The 2026 Global Investment Promotion Conference for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) will be held in Guangzhou on November 3, with 254 companies, including Fortune Global 500 firms, China 500 companies and leading industry enterprises, confirmed to attend as of October 27.
The information was released at a press conference held by the Information Office of the People's Government of Guangdong Province on October 28.
Confirmed participants include companies such as Zeiss, BASF, Visa and ExxonMobil. A total of 76 China-based executives at the level of vice president or above from multinational companies and foreign chambers of commerce have confirmed their attendance.
The main conference on November 3 will include a review of previous editions of the investment promotion conference, investment-sharing sessions by multinational companies, the launch of an AI-powered investment promotion model for Guangdong and the release of a list of major signed projects.
Before and after the main conference, participating enterprises will go on organized field visits to relevant cities. The nine cities in the Pearl River Delta will host supporting city-level investment promotion events, while 10 industry-specific events will focus on key areas, including biomedicine, high-end medical devices, semiconductor optical communications, big data, artificial intelligence, integrated circuits and new electromechanical integration.
Since the first edition in 2022, Guangdong, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR have jointly held the conference for five consecutive years. The first four editions saw 5,718 projects signed, worth more than nine trillion yuan ($1.35 trillion). Furthermore, more than 90 percent of the investment projects from the previous four conferences have started construction, according to the organizers.
In the first nine months of this year, Guangdong's actual use of foreign capital reached 89.17 billion yuan, up 14.1 percent year on year, the fastest growth among China's major foreign-invested provinces.
Guangzhou, the host city, reported more than 2,200 newly introduced and registered projects in the first three quarters of 2026, with a planned total investment of 349.3 billion yuan, up 149 percent year on year.
Shenzhen, which is scheduled to host the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November, saw its actual use of foreign capital exceed 44 billion yuan in the first nine months of this year, up more than 60 percent year on year. APEC member economies contributed approximately 40 billion yuan, accounting for about 90 percent of the city's total.
Reporter | Chen Jinxia
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