At 4 o’clock in the afternoon on May 11th, “Lush Mountains and Lucid Waters Greeting Honored Guests”--2021 Capital Investment Promotion Conference of Guizhou Agricultural Deep Processing and Health Industry was held in Beijing Asia Hotel. Investment Promotion Bureau of Guizhou Province went to Beijing to promote investment through 200 projects which covered 12 industries, including characteristic agriculture, health and care for senior citizens, attracting more than 130 central enterprises, leading agricultural companies and listed companies to learn more about the economic future of Guizhou.
Heads of the departments came to the conference included those of Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Department of Civil Affairs, Forestry Bureau and other branch departments as well as those of Zunyi city, Liupanshui city, Anshun city, Bijie city, Tongren city, Qiandongnan prefecture, Qianxinan prefecture, Qiannan prefecture and other cities and prefectures. They communicated with outstanding entrepreneurs and investors to discuss the promising future of Guizhou.
Ma Lei, director of Investment Promotion Bureau of Guizhou Province and director of Leadership Office of Guizhou’s Industrial Investment Promotion, was the main person in the conference. He communicated with attending entrepreneurs about the social economic development and the their future benefit form Guizhou’s industrial development. He said that today’s Guizhou was no longer a name indicating poverty and backwardness. Changes were going on and the province was more and more attractive. The investment appeal could be divided into four aspects.
The first appeal was the new things in Guizhou. In the February of this year, general secretary Xi Jinping brought up “four new” requirements for Guizhou in a new era during his sixth inspection to this place. Those requirements were “finding a new path for the Great Western Development; starting a new condition for rural rejuvenation; seizing new strategic opportunities in the implementation of digital economy and creating new achievements in the construction ecological civilization”.
Innovation was the original driving force of development. According to requirement of Xi Jingping, Guizhou was heading for a new goal in a journey for a new era. In the past, Guizhou had weak economic base. But today, the province had transformed from the one with the most poverty-stricken population to the one with the most people getting rid of poverty, which was a miracle. Guizhou had been the province with the most rapid GDP increasing rate for three consecutive years and remained one of the three provinces with the most rapid GDP increasing rate for ten consecutive years. It’s also the first province in the west part of China whose counties were all linked by expressway. The overall highway density and the number of bridge over grand canyon ranked first in the country. Nine cities and prefectures would have access to high-speed train in the next year. Guizhou had the best three-dimensional network of communication lines in the western part of China.
Guizhou was also China’s leading province in big date which was a signature not only for Guizhou itself, but also the country. Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, the largest one in the world, was an era-defining universe project. Innovation introduced great changes in Guizhou in the last 10 years, indicating unimaginable hope for the future.
The second appeal was Guizhou’s beauty. Guizhou was full of amazing peaks, unique valleys, karst caves, wetlands and hot springs. In the province, one could find world find world-renowned Huangguoshu Waterfalls, hundred-square kilometers’ rhododendrons, villages of thousands-houses of Miao nationality, 10 thousand-hectare tea plants and so on. There were also four world natural heritage sites, including Libo karst landscape, Chishui Danxia landform, Yuntai Mountain in Shibing county and Fanjing Mountain.
Development and ecology were two bottom lines for Guizhou, so it was green, healthy and said no to pollution. The “five good” of the environment in Guizhou included plants, climate, air, soil and water. Guizhou could produce high-quality agricultural products and beautiful environment conducive to people’s health. It’s already the province attracting most tourists in China and was called the “park province” by the general secretary of China.
Beside, Guizhou’s beauty lied not only in environment, but also in industries. The industrial layout was special. The primary industry was of high quality, because it’s green, organic and non-hazardous. The province’s total value increasing rate of agriculture was in the leading position in China. And the agricultural structure had transformed from a scattered one in mountains to an abundant, industrialized and outstanding one. Some characteristic industries was stepping out of the mountain and entering the domestic market, like tea and fruits.
The beauty of the secondary industries lied in it’s data. The government developed big data economy and extended the upper, mid and down streams of industrial chains, through which, it cultivated a batch of unicorn enterprises of big data and future leading enterprises, like “huachebang”. Big data industry encouraged transformation which provided big data service to a series of enterprises, including adjustment of traditional enterprises. In the secondary industry formed an emerging industrial development structure in which data connected everything.
The beauty of the tertiary industry lied in the ecology. Excellent ecological environment led to the full integration of tourism, agriculture and health industries. Health industry particularly worth attention because it’s a treasure for the province’s future. Everyone needed a place to spend their senior time in, to be healthy and to get inner peace, but not every place had enough conditions to reach these three goals but Guizhou was one of them. It’s an important base of revolutionary culture and a desirable area for outstanding nature and diverse ecology, which enabled it’s health industry to progress from an urban traditional and average-level style to a scattered and a close-to-nature one.
The third appeal was it’s outstanding investment. It’s lied first in production factors which were the base, nutrition and lives of projects. An example was electricity. Guizhou was the only province in China with complementary energy structure composed of hydro power and thermal power and there were also wind power, photoelectricity and other kinds of new energy. Currently, the installed capacity was 70 million kilowatt and the number would increased to 80 million.
Adequate energy was the guarantee of the low electricity cost in Guizhou, so the cost would be controlled to be less than 0.5 yuan per kilowatt, and in big data industry, 0.35 yuan. Energy supply offered abundant driving force for enterprise development. Production factors included not only electricity, but also water, natural gas, land, human resource and investment factors, including finance.
Second, the level of enterprises investing in Guizhou was higher than the past. More than 150 enterprises of the world’s top 500 were settled in the province, especially in recent years when more high-tech companies were being introduced. For example, Huawei and Apple invested to construct important base, proving Guizhou’s attraction and outstanding investment environment.
The forth appeal was Guizhou’s human resource. Guizhou had a group of well-known entrepreneurs in China. There was Ren Zhengfei who was deeply attached to the province which in turn made him to be a legendary business talent. There’s also the national example, Tao Huanbi, the founder of Laoganma, who was the owner of a local enterprises. She was not willing to make her company a listed one, but created a miracle by selling her chilly sauce all over the country. In addition, there were many handicraft products, like miao embroidery and Maotai, so people in Guizhou were described as hard-working and with the spirit of craftsmanship. The latest national census was published today and it showed that permanent resident population had increased. And the proportion of newly added population to all ranked among the highest five of the nation. They were evidence showing that people were drawn to the province due to the economic development.
Guizhou valued people and treated investors form other places as important guests. In the 14th five year plan, the province created a business service brand named “guiren service” (literally service for important people) to provide the best investment and business environment. Those who provided the service valued enterprises as the most precious to let enterprise feel comfort; valued contracts as the most important to let enterprise rest assure; valued high efficiency to let enterprise spend less effort and value law-based governance to let enterprise to know they were in a promising environment. The enterprises coming to Guizhou would definitely be served as important guests.
The government in Guizhou saw the 18 indicative systems form National Development and Reform Commission and 11 indicative system for the World Bank as standards and published 80 business indicators and 150 reform methods. More than 40 departments and 16 leading departments had tasks to reform the business environment in terms of administration, business, society and law-based governance. Main heads of the provincial government of all levels saw business introduction as the most significant task. They would offer top level service to businesses operators; respect, serve and protect investors; offer all-aspects service to enterprises and let enterprises to have a sense of gaining.
Ma Lei introduced 200 projects to entrepreneurs including 12 characteristic agricultural industries, health industry and care for the senior citizen with expected investment amounting to 49.23 billion yuan. The detailed, considerate and trust-worthy services could be seen every where. Participating entrepreneurs’ name and seats were illustrated on a chart for them to find their seats in a fast and convenient way. Policies and information of 200 projects were printed in pamphlets which were given to attendees for them to have a clear understanding of projects. The official wechat account and the downloading QR code of the electronic material of projects were also published.
In the end, Ma Lei said, “Those starting businesses in Beijing are called beipiao (literally, floaters in Beijing) and those doing the same thing in Guizhou are referred to as guiren (literally respected people). I hope all entrepreneurs will come to invest in Guizhou which is a piece of amazing land. I wish you will witness a large improvement of your career, just like what happened to the CPC after Zunyi Meeting. I also wish you can see your companies break through limits and have major successes, like what happened to the CPC after their crossing Chishui river for four times. I express my gratitude to you for your attention and support. I’m glad that I can be with all of you in Beijing and finish my main task which is to present Guizhou in Beijing. I hope that in the future, we can have win-win cooperation in Guizhou.”