CHONGQING, China, Nov 19 (Bernama-AsiaNet) — From November 21 to 22, the Chongqing Talents Conference 2020 will be held in West China’s Chongqing Liangjiang New Area. Heavyweight domestic and foreign guests from political, business, science and technology, education, medicine and health, and financial circles will attend the event. More than 30,000 domestic and foreign high-end talents, university graduates, project team representatives and other talents will join online to discuss development plans and share cooperation opportunities.
As the permanent host place and one of the main organizers of the conference, Liangjiang New Area is pushing forward inland opening-up and Chongqing smart city construction. A number of innovation platforms, such as Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone, Lijia Smart Park, Yuelai International Exhibition City and Liangjiang Digital Economy Industrial Park, are gaining spotlight. In the first three quarters of this year, the district’s GDP increased by 6.7%; its industrial added value increased by 12.1%; its actual utilization of foreign capital reached 2.1 billion US dollars, and the contracted value in attracting investment exceeded 100 billion yuan. At the first press conference of Chongqing Talents Conference 2020, Tao Shixiang, deputy secretary of the CPC Committee of Liangjiang New Area, said that these indicators show that the area is becoming a hot land for global and national investment, a fertile land for entrepreneurship and a happy land for life.
