Coming Soon: The NEW Guangzhou

Filed in archive News on July 16, 2009

BusinessWeek ran a piece earlier this month in which Guangzhou Party Secretary Zhu Xiaodan is quoted on the city's plans to clean up the Pearl River, restore wetlands and forests, and foster home-grown brands. It was an interesting piece.According to article:

Guangzhou will eschew heavy manufacturing and encourage industries that rely more on innovation than investment, such as biomedical and electronics, as well as service-sector industries such as finance, technology, and tourism. "We'll change 'Made in Guangzhou' to 'Created in Guangzhou,' " Zhu asserts. "We need more intellectual property, more of our own brands."

It will be interesting to see how the new vision for Guangzhou unfolds...


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