On June 29, the “Walking into Taicang” China-Japan-South Korea Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum was held in Taicang, Suzhou, which was attended by many Japanese and South Korean entrepreneurs. The forum witnessed the signing of 24 projects, with a total investment of 10.646 billion yuan. Yang Zhiping, vice mayor of Suzhou, attended the event.
In the morning, the participants of the forum visited the downtown area of Taicang, the city’s urban planning exhibition hall, Taicang Port and two enterprises. In the afternoon, representatives of Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, and Daejeon City, South Korea introduced local industrial projects respectively. Then, the entrepreneurs exchanged ideas about the status and prospects of China-Japan-South Korea cooperation.
Taicang is home to more than 1,500 foreign-funded enterprises and 31 World’s Top 500 companies. Among them, there are about 200 Japanese companies with a total investment of more than 2 billion U.S. dollars and more than 80 South Korean companies with a total investment of nearly 1 billion U.S. dollars.
