"High-Quality Development in Shandong: Hong Kong Entrepreneurs and Professors Qilu Tour" Weifang Exchange Symposium Held

On the afternoon of August 30, the "High-Quality Development in Shandong: Hong Kong Entrepreneurs and Professors Qilu Tour" Weifang Exchange Symposium was held at the Fuhua International Conference Center. Liu Yun, Secretary of the Weifang Municipal Party Committee, and Zhang Jing, Deputy Minister of the United Front Work Department of the Provincial Party Committee and First-level Inspector, had a discussion with the visiting delegation. Weifang's leaders, Zhao Xuchun, Hu Hongbo, Zhang ZhenSheng, and Wang Fu, attended the event.

Liu Yun extended a warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to the visiting delegation. After briefly introducing Weifang's economic and social progress, Liu Yun stated that the city is thoroughly studying and implementing the spirit of the third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech during his inspection in Shandong and anchored by the goal of "taking the lead to be a mainstay", we channel all-out efforts to stabilize growth, improve quality and efficiency, promote reforms, benefit people's livelihoods, and uphold fundamental principles, enabling Weifang to maintain its positive trend in development and achieve a higher level of advancement. Hong Kong, the brilliant Pearl of the Orient, is renowned globally as a hub for finance, trade, shipping, and scientific and technological innovation. Weifang and Hong Kong are deeply connected through culture, emotion, and tradition, with a robust integration in economics and trade. The two places have forged strong collaborative ties across multiple domains. Amidst the growing momentum of further deepening reform comprehensively and the thorough implementation of national strategies such as the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the potential for the two places to progress together and secure mutually beneficial collaborations is immense and brimming with limitless opportunities. We expect that the two sides will further deepen exchanges and cooperation, jointly cultivate new dynamics in industrial collaboration, elevate the level of scientific and technological cooperation, expand new horizons in capital cooperation, compose a new chapter in people-to-people and cultural cooperation, and collectively envision a splendid future of high-quality development. We sincerely hope that all will continue to be closely concerned for Weifang, promote Weifang, and empower Weifang. We invite you to invest and thrive in the city, pursue grand ventures, and contribute to our accelerated efforts in building a stronger, better, and more beautiful Weifang.

Zhu Xinsheng, head of the delegation and President of the Federation of Hong Kong-Shandong Associations, thanked Weifang for the warm reception and attentive service and also outlined the content and itinerary of this visit. He said that the visit to Weifang was immensely fulfilling, offering them a chance to deeply appreciate the city's rich historical and cultural depth, its robust economic development momentum, and the dynamic spirit of reform and opening-up. He expressed full confidence and anticipation for deepening people-to-people and cultural exchanges and expanding economic and trade collaborations. The Federation of Hong Kong-Shandong Associations will fully leverage its role as a bridge and bond, establish a broader platform, connect more resources, continuously deepen multi-sectoral cooperative development between the two sides, and propel our cooperation towards greater depth, a wider range of fields, and a higher level of achievement.

In the afternoon of the same day, the delegation participated in the "Open and Development for a Better Weifang" promotional event and the "Industry-Academia-Research Integration for the Development of New Quality Productive Forces: Weifang-Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Salon", received introductions on the Weifang's talent policies and industrial development, and engaged in in-depth discussions on enhancing industrial synergy, talent exchanges, technological cooperation, and other areas of collaboration. During their stay in Weifang, the delegation will additionally visit Weichai Group, GoerTek Group, Beiqi Foton Motor Co., Ltd. Shandong MPV Plant, and Litro Technology Industrial Park.