Du Xiaogang welcomed Samir Sherfan, Gregor Olivier and his party to visit Wuxi for exchanges and briefly introduced the relevant situation in Wuxi. He pointed out that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the European Union; last month, when President Xi Jinping met with representatives of the international business community, he pointed out that "believing in China is believing in tomorrow, and investing in China is investing in the future". The meeting and negotiation between the two sides is just in time. As one of China's largest electric vehicle production and research and development bases, Wuxi has the foundation and ability to provide various guarantees for the micro-travel sector of the Stellantis Group. It is hoped that this will be a new starting point to combine Wuxi's advantages in location, transportation, industrial supporting facilities, talent resources, and Stellantis Group's advantages in innovation, research and development, and market channels, so as to jointly promote the implementation of intended projects as soon as possible, better link local battery production, vehicle manufacturing and other fields, and share future opportunities in emerging markets. Wuxi will rely on channel platforms such as the China-Europe Express, Shuofang Airport, and the Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and make good use of the ten measures to facilitate foreigners to come to Wuxi, providing high-quality service guarantees for the development of the Stellantis Group in Wuxi.

    Samir Sherfan thanked Wuxi for its support for the Stellantis Group's business in Wuxi, and focused on introducing the group's global business layout. He said that the business areas of the Stellantis Group and Wuxi's industrial development are highly complementary and highly coupled, and he expects both parties to give full play to their respective advantages, and jointly deepen mutual trust and strategic cooperation in the field of high-end new energy micro-travel, and achieve a higher level of mutual benefit and win-win results.

     Stellantis Group is the world's fourth largest automaker and ranks 28th on the Fortune Global 500 list. In recent years, it has cooperated with Tianqi Shares, a company in our city, in battery recycling and recycling services, and the automotive recycling industry, and has jointly created Tianqi Ou Rui De, a circular economy entity in the automotive industry chain covering remanufacturing, reuse, and disassembly. From January to March, the city's actual use of foreign capital was US$2.026 billion, breaking through US$2 billion for the first time in history, an increase of 11.6% year-on-year, ranking second in the province, with a growth rate 13.5 percentage points higher than the provincial average, and accounting for 23.7% of the province, raising the actual use of foreign capital in the province by 23.2 percentage points.