Nansha welcomes raft of industrial investments

The Nansha Global Investment Promotion and Talent Attraction Conference was held on Oct 18 at the Nansha International Financial Forum Conference Center – located in Nansha district in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province.

The Nansha Global Investment Promotion and Talent Attraction Conference. [Photo/WeChat account: gz_nanshafabu]

The conference attracted over 1,400 participants, including academicians, experts, businesspeople and industry leaders from around the world.

Currently, Nansha has preliminarily established an "2+5+2" advanced manufacturing system, covering strategic emerging industries.

These include the automotive industry, equipment manufacturing, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and integrated circuits, biomedicines, new energy storage and commercial aerospace – and the district is accelerating the layout of future industries such as combustible ice and quantum technology.

Over 100 projects signed up at the conference. Their combined total investment exceeding 120 billion yuan ($16.83 billion), with an expected annual output value of 250 billion yuan.

On top of that, Nansha signed an agreement with electronics giant Huawei to jointly build an artificial intelligence ecosystem base, promoting the deep integration of artificial intelligence with the real economy.

Nansha has also partnered with multiple enterprises to jointly advance cooperation in comprehensive energy, energy conservation, carbon reduction and to establish the Greater Bay Area Solid-State Battery Industry Alliance.

What's more, the district has become an important hub for domestic artificial intelligence and digital economic industries, creating a number of application demonstration benchmark projects. These are in areas such as cooperative autonomous driving and intelligent logistics – including the country's first urban AI library and a fleet of autonomous heavy-duty trucks.