On April 16, the Beijing Investment Promotion Service Center organized investment - promotion teams from 11 districts in Beijing to hold the "2025 Canton Fair - Beijing Investment Promotion Event" in Guangzhou during the 137th Canton Fair. The event actively connected with domestic and foreign exhibitors at the Canton Fair, promoted Beijing's favorable investment environment and development opportunities, aiming to convert more exhibitors into investors. Many participating enterprises clearly expressed their intention to settle in Beijing.
01 Beijing's Districts Compete in New Industrial Tracks
At the event, Meng Fanyong, the Deputy Director of the Beijing Investment Promotion Service Center, mentioned in his speech centered around the theme of "Invest in Beijing, Win the Future" that Beijing is not only a famous historical and cultural city but also a global scientific research high - ground and innovation hub. Beijing has gathered numerous universities, scientific research institutions, and researchers. It leads in the number of national laboratories and has achieved fruitful scientific and technological innovation results. It has formed several trillion - yuan - scale industrial clusters, and its digital economy ranks first in China in terms of scale. At the same time, Beijing has obvious policy - innovation advantages. It has issued a number of policies around fields such as general artificial intelligence, established government - investment funds, and will provide a large amount of credit lines for scientific and technological innovation enterprises in the future.
It is worth noting that the districts in Beijing are forming a differential industrial development pattern. Eleven regions, including Dongcheng, Chaoyang, Haidian, Shijingshan, Mentougou, Changping, Shunyi, Daxing, Huairou, Fangshan, and Yanqing in Beijing, presented their new development highlights at the event, showing strong development vitality. They have taken multiple measures to optimize the business environment and assist in the high - quality development of enterprises.
In the promotion session, Daxing District introduced in detail its location and transportation, spatial resources, industrial planning and layout, etc. Focusing on the agglomeration and development trend of the biomedical industry, it emphasized the various advantages of the district in helping enterprises settle down with full - chain services.
02 Leading Enterprises in the Greater Bay Area Favor Beijing's Opportunities
The event, through forms such as industrial park promotions, dialogue exchanges, enterprise sharing, exhibitions, and investment consultation and negotiation, actively connected with domestic and foreign exhibitors at the Canton Fair, promoted Beijing's favorable investment environment and development opportunities. It attracted more than 100 leading enterprises in the Greater Bay Area, such as the Guangdong Business Confederation and China Construction Science and Industry Corporation, as well as representatives from multinational companies like Knorr - Bremse, Procter & Gamble, Mapletree of Singapore, and DTZ.
During the conference, the investment - promotion group of Daxing District took the initiative, adopting a combined strategy of "group - based booth - visiting + precise investment - promotion". They focused on exploring enterprises in fields such as life and health, airport - related industries, advanced manufacturing, and the digital economy, actively introduced the industrial development advantages of Daxing District, and invited enterprises to visit and inspect Daxing in person.
Deng Liang, the General Manager of the Operation and Management Co., Ltd. of China Construction Science and Industry Corporation, said in his speech: "Beijing's innovative practices in the fields of smart cities and cultural and sports venue operations are highly consistent with our strategic positioning as an 'urban comprehensive service provider'. We look forward to in - depth cooperation with Beijing in areas such as the utilization of the scientific and technological heritage of the Winter Olympics and urban renewal."
Data shows that in 2024, the transaction volume of technology contracts flowing from Beijing to the Guangdong - Hong Kong - Macao Greater Bay Area reached 21.7 billion yuan, an increase of 18% year - on - year. With the full coverage of Fuxing - Hao high - speed trains on the Beijing - Guangzhou high - speed railway, the number of people traveling between the two places has exceeded 3.5 million, laying a solid foundation for industrial collaboration.
03 Accelerated Two - Way Flow of Innovation Elements between Regions
In 2024, the revenue of Beijing's core digital economy industries exceeded 1.8 trillion yuan, accounting for 43.5% of its GDP. The scales of industries such as artificial intelligence and biomedicine ranked first in China. With the continuous deepening of the "Two Zones" construction, the Beijing Pilot Free Trade Zone has achieved 123 institutional innovation results, and the scale of cross - border service trade has exceeded 500 billion yuan.
Fu Pengju, the Minister of the International Department of the Guangdong Business Confederation, pointed out in his speech: "The cooperation between Beijing and Guangzhou is expanding from traditional business and trade fields to high - end fields such as scientific and technological innovation and modern service industries. The Guangdong Business Confederation will give full play to its role as a bridge and link, organize member enterprises to participate in the construction of national strategic projects such as the Beijing Sub - Center and Xiong'an New Area, and promote the in - depth integration of 'Made in the Greater Bay Area' and 'Created in Beijing'."
At this event, many enterprises in industrial fields including biomedicine and intelligent manufacturing expressed their intention to develop in Beijing in the future during the docking and negotiation session. Beijing is welcoming investors' future commitments with an open attitude.
