In 2002, Huizhou actually utilized more than US$ 65.438+0 billion in foreign capital and established more than 8,000 foreign-funded enterprises, including 65.438+07 of the world's top 500 enterprises. In 2008, Huizhou crossed the international dividing line of dividing middle-income countries (regions) with a per capita income of 3,000 US dollars. Huizhou is the main grain-producing area in Guangdong. The main food crops are rice, sweet potato and corn. Cash crops are mainly sugarcane, peanuts and soybeans. There are 130 varieties of vegetables. There are more than 20 kinds of fruits with hundreds of varieties, which is one of the main producing areas of litchi, banana, orange and pineapple, the "four famous fruits" in Guangdong. Huizhou is the main production base of vegetables and pigs for Hong Kong.
Huizhou plum vegetables, Dongjiang glutinous rice wine, sweet corn; Oranges, citrus, crisp sugar, Futian cabbage, Luofushan medicinal oil and crisp mash vegetables in Boluoyang Village; Longmen Sanhuang Chicken, Xiaogui Squid, Nianju; Huidong Xianren cuisine and Gaotan famous craftsmen are famous local products in Huizhou. Since the reform and opening up, Huizhou has adhered to the development strategy of "building a city through industry" and unswervingly followed the road of developing an export-oriented economy. It has cultivated a number of large state-owned (holding) enterprise groups such as TCL (the first and only company name and brand name registered in English in China), Desai and Huayang Group, and a number of private enterprise groups such as Qiaoxing, Shen Fu, Zhong You Network and New Channel School. Established a number of well-known brands of industrial products such as TCL telephone, TCL ace color TV, TCL mobile phone, Shen Fu shirt, Desai, Desai Digital Dragon Audio, Qiaoxing telephone and CECT mobile phone. Introduce well-known domestic and foreign manufacturers and multinational companies such as American GM, Japanese Sony, Panasonic, Korean Samsung, LG, Dutch Philips, American Coca-Cola, and China Lenovo to establish production and R&D bases in Huizhou, and gradually build an open economic structure with state-owned (holding) enterprise groups as the leading factor, multiple economic components gathering together, and electronic information manufacturing as the pillar. From June 5, 2002 to 10, the CNOOC Shell Nanhai Petrochemical Project officially started construction in Huizhou, which is the largest Sino-foreign joint venture project in China.
Huizhou has formed a "2+4" industrial pillar industry pattern, that is, two pillars of digital and petrochemical, and four industries with regional comparative advantages: clothing, shoes, cement, automobiles and spare parts.