On the afternoon of September 7, 2020, the press conference of "Forty Years of Foreign Investment in China (1979-2018)" was successfully held in Xiamen, Fujian Province.

The book "Forty Years of China's Absorption of Foreign Capital (1979-2018)" was published by China Finance and Economic Publishing House in early September this year. This book has received extensive attention from all walks of life, and has received strong support from all relevant parties during the research and compilation process. Guangsheng Shi, the former Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, wrote the preface for this book, and Xiuhong Ma, the former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Ministry of Commerce, wrote the foreword. At the same time, the conference was fortunate to invite Jiakun Zhang, Degan Cao, and Shuangyu Ye, former vice governors of Fujian Province (members of the Overseas Chinese Committee of the National People’s Congress, and former deputy party secretary of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People’s Congress), and Yongshi Hong, former director of the Standing Committee of the Xiamen Municipal People’s Congress (Xiamen City). The former mayor of the People’s Government, Jian Zhang, the former chairman of the Xiamen CPPCC, Zuwu Chen, the inspector of the Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce, Wangyang He, the the former member of the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee (former minister of the United Front Work Department), Ling Huang, the former vice chairman of the Xiamen CPPCC, Yunlei Weng, the former inspector of the Municipal Investment Promotion Bureau, Chen Jie, the former director of the Economic and Urban Construction Committee of the Xiamen CPPCC (Population, Resources and Environment Committee), and the chairman of the Xiamen Foreign-invested Enterprise Association, Jiangsi Zhu attended the meeting. There were also foreign-invested enterprises from various development zones, as well as more than a hundred representatives and media including comrades who have long been engaged in the work of absorbing foreign investment, experts and scholars who have conducted long-term research on foreign investment work, and the media.