Nansha execs comment on Nansha Plan

The State Council issued an overall plan for Nansha district to increase comprehensive cooperation between Guangdong province and the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions on June 14. Some executives of the companies based in Nansha shared their views on the new plan.

We noticed that the plan highlights the testing and demonstration of intelligent connected vehicles, and the creation of such an industrial chain as well as an intelligent transportation industrial cluster when building a significant cooperative platform for Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in Nansha. It offers a great benefit to autonomous driving enterprises including Pony.ai that can take root and develop in the district. We can further expand the road testing and operational scale of our self-driving passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles, which will accelerate the iteration of the technologies and the capability of commercialization. Meanwhile, it helps autonomous driving become a real part of urban smart transportation. The preferential 15 percent of corporation tax proposed by the plan for companies in the launching area is essential to attract more companies to make the industrial chain complete.

Mo Luyi, vice-president of Pony.ai and R&D leader for Shenzhen and Guangzhou

Thanks to the incentive policies, excellent business environment and great innovation atmosphere in Nansha, our project is going smoothly. We will move in equipment in November and put the factory into trial operation next March. High-tech companies cannot grow fast without a sound industrial environment. The plan specifies to build innovation cooperation bases as well as cultivate and develop high-tech industry in Nansha, which enhances the confidence of the shareholders to invest continuously in our company. Meanwhile, integrated circuit and semiconductor industries heavily depend on capital and talent. We are happy to find that the plan pledges to attract international high-level professionals to Nansha. I firmly believe that an increasing number of high-tech professionals will come to work in Nansha and make the wide band-gap semiconductor sector flourish in the district.

Xiao Guowei, chairman of Guangdong Xinyueneng Semiconductor Co

The Digital Service Trade Platform, or DSTP, we run was hatched in Nansha and has been a leader in the country's industrial internet for foreign trade. We applauded the new plan, which means DSTP can have more opportunities to cooperate with companies in Hong Kong, Macao and others abroad, including cross-border e-commerce enterprises, brands, financial institutions and international logistics service providers. In fact, we have established excellent cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao, for example, in terms of digital finance and e-commerce. I am sure that the logistic and trade facilitation will be further upgraded with Hong Kong and Macao and other parts of the world through our DSTP after the plan.

Li Hui, vice-president of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao International Supply Chains Co