Foshan Central Vitality Zone has added a new financial engine! Foshan Rural Commercial Bank headquarters is located in Chancheng Financial Technology Center

On September 9, Foshan Rural Commercial Bank Co., Ltd. and Chancheng District Government held a signing ceremony for the headquarters project cooperation intention agreement, marking the official settlement of Foshan Rural Commercial Bank headquarters in Chancheng Financial Technology Center. As a financial institution that has won many honorary titles such as "Rural Commercial Bank Benchmark Bank", "Guangdong Province Outstanding Enterprise", and "National Rural Finance Excellent Service Rural Revitalization Institution", its headquarters is an important part of the Financial Center of Chancheng Central Vitality Zone. After the project is completed, it will become a new business card for regional finance, further promote the construction of the "Foshan Central Vitality Zone Huan Wenhua Park Area" and enhance the financial agglomeration effect of Chancheng.

Rural Commercial Bank renderings. /Photo provided by department

Pan Shi, deputy secretary of the Chancheng District Party Committee and district mayor, Wu Lifen, member of the district party committee and director of the United Front Work Department, Gao Xiang, secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Foshan Rural Commercial Bank, and heads of the District State-owned Assets Bureau, Shiwan Town Street, Foshan Rural Commercial Bank, Foshan Chancheng District Urban Construction Group Co., Ltd., Foshan Jiansheng Asset Management Co., Ltd., Foshan Chancheng District Huasheng Jianye Economic Development Co., Ltd. and other leaders attended the ceremony.

Communication seminar. /Photo provided by Chancheng District Archives

Chancheng Financial Technology Center project is located in Shiwan Town Street, located on the city central axis at the intersection of Greenjing 2nd Road and Wenhua Middle Road, adjacent to Wenhua Park and Yayi Park. It has the Yayi Park Station of Metro Line 3, and has obvious location advantages.

In October 2024, state-owned assets at Chancheng District and town jointly won the plot to jointly promote development, construction and investment operations. The total planned investment of the project is about 3.263 billion yuan, and the planned construction of 200-meter commercial office buildings is a key project for Chancheng to build Foshan’s urban center and build a central vibrant zone. As an important carrier for Chancheng to develop productive services, it will take finance as the core and develop upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain such as financial insurance and digital economy, build a headquarters economy agglomeration zone, and form a virtuous cycle of financial ecosystems. It will not only consolidate Chancheng's position as Foshan's financial center, but also strengthen its agglomeration capacity and comprehensive radiation function of the driving economy represented by headquarters economy, science and technology innovation economy, and financial economy.

Signing ceremony. /Photo provided by Chancheng District Archives

Gao Xiang said that Foshan Rural Commercial Bank has been established for more than 70 years and has been deeply rooted in Foshan. With the mission of "practice of hard-working finance, empowering industrial development, and finishing the highlights of a better life", it has achieved good results in serving local development and helping urban-rural integration. The headquarters of Chancheng Financial Technology Center is an important measure for the bank to deepen local services and support regional economic development. In the future, it will insist on serving the people of Foshan and serving Foshan's economic development, deepen financial reform and innovation, continuously improve its ability to serve the real economy, and provide more solid financial support for the local real economy.

Panshi fully affirms the strategic significance of this contracted project to the development of Chancheng. He pointed out that as a leading financial enterprise rooted in Foshan and serving the local government, Foshan Rural Commercial Bank will officially settle its headquarters in Chancheng Financial Technology Center this time, which is not only a full recognition of Chancheng's business environment and development potential, but also a key step in the optimization and upgrading of the financial industry layout in the entire region. The implementation of this project will greatly accelerate the construction of Chancheng regional financial center, further gather financial resources, improve the financial ecology, improve service levels, continuously enhance the ability of financial services to serve the real economy, effectively activate the comprehensive functions of the surrounding areas of Wenhua Park, drive the gathering of multiple factors such as science and technology innovation, business, and culture, and promote the introduction of high-end talents and the improvement of the quality of modern service industries. He said that this project will inject new impetus into Chancheng's high-quality development from financial empowerment, spatial reconstruction, industrial collaboration, and urban quality improvement. It is a benchmark measure to realize the "industry-city integration" strategy. The district party committee and district government will fully support the project promotion to ensure that it is completed and effective.

At present, the state-owned assets system in Chancheng District fully plays a leading role in land preparation, continuous development and industrial introduction. By optimizing the layout of state-owned capital, it guides resources to concentrate in strategic emerging industries and modern service industries, injecting new impetus into high-quality development of the regional economy. The State-owned Assets Bureau of Chancheng District stated that it will further strengthen refined management and operations to ensure efficient project progress, and strive to build Chancheng Financial Technology Center into the financial core of Foshan's central vitality zone, helping Chancheng achieve a key leap from "central urban area" to "urban center".

At the same time, the Chancheng District State-owned Assets System will focus on its main responsibilities and main businesses to improve operational efficiency, rely on high-end industrial carriers such as the Software Industrial Park, Yingyao Intelligent Manufacturing Park, and China Communications Construction Yili Science and Technology Cloud Corridor, focus on strategic emerging industries and productive services, deepen the "Investment and Investment Linkage" model, accelerate the investment layout of emerging industries, promote the continuous improvement of industrial energy level, strive for new breakthroughs in asset scale growth, and make new state-owned assets contributions to Chancheng's high-quality development.

Text/Chancheng Media Reporter Dai Linshuo Correspondent Chan Xuan