(Chinanews) -- Chengdu, June 16 (Shan Peng) The Information Office of the Chengdu Municipal People’s Government held a press conference in Chengdu on the 16th for the 2025 “Invest in Chengdu” Global Investment Promotion Conference. It was announced that the Promotion conference will open on the 18th of this month in Chengdu.

It is learned that this conference, with the theme of “Cooperation, Innovation and Future”.  The conference will host a series of activities, aiming to promote Chengdu's expansion of new Spaces for global cooperation, showcase new investment trends and cultivate new drivers of economic development. The conference will focus on six core themes including artificial intelligence, aerospace, low-altitude economy, biomedicine, digital cultural and creative industries, and foreign investment and trade, to help Chengdu build a global industrial innovation highland.

Chen Hua, director of the Chengdu Investment Promotion Bureau, stated that during this conference, Chengdu will sign major industrialization projects with global leadership potential that fill key industry gaps, to seize new growth tracks such as aerospace infrastructure and AI chips. It will build the global brand of “Invest in Chengdu”, expand the global investment promotion network, and launch the “Chengdu Global Investment Promotion Partner” program. Chengdu focuses on strengthening the industrial chain by building an industrial ecosystem. It will release a chain leader fund action plan with a total scale of 60 billion yuan around 12 key industrial chains of advanced manufacturing. It will promote policies to optimize industrial parks and attract enterprises to settle in. And it will release the “Investment Chengdu Policy Package” covering 11 fields including industrial parks, industrial funds, scientific and technological innovation, and talent recruitment.

On June 16th, the press conference for the 2025 “Invest in Chengdu” Global Investment Promotion Conference was held in Chengdu. (Photo by Zhang Lang, Chinanews)

At present, strengthening high-level opening-up to the outside world and promoting high-quality investment are important measures for Chengdu to serve the national strategies and enhance its core functions. Data shows that in the first five months of this year, Chengdu introduced 497 major industrialization projects, a year-on-year increase of 182%. From January to April this year, Chengdu received USD 656 million of foreign investment, a year-on-year increase of 58.89%, ranking first among cities in the central and western regions.

Zhu Hejin, deputy director of the Chengdu Municipal Economic and Information Technology Bureau and the Municipal New Economy Commission, said that Chengdu has an important strategic position, a solid industrial foundation, a sound industrial ecosystem and a first-class business environment, which attract manufacturing projects to invest here. He explained that Chengdu has 37 industrial categories, with over 5,000 Industrial enterprises above designated size. In 2024, Chengdu”s industrial added value is expected to approach 500 billion yuan, and the revenue of Industrial enterprises above designated size exceed 1.7 trillion yuan. Chengdu's relatively high degree of opening-up has strengthened its capacity to attract global industrial resources and promote international industrial cooperation.

With the “zero” of foreign investment access restrictions in China's manufacturing sector, the opening-up of the service industry has become the next priority. Against this backdrop, in 2024, the proportion of foreign investment absorbed by Chengdu's service industry reached 82.7%. In the first quarter of this year, foreign direct investment attracted by the service industry in Chengdu increased by 61.6% year-on-year.

Yin Jian, second-level inspector of the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Commerce and director of the Chengdu Center for Promoting Opening-up and Cooperation, said that Chengdu continues to promote the expansion of opening-up in the service sector. It will focus on addressing the pain points of foreign-funded enterprises, Chengdu will carry out institutional innovations in areas such as the introduction and management services for foreign professionals, the entry and exit of special items, and the cross-border flow of data and capital. And it will support foreign-funded enterprises in participating in the formulation and revision of standards and international exchanges in service sectors such as the integration of industry and commerce, to make the introduction of foreign talents smoother, the entry and exit of special items more convenient, and the cross-border flow of data and funds more efficient. (End)