The year 2020 is the final year for completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and the 13th Five-Year Plan of China. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with President Xi Jinping as the core,China has pushed forward epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development in the face of the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic,recession of the world economy and other serious impacts. China has made great achievements in disease prevention and control,and become the only country that realizes economic growth in the world’s major economies. Also,China claims a comprehensive victory in the fight against poverty,making a decisive step forward in building a moderately prosperous society. As communities where human beings live,cities are the first to be adversely affected by the pandemic,but they have also shown strong resilience by gathering resources at a fast speed to achieve recovery. Considering the impacts of the epidemic on economy and social lives,Guangzhou steadily promotes the internationalization of the city by constantly improving business environment,gathering innovation resources,speeding up the economic transformation and upgraddation,and carrying out cultural exchange,to accumulate capacity for the new round of improvement of its international status.
Annual Report on City Internationalization of Guangzhou (2021) is edited and published by the Institute of City Internationalization Studies of the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences. The report takes Guangzhou as the main research object,tracks and explores the internationalization paths of Chinese cities,and builds an academic exchange platform for city internationalization researches. The report shows that in 2020,the internationalization of Guangzhou is stably making progress. The transformation and upgrading of foreign trade sees an outstanding outcome. The development of new forms of business is accelerated. Foreign investment and outbound investment grow steadily. Guangzhou is becoming a world-class transportation hub. To overcome the impact of the pandemic,Guangzhou holds high-end conferences and activities online to improve the influence of the city. It strengthens communication with its foreign partners,and carries out international cooperation in an all-round way to fight against the pandemic. By gathering the governance experience of cities in the world,Guangzhou has increased its ability in international communication and becomes a representative of Chinese cities in shouldering the responsibility of overcoming worldwide public health crisis.
This book consists of six chapters:General Report,Special Reports on Serving the Building of the Building New Development Paradigm,City Evaluation,International Economics and Trade,International Exchanges and Communication,and International Case Studies. In addition,“the Top Ten Concerns about Internationalization of Chinese Cities” is designed as a preface to sort out and summarize the major events of Chinese cities’ internationalization in 2020,so as to understand the latest practice and research trends.
The General Report sums up the present situation of Guangzhou’s internationalization in 2020,including Guangzhou’s current status and achievements in areas such as foreign trade,FDI and ODI,transportation hubs,major international exchanges platforms,friendship network,international communication ability construction etc.,especially its cooperation with the international community in fighting against COVID-19. The report also analyzes Guangzhou’s performance in authoritative global city research rankings,forecasts international development in 2021,and proposes suggestions on promoting the internationalization of Guangzhou.
The Special Reports on Service in Building New Development Paradigm chapter analyzes Guangzhou’s dual development orientation of serving international and domestic needs,and discusses the path of building a strategic platform to lead the new development paradigm in Guangzhou from the perspectives of strengthening Guangzhou’s international air cargo capacity and building an international consumption center city.
The City Evaluation chapter analyzes the changes of methods and results of the authoritative global city rankings,summarizes the development trend of global cities and the performance of Chinese cities in the global city system,and evaluates and compares the development of Guangzhou in terms of building an international science and technology innovation city,and environmental competitiveness.
The International Economics and Trade chapter focuses on the topics of building Guangzhou into a center city of cross-border e-commerce and promoting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area into an international financial hub empowered by block chain.
The International Exchanges and Communication chapter respectively discusses the new thinking of building Guangzhou into an international exchange center and the presentation of the city’s international image in the 14th Five-year period.
In this Year,the book introduced a new chapter — The International Case Studies,focusing on the internationalization case studies of various organizations. Transnational enterprises not only obtain the benefits of global operation,but also enhance the international influence of the city where they are located by realizing technology spillover,promoting cultural exchanges and improving the well-being of people’s livelihood,so that they become an important new force for the internationalization of cities. This book selects typical enterprises based in Guangzhou and facing the world,such as Guangzhou Metro,Comba Telecom System Holding and Haid Group,summarizes the development practice of their overseas investment,and provides inspiration for city decision-makers to make good use of the power of enterprises to promote the internationalization of cities.
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