Fact-Finding Mission to Guizhou
The last Fact-Finding Mission took place in Guizhou in March 2019.
Read here the full report in ENGLISH and CHINESE.
Stay tuned for the next Fact-Finding Mission in 2020. Information will follow soon!
The Swiss-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the SwissCham China and the Swiss-Chinese Association are delighted to invite you to a Fact-Finding Mission to Guizhou Province in China on March 25th to 30th, 2019. The purpose of the mission is to acquire a deeper understanding and additional knowledge about the economy and culture of this region, to meet the potential partners, and to explore the market opportunities in Guizhou.
Guizhou
and Switzerland have a lot of similarities on both the geographic and the economic level. Indeed both regions share a similar topology as well as their success in trade investment partnerships, their ongoing industrial development and the implementation of measures to ensure environmental protection.
Guizhou, with a 35 million population, was once one of the poorest and less developed provinces in China and is transforming now into the “Big Data Valley” of China, thanks to the support from the central government. Indeed, large companies have set up big data centres in this province; between 2012-2016, there were 134 world-renowned companies investing in Guizhou, including IBM, Alibaba, Qualcomm, Tencent, Foxconn, Microsoft and China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom. Apple is expected to open its first data storage centre there by 2022. Guizhou’s GDP growth was 12% in 2016 and 15% in 2017 and will continue to be among China’s fastest growing provinces. Guiyang, the capital city of the Guizhou province, with a crucial role in the Belt & Road Initiative, has become a transportation and communication centre for Southwestern China and Southeast Asia. The area also has the advantage of offering preferential policies to foreign investors in order to enrich its economic ecosystem.
The mission includes Guizhou-Switzerland business cooperation meeting, seminar and networking, company visit, as well as cultural tours. The meeting, supported by the Guiyang National Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, will provide a platform for companies who are interested in investing or exploring market opportunities in Guizhou in the IT industry (especially big data), Cloud Computing, Pharmaceutical & Health Care Industry, Engineering & Manufacturing, Modern Mountainous Agriculture Industry, Finance, Legal, Culture & Tourism Industry. The aim of the meeting is to facilitate business development between Swiss and Chinese companies, initiating projects by meeting potential cooperation partners. Company visits will give you the rare and exclusive chance to visit facilities or new projects. The host will share its expertise and best practices in specific field with our guests.
Guizhou is one of the provinces in China who has the most diverse ethnic groups. The cultural tour will provide you with the chance to experience their traditional life style, including local food and festivals, buildings, as well as the fantastic nature landscape.
For more information, please kindly find the introduction documents below. We are looking forward to meeting you in Guizhou.