On September 23, 2022, the investment promotion conference for overseas Chinese from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan was held in the Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone. The promotion conference aims to give full play to the active role of overseas resources such as compatriots and related groups from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, overseas Chinese and related organizations, returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, and returned overseas students in Kunming's investment attraction work, promote the construction of Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone as Kunming City's innovation-driven demonstration zone and high-quality development pilot zone, achieve the overall goal of comprehensive construction of "regional innovative and characteristic park facing South Asia and Southeast Asia", and attract a group of powerful enterprises to invest in Kunming.

Cui Bingcheng, Deputy Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee; Li Zhiqiang, Vice Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Taiwan Democratic Self-Government League; Wan Yanjuan, Vice Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese; Xu Yiqing, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone and part-time Vice Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and other provincial leaders of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office the People's Government of Yunnan Province attended the conference. The conference also invited the Yunnan Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Alliance of All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, Kunming Overseas Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Kunming Taiwan Association, Overseas-educated Scholars Association of Kunming, and part of the representatives of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and foreign-funded enterprises in Kunming. At the same time, overseas Chinese organizations from Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Canada, the United States, Laos and other countries and Hong Kong and Macao also watched the promotion conference in real-time online.

Xu Yiqing, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone and part-time Vice Chairman of the Yunnan Provincial Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, said that Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone has always adhered to the original mission of "developing high technology and realizing industrialization" and served the overall strategic situation. The high-quality development of the Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone shows positive trends. The zone has a great business environment for investors, and it will be the strongest backing and best partner for entrepreneurs. Xu sincerely hopes and warmly welcomes entrepreneurs from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to visit the Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone for investigation, negotiation, investment and business development, so as to open a new chapter of cooperation and draw a new blueprint for development.

Wang Rong, Deputy Minister of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Kunming Municipal Committee and Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of CPC Kunming Municipal Committee, said in her speech that in the process of Kunming's high-quality development, the general compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, returned overseas Chinese and relatives, overseas Chinese and returned overseas students love their hometown, support their hometown, and develop their hometown, which has made great contributions to Kunming's economic and social development. They have been a major force in the construction of Kunming as a regional international central city. Wang sincerely hopes that everyone can continue to pay attention to Kunming's development, support Kunming's development, invest in Kunming, and settle down in Kunming. Let everyone share the clear waters and green mountains in Kunming together, and create wealth together!

At the Promotion Conference, the guests watched the promotion video about investment in Kunming and the theme video of the promotion conference, listened to the industrial planning and key project promotion of the Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone, and visited the production area of enterprises products and the innovation park of cell industry cluster in the Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone.

Overseas Chinese and compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan from more than 30 countries and regions all over the world expressed their deep love for their motherland and hometown through the theme video of "I Want to Say about Kunming's Development".

The Promotion Conference is guided by the Taiwan Affairs Office of CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province, the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province, the Yunnan Provincial Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, and the Yunnan Provincial Federation of Taiwan Compatriots, sponsored by the Taiwan Affairs Office of CPC Kunming Municipal Committee, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the People's Government of Kunming Municipality, and the Kunming High Tech Industrial Development Zone, and organized by the Kunming Municipal Federation of Overseas Chinese and the Kunming Municipal Federation of Taiwan Compatriots. Kunming Municipal Commission of Development and Reform, Kunming Municipal Commission of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, Kunming Municipal Commerce Bureau, Foreign Affairs Office of Kunming Municipal Government, Kunming Administration for Market Regulation, Kunming Investment Promotion Bureau, Kunming Association for Science and Technology, Kunming Federation of Industry and Commerce and other relevant municipal departments participated in the conference.

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(Editors: Amy, Lexi)