《Policy News》
  • People’s Government of Zhuhai Xiangzhou District, visited Hong Kong Energy and Minerals United Associations
    2013-06-14 16:01:52
Mr. Yan Haobo, the Chief Executive of Xiangzhou District, led a delegation to the Hong Kong Energy and Minerals Associations (hereafter referred to as “EMUA”) on 14 June, 2013. Our Chairman Yan Kim Po and Director Shum Siu Hung received the delegation. Both parties had an in-depth dicussion on the investment environment, investment advantages, and investment policies in Xiangzhou District. 
    
Mr. Yan had provided a solid overview of Zhuhai Xiangzhou District. Xiangzhou is the core district of Zhuhai, located at west bank of the estuary of Pearl River, backed by the Pearl River Delta. It's the foothold places of Hongkong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, the bridge to connect mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, and Tai Wan, and also the important port to make foreign trade and international communication. Xiangzhou treats the modern service industry, headquarter economy, and emerging industry of strategic importance as the main development directions. Xiangzhou District has strong preferential policies to encourage and promote the development of those intra-area directions through financial and service assistance.
    
Mr. Yan said, Xiangzhou District owns seris of advantages. Traffic advantage comes to the first: the Hong Kong – Zhuhai – Macau Bridge which is under construction is benefit about integrating the advanced resources both from Hong Kong and Macau, and facilitating the circulations of capitals and resources complementary, to optimizing the allocation of resource; surface traffic developed here, railways and railroads cross everywhere and open to all directions, easy to connect outside Guangdong Province; assemble the preponderances from four ports named as Gaolan Port, Jiuzhou Port, Xiangzhou Port and Hongwan Port, with the functions of dealing with bulk cargo transport, oil and gas transport, passenger transfer, the transportation between land and islands, supplies to islands, island tour service, building materials transportation, etc.
    
What's more, Zhuhai government has made a train of preferential policies to incite the development and construction of Xiangzhou District. According to <Procedures for encouraging the development of strategic recently emerging industries of Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City(trial)>, Xiangzhou District has a lot of advantages in the field of strategic recently emerging industries, which includes new energy, new materials, environmental and energy-saving industries. Both Chairman Yan and Director Shum said, the developing plans have coincided with the directions of some of our member entreprises, we two parties have a wide range of cooperation in cultivating several new strategic recently emerging projects and seizing the economy developing opportunities in the future. 
    
Last but not the least, not only the environmental advantage belongs to Xiangzhou District where is a beautiful place enjoying from mountains, rivers and sea to infrastructure and service facility, even awarded as “State-level Zoology Demonstration Area” and “International Award for the Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment”, but the advantage of human resources also owned by Xiangzhou, the college students here graduated from Zhongshan University, Ji'nan University, BNU, BIT and some other famous universities in China.
    
Mr. Yan pointed, rely on its advantages in high-end service industry, financial industry, culture creative industry, modern logistics industry, tourism and exhibition industry, high-tech industry, and high-end industry, frankly welcome our member entreprises to invest in Xiangzhou, and promote the state economy increase together.
    
Chairman Yan said, our association equipped with the preponderances of capital-intensive, tech-intensive, talent-intensive etc. We embrace the motto “set food in Hong Kong, bridge to China, liaise with the world”. We would continue to insisting the characteristics of  high-level specialized and high-standard. Keep to facilitating the development of energy and minerals industry, bridging the international sector and establish a grand stage for the industry, enhancing the cooperation among sectors to promote project developments and the status and influence of the sector in the international setting.