What they say

I'm part of the Dalian working French community, which comprises about 150 people. With a 2-year-old kid, we always look for outdoor spots where our kid can run around, but we also need a view that cuts us from the busy city life, and Dalian has a lot of these spots, even after nine months we have only checked out a fraction of them!

We might go to the Xinghai Park to cast stones in the sea and ride attractions. The Laodong Park, a short walk from our place, is also a great place to play and relax. It has a gondola ride with a nice view over Dalian. We also enjoy the hike along Yingbin Road leading to Binhai Road. It has wonderful view of Dalian's hills and sea landscape.

Jean-Sebastien Butin, director of the Alliance Francaise in Dalian

The Summer Davos Forum is a great opportunity for Dalian to garner long-term attention from the world and to integrate with economic globalization. The forum focuses on some forward-looking topics and issues relating to global development trends. Therefore it can help Dalian's government and businesses to explore new fields, new dynamics and new perspectives for future development.

My company, Bingshan Group, is a professional cold chain equipment manufacturing company based in Dalian. In a crucial period for transformation and development, Bingshan wants to borrow experiences and insights from the forum's participants for more sustainable growth.

In the cold chain industry, growth is closely related with the current revolution in energy utilization, which highlights the use of secondary energies - energies contained in processed or refined fuels. Secondary energies are cleaner and more efficient. We'd like to discuss with business leaders in the field on new industrial trends. We'd also like to talk with our colleagues on a number of pressing concerns relating to our industry, like food safety.

The Summer Davos Forum is a great platform for the world to learn about China and about the Chinese business community. I'm sure that China will bring more vitality to the global economy.

Bingshan Group currently owns 42 subsidiaries, including one listed company. With total assets of 11 billion yuan ($1.61 billion) and 12,000 employees, Bingshan Group has sold its products and offered services in more than 70 countries and regions.

Ji Zhijian, board chairman of Dalianbased Bingshan Group

The Summer Davos Forum serves as an eye-opener for Dalian, making it possible for the city's government, businesses and residents to have a better understanding and more interaction with the world. The event brings new visions and insights to all aspects of Dalian - society, politics, economy and culture. Dalian also uses this opportunity to show its advantages, characteristics and new development strategies to the world.

Our company, Dalian Zoneco Group, was a founding member of the Summer Davos Forum in 2007.

Since then, the company has taken part in every session of the event. It also became a member of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2012.

The membership of WEF forums has brought positive changes to Zoneco Group. It offers an opportunity for the company to grasp the latest changes and trends of the global economy, for instance, the development of internet technologies. In 2014, the group's internet-based subsidiary, the Zoneco Water World (Shanghai) Network Technology Co Ltd, was founded in Shanghai. In the past two years, the subsidiary has achieved great progress in seafood sales with the help of its professional team.

During past sessions of this Summer Davos Forum, we had exchanged opinions with our colleagues on various topics relating to the event's themes each year. Our focus had been on sustainable growth, which is also our core corporate growth strategy at present.

The theme of this year's Summer Davos Forum is 'Achieving inclusive growth in the fourth industrial revolution'. Within that framework, we will pay special attention to such fields as the marine economy, big data, artificial intelligence and the internet of things, hoping to borrow experience from forum participants to help in our strategic planning in the future.

Zoneco was founded in 1958. It owns a 1,600-square-kilometer modern ocean farm in the northern Yellow Sea, and is now one of the leading seafood providers in China.

Wu Hougang, board chairman of Zoneco Group

(China Daily 06/28/2017 page6)