In China's 40-year of reform and opening up, multinationals have played an irreplaceable role. They have brought about new economic growth point and opportunities, stimulated the transformation and upgrading of China's economic structure, accelerated China's economic participation in globalization, and promoted China's foreign economic cooperation and exchanges.

Recently, China has made a lot of moves to speed up its opening-up. China is demonstrating with a series of concrete actions that the door of opening-up will not be closed but will only open wider. To safeguard economic globalization, free trade and the multilateral trading system, China needs multinationals as companion s and partners.

Under the background of the continuous innovation of the business model of multinationals and the continuous opening up of China, Forbes China and the Department of Commerce Shandong Province will hold 2019 Forbes China Leadership Summit in Qingdao International Conference Center on October 19.

This forum, Relying on the resources of 2019 Qingdao Multinationals Summit advantage and maintaining the effect of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Qingdao Summit, this forum will not only dedicate to the issues of multinationals, advocate the value of multinationals, disseminate the voices of multinationals, and promote the cooperation of multinationals with all parties, but also help the multinationals to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results in China's new round of high-level opening up. The summit will release the “2019 Forbes List of The Best Multinational CEOs of Chinese Enterprises” and hold a grand award ceremony.

So far, 188 foreign multinational leaders from 26 countries and regions have confirmed to attend this summit, among which 49 are executives of fortune 500 companies. In addition, 53 multinationals in China have confirmed to attend this summit, and the invitation of guests is still in progress. Hundreds of outstanding entrepreneurs will join hands with government representatives, Forbes executives, experts, scholars and business leaders to share their business ideas, spark their thinking and jointly promote the economic development.

A series of roadshows will revolve around the conference. At present, multinationals and organizations such as Sumitomo of Japan, BP of the UK, Siemens of Germany, Hewlett-Packard of the US, Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (KIZAD) and others have preliminary confirmations about their participation in the roadshow.

As for the Roadshow in industry, the meeting will present roadshows and presentations that relate to a new generation of information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, new energy, new materials, modern Ocean, medical health, high-end chemical, modern and efficient agriculture, culture and creative industries, boutique tourism, modern finance and such "Top Ten" industries of the transformations in driving forces in Shandong. Key leaders of Shandong province enterprises will participate in the conference and seek common development and cooperation with multinationals.

In terms of urban roadshow, during the conference, Jinan, Qingdao and Yantai -- the core cities of Shandong pilot zone for the transformations in driving forces, as well as Jining and Binzhou, will hold urban roadshows to demonstrate the vitality of Shandong's local economic development and promote cooperative projects.

2019 Forbes China Leadership Summit will promote mutually beneficial cooperation between China and multinationals. It will let the community listen to the voice of multinationals while multinationals can explore more investment opportunities in China.