On the 19th, Lv Chengxi, Mayor of Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, introduced at the 2025 Greater Bay Area Switzerland Economic Cooperation (Dongguan) Exchange Conference that the total trade volume between Dongguan and Switzerland will exceed 3 billion yuan in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 15.3%. This exchange meeting is hosted by the China Switzerland Chamber of Commerce and the Dongguan Council for the Promotion of International Trade (Dongguan International Chamber of Commerce). Isabella Morey, Minister of Economy, Innovation, Labour and Heritage of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland, Swiss Ambassador to China Bai Ruiyi, Swiss Consul General in Guangzhou Tu Minkun, as well as more than 130 representatives from other Swiss institutions and multinational corporations, visited Dongguan. Lv Chengxi stated that 35 years ago, Nestle Group of Switzerland, as the first Fortune 500 company to settle in Dongguan, initiated a global wave of multinational corporations investing in Dongguan. In recent years, despite the challenges faced by economic globalization, China and Switzerland have shown a high degree of compatibility in strategic emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, robotics, biomedicine, and new energy. We look forward to further deepening exchanges and cooperation in technology, industry, economy, and trade between the two sides. Isabella Morley stated that China is currently Switzerland's most important trading partner in Asia and Switzerland's third largest trading partner globally. The visit of the Swiss delegation to China aims to deepen economic and innovation cooperation, focus on high-tech fields, and promote bilateral trade and sustainable development. She said that seeing Dongguan undergoing a significant transformation from industrial manufacturing to intelligent green innovation is clear and inspiring. Both sides have strong prospects for cooperation in clean technology, energy transformation, intelligent industry, robotics technology, digital health, medical equipment, and other fields. We look forward to building a solid bridge between the economies of the two countries through innovation and sustainable cooperation, and achieving common success. At the exchange meeting, the Dongguan Switzerland Economic Cooperation Service Center was also established, which will provide a communication channel for economic and technological cooperation between Dongguan and Swiss enterprises, and promote deep cooperation between Dongguan and Switzerland in trade and investment, industrial docking, supply and demand information, and other fields. The sub sessions of the exchange meeting will engage in dialogues and exchanges on multiple topics, including the evolution of life sciences, art and artificial intelligence in business, modern brand management and development, and opportunities for investment cooperation between the Greater Bay Area and Switzerland. The Swiss delegation will also visit Dongguan Songshan Lake International Robot Industry Base and Huawei Songshan Lake Base on the 20th. (New Society)