The country's second -ranked overseas investment destination country is actually it!

Zhejiang News Client reporter Fang Zhenzi

In order to further strengthen the two -way investment exchanges of Zhejiang New Enterprises and promote bilateral cooperation to reach a new level, on the morning of June 15, Zhejiang Province supported Zhejiang Business Entrepreneurship Innovation Service Center (Zhejiang Province "Belt and Road" Comprehensive Service Center) The launching ceremony of the Singapore Digital Innovation Summit and the Zhejiang-Singapore two-way investment exchange series. The meeting gathered the "cloud" in the form of a combination of video connection and global live broadcast, and more than 70,000 people watched the live broadcast of the meeting.

At the meeting, Zhang Shuming, deputy director of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said in his speech that Singapore is an important fulcrum country in the “Belt and Road”. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and New China in 1990, investment and trade cooperation has continued to deepen. In 2021, Zhejiang's total imports and exports to Singapore reached US $ 6.89 billion, an increase of 18.2%year -on -year, of which the import value was 2.99 billion US dollars, a year -on -year increase of 39.5%. Since the "Belt and Road" initiative proposed, Singapore has invested nearly 1,600 enterprises in Zhejiang, with an actual investment of more than 8.5 billion US dollars; Zhejiang enterprises have invested more than 300 projects in Singapore, with an investment of more than $ 3 billion, of which Singapore in Singapore in 2021 It has become the second country in our province's ranking of overseas investment. As one of the important platforms for the digital economy in Zhejiang New Two places, the Singapore Digital Innovation Summit will effectively promote the two places to deepen the digital economic cooperation, continue to innovate models, and promote rapid growth of enterprises in the two places.

Xu Fangda, Minister of Finance of the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Transport, said that Zhejiang Province is the largest economic and trade partner in Singapore. In the future, Singapore will continue to pay attention to economic and trade connections between the two places. The new party will continue to promote the cooperation between Singapore and Zhejiang's Yangtze River Delta, implement common innovation and commercial solutions, and raise the cooperative relationship between Singapore and China, Singapore and Zhejiang to a new height.

At the meeting, the two-way investment exchange series of Zhejiang-Singapore was also launched. According to reports, the compilation of the "Belt and Road" country (regional) investment guidelines in Zhejiang Province "(Singapore) also officially started. The meeting also invited representatives of Zhejiang businessmen such as Zhejiang Hai Liang Group, Capital Group, and Overseas Chinese Holding Group to share their investment experience in Singapore.

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