The 32nd China Lanzhou Investment and Trade Fair will be held in Lanzhou from July 9 to 13. It is understood that this year's China Fair will closely focus on the main theme of economic and trade cooperation, adhere to the principles of "strengthening leading enterprises, supplementing industrial chains, and gathering groups," and will deeply advance the "Attract Large, Strong, and Leading Enterprises" initiative, coordinating a series of domestic and international investment cooperation activities around four major sectors.
Anchoring the strategic positioning assigned to Gansu by the state, it leverages its unique comparative advantages to carry out precise industrial matchmaking. Relying on the province's strong new energy base resources, the event "Green China?" The "Investment in Gansu" foreign investment matchmaking and "Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan enterprises Gansu Tour" industrial cooperation and inspection activities invite Fortune Global 500 companies, multinational enterprises, and leading enterprises from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan to negotiate cooperation around new energy, new materials, and high-end equipment. On-site visits are organized simultaneously, introducing overseas sci-tech capital and advanced manufacturing supporting projects, enriching industrial markets and technology supply. Amplify the advantages of the westward opening strategic corridor and build a pattern of two-way open cooperation. Hosting the "Belt and Road" International Commercial Legal Cooperation and China-Asia Economic and Trade Investment Dialogue to improve cross-border investment legal services; Hold the China (Gansu)–RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) Specialty Agricultural Products Trade Cooperation Matchmaking Conference, promote "sweet" specialty agricultural products, and accelerate the upgrading of the province's modern cold-climate agriculture and the entire industrial chain for deep processing of agricultural products. Amplify mineral resource advantages and accelerate the transformation into economic advantages. Hold the 2026 Gansu Province Mining Rights Transfer Project Investment Matchmaking Event, focusing on strategic minerals such as copper, nickel, gold, and coal, attract enterprises to participate in green exploration and deep processing, and continuously enhance the supply capacity of the National Key Strategic Raw Material Security Zone.
Focusing on 14 key industrial chains across the province, the conference carried out targeted cooperation to extend, supplement, and strengthen chains. Organize investment cooperation matchmaking activities for the petrochemical industry chain, promoting the landing of high-end and green projects in regions such as Lanzhou New Area, Qingyang, and Jiuquan; Hold matchmaking activities for light industry undertaking industrial transfer and development, coordinate with national industry associations, and enterprises from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta to help address shortcomings in the province's light industry supply chain. Hold a series of "Longshang Xing" investment matchmaking activities for key domestic regional entrepreneurs, conduct in-depth inspections of industrial parks in various cities and prefectures, and focus on launching a batch of high-quality industrial projects in advanced manufacturing, biomedicine, digital economy, and other fields.
Seize opportunities for the development of new quality productive forces and actively expand cooperation space in emerging fields. Hold a symposium on integrated development between Gansu Province and central enterprises, focusing on frontier fields such as new energy+, low-altitude economy, hydrogen energy equipment, and nuclear energy. Relying on central enterprises' role in driving local economies and leading industries, it will promote deep integration of modern industrial chains, innovation chains, and capital chains with Gansu's unique advantages; Hold technology investment promotion and achievement transformation exchange and matchmaking activities, leverage the role of the "Gansu Science and Technology Investment Promotion Alliance," connect academicians and experts, high-tech enterprises and research institutions from outside the province, introduce innovation projects, open up channels for achievement transformation, and promote the implementation of science and technology innovation resources in Gansu; Held the "Zhihui Jincheng · Industry-Research Integration" Lanzhou University Local-Enterprise Collaborative Innovation Cooperation Matchmaking Event. For the first time, systematic alumni investment promotion was carried out within the framework of the Lanzhou Fair, focusing on technology, industry, talent, and finance, simultaneously attracting projects, talent, technology, and capital, implementing the "dual recruitment and dual introduction" approach.
Innovate cooperation and matchmaking methods to build a more efficient and pragmatic service support system. This year's Orchid Fair continues to innovate investment promotion service carriers, hosting the "Open Scenarios · Connecting the Future" Gansu Scenario Investment Promotion Cooperation Exchange Conference. The "Gansu Province Scenario Investment Promotion List" will be released on site, opening application scenarios such as "New Energy+," "Green Computing Power," "Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials," "Smart Channel Logistics," "Biopharmaceuticals," and "Low-altitude Economy," attracting enterprises through scenarios and exchanging markets for technology, helping our province's industrial renewal and upgrading; Hold the "Yellow River Night · E-commerce Glory" high-quality e-commerce development negotiation event in Gansu to improve the online and offline agricultural product production and sales system.
This year's Lanzhou Fair will continue to improve the "Gansu Express Investment" Gansu Province digital intelligent investment promotion system, comprehensively upgrade the official website and WeChat mini-program, create a convenient and efficient cloud-based investment matchmaking platform, and provide services such as cloud project release, intelligent supply-demand matching, and online investment matchmaking, striving to create a "never-ending" Lanzhou Fair for the Fair that never ends. (Staff reporter Wei Jiabei)