The 2025 Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month in China Will Kick off in May

The 2025 Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month in China Will Kick off in May

A Series of Investment Promotion Activities Will Be Held

A sincere invitation lasting for 31 years

From: Fuzhou News Website

Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited Luoyuan New Energy Base Project has completed the enterprise registration, the Rongjin Industrial Park project in southwest Fujian has been successfully signed, and the Indonesian Wuyi Landscape Operation Center has been signed... With the coming of Fuzhou’s investment promotion, the footsteps of 2025 Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month in China are getting closer.

Centralized signing ceremony of 2024 China Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month.

Photographed by reporter Bao Hua

Since its establishment in 1994, after 31 years of inheritance and promotion, this grand event has developed into a golden signboard for attracting investment in Fuzhou, an important window for opening to the outside world, and a bridge connecting the world, injecting a steady stream of strong impetus into the high-quality development of Fuzhou.

On May 18, 2025, the launching ceremony of China Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month and the Global Investment Promotion Conference will be held grandly, once again sending out an invitation full of sincerity and opportunities to the world. With the reply of invitations from Fuzhou and the confirmation of travel itinerary who came to Fuzhou, the grand scene of thousands of businessmen gathering in the blessed state will be presented again, and a series of investment promotion activities will be held intensively, setting off a new round of development upsurge.

In order to make this grand event large-scale, influential, distinctive and effective, Fuzhou adheres to the essence of “3820” strategic engineering thought, continuously deepens and expands the connotation of international investment promotion month, continuously carries out the reform of investment promotion system and mechanism. It continuously polishes the gold-lettered signboard of “a blessed state where thousands of businessmen gather” under the guidance of “all-round, whole process, whole chain, whole life cycle and full participation”.

Inheritance and innovation of investment promotion event

In the early 1990s, the GDP of Fuzhou was only tens of billions of RMB, and it was “in the back row” among coastal cities, so it was urgent to speed up the pace of economic construction.

In 1994, Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee, initiated the first “China Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month” with the theme of “a blessed state where thousands of businessmen gather”. It attracted more than 6,000 businessmen from 22 countries and regions, contributed to the landing of a large number of foreign-funded, Taiwan-funded and overseas Chinese-funded projects, and accelerated the pace of Fuzhou's opening to the outside world. In 1996, the provincial party committee and government listed Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month and Xiamen September 8 CIFIT as two major international investment promotion and trade activities in Fujian.

In recent years, Fuzhou took the opportunity of holding the International Investment Promotion Month to carry forward the good traditions, good experiences and good practices advocated by General Secretary Xi Jinping in those years, and created new modes of attracting investment by business, by conferences and by funds. Through attracting investment, Fuzhou has cultivated six hundred billion industrial clusters, four hundred billion industrial parks, 20 billion industrial enterprises, 217 leading enterprises and more than 4,600 national high-tech enterprises. In 2024, the city’s regional GDP reached 1.42 trillion yuan, ranking eighth in the national capital cities; The per capita GDP is RMB 168,000, ranking among the top provincial capitals in China.

The far-sighted investment promotion layout has bred a modern diversified industrial system and laid a solid foundation for the high-quality economic development of Fuzhou. The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Investment Promotion Office said that the investment promotion departments at all levels in Fuzhou, under the leadership of the municipal party committee and the municipal government, are inheriting and carrying forward the important ideas and major practices of General Secretary Xi Jinping in promoting investment promotion in the past. They insist on “all-round, whole process, whole chain, whole life cycle and full participation” to attract investment, unswervingly grasping investment, launching projects and promoting industries, striving to write new answers for attracting investment in Fuzhou in the new era, and courageously striving for the first place in Chinese modernization.

Modern and Open City Window

This year is the 31st year of China Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month. The inheritance and promotion of the grand event is closely related to the growth and development of the city. The success of a grand event is an important embodiment of a city's comprehensive strength. New and old friends from all over the world will see a more dynamic, open and attractive blessed state.

A more energetic Fuzhou welcomes guests. Scientific and technological innovation is a “key” in the great change that has never happened in a hundred years, and it is the core element of developing new quality productivity. In recent years, Fuzhou has vigorously implemented the innovation-driven development strategy, promoted new industries, new models and new kinetic energy with scientific and technological innovation, and constantly activated new quality productivity. The “four major economies” of digital economy, marine economy, green economy and cultural tourism economy have developed rapidly, and 16 key industrial chains are clustered. Up to now, Fuzhou has cultivated 35 top 100 enterprises in Fujian Province, 98 listed enterprises, and 4,600 national high-tech enterprises, realizing the complete layout of industrial chains such as nylon 6, flat panel display, polyurethane and polypropylene, and the innovation vitality is surging, and the entrepreneurial enthusiasm is competing with generate.

A more open Fuzhou welcomes guests. Opening-up is the only way for Chinese modernization, and it is the inherent urban characteristic of Fuzhou. As the frontier of opening to the outside world, Fuzhou has the advantages of multi-regional policies, such as the core area of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, the free trade pilot area, the national independent innovation demonstration area, the national marine economic development demonstration area, the national ecological civilization pilot area and the urban-rural integration development pilot area. At the same time, Fuzhou has always insisted on vigorously promoting moderately advanced infrastructure construction, building a three-dimensional, multi-level and multi-functional modern comprehensive transportation system integrating “sea, land, air and field”, full of confidence in opening up at a high level.

A more attractive Fuzhou welcomes guests. “I worked in Fuzhou for six or seven years and came here at the age of 37. I spent the best years of my life here and had a lot of experience.” In March, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping said affectionately when he visited Fuzhou. Fuzhou has successively won the titles of National Historical and Cultural City, National Ecological City, China Software Characteristic City, China Leading Smart City, National Innovation-driven Demonstration City, National Advanced Manufacturing Base, etc. It also won the title of National Civilized City for four consecutive years, the list of “Top Ten Beautiful Cities” in China, and the first “Global Sustainable Development City Award”. These honors fully explain the profound meaning of “happiness” in the blessed state. Fuzhou will send an invitation to the world through the city window of International Investment Promotion Month, “Come to the blessed state and be a blessed person.”

Mutual trust and win-win cooperation platform

The activities of Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month in China have been continuously expanded and deepened. The number of participants is increasing, the degree of internationalization is getting higher and higher, and the investment promotion effect is fruitful.

Through the platform of International Merchants Month, China Communications Group, China Shipbuilding Group, Mercedes-Benz Group, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, Qingshan Holdings, New Hope and other Fortune 500 companies have successively settled in Fuzhou. Last year, more than 70 major projects were signed at the conference site, with a total investment of over 120 billion yuan.

International Investment Promotion Month has become a cooperation platform for mutual benefit and win-win development. “Fuzhou has a geographical advantage and a good investment environment. We will further cultivate the blessed state and continue to contribute to the economic development of this city.” Kong Xiao, President and CEO of Fujian Benz Automobile Co., Ltd., has further strengthened his confidence and determination to take root in Fuzhou with his solid enterprise development achievements and peer-to-peer support services.

The signing of projects that are full of expectations and lead the future has become the highlight of the previous China Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month. And it has also become the best proof that Fuzhou has inherited and carried forward the excellent style of “doing it right away and in a practical manner” and continuously creating a first-class business environment. Fuzhou adheres to the principle of creating a business environment of “being able to do things and doing it quickly and well” for enterprises. Fuzhou Municipal Affairs Service Center, which was born out of “in one building", has achieved online application, online pre-examination or online approval for 97% of the examination and approval items.

This year is the year of courageously striving for the first implementation. Fuzhou is adhering to the important ideas and major practices initiated by General Secretary Xi Jinping in that year, adhering to the “Five Alls” to attract investment, further improving the investment mechanism, building a strong investment team, and gathering joint efforts to attract investment. Continue to set off an investment boom to empower and increase efficiency for the construction of a modern international city.

Thousands of businessmen gather to draw grand plans, and strive to chase the waves of the world. 2025 China Fuzhou International Investment Promotion Month is coming, and Fuzhou once again sends a warm invitation to the world, expecting more entrepreneurs to enter Fuzhou, invest in Fuzhou, and work hard in Fuzhou to create a better future hand in hand in mutual benefit and win-win. (Fuzhou Daily reporters Wu Huazhen and Qin Zuoquan)