 10th Yangtze River Three Gorges International Tourism Festival and the International Economic&Trade Resources MatchmakingMeeting have set up a broad stage for enterprises from foreign enterprises to carry out import and export trade and multi-party cooperation, and also let everybody see a diversified, open, pragmatic and honest Yichang. At present, Yichang has embarked on a new stageof high-quality development. It is buildingall-round opennessrelying on platformsof a free trade areaand others tocreate a good investment environment for foreign enterprises. These enterpriseswill continue to promote friendly cooperation withYichang enterprisesand become promoters and beneficiaries of theBelt and Road Initiative as friends go closer and relatives more intimate with more interactionsgoing on.

　　At the meeting, Yichangreleased the first foreign-related thematic promotional film "YICHANG, SETS SAIL WHEN THE WIND IS BLOWING" and held a signing ceremony. 19foreign enterprises from the United States, Germany, France, Korea, Tanzania, Uganda, Japan, Russia, the Netherlands, Israel, India, Belgium, Kazakhstan and other countries signed cooperation ordersof 393 million with our city, focusing on the fields of biomedicine, fine chemicals and advanced equipment manufacturing. Among them, there are four import projects amountingto$132 million, 13 export projects amountingto $246 million, one investment project amounting to $15 million and one bonded area integration cooperation project.

　　This International Economic & Trade Resources MatchmakingMeeting is one of the important activities of the 10th Yangtze River Three Gorges International Tourism Festival. It is the first major international economic and trade event held by thecityandalso a special trade promotion activity for Yichang to matchwith the 2nd Import Expo in advance. It will significantly contributeto stabilizingforeign investment, expanding openness and accelerating high-quality development.

　　Representatives of international well-known enterprises, transnational corporations in China, foreignconsulates-generalin Wuhan, the WuhanOffice of theNetherlands Council for the Promotionof International Trade, international partners oflocal enterprises, well-known foreign-funded enterprises, local enterprises and official departments attended the matchmakingmeeting.