The eighth China Guangzhou Investment Annual Conference and the first Global Unicorn CEO Forum kicked off on Aug 30 2022 in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, with the goal of injecting new impetus into the city’s economic growth.
This year, the event was conducted both online and offline, and had attracted more than 700 guests from 44 countries and regions.Among the guests were those from more than 300 Fortune Global 500 companies as well as State-owned and unicorn enterprisesincluding China Resources, China Gold, Swire, Hyundai Motor, AstraZeneca, Panasonic, Sabic, Unilever, Louis Dreyfus, Mitsubishi and Cambricon Technologies.
For the first time, a global unicorn CEO forum was held together with the annual conference. Several parallel forums focusing on themes such as consumption, advanced manufacturing, and biopharmaceuticals, as well as software service and green economy, were held for global unicorn CEOs to discuss hot-button issues including current economic trends and the application of new technologies for innovation and entrepreneurship.
According to organizers of the event, nine overseas sessions have been held including the ones in Silicon Valley of the United States, Tel Aviv of Israel, Berlin and Heidelberg of Germany, Minsk of Belarus, Tashkent of Uzbekistan, Tokyo of Japan and Singapore in the past few months, making the favorable business environment of Guangzhou and the latest investment and trade policies more extensively known globally.
During the event, a contract signing ceremony were held for several major investment projects involving strategic emerging industries such as advanced manufacturing, automobiles, new-generation information technology, modern commerce and new energy in Guangzhou.