During the golden autumn, distinguished guests gather at the banks of Dalong Lake in Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and the sound of development is resounding.On October 18, the 29th Xuzhou Investment Promotion Conference 2026 kicked off.Entrepreneurs, industry experts, and industrial elites from all over the country gathered in Pengcheng to explore new industry opportunities, discuss investment plans, and work together to write the answer to the era of symbiosis and mutual prosperity of cities and enterprises.
"535"The industrial system shows its hard-core background
At the promotion meeting, Xuzhou showed off the core business card of the "535" modern industrial system, comprehensively interpreting the industrial chassis, market dividends and fertile business ground.Five advantageous industries continue to lead the way: engineering machinery, green and low-carbon energy, new materials, modern food, and high-end textiles; three emerging industries accelerate their breakthrough: new generation information technology, medicine and health, and safety and emergency; five future industries are laid out in advance: embodied intelligence, deep earth, hydrogen energy, biomanufacturing, and cutting-edge new materials.By the end of 2025, Xuzhou's industrial invoice sales revenue will exceed 900 billion yuan. It has cultivated 8 tens of billions, 117 billions, and 850 manufacturing companies of more than 100 billion yuan. The industrial matrix has a solid foundation.
Sincerely invite guests from all over the world, four major effects will release development opportunities
Song Lewei, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, said that Xuzhou will strive to release the superposition effect of major strategies, better utilize the vast advantages of the market hinterland, and expand the development space of enterprises through opportunity sharing; it will strive to release the driving effect of industrial clusters, focus on building a strong advanced manufacturing city, coordinate the promotion of advantageous industries, emerging industries and future industry development, and create composite application scenarios, digital and intelligent basic bases, and rainforest-style industrial ecology for the development of enterprises in Xuzhou.Use manufacturing to strengthen the foundation to help enterprises transform and improve quality; focus on releasing the leading effect of scientific and technological innovation, better leverage the advantages of enriched science and education resources, concentrate resources to promote the construction of science and technology innovation corridors, accelerate the implementation of the "energy improvement and peak building" project of science and technology innovation carriers, iteratively upgrade the "Pengcheng Talent Plan", empower enterprises with innovation engines to gain momentum; focus on releasing the aggregation effect of link hubs, better utilize the advantages of efficient allocation of factors, and ensure the healthy growth of enterprises with comprehensive functions.Xuzhou will protect the high-quality development of enterprises with a first-class business environment, allowing the city and enterprises to go in both directions and go hand in hand.
Science and Technology Innovation Corridor: 101.3 square kilometers of innovation artery
As a pole of urban innovation growth, the Xuzhou Science and Technology Innovation Corridor construction plan was unveiled simultaneously.This "innovation artery" with a total area of 101.3 square kilometers starts from the Nanhu Campus of China University of Mining and Technology in the west and reaches Huaihai Science and Technology City in the north. It brings together one-third of the city's scientific and technological innovation platforms above the provincial level and half of the university students. With the Yunlong Lake Laboratory of Deep Earth Science and Engineering as the leader, it has built a cluster of high-energy innovation platforms to continuously inject vital water into industrial upgrading.
Entrepreneurs speak out: Take root in Xuzhou, look to the future, and be confident
The entrepreneurs on site talked about their development stories in Xuzhou and strengthened their confidence in increasing their presence in Xuzhou.Yang Dongsheng, Secretary and Chairman of the Party Committee of XCMG Group and XCMG Machinery, introduced that facing the "15th Five-Year Plan", XCMG will promote the "3122" construction at full speed and strive to achieve an industrial scale of over 200 billion yuan in 2030.
Gong Zhenghui, chairman of Suzhou Pulutong Textile Technology, shared that the first phase of the company's high-end eddy current textile project with a total investment of 10 billion yuan has successfully reached full production, and sales in 2026 are expected to exceed 2.3 billion yuan;
Cummins - Power Transmission and Braking Systems China and Asia Pacific Executive Director Robin Robin reviewed the three decades of profound cooperation between the two parties. He believed that Xuzhou's complete high-end equipment industry chain, sufficient talent reserves and broad application scenarios are an ideal fertile ground for companies to deploy transmission and new energy electric drive businesses.
Wu Tiemin, general manager of Deji Plaza Co., Ltd., introduced that the Deji project in Xuzhou is Deji's first major project out of Nanjing. It will create a new generation of urban commercial complex and make up for the shortcomings of regional high-end experience business.
21 projects are centrally connected and have been open for 29 years
This year, Xuzhou has carried out the "Year of Quality and Efficiency Improvement for Investment and Qualifications" in depth, and has continued to tackle tough problems to attract large and powerful businesses. A number of major projects of sufficient size and high quality have been implemented to help build a strong city in advanced manufacturing and a highland in the modern service industry.This promotion meeting selected 21 high-quality projects for centralized docking, gaining momentum for the construction of the "535" modern industrial system.
After 29 years of hard work, the Xuzhou Investment Promotion Conference has long become a golden sign of the city’s opening to the outside world, continuing to gather high-quality resources at home and abroad.With the theme of "Regional Center·Building Dreams of the Future", this promotion conference innovatively adopts the "1+8+N" activity model to three-dimensionally display Xuzhou's strong industrial strength, high-quality business environment and broad development prospects, attracting more market entities to take root in Huaihai, and jointly build a bright future for the regional central city.(Photo and text source: Propaganda Department of Xuzhou Municipal Party Committee)
