Dongguan Enterprises Hold High-Profile Together As Development Boosters

Low key than low key

Dressed in the meeting cheongsam Zhang Yin sat on the leading seat and spent most of the time turning his head down and quietly reading the meeting material. When many flashes of light came to her, she occasionally raised her head and smiled at the camera.

After the meeting, Zhang Yin was immediately surrounded by reporters. "It is time to set up the World Conference of Wando merchants." She answered the reporter hastily and appropriately, "the government is doing very well." In 2008, Nine Dragons Paper was once referred to as "sweatshop" by the trade union, and its shares fell sharply and suffered heavy losses.

At the two hour meeting, a man sitting on the left side of Zhang Yin also kept his head down. The name of the desktop brand shows that this person is Liang Zhibin, chairman of the famous Dongguan TongZhou Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., whose annual operating income is at least 5 billion yuan.

Liang Zhibin, who is under 60 years old, is also the chairman of Dongguan New Century Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. In Dongguan, the new century represents a high-end residential culture, and has become a residential brand that many people aspire to. At the same time, he is also the owner of CBA Guangdong new century club.

Despite many titles on the top of his head, Liang Zhibin is regarded as a "low-key element" in the "low key" of Dongguan merchants. He wore a very loose black suit and used an old silver and white star to flip his cell phone. It was awkward to use iPad.

Over the past 30 years since the reform and opening up in Dongguan, Dongguan has spread all over the country and even extends to the whole world. However, compared with other merchants, the merchants in Dongguan used to be silent and low-key. Liang Guoying pointed out.

"Some practices before Guan merchants have changed." Mo Haotang, chairman of the Guangdong tri Zheng Group Co., Ltd., director of the Preparatory Committee of the World Federation of trade unions, told our reporter that Wando merchants need to warm up and share resources together. "In this way, we can go further."

This has also been echoed by many Dongguan entrepreneurs. Liang Zhibin told our reporter that Dongguan's self-employed households have always been relying on a single way of development. If enterprises can unite to achieve resource sharing, this will provide a favorable platform for Dongguan merchants.

Hope for Dongguan booster

"In recent years, Dongguan has undergone the baptism of the international financial crisis and has undergone the throes of transformation and upgrading." Xu Jianhua, Secretary of the Dongguan Municipal Committee, said at the 17 meeting.

Over the past 10 years, Improvement trade It has always been the driving force for GDP growth in Dongguan: nearly 80% of the total industrial output value is created by processing trade enterprises, and more than 40% of the contribution to GDP growth comes from the net export of processing trade. However, the current downturn in the international market is constantly weakening the strength of this strength. In the first half of the year, Dongguan increased its growth rate by GDP 2.5% in Guangdong.

Cai Jinhua, chairman of Dongguan Long Shi Group, also feels that this year's business environment is not very optimistic, even more worrying than the financial crisis period. The company is facing not only the constraints of the international market downturn, but also the pressure of rising operating costs.

"Dongguan is small and its own resources are limited." A Dongguan businessman, who does not want to be named, told our reporter that some traditional development models are facing bottlenecks because of the development of "foot washing up fields".

Under such circumstances, the Dongguan municipal government hopes to find some new boosters for the transformation and upgrading of Dongguan through the strength of Guan merchants.

Jiang Hui, chairman of the Australian (China) Zhi Cong digital lighting group, said in an interview with our reporter that the current market in Europe and the United States is not ideal and there is still much room in the domestic market. Some merchants want to take this opportunity to expand the domestic market.

Like Jiang Hui, many Dong merchants told our correspondent that, with the invitation of the government, the Wando merchants scattered around the world are willing to return to their hometown for investment. In their view, this is a win-win result.

"Around the world, merchants are coming back, mainly on the mainland market." Jiang Lin, a special researcher in Dongguan, said to the newspaper, "the government may give some preferential policies. Even if they do not, they will come, because they can cooperate with local enterprises and universities.

Investment promotion efforts after the meeting

At the 17 meeting, the Dongguan municipal government awarded prizes to 33 Dongguan merchants such as Wang Zhidong and Zhang Yin, the founder of sina, who were "outstanding Dongguan merchants" and encouraged them to make new contributions to Dongguan's transformation and upgrading and the realization of a high level of rise.

After the meeting, hundreds of Dongguan merchants were taken to the Dongguan Trade Center under construction. Here, they invest up to 11 billion 300 million yuan in total investment. After completion, they will become a multi-purpose state-level city with smiles and pointing fingers in business, business, finance, catering, hotels and squares.

With their support, Dong merchants Conference 121 investment projects will be concluded, with a total investment of 43 billion 500 million. Among them, there are 69 domestic funds, 27 billion 500 million total, 52 foreign capital, and the investment is 2 billion 540 million US dollars.

"In order to successfully implement the Dongguan business conference, the leaders of the Dongguan municipal Party committee went to many places to invite Dongguan merchants to do a lot of work, but the effort to attract foreign investment also depends on the conference." Jiang Lin believes that it remains to be seen whether the government's attitude towards service, principles of work, style and efficiency can keep up.

He also believes that Dongguan is a city highly dependent on foreign investment. It is worth noting that domestic investment has an advantage in new investment. At the same time, the transformation of domestic and foreign capital needs a period of adaptation. Originally, Dongguan has been following the rules of foreign businessmen's game. Now it needs smooth transformation and close to domestic demand. Therefore, the Dongguan municipal government needs to make adjustments in relevant policies.