Recently, an investment promotion meeting was held via video link by Suzhou’s Xiangcheng District, which saw the signing of agreements on 54 projects with a total contract value of 12.278 billion yuan. The projects cover such fields as new energy, advanced materials, network security, and digital finance.
The event was attended by multinational companies, centrally-administered state-owned enterprises, listed companies, and unicorn companies from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and key foreign trade companies, manufacturing companies and new economy companies from Suzhou’s Xiangcheng District.
Since the beginning of this year, Xiangcheng District has strived to coordinate the regular epidemic response with economic and social development. One after another, measures are being taken to attract more investment. In the first quarter of this year, the district’s general public budget revenue increased by 15.2%, with the proportion of tax revenue being 90.3%, retaining the first place in Suzhou in terms of growth rate.
Xiangcheng District has introduced a series of policies to attract talents at home and abroad. At the investment promotion meeting, the 2022 Yangcheng Lake Maker Competition was launched. Since 2015, the competition has been held for 12 sessions, having helped to attract a large number of talents to settle in Xiangcheng District.