The 2025 IPEM Private Equity Investment and Industry Conference opens in Wuxi
On November 7th, the "2025 IPEM Private Equity Investment and Industry Conference" was grandly opened at the Wuxi International Convention Center. This conference is jointly hosted by IPEM and Guolian Group, and co organized by Xichuang Capital, Bank of China Jiangsu Branch, and Chengtong Guolian. Its aim is to gather global capital and industrial resources, and build a high-level platform for cross-border investment and industrial cooperation.
Former French Prime Minister and French Special Envoy for China Affairs, Jean Pierre Raffarin, congratulated and delivered a speech at the conference. Gilles Bakhsa, founder and chairman of IPEM International Private Equity Investment Conference, delivered an opening speech. Zhou Wendong, Deputy Mayor of Wuxi Municipal People's Government, delivered a welcome speech on behalf of the host city. Xu Xiaoqiang, Chief Business Manager of Bank of China Jiangsu Branch, and other guests delivered speeches respectively. Philip Engelbel, Director of Lazard Asset Management, delivered a keynote speech on "European Technology Investment". About 260 well-known private equity investment institutions and industry leaders from around the world participated in the event.
In his welcome speech, Zhou Wendong stated that IPEM, with private equity investment as a link, has built a bridge for capital and industry communication between Wuxi and Europe. Wuxi will open up to the outside world at a higher level, reform and innovate with higher quality, and collaborate at a higher level to create an international first-class business environment, increase product and service innovation efforts, build a cooperation and exchange platform for global entrepreneurs, investors, and entrepreneurs, further expand investment cooperation in fields such as artificial intelligence, life and health, and green energy, and work together with Chinese and European partners to share development opportunities and create a better future.
Jean Pierre Raffarin thanks Wuxi for its strong support for the conference for three consecutive years. He stated that funds are the best link for international cooperation, and investment is a positive choice to incorporate the future into plans. He hopes that this grand event will serve as an opportunity to gather more partners, explore more high-quality projects, and work together to embark on a new journey of mutually beneficial and win-win development.
Gilles Bakhsa pointed out that IPEM has a wide influence in the international capital market, gathering thousands of top international GP and LP resources. The strong alliance with Guolian Group can effectively integrate the business concepts and demands of both domestic and foreign parties, build an efficient and pragmatic bridge for cooperation between Chinese and foreign capital and investment projects, open up new channels for deep cooperation between Chinese and foreign capital and projects, and empower Chinese enterprises to go global.
In his speech, the license stated that Guolian Group has been cooperating with IPEM for three consecutive years to hold private equity investment and industry conferences, committed to creating an important node linking overseas innovation resources with Wuxi's industrial development. It will fully leverage the important role of private equity investment as a link, expand cooperation space in project investment, technological innovation, industrial development, and other aspects with all parties attending, deepen docking and exchanges in fields such as artificial intelligence, medical health, and digital economy, and contribute new strength to the economic development of Wuxi and even China and Europe through pragmatic cooperation.
Xu Xiaoqiang stated in his speech that Wuxi has always been an important engine of economic development and a forefront of technological innovation in Jiangsu Province. He hopes to take this conference as an opportunity to build a "technology industry finance" ecological chain, accelerate the "two-way rush" of capital and industry, and contribute to the high-quality development of the economy in Jiangsu and Wuxi.
The conference focuses on three core topics: innovation leadership, cross-border investment, and supply chain advantages. It invites industry elites, experts, and scholars from home and abroad to share and explore the cutting-edge trends and practical paths of building a new global investment pattern through cross-border collaboration and joint innovation, continuously consolidating consensus and gaining insights into the future. In addition to the main venue, the conference also set up six themed sub venues simultaneously, focusing on hot areas such as artificial intelligence, biomedicine, robotics industry, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, to carry out resource docking.
This conference is closely related to the goal of "two-way docking of international and domestic capital+industry". By building a triangular dialogue mechanism of "capital industry market" covering Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, it effectively promotes the precise connection between LP, GP, and industry partners in the cross-border context, and helps Wuxi achieve deep cooperation, resource sharing, and high-quality win-win with global investors and industry chain partners.
