The 2025 Shenzhen Global Investment Promotion Conference saw the signing of over 340 projects on Friday, with total investment exceeding 770 billion yuan (around 109 billion U.S. dollars).
Held in Shenzhen City, south China's Guangdong Province, under the theme "Connect the World with Openness, Pioneer the Future with Innovation," the conference featured one main venue event, seven themed investment promotion activities, and many investment inspection tours alongside overseas sub-venue events this year, attracting over 1,000 enterprises and institutions from more than 30 countries and regions, including over 300 Fortune Global 500 companies and multinational corporations.
Government departments of Shenzhen signed agreements with a group of prospective investors at the event.
The signed projects span several emerging industries, including electronic information technology, new materials, and biopharmaceuticals.
Shenzhen has emerged as a global hotspot for investment.
Data shows that to date, investors from 180 countries and regions worldwide have established operations in Shenzhen, with over 340 Fortune Global 500 companies having invested in the city.
From January to October of this year, Shenzhen experienced growth in actual use of foreign capital and saw the registration of over 10,000 new foreign-invested enterprises.
Shenzhen secures 770 billion yuan investment to drive high-quality growth
Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama has hailed the growing educational and cultural exchanges his country is enjoying with China, highlighting the role of Confucius Institutes and Chinese-funded infrastructure in building a stronger skilled workforce.
Mahama was speaking in an exclusive interview with the China Media Group (CMG) which aired on Friday. The Ghanaian President visited Beijing back in October to attend the Global Leaders' Meeting on Women, and also met with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip, with both leaders stressing the long history of friendship between the two nations.
In the CMG interview, Mahama said that the three Confucius Institutes established in the cities of Accra, Kumasi and Cape Coast are helping to cement exchanges and open up new opportunities for young people, noting that the enthusiasm for learning Chinese is rapidly spreading across Ghana, reflecting a broader cultural and educational engagement between the two sides.
"[When students return from training programs in China,] they come back with the skills that they acquired in China. And there's a good colony of Chinese speakers. And so it's interesting, when Chinese companies come in and establish industries, sometimes they don't need to bring Chinese people to Ghana, they find a pool of Ghanaians who are qualified and can speak Chinese. So it makes it very easy for them to employ them and be able to carry out their work," Mahama said.
He also drew attention to China's contribution to Ghana's higher education sector, singling out the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in the Volta Region, which is helping nurture a new generation of medical professionals.
"The campus of the University of Health and Allied Sciences, that's training a lot of doctors, paramedics and other specialists. [It] was funded by China and that is one of our public universities that has a good reputation and is performing very well. And that was based on friendship," Mahama said.
Ghanaian president hails deepening cultural, educational exchanges with China
