Recently, an economic and trade exchange delegation from Qianhai visited the New York Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area, and Tokyo Bay Area, drawing significant interest from enterprises in each location. This marked Qianhai's inaugural official team to engage in overseas exchanges in 2024. Their itinerary included hosting economic and trade cooperation seminars in all three locales, fostering the signing of numerous cooperation projects, and conducting visits to over ten business and academic institutions.
Wu Peimin, the commercial counselor of the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco, highlighted Qianhai's pivotal role, stating, "Qianhai, leveraging Hong Kong, serving the Chinese mainland, and orienting itself to the world, while adhering to institutional innovation, has evolved into a new epicenter of China's reform and opening-up. Investing in Qianhai signifies investing in the future."
The New York Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area, Tokyo Bay Area, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are the four most important bay areas in the world today. Among them, the New York Bay Area is renowned for its financial sector, being the most developed region in the US financial industry, with Wall Street, the heart of the world's finance, and headquarters of nearly 3,000 financial institutions located here. Meanwhile, the Tokyo Bay Area represents Japan's largest industrial city cluster, contributing two-thirds of the nation's total economic output and three-quarters of its industrial output.
Qianhai serves as the core engine of the Greater Bay Area (GBA). The delegation's objective was to gain insights and lessons from the premier bay areas worldwide, broaden Qianhai's international network, and bolster its functions as a vanguard of opening-up, hub connectivity, and gateway linkage, thus fortifying Qianhai's role in high-level international cooperation.