Foreign economy working conference of Hunan province government office was held in Chenzhou city on November 23, 2012. The relative department principals from all the 14 cities of Hunan province gathered together in Chenzhou city to summarize the working achievement and share it to make plans for the next year.
It was reported that from January to October this year, Hunan province foreign trade business was improving steadily and fast, for instance, the actual use of foreign investment reached $ 6.225 billion, up 17.6%; domestic paid-in investment amounted to 208.1 billion yuan; import-export total value was up to $ 15.91 billion, and tourism income hit 148.755 billion yuan. Concerning the construction of platform, Liuyang and Loudi economical development zone were successfully approved to be the national level economical development zone; Henyang comprehensive bonded area, Western Hunan Customs and Quarantine Inspection Bureau and Yongzhou office of Changsha Customs were set up; Chenzhou international express center was placed to operation; Chenglingji port was open to navigation to Hong Kong and Macau, and the waterless port construction of Changsha, Hengyang, Chenzhou and Yongzhou were under the schedule. As for Chenzhou city, from January to September, its paid-in foreign investment hit $558.24 million, up 17.45% and 650 domestic investment projects were handled out here with actual domestic paid-in capital of 22.214 billion yuan. Both the foreign and domestic investment in Chenzhou city ranked the first among other cities of Hunan province.
Wang Guangming- Deputy Secretary-general of Hunan Provincial Government stated that all the governments should improve the service level, seriously figure out the planning idea, and carefully carry out the specified work to provide better supports to the province opening-up economy development. Currently, the key work is to make the New Year plan, grasp the implementation work of the spirit of 18th National Congress of CPC, select the key trading activities, and carry out the assessment work.
Some Hunan provincial leaders attended the conference and delivered the speech there. Li Ting- Deputy Mayor of Chenzhou city also made a speech on the conference.