The Hechi investment cooperation promotion conference and signing ceremony, special events of the 19th China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, were held in Nanning on Sept 17.

Hechi signed 81 projects, with a total investment of 49.93 billion yuan ($7.12 billion), an increase of 51.8 percent over the previous session, toppling a record high. The projects involve major areas of extensive health, big data, new energy, modern agriculture, new industry, financial service, commercial logistics, and infrastructure construction, with investors coming from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, Hong Kong, and other places throughout China.

The emerging industries of the city, including non-ferrous metals, cocoon and silk, food, home furnishing, building materials, chemicals, medicine, new energy, digital, electronic information, as well as life science and biotechnology, were the focal areas of the investment promotion sector.

In addition, 11 counties and districts and five municipal-level industrial parks in Hechi promoted investment projects through video and introduced the project resources and industrial positioning to the guests.