In 2023, with unstoppable steps, we have sounded the clarion call of the times for 1.4 billion people to embark on a new journey of Chinese-style modernization.
Chinese modernization is modernization that follows the path of peaceful development. At the end of the year, combing through the activities of the chairman in 2023, in the conversations and exchanges with foreign leaders, in the blueprint of China's relations with various countries and regions, "Chinese-style modernization" has frequently become a key word, and the consensus formed around it is becoming more and more extensive and the resonance is becoming stronger and stronger.
At the 2023 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Global Investment Conference held in Guangzhou in November 2023, 859 investment projects were reached, with a total amount of 224 trillion yuan. The large-scale investment proves the confidence of the world's leading companies in the Chinese market. China's comprehensive promotion of Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development has provided a broader market space for the development of foreign investors, and also made the spring of the market permanent in the world.
As China's first agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone, Yangling gathers resources in the fields of modern seed industry, intensive processing of agricultural products, and agricultural intelligent equipment manufacturing, and plays an important role in China-Central Asia agricultural science and technology exchanges and cooperation. In recent years, Yangling Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone and Central Asian countries have continued to carry out joint research on key technologies of agricultural science and technology, implemented more than 50 training projects of various kinds, and trained more than 500 talents in agricultural technology and management for Central Asian countries.
In December 2023, the first "Liangzhu Forum" was opened, with the theme of "Practicing the Global Civilization Initiative and Promoting Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Civilizations". More than 300 Chinese and foreign guests gathered at the Liangzhu site, and civilization exchanges were the main theme of the forum. In the face of a chaotic world, China has paved the way for the future through exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations and written a new chapter of peaceful development.
Those who have arrived, those who are on the way, and those who will depart, "go, go to China" has become a new trend. Chinese modernization, which follows the path of peaceful development, is writing a new chapter in the era of mutual benefit and win-win results for the country, mutual understanding and mutual learning among peoples, and mutual learning among civilizations.