HANGZHOU, China, Nov. 22, 2017 /Xinhua-AsiaNet/--
On
November 18, 2017, a special "family gathering" was held in Xiaoshan
District of Hangzhou City, one of the most developed urban districts in
eastern China. 800 Xiaoshan people, who are leading figures in various
sectors across the country and the world, returned home for the reunion
under the call of Xiaoshan District government for the first time.
After
nearly 40 years of development, Xiaoshan, famed as a city of
entrepreneurs and reformers, has transformed into a typical
international urban district nowadays from a leading county economy in
China with a strong performance of township economy.
Xiaoshan is
located on the south bank of China's Qiantang River. This modern
district is home to the main venue of the G20 Hangzhou Summit. It is
famous for its economic development and has repeatedly won the first
place with the best destination for investment in mainland China. Since
the reform and opening up in China, people in Xiaoshan have created a
miracle in the flourish of China's private economy.
Lu Guanqiu,
who just passed away, was from Xiaoshan. He is regarded as the
"godfather" of Chinese private-owned enterprises. In the late 1970s, he
founded Wanxiang Group and developed into the first OEM in China that
supplied auto parts and components to General Motors. Its U.S.
subsidiary has opened dozens of businesses in 26 U.S. states and has
created over 8,000 jobs in the United States. The State of Illinois
named August 12 every year as "Wanxiang Day" in recognition of the
Chinese company's contribution to the state.
Since its
establishment in 1986 as a chemical company, Chuanhua Group has started
to develop into a well-known and diversified modern private enterprise.
In
recent years, Xiaoshan, China's "economic heavyweight," is shouldering
the mission of "propelling an all-round economic and social transition
through city transformation."
The local government realizes that innovation is the number one driver for development.
Hangzhou
Bay Information Port, located in Xiaoshan Economic and Technological
Development Zone, is an important "incubation" platform for the Internet
industry in Xiaoshan. Here have gathered more than 30 well-known
Internet companies in China and it has become an important driving force
for Xiaoshan to make its leap forward from a manufacturing area to an
information economy area.
At present, the new industrial form of
Xiaoshan, with intelligent manufacturing as the core, is taking shape.
China's first industrial big data alliance and first industrial big data
laboratory were established in Xiaoshan. Internet giants Alibaba and
Netease, as well as leading AI companies all chose to settle down there.
The
main venue of the G20 Hangzhou Summit is Hangzhou International Expo
Center in Xiaoshan. The block where it is located -- Olympic Sports Expo
City will be also to host the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.
According
to statistics, from September 25, 2016 when the center was opened to
the present, it has hosted totally over 1,800 conferences and 37
exhibitions with a total exhibition area of more than 3.5 million square
meters. Its G20 Summit Experience Hall has received one million visits.
Winning
recognition from international conference organizers, the Hangzhou
International Expo Center in 2017 successfully joined the ICCA
(International Congress & Convention Association), and became the
sole member in China of the UIA (Union of International Associations).
In the future there will be more international fairs, conferences and
cultural events.
It is understood that Xiaoshan will be built
into China's most dynamic exhibition city and the world's leading
destination for convention and exhibition. It is estimated that by 2019,
total exhibition revenue will reach over 15 billion yuan (2.3 billion
U.S. dollars) and there will be more than 1,000 international
conferences to be held. It can be predicted that Xiaoshan will thus
develop a new industry -- high-end exhibition.
After the G20
Hangzhou Summit, Xiaoshan has become an important urban district linking
Hangzhou with the world. In the future, the district will vigorously
develop convention and exhibition industry, and all efforts will be made
to build it into an international city of China based on the concept of
"Exhibition +".
SOURCE: Xiaoshan District Government
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