Overseas Chinese businessmen inspect Zhongshan's investment environment on February 26. (Photo/Ke Song)

The China Overseas Chinese Investment (Guangdong) Conference Zhongshan Session & the Zhongshan Overseas Chinese Exchange and Cooperation Fair opened on February 26. This is the first fair with the theme of overseas Chinese in Zhongshan.

Seven projects with a total investment of over 5.6 billion yuan were signed during the meeting, covering such fields as environmental protection, education and Internet-based technology. The Overseas Chinese Youth Innovation & Entrepreneurship Fund, with a size of 2.5 billion yuan, was inaugurated in Zhongshan.

"Dear overseas Chinese entrepreneurs, it is a right choice to invest in Zhongshan!" Liu Weiliang, honorary chairman of the Shenzhen Info-net Promotion Association and chairman of Guangdong Yuejiang Real Estate Investment Co Ltd, said at the conference. The Green Gold Bay High-end Environmental Industrial Park project that he co-invested in has settled in Xiaolan Town a year ago. As the project progressed, he has keenly felt the significant improvement in Zhongshan's business environment.

Like Liu, many overseas Chinese entrepreneurs from around the world gave thumbs up to this special conference.

Zhongshan has been increasingly attractive to overseas Chinese investors. "I will mobilize more fellow villagers in Norway to return to Zhongshan for investment, and introduce advanced European management experience and technologies to Zhongshan so as to promote its high-quality development," said Li Zhenjie, an advisor to the Zhongshan Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and president of the Cantonese Chamber of Commerce in Norway, who was originally from Nanlang District.

That afternoon, 100 overseas Chinese businessmen expressed their great satisfaction with Zhongshan's overseas Chinese resources and policies after a visit.