On September 12, 2024 Innovation Fair European Enterprises Nanjing Tour and Industrial Cooperation Matchmaking Meeting was held. 11th, Han Liming, Secretary of Municipal Party Committee, met with Francis Ranidou, Ambassador of Cyprus to China, and other guests, and Liu Yantao, Ambassador of China to Cyprus, attended.
Innovation Fair, founded by Messe Stuttgart, aims to promote Sino-European cooperation in the fields of science and technology, investment and trade, and has been held for three times before. This year's fair attracted 41 enterprises, research institutes, chambers of commerce and universities from 10 European countries, including Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Cyprus, involving artificial intelligence, green low-carbon, high-end equipment manufacturing, digital information services, software engineering, cross-border trade and other industry sectors.
Han Liming welcomed Francis Ranidu and other guests to Nanjing and introduced the history, humanity and economic and social development of Nanjing.
She said that openness is the distinctive mark of Chinese-style modernization. At present, Nanjing is conscientiously implementing the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, implementing the deployment of building a higher level of new open economic system, expanding systematic openness, deepening the reform of the management system of foreign investment and outward investment, which will bring new opportunities for win-win cooperation between Nanjing and all walks of life in Europe.
It is hoped that through this event, the docking platform and mechanism will be built and utilized well, and more EU enterprises and organizations will be driven to carry out in-depth cooperation with Nanjing in the fields of science and technology innovation, green economy, biomedicine, culture and tourism, exhibition and exposition, and so on.
Nanjing will continue to deepen the interaction and cooperation with Limassol and other European friend cities, increase the intensity of "bringing in" and "going out", and provide a first-class international business environment for the majority of foreign-funded enterprises.
Francis Ranidu said that through this visit, he was deeply impressed by the ecological beauty, history and culture, scientific and educational resources and urban charm of Nanjing.
Cyprus will respond positively to the initiative of building the "Belt and Road", strengthen exchanges and contacts between Limassol and Nanjing, and deepen practical cooperation in various fields such as economy and trade, culture, tourism, science and technology, education and so on.
Liu Yantao said that the docking session fully reflects the confidence and expectation of the European business community for industrial cooperation with China, and is becoming a mechanism platform for China-EU economic and trade docking cooperation.
It is hoped that Nanjing will take the opportunity of being the first Chinese rotating chair of the China-Serbia Friendship City Alliance to continue to strengthen exchanges and contacts between the business sector and young people, so as to make greater contributions to the consolidation of China-Serbia friendship and cooperation.
At the docking meeting, the European Enterprise Service Center (Nanjing) was inaugurated, and relevant agreements were signed between Germany's HDAO Group and Jianye District, the China-Serbia Friendship Promotion Association and Nanjing Stuttgart Joint Exhibition Company, Austria's KObV Medical Group and Jianye Hi-tech Zone, and Spain's Barcelona Manresa Chamber of Commerce and the Municipal Importers and Exporters Chamber of Commerce.
Six project promotion activities were also held at the docking session, including digital economy and information services, cross-border trade and investment, green low-carbon, smart manufacturing, smart grid and equipment manufacturing, and universities, institutes and associations.
