Zheng Xiongwei, Global Executive Chairman of APCEO,
chaired the GHMS 2019 Opening Ceremony

The 1st Global High-End Manufacturing Summit (GHMS 2019) was held on May 13 to 16, 2019 at the Meixi Lake Hotel, Changsha City, Hunan Province, China.

The GHMS 2019 was initiated and sponsored by the Asia-Pacific CEO Association (APCEO), a world-known international economic organization and Investment & Innovation Global Council (IIGC), and hosted by Changsha Municipal Government and organized by Changsha Convention and Exhibition Office and Asia Pacific Fortune (Beijing) Economic Consulting Center.

The GHMS responds positively to major concerns on international industry and shall become a weather vane of development, a milestone of its cooperation for global high-end manufacturing. The theme of the Summit is “High Quality Economy – Better Life”.

The Summit has issued the Global High-End Manufacturing Changsha Declaration, promoting the establishment of international high-end manufacturing industrial funds, and optimizing global allocation of high-end manufacturing resources.

The Summit pays special attention to industries, such as global equipment manufacturing, intelligent manufacturing, construction machinery, rail transit, electronic information, artificial intelligence, biochemistry, medical care, new materials and new energy; and topics such as industrial internet, artificial intelligence, new energy and materials, green era of rail transit.

Under the framework of the Summit, the host will establish a global high-end manufacturing laboratory, a world-class manufacturing industrial park, a high-end manufacturing information center of world-renowned institutions, and a trading center of global high-end manufacturing industry step by step.

The event attracted approximately 800 people of more than 60 countries and regions from Fortune 500 and Forbes 2,000 enterprises, global top 500 manufacturers, global top 100 industrial investors, global top 100 industrial innovators, global top 5000 investment companies, world-renowned experts, scholars, investors, financiers and other important figures.

Zheng Xiongwei, Global Executive Chairman of APCEO, is the moderator of this conference. During the opening ceremony, Hu Henghua, Member of Standing Committee of the CPC Hunan Provincial committee and Secretary of the CPC Changsha Municipal Committee, Dominique de Villepin, Global Chairman of APCEO, Former Prime Minister of France, Annette Nijs, Global Vice Chairman of APCEO, Former Minister of Education, Culture, Science of Netherland delivered the opening speech.

Zheng Xiongwei, Famous International Economists and Global Executive Chairman of APCEO, released the Announcement of Changsha Proclamation on Global High-end Manufacturing.

Gong Bo, Vice President of China Aerospace Electromechanical Group Corporation, Zhan Chunxin, Chief Executive Office of Zoomlion, Lang Yun, General Manager of John Deere, Bopdeb Mondal, Head of Consulting for Manufacturing Business, Tata TCS, Golan Kwok, Leading Expert of Smart Manifactering, SAP Group, Xia Zhang, Greater China's Chief Digital Transformation Officer of Amazon Web Services, Wang Tianyi, Chief Executive Officer of China Everbright International Limited, Ivan Djoković, Vice-President of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina of Serbia, Jamie Shen, Vice President of Government Affairs, Greater China and India of Marriott International, Hyun Jung Taik,Former Senior Secretary to the President for Policy Coordination and Former President of Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, Zhang Junye, Deputy General Manager, EPEC of Sinopec Group, Ravi Raj Chaudhry, Futurist, Former Chairman, Forbes Gokak Ltd of Tata Group, Tanay Sidki Uyar, President of Bioenergy Association of Turkey, Vice President of World Bioenergy Association and World Wind Energy Association, Felix Xia, Chairman of  New Zealand Digital Economy Development Trust, Mohini Mohan Sain, Director and Professor of Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing of University of Toronto made keynote speech.

During Cutting-edge Technology & Project Release Meeting, Sung-Ho Suck Salk, Academician of Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Janusz Lipkowski,  Academician and former vice-President of Polish Academy of Sciences, Byungwan Jo,Professor of Hanyang University, Gregory Sanders, CEO of HybridChart, Dong Sun Park, Group Head of Human Resources Development Working Group of APEC, President of Institute of APEC Collaborative Education, Suen Wai Mo, CEO of ClusterTech Limited, György MUDRI, Chief Professional Adviser to MEP Tibor SZANYI, European Parliament, Marek Janusz Krzysiak, CEO of Septimagroup delivered a speech.