Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce organizes charter flights to Europe to attract investment

, the investment promotion service team for charter flights to France and Germany organized by Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce will leave soon. This charter flight is China's first charter flight to France and Germany since the outbreak in 2020.

The content of the charter service is mainly to help foreign trade enterprises go to Europe to maintain customers and win orders. Through the investment promotion team to carry out targeted investment promotion. It plans to communicate with Siemens, Knorr, Fafu, Kaihui Fund and other top 500 companies in the world, global industry leaders, and well-known international financial institutions, and hold a series of special presentations in France and Germany. Each city and district sent a total of 30 investment promotion teams, with more than 200 people, to carry out investment promotion work in Europe with charter flights, and 88 senior executives of foreign trade enterprises went to Europe to maintain customers and win orders.

Suzhou City to carry forward the spirit of daring to do, the government and enterprises hand in hand, dare to do good, the first to strive for the first, with a strong sense of opportunity, to open up, to seize the "post-epidemic era" economic stability and good new opportunities, new markets.

from November 17 to 23 this year, Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce has organized and carried out charter flights to Japan and won more than 1 billion yuan of new orders. The investment promotion team of Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, together with Suzhou Industrial Park International Business Cooperation Center (Tokyo), visited the headquarters of Panasonic Group and discussed with relevant responsible persons of the headquarters, successfully promoting the signing of a strategic cooperation framework agreement between Panasonic Group and Suzhou City. The Kunshan Investment Promotion Team visited the headquarters of well-known multinational companies such as Toyota Automatic Loom, Rishi, Kawasaki Robot, etc., communicated and negotiated face-to-face, and reached a Sino-Japanese joint venture new energy equipment logistics and assembly project with a total investment of nearly US $0.2 billion, Toyota Industrial Electric Air Conditioning Compressor (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. Capital increase and expansion project, Kawasaki Robot New Industrial Park project and other three cooperation intentions. The investment promotion team of Suzhou High-tech Zone negotiated with a cancer treatment equipment factory in Japan and successfully reached an investment intention of 0.15 billion US dollars. Xiangcheng Investment Promotion Team visited Mr. Junsheng Da Tsuji, President of Chuangmei Gongyun, and communicated face-to-face to solve the landing details of the enterprise's intelligent manufacturing project for precision stamping parts and signed a memorandum of cooperation.

economic and trade delegation visited 14 business associations and investment promotion agencies, including the Japan Trade Promotion Agency, the Japan-China Economic Association, the Japanese Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, Mizuho Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, and the representative office of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade in Japan. The investment teams also conducted in-depth discussions with relevant multinational companies on cooperation in digital economy, green development, medical care and pension, and introduced to the Japanese side the development direction of Suzhou on the construction of industrial innovation clusters in the digital age, as well as special policies to encourage the economic development of foreign headquarters and support the reinvestment of foreign profits. According to the relevant person in charge of the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Commerce, the activities in Japan have greatly boosted the confidence of Japanese enterprises in the development of Suzhou, and significantly enhanced the investment expectations of relevant Japanese multinational companies in Suzhou. Japanese customers believe that Suzhou chose to visit Japan for the first overseas charter flight in three years, which fully reflects the great importance attached to the Japanese market. Relevant Japanese-funded enterprises and investment institutions are full of confidence in their production, operation and future development in Suzhou. (Qian Lili)