"What I saw from the overall plan (from the 2023 Guangdong Provincial Government Work Report) for Guangdong is that they're going to be a leader in China's goal to become a high-income country. So, integrating rural with urban and trying to raise human capital in rural areas are exactly what you need to do right now," said Scott Rozelle, Co-director of Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University, in an exclusive interview with GDToday.
Carlsberg China established its first brewery in Huizhou, a city in central-east Guangdong Province, 27 years ago. “Our investment in Guangdong is continuous and planned for the long term,” Lee Chee Kong, president of Carlsberg China, told GDToday in a recent interview.
“Known as China’s economic powerhouse, Guangdong enjoys a sound industrial base, good business environment and advanced industrial clusters. The province or the whole Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) is home to many of Clariant’s customers. By continuously enlarging our presence here, we can be more responsive to the local market and providing more and more diversified solutions to our clients, said Andy Walti, Vice President, Head of China & APAC, Clariant, when sharing with GDToday before the 2023 two sessions of Guangdong.