Workshop on Bay Area Economy: How Innovation Investment and Financial Instructure Empower the Sustainable Growth of The Great Bay of China

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Late December, IFC•IIC Federation conducts a public consulting workshop in Beijing with multiple government departments and SOEs. Around the innovation investment and financial infrastructure development of The Great Bay Area, IFC•IIC Federation organizes a delegation with representatives of Middle East, Macau and Asia, meeting with multiple Beijing-based international organizations, ministries, associations and companies.

Multiple Chinese experts participate this consulting workshop,  sharing their thoughts on how to develop a sustainable and innovation economy in Great Bay Area from the perspectives of policy, industry and international cooperation. The invited experts of senior level come from diversified agencies with good representativeness, including: PBOC, SAFE, SASAC, DRC, China Reform Holding Companies, Uleader Capital, etc. The experts present strong endorsement on the joint efforts that leading IFCs and IICs collaborate to enhance innovation investment and financial infrastructure development in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Great Bay Area to maximize the regional wellbeing of the whole Asia-Pacific economics. Major investment projects focusing on this framework goal were discussed and reviewed.

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