Foreign investment is ushering in multiple favorable policies. Recently, a series of measures to stabilize foreign investment have been launched intensively in China, and major foreign investment projects have been successively launched, among which the new infrastructure construction has become one of the key support fields. According to the reporter's interview, with the continuous release of a series of favorable signals and the increase of support for land use and financing, many multinational enterprises will further promote the layout of artificial intelligence, industrial Internet and other fields, and major foreign-funded projects are ushering in the climax of landing. It is worth noting that the support measures are still increasing, focusing on encouraging foreign investment in high-tech industries and R & D links, making up for the short board of the industrial chain and activating more innovation momentum.
At the beginning of the second half of the year, Urumqi and Siemens Industrial Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement to build a new digital industrial infrastructure innovation base in China and Europe. The innovation base will rely on the resources of Siemens intelligent manufacturing, industrial Internet and other fields to create a platform for technological innovation, intelligent manufacturing service, talent cultivation and innovation acceleration in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, new energy and industrial Internet.
On June 30, sap, the largest software company in Europe, signed a contract with Laiwu high tech Zone in Shandong Province, and Sipu intelligent manufacturing innovation enabling Industrial Park project was launched. The project plans to invest 200 million yuan to establish a digital innovation empowerment center, a digital industry and service platform, a dual recruitment and introduction platform and a digital talent platform. A few days ago, Intel announced that it would join hands with Nanjing to jointly build the "future science and technology smart center". The two sides will gradually build a smart park to promote the application of intelligent buildings, intelligent office, intelligent manufacturing, intelligent transportation and intelligent robots.
The reporter also learned that a number of multinational companies such as Qualcomm and Schneider Electric are optimistic about the huge market potential released by China's accelerated new infrastructure, which will accelerate the layout of this field.
Recently, Qualcomm venture capital has invested in three Chinese companies, covering the Internet of things, artificial intelligence and 5g applications. Meng Pu, chairman of Qualcomm China, told economic reference that leading technologies such as 5g and artificial intelligence will promote efficient collaboration among various production factors and release "multiplier effect" for social development. The company is actively seizing more opportunities of integrating infrastructure construction under the new infrastructure, cooperating with a wider range of industry partners, and enabling industries such as industrial Internet, intelligent transportation, intelligent manufacturing and smart city through technology and innovation.
Schneider Electric and Ningde times have just reached a strategic partnership through the "cloud contract". According to the agreement, the two sides will cooperate in the fields of green intelligent factory, new energy power generation, safe power consumption and energy storage. Yin Zheng, global executive vice president of Schneider Electric and President of China region, told reporters that he was optimistic about China's digital economy, which was also in line with Schneider Electric's vision of promoting digital transformation in China. Previously, Schneider Electric has increased investment in Xiamen, and plans to expand R & D and increase production lines in the next three to five years to produce a new generation of digital green electrical products.
Li Qiang, global vice president of sap and general manager of China, said that he was looking forward to opportunities created by the new infrastructure in the Chinese market. In an interview with the reporter, Li Qiang said that at present, sap has launched digital transformation solutions covering 25 industries, and will use the company's products, technologies and services to support customers to accelerate digital transformation and help the government and enterprises build new infrastructure facing the future.
Foreign investors have entered the market, which also contributed to the signing and landing of local batch of foreign funded projects. On July 22, 54 foreign-funded projects were signed in Shanghai, 15 of which involved new infrastructure, covering industries such as network technology, artificial intelligence, biomedicine and integrated circuits. Before that, Kunshan ushered in the centralized landing of major projects, involving high-end equipment manufacturing, optical communications, headquarters economy, new materials and other fields of 33 major projects, including 16 foreign-funded projects.
At the national level, the national development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has recently launched the fourth batch of major foreign-funded projects on the basis of promoting the first three batches of major foreign-funded projects, involving electronic information, new materials and other fields. "The successive implementation of these major foreign-funded projects shows the strong confidence of foreign-funded enterprises in China's development." Yuan Da, director of the Policy Research Office of the national development and Reform Commission and spokesman, said.
The latest data of foreign capital absorption in China confirms this good trend once again. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce, in July, the actual amount of foreign capital used nationwide reached 63.47 billion yuan, an increase of 15.8% over the same period of the previous year. For the fourth consecutive month, the amount of foreign capital absorbed increased in a single month. Zong Changqing, director general of the Department of foreign investment management of the Ministry of Commerce, said that from January to July this year, there were 18838 new foreign enterprises in China. During this period, large foreign-funded projects continued to be implemented, accounting for 68% of the total foreign-funded projects with more than 100 million US dollars. Many multinational companies, such as ExxonMobil, BMW, Toyota and NVIDIA, have been increasing their investment in China and accelerating their distribution in China.
Zhu Keli, executive director of the Institute of new economics, said in an interview that China's new infrastructure is becoming a new opportunity for foreign-funded enterprises to invest in China under the background of the world economic recession since the outbreak of the epidemic, and the large scale of new infrastructure construction and huge market will certainly attract foreign-funded enterprises. Encouraging foreign-funded enterprises to increase investment in new infrastructure has a predictable positive effect on stabilizing foreign investment, further improving industrial competitiveness and opening up the dual cycle.
It is worth noting that the policy is still increasing, and foreign investment will gain more benefits in terms of financial support, tax and financial support, as well as land use, energy consumption and other factors. On August 12, the general office of the State Council issued the
