The 2023 Nantong Investment Summit opens in Nantong on Sept 20. [Photo/Nantong Daily]

The 2023 Nantong Investment Summit was held at the Nantong International Conference Center, East China's Jiangsu province, on Sept 20.

More than 500 investors, renowned scholars and enterprise representatives attended the summit to provide advice on local development and seek cooperation with the city.

Wu Xinming, Party secretary of Nantong, addressed the summit, saying that Nantong is a city ready to take off, an industrial city with huge potential, and a happy city suitable for life and work.

He added that as usual the city will offer the best environment and most preferential policies to investors.

Zhang Tong, mayor of Nantong, invited enterprises, institutions, and investors to invest in the city and bring more capital to it.

Lu Ting, managing director of Nomura, and Jin Jianhua, vice-general manager of CITIC Investment Holdings, delivered keynote speeches at the summit. They agreed that Nantong has been receiving high attention from investment funds and they all have promised to boost local industrial development with more capital.

During the summit, the Nantong municipal government inked a strategic cooperation agreement with Pengxin Group Co to build Nantong Finance Town.

Four forums focusing on the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and Nantong Finance Town, as well as new energy and biomedicine industries also took place during the event.