“We are looking to further development and marketing of Chenzhou city.” All the senior managers of 11 famous multinational corporations who investigated the investment condition of Chenzhou city on November 19, 2014 agreed consistently. Qu Hai- Deputy Secretary of Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Chenzhou City attended the docking symposium.
During the period of second Xiangnan Investment Trade Fair, Hunan Government decided to handle a multinational corporations senior managers’ trip to south Hunan province. It was purposely to build a docking platform to popularize and propaganda Hunan province. Some activities as docking conference for introduction of Hunan province-circumstance and promotion of projects, investigation trip to some key industrial parks of Chenzhou city and investigation trip to some key industrial parks of Hengyang city were handled for this trip. 15 famous multinational corporations were invited to attend this trip, 9 of which were 2014 the Fortune 500 enterprises. Following 11 ones visited Chenzhou city: Samsung, Schneider National, Wal-Mart, Itochu Corp, Skyworth, Tesla, Marubeni, Ericsson, Sanofi , Ricoh, and OMRON.
The investigation team visited Chenzhou railway port, highway port, and some enterprises of Chenzhou high-tech Industrial Zone ( Chenzhou Export-processing Zone) during their trip to Chenzhou city. “It was the first time to visit Chenzhou city. It is a forest city with good environment condition. It does not only have the broad expectation of market, but also have no obstacle on undertaking manufacturing industry.” highly affirmed by Wang Hong- Chief Director of Government Affairs and Sustainable Development of Schneider National
“Chenzhou city’s Wal-Mart retail store ranks the third place among 12 stores of Hunan province and 70 place among all the 400 stores of China, which highly indicated that Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee and Chenzhou Government provided sound development condition for business on the process of reform and innovation.” said Hong Zhonghua- Chief Director of Government Affairs of Wal-Mart (China) Investment Co., Ltd. which ranked the first place of 2014 the Fortune 500 enterprises. Hong also stated that Wal-Mart was confident about the further development in Chenzhou city and confirmed to open some more stores in Chenzhou city in near future. He hoped that Chenzhou city can help to recommend some good selections for them to settle the new stores down there.
“How about the labor force in Chenzhou city?” “When will Chenzhou airport open to public?” “How many Korean companies settled down in Chenzhou city till now?” and some other questions were presented by Yang Guohua- Acting General Manager of OMRON (China) Co., Ltd., Piao Fenlan- Chief Director of External Affairs of Samsung (China) Investment Co., Ltd. and some other senior managers of the multinational corporations on the symposium. Qu Hai and the principals of sub-ordinate departments of Chenzhou city answered all the questions accordingly. Qu also expressed his warm greeting to all the multinational corporations and introduced Chenzhou city-circumstance to all the attendants. Qu said chenzhou city is with abundant resources, sound location advantages, convenient transportation condition, well-developed expressway and high-speed train condition, rich labor force and etc, which grant Chenzhou city with sound condition for sustainable, rapid and healthy development in future.
Luo Shuangfeng- Deputy Minister of Hunan Provincial Commerce Department and some Chenzhou municipal leaders attended relative activities.