Chile-Shenzhen Economic and Trade Exchanges and City Image Promotion Conference was held on 31 May in LE MERIDIEN Hotel in Santiago, the capital of Chile. The event was jointly organized by the Shenzhen Overseas Friendship Association, Shenzhen Baoan District Federation of Industry and Commerce, and Chilean Chinese Business Association. Chen Yifan, Director of the Consular Department of the Chinese Embassy in Chile, Wang Qiang, President of the Shenzhen Overseas Friendship Association, Ignacio, Head of Asia-Pacific Affairs of the Chilean Foreign Ministry's Foreign Affairs Promotion Committee, Juan Mena, Councillor of the City of Santiago, Fernando Reyes, President of the Chile-Chinese Literature and Culture Association (CLCA), and Fernando Reyes, Chile's former Ambassador to China, Luis Schmidt, as well as many other guests from the Chinese business community in Chile. Luis Schmidt, as well as entrepreneurs from Shenzhen, China, representatives of business associations, and representatives of the Chilean overseas Chinese community.
At the meeting, representatives of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Commerce and Chilean officials introduced the local business environment and related policies, and at the event site, entrepreneurs and representatives of business associations of the two countries carried out project negotiations and docking, as well as on-site signing of contracts, with a total amount of 1 billion U.S. dollars.
The business event was followed by a donation ceremony, where CLT donated a number of high-definition outdoor LED displays to China Park in Chile.
It is reported that the donation ceremony was carried out under the joint witness of representatives of both cities. The donation of an outdoor LED display to China Park in Chile, for the outdoor standardized solid mounting products developed by CLT for the global professional display market - TB series, the product, made of aluminum profiles, has the characteristics of lightweight, high precision, ultra-thin and good thermal conductivity. The standardized module can be compatible with a variety of spacing, and the waterproof grade of the whole module reaches IP65, which can be installed outdoors, and the module has many features such as anti-dust accumulation and anti-water accumulation. Widely used in outdoor media advertising, high-speed advertising, and so on. This batch of outdoor LED displays will be installed in Chile China Park, adding bright scenery to the park. It can not only be used to display the culture, history, and scenery of China and Chile but also provide high-quality visual effects and promotional support for various activities in the park.
The head of CLT Americas said, "CLT has always been adhering to the concept of "science and technology serving the society" and actively fulfilling its corporate social responsibility. This donation aims to provide a more modern and diversified cultural exchange platform for the Chilean people through the power of science and technology, and further promote the friendship and cooperation between China and Chile".
At the same time, the host of the event, President of the Chilean Chinese Business Association and Director of the Chilean Chinese Aid Centre, Wang Hexing, pointed out that Chile is one of the earliest countries to join the "One Belt and One Road", and that mutual exchanges have deepened the mutual understanding between entrepreneurs of the two countries, and revealed more opportunities and prospects for business cooperation. Chile and Shenzhen have strong economic complementarity. Chile has rich natural resources, not only is it the world's mining power, but also an important base for the production and processing of high-quality global agricultural and fishery products, but its high-tech production and processing capacity are weak. Shenzhen, however, has modern science technology, and equipment, the production and processing of industrial, agricultural, and fishery products is internationally leading in intelligence, and the sales market is huge.
Entrepreneurs of the two places have also expressed that they will take this economic and trade exchange activity as an opportunity to further deepen the cooperation in the fields of fruit and crop import, clean energy, digital economy, science and technology innovation, etc., to cultivate new growth poles of cooperation, to expand the scale of investment and trade, to promote the common prosperity and development of the two places, and to make new and greater contributions to the high-quality construction of the "One Belt, One Road". and make greater contributions to the high-quality construction of the "Belt and Road".
