A successful investment promotions conference was held in Guiyang -- capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province on July 28 -- attended by Guiyang government officials and over 100 representatives from 75 private companies, local officials said.

They said the event aimed to attract more projects and investment to Guiyang and the Guian New Area.

During the event, Guiyang's Vice-major Xu Hao gave a briefing on the city's attractive environment, products, resources, location advantages, its innovation ecosystem, progress in opening-up, as well as its progressive policies and healthy business environment.

According to Xu, Guiyang is focusing on middle and high-end commerce and manufacturing. It’s aiming to become an international city in western China -- and is accelerating its integration with Guian, located between Guiyang and Anshun in Guizhou province, with a planned area of 1,795 sq km. (check)

Xu also called for more cooperation with entrepreneurs in advanced equipment manufacturing, middle and high-end consumer goods manufacturing, new energy, the new materials, digital industry and in health medicine.

While Tang Xinglun, vice-director of the Guian New Area administrative committee, promoted its internet data centers, high-end equipment manufacturing and green food industrial chains.

Tang said that Guian strives to attract equipment manufacturers, cloud service providers and big data service providers, which are needed in the construction of large and super-large data centers and server manufacturing.

Guian has constructed 22.43 square kilometers of high-end equipment manufacturing industrial park with 700,000 square meters of standard factories and 16 resident companies above a designated size – those with annual revenue of 20 million yuan ($2.8 million) or more.

This year, a organic food industrial park is planned in Guian, which will focus on grain reserves, food processing and foreign trade by attracting companies involving grain and oil, meat, snacks, beverages and fast food, local officials said.