Wang Weizhong, governor of South China's Guangdong province, met with Bernd Montag, CEO of Siemens Healthineers, in Guangzhou on September 23.

Wang welcomed Montag and said that Siemens Healthineers is a globally leading medical technology company that has become deeply rooted in Guangdong and made solid progress in its cooperation with the province.

As a major economic, trade and technological innovation powerhouse in China, Guangdong has fully implemented the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the second and third plenary sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee, acted on the guiding principles of the 5th Plenary Session of the 13th Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CPC, and followed the decisions and policies of the Guangdong Provincial Committee to comprehensively deepen reform and strive for the realization of China's modernization, Wang said.

Guangdong has firmly pressed ahead with reform, opening-up and innovation, promoted the building of new high-level opening-up economic mechanisms and a market environment featuring openness, fairness and transparency, strengthened industrial and technological development, and fostered such emerging industries as bio-medicine and high-end medical apparatuses, he added. 

Meanwhile, the province has thoroughly carried out the policies of large-scale equipment upgrades and trade-in of consumer goods and unleashed its investment and consumption potential, providing Siemens Healthineers and other investors with new opportunities to seek the expansion of their business in Guangdong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Wang said he hoped that Siemens Healthineers will grasp the opportunities brought by China's further openness to foreign investment in the medical sector, intensify its medical R&D and production capacity in Guangdong, make long-term plans for the development of its medical technologies, promote the sharing and opening of its innovative platforms and medical facilities, build its regional center featuring medical R&D, production, sales, training and services in Guangdong, and endeavor to achieve win-win cooperation. He emphasized that Guangdong will strive to nurture a world-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based and internationalized, treat all types of market entities equally, and roll out high-quality administrative services for foreign investors.

Montag gave a rundown on Siemens Healthineers' business development and industrial layouts in Guangdong. He said that Siemens Healthineers believes in the bright development prospects for Guangdong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and that the corporation will further expand its investment in Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other cities in the Greater Bay Area, helping Guangdong make consistent progress in innovation and the high-quality development of its medical and healthcare sectors, and achieving win-win cooperation.

Those in attendance at the meeting included Zhang Xin, deputy governor of Guangdong.

Siemens Healthineers and Guangdong have long-standing cooperation relations. Early in 2002, the corporation made an investment in Shenzhen to found Siemens Shenzhen Magnetic Resonance Ltd, which has become one of largest magnetic resonance R&D bases outside its German headquarters. Statistics show that about one-third of its magnetic resonance apparatuses are produced in Shenzhen.

Last year, the corporation reached an agreement with Shenzhen to invest an additional 1 billion yuan ($142 million) to establish an R&D and production site in Shenzhen.

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