On October 22, Guangdong Province held a press conference on the 2025 Global Investment Promotion Conference for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), announcing that this year's conference is scheduled to take place in Guangzhou on November 3.
The conference has garnered significant attention from the global business community. As of October 21, over 450 representatives have confirmed their participation, including delegates from foreign business associations such as the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, the American Chamber of Commerce in South China, and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), as well as representatives from Fortune Global 500 companies and leading industry enterprises including ExxonMobil, BASF, Louis Dreyfus Company, Saudi Aramco, Hyundai Motor, Procter & Gamble, Nissan Motor, and Panasonic.
Since its inception in 2022, the conference has been successfully held three times. The previous edition attracted representatives from more than 650 enterprises and business associations across 89 countries and regions, resulting in 1,933 investment and trade projects with a total value of 2.24 trillion yuan.
At the press conference, Zhang Jinsong, Director-General of the Department of Commerce of Guangdong Province, highlighted that the three previous editions cumulatively signed 3,645 projects with a total investment and trade value of 7 trillion yuan, including 92 projects each valued at over 10 billion yuan. As of September this year, the overall commencement rate for the investment projects from these three conferences reached 88.1%.
Signed projects involving Siemens Healthineers, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, BeiGene, and others are progressing smoothly, significantly boosting the upgrading of emerging industries in Guangdong, such as biomedicine, green petrochemicals, new energy vehicles, and new materials, toward the high end of the value chain.
Focusing on innovative development and strengthening regional coordination, this year's conference features a rich and diverse array of activities, structured as the "1+9+N" series: one main event, nine investment promotion conferences in the Pearl River Delta cities, and several roadshows and investment inspection activities both domestically and overseas.
The main event includes a thematic conference, alongside supporting activities such as the release of the Guangdong top 100 foreign-invested enterprises list, a capital investment matchmaking event, a GBA-ASEAN investment and trade promotion session, a GBA investment policy briefing, and a series of industrial chain investment promotion sessions, aiming to continuously build a broader platform for exchange and cooperation, and help global investors gain a deeper understanding of the investment environment in the GBA to share development opportunities.
The conference will also feature the on-site announcement of outstanding cities in investment promotion and a new list of Guangdong Global Investment Advisors. Additionally, major projects will be signed on-site, using high-quality projects as a catalyst to further stimulate the development momentum and vitality of the Greater Bay Area.
Reporter | Guo Chuhua
Photo | Nanfang Plus
Editor | Hu Nan, James Campion, Shen He
