Yangzhou, a renowned port and resort city located in east China's Jiangsu 
province, witnessed contracting of 180 new projects with total investment of 
more than 100 billion yuan at the opening ceremony of the 2021 "Flowery March" 
International Economy, Trade and Tourism festival kicked off on Sunday.

Initially launched in 2002, the annual festival has become an important 
platform for the city to promote its business environment, introduce investment 
projects and enhance trade connectivity in the past two decades.

As an open and inclusive city with thriving businesses, Yangzhou has always 
been dedicated to crafting a "wonderful Yangzhou" with pleasant and convenient 
business environment and attracting more friends to share opportunities and 
reap gains in the city, said Xia Xinmin, secretary of the city's municipal 
party committee.

During this year's festival, the city materialized signing of 180 projects in 
advanced manufacturing, modern service and sci-tech innovation industry, with 
investment in advanced manufacturing and modern service projects reaching 
122.46 billion yuan.

The contracted projects included 32 key projects in smart energy, food, smart 
modular construction, computer precision components, and chemicals sectors.

Zhang Baojuan, the city mayor, said that Yangzhou will ramp up efforts to 
promote industrial basis re-creation and industrial chain upgrading campaigns 
in 2021 so as to propel clustered development of advanced manufacturing in 
Yangzhou.

In the short term, the city will take advantage of the opening of the Yangzhou 
Grand Canal Museum scheduled on June 18 to speed up construction of the Sanwan 
core exhibition park and eight exhibition zones of the Grand Canal National 
Cultural Park.

For next step, Yangzhou will continue to widen the brand effects of the city as 
a world canal capital, gourmet capital and East Asian cultural capital, and 
develop four-season tourism resources in Yangzhou, highlighted Zhang.

In recent years, Yangzhou kept enhancing its industrial and cultural industry 
basis and its gross regional product exceeded 600 billion yuan in 2020. The 
city also ranked the first in appraisal of the second batch of small- and 
micro-sized enterprise entrepreneurship and innovation base cities in China. 

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SOURCE  Xinhua Silk Road

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   Caption: The signing ceremony of major projects was held on April 18.