On April 20th, Zhang Ruishu, the deputy Secretary Municipal of CPC and mayor, met with the vice president of the Alibaba Group, Ren Geng and his party. The two sides exchanged extensively on the construction of the international coastal digital demonstration cities. Ren announced at the meeting that, based on the top-level digital design of Qinhuangdao, Alibaba Group will help to promote Qinhuangdao’s development in terms of industrial upgrading, financial innovation and digital shipping.
Zhang Ruishu, on behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and the municipal government, extended warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to Alibaba Group for its entry into Qinhuangdao, which will help to promote the transformation and development of Qinhuangdao’s industry. Zhang Ruishu also briefed the guests about the economic and social development of the city.
Zhang said that in order to make the most of the historical opportunities from such national strategies as “The Belt and Road Initiative” and “Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Collaborative Development”, Qinhuangdao is trying to build an ecological, industrial, open and civilized city. Under the guidance of the spirit of the 19th National Congress of CPC and Xi Jinping’s socialism theory with Chinese characteristics for the new era, the city will speed up the transformation of the government functions and improve the work efficiency of government organizations to build an economically strong, environment-friendly and internationalized coastal city. Under the requirements of Hebei provincial government to build a first-class international tourist city through the integration of the development of the city and its port, the government will invite the world-class design teams to carry out high-level planning and design of Qinhuangdao’s city, ports and industries in order to accelerate its transformation and development. The city has further expanded its opening to the outside world, opening the direct route from Philippines Dave to Qinhuangdao and railway for the direct Korea-China-Mongolia freight train, which will vigorously develop international trade and international economic-and- trade cooperation.
Zhang said that Qing Huangdao has superior geographical position, excellent ecological environment, sound transportation system, high density of talents, and advanced internet data industry. The software specialists in Yan Shan University, Northeastern university at Qin Huangdao, Hebei Normal University of Science and Technology will guarantee strong support in terms of talents for the development of Alibaba in Qin Huangdao. It is hoped that, by giving full play to its leading role in the world’s internet field and integrating its domestic and foreign resources, the Alibaba group will speed up the construction of the ecological system of the industrial internet industry and intelligent financial system in Qin Huangdao, and upgrade the city’s shipping, logistics and other industries, which will help to accelerate the high-quality development of Qin Huangdao in the new era.
Zhang Ruishu said that the Qin Huangdao municipal Committee and the municipal government will make every effort to provide first-class government service and business-friendly environment for the Alibaba group, offering conveniences to its development in Qin Huangdao.
Ren, on behalf of the Alibaba group, expressed his thanks to Qin Huangdao Municipal Committee and the municipal government for their trust and support for the Alibaba. He said that Qin Huangdao, as a city dependent on its port with large coverage and superior location, has a great potential for development. Alibaba, integrating its own advantages with Qin Huangdao’s industry development orientation, will make greater contributions to the high-quality development of Qin Huangdao. Alibaba will pursue international excellent planning and design and the full implementation of its advancement. Alibaba will help to promote in an all-round way the construction of the international coastal digital demonstration city, and to build the Qin Huangdao port as the first “shipping brain” of the Alibaba in China, which is expected to accelerate the development of relevant eco industries in the neighboring area.
Vice mayor Sun Guosheng attended the meeting.