Guizhou attracts investment from key companies

According to the investment promotions department of Southwest China's Guizhou province, from January to September this year Guizhou pulled in 4,907 projects with 450.86 billion yuan ($67.13 billion) of funds in place and attracted 828 key companies to come and locate there.

Since the start of the year, investment promotions-related activities by government departments at all levels in Guizhou managed to help overcome the influence of the COVID-19 outbreak -- and the province achieved economic growth by attracting investment.

Moving forwards, the departments will strive to realize their goal of attracting over 1,000 new high-quality companies and add 560 billion yuan in funds in place for key newly added industries.

In addition, they will enhance their investment promotions efforts in agricultural retail and deep-processing companies, high-quality industrial companies, leading companies in the big data area, leading service companies and labor-intensive companies.