The report on the work of the Guangdong Government in 2022 stressed that Guangdong will push forward the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), accelerating the advancement of the top-tier international bay area and world-class city cluster. In these years, the GBA has been striving to develop an international innovation and technology hub, build a globally competitive modern industrial system, take forward ecological conservation, strengthen cooperation and jointly participate in the Belt and Road Initiative, attracting many multinational corporations listed on the Fortune Global 500. How do they see the GBA? GDToday & Newsgd.com is launching a special bilingual series titled "Global 500 Companies in GBA", interviewing senior executives from those companies to share their opinions.
"Firstly importing products, then manufacturing products with imported technologies, and now researching and designing products independently, we have localized our whole value chain in China," said Dr. Chunyuan Gu, Chairman of ABB China, when sharing with GDToday on ABB's benefits from China's development in the past 20 years.
“The relations between Mexico and China can date back 500 years,” said Jesús Seade, Mexican Ambassador to China, “Mexico and China have established a comprehensive strategic partnership”, which is the foundation of our bilateral relations.
After visiting the Hengqin Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Industrial Park of Cooperation between Guangdong and Macao, an area located in Zhuhai, Guangdong, Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita, Brazilian Ambassador to China, shared insights on relations between Brazil and Guangdong.
"We got about more than 120 regular clients,and mainly 95 % of them are from the Canton Fair," said Nick Koay, Chairman of Maycham China Greater Bay. He indicated that Canton Fair was a good platform and he hoped to get more new customers from the domestic market.
A stand that displays different types of auto wine opener attracted a special group of visitors to the Canton Fair. “I saw many interesting products that I’d really like to have,” said Antonia Hugh, Jamaican Ambassador to China, “I have been to the fair a few years ago and I was impressed by how the products were updated in such a short period of time this year!”
“Guangdong has well-developed industrial chains in the fields of vehicles and electronics. It undoubtedly plays a significant role in Ukraine and China cooperation,” said Dmytro Kamkov, Acting Consul General of Ukraine in Guangzhou in a recent interview with GDToday & Newsgd.com.