Renliu ｜ Cross the mountains and sea, come for you: the world will see the more open Shandong more powerful China

New Yellow River Reporter: Huang Min

In the midsummer in June, the Yellow Sea, the sea breeze, the tide rising, and the highly anticipated third multinational company leader Qingdao Summit opened on June 19. From the current point of view, whether it is a multinational company or the world's top 500 companies, the number is more than the previous session.

At present, the Centennial Change Bureau and the Century Epidemium are intertwined with each other, and the world has entered a new period of turbulent change. The uncertainty facing China and the world economic development has increased, and risks have increased. Under such circumstances, this magnificent event is of great significance. International friends and Chinese companies that cross the mountains and sea will play the wonderful movements of economic exchanges and cooperation in Shandong.

In China, which is more open, Shandong will stand on the C position again

"The door to open China's opening will only be bigger and bigger, and the business environment will only get better and better, and there will only be more and more opportunities for global multinational companies." More than two years have passed. The "Chinese Voice" is still in the ears. As China continues to be strong, more and more development opportunities have emerged, attracting more multinational companies and the world's top 500 to cross the mountains and sea.

For more than two years after the outbreak, China took the lead in controlling the epidemic, and the actual use of foreign investment has remained high. From the data point of view, China's actual use of foreign capital in 2021 exceeded trillion yuan, reaching 1.1 trillion yuan. According to data from the Ministry of Commerce, in the first four months of this year, China ’s new contracts have added 185 large projects of more than US $ 100 million, which is equivalent to an average of 1.5 large foreign projects per day.

The recently released "Report on the Investigation of China's Foreign Business Environment in the first quarter of 2022" shows that compared with the fourth quarter of 2021, 71%of the foreign -funded enterprises interviewed in the first quarter of this year maintained the business scale, and 16.4%of the enterprises expanded their business. In the scale, 72.1%of enterprises increased capital in China than 5%. Foreign -funded enterprises continue to be optimistic about the prospects of development in China, and 13.5%of foreign -funded enterprises have planned to increase capital in China in the future. Foreign investors' confidence in China's economic development prospects can be seen.

The more open, the more developing, the more developing the more you need to be open. The Qingdao Summit of multinational company leaders has been held for two consecutive years since 2019, and the third session is about to start. This forever settled in Qingdao, Shandong, is becoming the home of multinational companies. It has established a large platform for multinational companies to cooperate with China, and also set up a new bridge to communicate with Shandong.

"China's mechanism organizes the Qingdao Summit of the leader of multinational companies, and has established an international stage for leaders of global multinational companies to conduct extensive and in -depth contact. The summit is becoming an important platform for China's active participation and promoting the reform of the world economic governance system. The window to display China's open image and achievements, a vane of the global investment environment, global investment trend, and global business development. "Zhao Zhongxiu, president of Shandong University of Finance and Economics and a member of the Qingdao Summit Advisory Committee of the Qingdao Summit, wrote the significance of the summit.

On this stage, Shandong is about to usher in another highlight moment, standing on the C position again, becoming the focus of the world.

As the "vanguard" that is open to the outside world to the outside world, in recent years, Shandong has continued to expand its high level of opening up, promotes foreign trade innovation and development, and has continued to reach a new level. In 2019, the total imports and exports of Shandong exceeded 2 trillion yuan for the first time, reaching 2.2 trillion yuan in 2020; in 2021 reached 2.9 trillion yuan, the export scale exceeded Shanghai for the first time, ranking fourth in the country.

"Under the epidemic, Shandong's economy is against the water. In the past few years, Shandong's outwardness has increased very quickly. Foreign investment and export growth are higher than the national level." Researcher of the Institute of Economic and Technical and Economic Research, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, "quantitative economy and technology Zheng Shilin, president of the magazine, told Xinhuanghe reporters that the international situation is now complex and changeable. The global economic recovery has a certain significance. Especially when the global epidemic is still continuing, the holding of the summit will help enhance the image of Shandong and China, which is conducive to expanding opening up in Shandong, which is of great significance to the high -quality development of Shandong.

Shandong, which is surging in kinetic energy, attract foreign capital to continue to increase

During China's continuous opening to the outside world, Shandong's "circle of friends" is also expanding. In Zhao Zhongxiu's view, as a support carrier of the development of the "national platform", the summit provides Shandong with a global "Shandong stage" that attracts the new momentum of economic development.

In recent years, with the blessings of national strategies and platforms such as the ecological protection of the Yellow River Basin and high -quality development, China (Shandong) Free Trade Zone, Shanghe Demonstration Zone, and Jinan New and Old Row Energy Conversion Area. cutting edge. Not only that, the success of Shandong's economic development is getting more and more, and the conversion of new and old kinetic energy has accelerated. The proportion of "four new" economic investment has increased to 51.2%. The stronger.

Looking back at the previous two summits, it can be described as fruitful. The first summit attracted the leaders of 115 Fortune 500 and 284 leaders of the global industry. The second summit attracted 390 Fortune 500 companies, an increase of 239.1%over the first summit, and nearly 517 leaders of the leaders of the global industry leaders attended the meeting.

The number of participants at this summit continued to rise, and the guest structure had "newly improved". At present, 313 overseas multinational companies from 31 countries and regions have registered offline conferences, adding 46 more than the previous session. From the perspective of the top 500 in the world, 57 registered offline conferences have been registered, an increase of 24 over the previous session. At the same time, the guests of the multinational company enthusiastically registered online, and there are currently more than 3,000 people. Among the registered guests, there are 34 global vice presidents of the world's top 500 and industry leaders, 145 presidents in China, and 297 vice presidents of China. The popular summit has reached many pragmatic cooperation. From the perspective of public data, the two summits signed a total of 121 foreign -funded projects with a contract foreign capital of US $ 7.82 billion. After the summit, the overflowing effect continued to magnify, and many multinational companies continued to "increase" investment.

Looking at the entire Shandong, as of the end of 2021, since the first transnational company leader Qingdao Summit, the Fortune 500 has 80 new foreign -invested enterprises in Shandong, with more than 120 investment projects. In 2021, 33 World Fortune 500 in Shandong Investment Projects, including Jiangsen Self -Control, French Weili Yaya, Danish Masisce Group, Japanese Sumitomo, 500 in Shandong, the United States Geteryar Tire, Laudi Bank, Japan, etc. Qiang invested in Shandong for the first time.

The second multinational company leader Qingdao Summit signed projects, currently 59 have completed the registration of industrial and commercial registration, with a landing rate of 70.2%, and a total of 690 million US dollars in the actual use of foreign capital. Among them, Xijie Food Headquarters has increased its capital and expanded projects, and has continued to increase capital for more than two years. After the equity capital contribution, Xijie Qingdao's registered capital reached 99.28 million US dollars.

Obviously, multinational companies have become a window for Shandong Linking World, and Shandong has also become a stage for multinational companies to exhibition.

"The introduction of foreign investment is obvious to economic development. In addition to directly pulling the role of funds, employment, residence, and consumption, it will also drive the development of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. It will play an important role in driving the industrial cluster. Mature, promoting innovation to drive entrepreneurship and new supporting facilities. "Zheng Shilin said.

It is true. For example, HP's investment development in Weihai has driven more than 120 supporting companies, and more than 80%of parts and components realize localized production. In 2021, the output value of the industrial chain exceeded 30 billion, an increase of 50%. base.

The continued increase in investment in multinational companies has played a positive role in the rapid growth of foreign investment in Shandong in the past two years. In 2021, Shandong's actual use of foreign capital exceeded $ 20 billion for the first time, ranking fourth in the country. In the first five months of this year, Japan and South Korea invested 1.41 billion US dollars in Shandong, an increase of 173.7%year -on -year.

More and more active, accelerate integration into the global economy and break the waves

As the influence of the summit continues to expand, more and more multinational companies and Fortune 500 will turn their attention to Shandong. As of now, Shandong and Fortune 500 companies have signed a total of 204 foreign -funded projects with a total investment of 15.52 billion US dollars and a contract foreign capital of US $ 4.837 billion.

In Zheng Shilin's view, the continuous improvement of Shandong's business environment has continued to enhance the attractiveness of multinational enterprises. Whether it is the degree of customs clearance, the degree of industrial chain, urban infrastructure, talent, internationalization, and marketization system, the level of Shandong has greatly improved. Essence

Speaking of the decision of the migration of the headquarters, Jin Jiandong, the general manager of Xijie (Qingdao) Food Co., Ltd., said in an interview with the media that in addition to convenient transportation and rich resource endowments, detailed and efficient services are more focused on the long -term development of the enterprise.

For the business environment of enterprises, Shandong is also continuously optimized, and the overall level has ranked first in the country. The Qingdao Summit of multinational company leaders is also a measure to optimize the business environment to some extent, creating a platform for Chinese enterprises to face dialogue with foreign -funded enterprises.

It is worth noting that this summit has further strengthened the invitation of guests, focusing on the topics of the global industrial chain and supply chain, RCEP landing effective, economic and social development innovation, ecological protection, green low -carbon transformation and other topics, and formulated 6 related themes. The topic, and for the first time, set up a series of peak dialogue series, and held the Shandong Provincial Government Economic Consultant Conference for the first time.

Zheng Shilin told Xinhuanghe reporters that the guests were actively invited to attend the meeting, which shows that the local government has changed from the original passive investment to active investment, and the business environment has continued to improve. Through the platform created by the summit Increase confidence in Shandong, and a good business environment has left the enterprise. Among them, it is truly combined with the government and the effective market. This is a very dazzling performance in Shandong's high level.

"Through the summit, multinational enterprises can better understand Shandong, and make the pulse more accurately on the needs of high -level opening to the outside world in Shandong, and Shandong can further understand the needs of multinational enterprises and explore how to make it more efficiently." Zheng Shilin said It is recommended that Shandong accurately attract foreign capital, build advantageous industrial clusters, and support foreign -funded enterprises in terms of industrial chain, supply chain, talent, industry -university and research; accelerate innovation and drive foreign investment development, and continuously upgrade the industrial chain to improve the quality of openness.

Today, the steps of the 3rd multinational company leader Qingdao Summit are getting closer and closer.I believe that through this event, the world will see more and more open Shandong, opportunities in Shandong, and open China and stronger China.The pulse of the stock pulse of the economic recovery of this event will stimulate greater confidence in open cooperation. More Shandong companies and even Chinese companies will accelerate the pace of integration into the world economy in cooperation with multinational companies, embedding in a wider fieldAmong the global supply chain, industrial chain, and value chain, they are together with multinational companies in the world economic wave.Edit: Weekend

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