On the morning of November 23, Founder of InvestCHN Chase Wu and his delegation were invited to participate in the 2019 Haian Investment and Trade Cooperation Fair. The opening ceremony was held at the Haian Zhongyang BRICS Hotel. Nearly 600 people including counsellors from embassies and consulates in China, representatives of Fortune 500 companies in China, representatives of China’s Top 500 companies, central enterprises and listed companies attended the meeting. "Haian’s past development is inseparable from the strong support of all friends. We will continue to uphold the concept of “pro-business, love business, safe business, and wealthy business”, with a more open mind, a more pragmatic style, and better service. To create a market-oriented, internationalized, and rule-of-law-based first-class business environment, to create a stage for domestic and foreign merchants and all talents to display their talents, fertile ground for career achievements, and homes for entrepreneurs with peace of mind,” said in a speech by Guobiao Gu, secretary of the Haian Municipal Party Committee.

Speech by Jianhua Pan, Deputy Mayor of Nantong Municipal Government

Speech by Guobiao Gu, Secretary of Haian Municipal Party Committee

        On the day, the event focused on signing 50 projects, including 31 domestic funded projects in the manufacturing industry with a total investment of 22.8 billion Yuan, 14 foreign funded projects with a total investment of 1.3 billion USD; 5 projects including comprehensive development of urban ecological districts and national development park cooperation. The "Top Ten Overseas Investment Entrepreneurs" and "Top Ten New Haian People" were commended at the same time.

        Haian Mayor Lizhong Yu recommended that Haian is an important node city in the Yangtze River Delta. It is an important node city in the Yangtze River Delta. Under the strategic guidance of the hub of Haian, the logistics world, the industrial highland, and the city of happiness, this hot land is glowing with vigor and vitality. Wansheng vitality. The urban area is superior in location and convenient in transportation. It is a strategic transportation element for the north-south junction of the Yangtze River Delta and connects the Jianghuai business cluster center. With the construction of Shanghai-Nantong, Yancheng-Nantong, and Nantong-Suzhou-Jiaxing-Ningbo, Haian will integrate into the Shanghai-Nanjing 1-hour economic circle and quickly embed in the second channel of Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail. The superiority of the location in the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta will be more prominent, and it will become the era of high-speed rail. An important node city on the eastern coastal highway.

        In recent years, Haian City has closely focused on the strategic positioning of "Haian Hub, the World of Logistics", "Industrial Highland, Happy City", and made every effort to build a comprehensive transportation hub in eastern Jiangsu, an industrial highland in the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta, a demonstration area for innovation-driven development in the entire province, It is a city of happiness for living and business, striving to promote the high-quality development of Haian at the forefront, ranking first in the comprehensive assessment of Nantong for seven consecutive years, and is one of the major models in commemorating the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up in Jiangsu Province. Ranked 28th and 7th respectively in the national Top 100 small and medium-sized cities in comprehensive strength and the Top 100 small and medium-sized cities with the most investment potential; ranked 25th in the just announced national Top 100 industrial counties (cities) rankings; in In the first business environment assessment of Jiangsu Province, it ranked second among 96 county-level cities in the province. The overall competitiveness of talents is the fifth in the province and the first north of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu.

        According to reports, since the beginning of this year, the Haian City project construction has always maintained a leading position in Nantong City, ranking first in the Nantong City Industrial Project Evaluation for three consecutive quarters. Statistics show that the city's main economic indicators continued to rank among the forefront of Nantong in the first three quarters, achieving a regional GDP of 76.68 billion Yuan, an increase of 6.6%. From January to October, it completed general public budget revenue of 5.75 billion Yuan, an increase of 5.6%, the largest increase in the six counties and cities; fixed asset investment was 42.89 billion Yuan, an increase of 9.4%, the first increase in Nantong City; industrial taxable sales were 168.16 billion Yuan, An increase of 19.9%, ranking first in Nantong in terms of total volume and growth rate; taxable sales of the service industry was 139.11 billion Yuan, an increase of 26.9%, ranking first in Nantong in terms of total volume.