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Wednesday, January 22 2020 - 15:09
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Guangzhou Night Debuted in WEF Annual Meeting
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2020 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--

On the night of January 21 (GMT+1), Guangzhou, China organized Guangzhou Night 
event in the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting for the very first time. 
Guangzhou Night is co-organized by the People's Government of Guangzhou 
Municipality and Cedar Holdings, a Guangzhou home-grown conglomerate. According 
to public information, as a world-leading Chinese commodities company, Cedar 
Holdings ranked 301st on the Fortune Global 500 with US$40.6 billion in total 
revenue. During the Guangzhou Night, a SPA was signed that sees Cedar Holdings 
purchase the entire share capital of Stemcor. Headquartered in the UK, Stemcor 
was a Top 3 global independent steel and raw materials trading company.

Guangzhou introduced itself to the world, shared information about the 
development opportunities of Guangzhou and communicated its willingness to be 
open and cooperative. Representatives of governments from dozens of countries 
and regions, senior executives of Fortune Global 500 companies and WEF 
participants from dozens of countries and regions attended Guangzhou Night. Wen 
Guohui, Mayor of Guangzhou and King Cheung, Chairman of the Board of Cedar 
Holdings gave a speech on the event. 

With sophisticated creative design, Guangzhou Night brought the urban 
landscape, Cantonese food and cultural & artistic performance unique to 
Guangzhou to Davos in winter, showcasing the vitality and culture of this 
thousand-year-old trade hub. 

Source: The People's Government of Guangzhou Municipality

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