On the afternoon of March 19, the Sino-Swiss Enterprise Exchange Conference and Opening Ceremony of Shenzhen Representative Office of the Western Switzerland Economic Development Department of Berne District, Geneva was held and Sun Tianlu, the Vice Chairwoman and Secretary General of the Alliance, attended the conference as a specially invited guest and participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony. 

“The strong innovation ability is a prominent feature of the Western Switzerland.” Zhou Shun, the Chief Representative of the Western Switzerland Economic Development Department in China, said. “In the Western Switzerland, there are various special industries including biotechnology and medical instruments, electronic information technology ICT, new energy and environmental technology, watches and clocks luxury goods, cosmetic spices, micro and nano technology and precision engineering, and finance and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG). Take the electronic information technology industry as an example, Huawei, IBM, Logitech, CISCO and other giants have already settled down. In the field of precision engineering, more than 90% of the world's precision textile equipment enterprises have been gathered in Switzerland, and the Swiss watch industry has also been concentrated in the western region of Switzerland”. 

The international business environment has been the unique advantage of the Western Switzerland: the three German-French bilingual states are located in the western region; the flexible tax revenue policy is unique in in Europe; the international headquarters are gathered here; and, it is one of the regions where the world's top 500 enterprises has the highest proportion in every million people. 

Since its establishment in 2010, the Western Switzerland Economic Development Department has successfully assisted more than 350 enterprises to invest and settle down. For the small and medium-sized enterprises with strong innovation in addition to the large enterprises, the Department also helps them build an international framework in the initial stage, including the overall planning for tax, international operation and management, and legal affairs. While helping the enterprises to go out, we hope that the enterprises and talents can truly integrate into the local market and society. 

The western region of Switzerland almost involves all the world's top watch manufacturing enterprises. It is hoped that the Shenzhen Representative Office of the Department can collide with more sparks with Shenzhen in the fields of new energy, biotechnology and other fields, and it is also hoped that the Chinese enterprises can choose Switzerland in the process of globalization. ”