On February 4, Hu Heping, Governor of Shaanxi Province, surveyed Xi'an Hi-tech Industries Development Zone (thereafter referred as “Xi’an Hi-tech Zone”) and held a foreign-funded enterprise meeting. Present were Wang Yongkang, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shaanxi Provincial Committee and Party Secretary of the CPC Xi'an Municipal Committee; and Wei Zengjun, Vice Governor of Shaanxi Province.

At the meeting, the heads of eight foreign-funded enterprises including Micron, Samsung Semiconductor, Samsung Huanxin Power Battery, Schneider Electric, Siemens, PTI, System Sensor and Applied Materials, offered opinions and suggestions on power supply assurance, logistics cycle shortening, high-end talent introduction, matching enterprise development and enterprise exchange platform building. Relevant provincial and municipal departments gave response.

Last year, Shaanxi came out on top in import & export growth in the country and foreign-funded enterprises played a significant role, said Hu. He called for efforts to open wider to the outside world with the construction of the pilot free trade zone as opportunity, to create a favorable investment and development environment for enterprises. He also required that Xi'an and Xi’an Hi-tech Zone should, on the basis of institutional reform, build a top investment destination to make a greater contribution to the opening and development of Shaanxi.