Several cooperation agreements are signed during a promotional conference in Shenzhen on May 20, hosted by Chongchuan district, Nantong. [Photo/WeChat account: chongchuanonline]

A conference was held by Chongchuan district, Nantong, Jiangsu province in Shenzhen, Guangdong province on May 20, in an effort to promote the district's development environment for information application innovation.

Representatives from over 40 enterprises took part in the promotional conference and several of them reached cooperation agreements with the Chongchuan district government in areas such as big data, robots, information platforms, and intelligent equipment manufacturing.

Liu Hao, secretary of the district's Party committee, said that Nantong and Shenzhen are both coastal cities and share similar goals when it comes to opening-up.

He highlighted that as the urban center of Nantong, the district has taken an active part in the technological revolution and has been cultivating emerging industries such as information technology. 

Chongchuan plans to build itself into a national-level and international-level center of information application innovation by attracting more related projects and further developing the industrial chain. Several domestic leading enterprises engaged in cyber security have set up branches in the district.

During the conference, Liu invited enterprises to visit Chongchuan and added that the district has issued preferential policies to boost industrial development.

"We have learnt about Chongchuan district's favorable business environment and firm confidence in industrial development, and we hope to promote rapid development in information application innovation along with the district," said Chen Shan, vice-chairman of Sangfor Technologies.