An economic and trade delegation from Changsha's Hunan Xiangjiang New Area visited Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore from June 12 to 20. The delegation, led by He Zhaohui, director of the Hunan Xiangjiang New Area (Changsha High-Tech Zone) Management Committee and district chief of Yuelu District, came to conduct inspection and exchange activities. During this period, the delegation visited industrial parks, called on enterprises, and connected with universities and institutions, with the aim of deepening friendly exchanges, expanding practical cooperation and helping the New Area write a new chapter of high-level opening up and high-quality development in a wider scope, across broader areas and at a deeper level.

The delegation visited the Comprehensive Planning Department of Shiga Prefecture, Japan, the Japan Association for the Promotion of International Trade, the Malaysia-China Friendship Association, and other government departments and economic and trade organizations. They also made field trips to industrial parks, scientific research institutions and livelihood improvement projects including a nursing home in Japan, Japan's National Agricultural Research Institute and Tsukuba Science City, a maritime industrial park in Malacca, and Singapore's Jurong Group and Nanyang Technological University.

He Zhaohui noted that it is necessary to give full play to the role of overseas projects and bases of the Hunan Xiangjiang New Area's leading enterprises as a bridge and bond, providing strong support for enterprises in the New Area to dovetail with the international market, technologies, talents, and capital. Meanwhile, it is also necessary to actively deploy a showcase effect to attract more overseas enterprises and projects to learn about and choose the New Area.

In the future, the New Area will continue to deepen the reform of "streamlining administration, delegating power, improving regulation, and upgrading services"; foster a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized first-class business environment; better facilitate the high-quality attraction of projects and the high-level "going global" of enterprises; fully integrate into and serve the "dual circulation" of domestic and overseas markets; and, boost its high-quality economic development.