Today Huadu News: As part of the District's active efforts to seize the industrialdevelopment opportunities brought by the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to create a demonstration zone of integrated development of air and rail in the Greater Bay Area, and to promote the high-quality development of Huadu's green finance, green construction, green building materials, and green industries, CPC Huadu District Committee and the District government joined force with Guangdong Poly Urban Development Co., Ltd. to hold on July 29 an event of "Huadu District Green Industry Investment Promotion and Docking" at Poly International Financial Center, where more than 60 famous enterprises gathered to create green business opportunities. The event witnessed the presence of Xing Xiang, Deputy Secretary of District Party Committee and District Mayor, District leaders Zou Xuan, Luo Ganzheng and Zheng Zhongmin, and Zhou Dongli, Deputy General Manager of Poly Developments and Holdings Group Co., Ltd., along with representative of 18 financial institutions and more than 50 green enterprises.

　　  Ms. Xing Xiang pointed out in her speech that moving along with the construction of the major platform of National Green Finance Reform and Innovation Pilot Zone, Huadu is taking active steps. Closely centering upon the role of Huadu as a test field for green finance reform and innovation, a pilot zone for the coordinated development of green finance and green industries, and a new platform for cooperation and development of the Greater Bay Area, the District has been tapping into the enabling power of green finance, and making every effort to promote coordinated development of green finance, green industry and green buildings. A number of leading green building companies have been successfully brought in, and the pace for attracting green financial companies is being accelerated. The goal of investment promotion and docking activities is to attract investment from all over the country and the world, pool together financial institutions and green enterprises. A never-ending industry-finance docking platform may help to inject the blood of finance into the body of the green industry, and serve as a source of help for the high-quality development of the green industry. Benchmarking against international first-class standards, Huadu has always been striving to create a good business environment that befriends, cares for, supports, and respects businesses. Companies are warmly welcomed to pay attention to, participate in, and invest in the development of Huadu.

　　  Promotion and docking for new business opportunities

　　  At the promotion and docking event, centered on the theme of "Green Finance Empowers the Greater Bay Area", Luo Ganzheng, standing committee member of CPC Huadu District Committee and Executive Deputy District Mayor, gave introduction to the participants of Huadu's business environment, and relevant persons in charge of the District Finance Bureau, and District Housing and Construction Bureau introduced specific policies for green finance, green building materials, and other fields.

　　  Home to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport and Guangzhou North Railway Station, Huadu is accelerating the construction of a comprehensive air-rail combined transportation system, aiming to create a demonstration zone for the integrated development of air and railway transport. As a transport hub in the north part of Guangzhou and a bridge that connects the Greater Bay Area to China’s heartland, Huadu is a hot place for investments and start ups. Huadu recorded rapid growth rates in recent years and has shown strong momentum of high-quality development. The gross output value of enterprises above a certain scale registered RMB 262.585 billion yuan in 2019, up by 5%, making the District rank the second in Guangzhou. Since its successful approval as a green finance reform and innovation pilot zone in 2017, Huadu has witnessed leaps and bounds of green finance business in the pilot zone for the past two years, with added value of the financial industry increasing by a factor of 55 from RMB 80 million in 2016 to RMB 4.483 billion in 2019. In 2019 alone, financial institutions in the District provided more than 12 billion yuan financing to green enterprises; and more than 14 million yuan burden relieving support was given to enterprises by the District government in the form of green credit subsidies. From the beginning of this year, Huadu District has been actively building an industry-finance docking platform that will help to solve corporate financing problems.

　　  Tailor-made preferential policies for Poly International Finance Center were also announced at the event. Representatives of 18 financial institutions, including Bank of China Guangzhou Branch, Industrial and Commercial Bank Guangzhou Branch, China Construction Bank Guangzhou Branch, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Guangzhou Branch, and Guangzhou Bank, and those of well-known green enterprises, such as Oriental Yuhong, China Construction Fourth Engineering Division Corp. Ltd, Zhengbang Group, China Tunnel Construction, Guangzhou Changda, Jiangshan Oupai Door Industry, Nippon, and Dongpeng, met in Poly International Finance Center to explore new cooperation opportunities between green finance and green industries.

　　  The representatives carefully learned about Huadu's development plan, related their company's experience in Huadu, and talked about the future they planned for their companies. Wang Wenping, vice president of Beijing Oriental Yuhong Waterproof Technology Co., Ltd., said that Oriental Yuhong finds Huadu's plan to build a development system covering the whole spectrum of green industries, from green finance, green design, and green development, to green building materials, and green construction fitting well with the development of company, which is committed to becoming the world’s most valuable building materials and service company; and the company hopes that Huadu's overall development plan, geographic advantages, and business friendly policies of the government will help the company to another development level.

　　  Liu Hui, general manager of Qingdao Hisense Hitachi Air-conditioning Systems Co., Ltd., said that his company has undertaken many projects in Huadu, and he is impressed by the fair, open and inclusive market environment in Huadu, and that his company is seeking greater business development here.

　　  He Ganquan, Director of Xiamen Lota International Co., Ltd., said that even though this is the first time he is here in Huadu for a promotion and docking event, he finds the "package" policies of the Huadu District Government very attractive. “In particular, the measures aimed for talent attraction, some preferential policies for green enterprises, including subsidies, are very attractive to a company like us," he said.

　　  Huadu City Exhibition Hall opens to have dialog with the world

　　  A plaque awarding and official launch ceremony was held on the same day for Huadu City Exhibition Hall.

　　  Located at the north gateway of the Greater Bay Area, Huadu City Exhibition Hall is a painstaking design of Fengyuzhu, a design team for the Expo. Following the design idea of “deliberate plan rooted in the city”, “wakening the senses of feeling with emotions” "Technology, innovation, and digitized decision", and "low carbon footprint, energy saving, environment first", the Hall aims to present Huadu as fully as possible. The Hall is a place full of intelligent, interactive, and lighting technologies. Centering upon a main plot of "planning" and a sideline plot of "the take-off journey of an international air-rail hub”, three exhibition chapters, Starting, Taking-off, and Future are rolled out in 8 large exhibition areas, where various exhibition projects are presented to display comprehensively Huadu's achievements in culture, society, economy, and city planning and construction, and its development vision.

　　  “The Huadu City Exhibition Hall does not present Huadu simply. In addition to introducing Huadu as a whole, it also has the function of attracting investment." The relevant person in charge of Guangdong Poly Urban Development Co., Ltd. pointed out that seizing the development opportunities of the Greater Bay Area to the Hall will achieve its strategic goal of rooting in North of Guangzhou, focusing on the Bay Area, and having dialogue with the world through external publicity, investment promotion, and government-enterprise partnership.