Chhattisgarh might replicate the Airport Economic Zone infrastructure model of Chinese city of Zhengzhou in Henan province.
The airport economic zone in Zhengzhou is a great initiative by the Government of Henan which is worth replicating in Chhattisgarh, officials stated.
Notably, the State Government delegation to China led by the Chief Minister Raman Singh returned to Raipur on Wednesday morning after its six-day visit to China.
During the China tour, the delegation visited Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone to see and understand infrastructure development of airport corridor in the city.
The delegation also met Governor of Henan province Chan Run’er and his senior officials at his office.
Singh congratulated the Governor for developing such a beautiful city of Zhengzhou and creating world class urban and industrial infrastructure.
The delegation also held discussions with companies in various sectors such as Solar Component Manufacturing, Heavy Engineering and Environmentally Friendly Building Materials.
Subodh Kumar Singh, Secretary, Commerce & Industries signed four MoUs on behalf of Government of Chhattisgarh.
The delegation paid a visit to Huawei headquarters and exhibition center in Shenzhen to see their technology solutions particularly for smart cities and e-governance. The delegation had a detailed meeting with Huawei’s India CEO.
Huawei’s expansion plans in India and potential areas of collaboration in Chhattisgarh were discussed in the meeting.
The CEO has proposed to sign an MoU for cooperation with the Government.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Raman Singh said that his week-long visit to China was useful and successful.
He added that it was Chhattisgarh State Business Mission. The delegation met a lot of top business leaders and called upon them to visit Chhattisgarh and invest.
The Chinese investors have shown a lot of interest in solar energy, Information Technology, Infrastructure development, defence equipment and other sectors. They had shown keen interest in Naya Raipur, Singh said.
Henan Governor Chenar Nar had accepted the invitation to visit Chhattisgarh soon. MoUs worth USD 3.34 billion had already been inked. MoUs worth Rs6,600 crore had been signed at Guangzhou’s International Investment and Business Fair, he said.
Singh said that to make Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ‘Make in India’ a success the State Government is determined to ‘Make in Chhattisgarh’ a great success. The focus is now on non-core sectors. The top-level delegation had toured China from April 6 to 12.
The Chinese investors were highly impressed with the facilities and specialties available in Chhattisgarh. The Zhonli Talesun Solar Company limited will invest USD 500 million in making cable wires, real estate and solar equipment. M/s Chongqing Changzheng Heavy Industry Co ltd will invest USD 20 million in Chhattisgarh to manufacture station wagon, he said.
The Business delegation visited Schenzen an industrial city in Guangzhou and had a detailed discussion with the top officials of leading companies of China. The city is considered as leading center of Information Technology and Electronics industry in most parts of the world. Chief Minister Raman Singh took part in a meeting of Schenzen Electronic Chamber of Commerce, Schenzen Business and Investment Board and CII joint meeting.
Chhattisgarh State Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, Principal Secretay to Chief Minister Aman Kumar Singh, Industry Department Secretary Subodh Kumar Singh, CSIDC Managing Director Sunil Misra, Chief Executive Officer of Naya Raipur Development Authority Rajat Kumar, Industry Department Director Karthikeya Goyal and other senior officers were part of the Business delegation. CII members were part of the delegation to China.
It may be recalled that Chhattisgarh’s Urban Administration and Development Minister Amar Agrawal who visited United States in November last year had asked his Department’s officials to prepare ‘Smart City’ plans based on San Francisco’s Metropolitan Model.
The Minister on his last day of the tour of the United States in San Francisco had met the senior officers of San Francisco’s Metropolitan Transport Commission, officials stated.
He said that for building the Traffic related infrastructure in Chhattisgarh’s cities, it should be kept in mind to develop better facilities using less number of resources.
Agrawal had expressed the desire of transforming the Urban Traffic Committees formed by Chhattisgarh Urban Administration and Development Department into independent and self governing institutions on the lines of San Francisco Bay Area Metrolopolitan Transport Authority .
He said that Chhattisgarh would develop similar traffic management systems as existing in San Francisco.
While in New York city, the Minister had stated that Chhattisgarh is to adopt the US model of developing dedicated Public Transport corridors in its cities.
The development of a highly evolved Public Transport System with dedicated corridors will begin from the road connecting Swami Vivekananda Airport to Raipur city, he had stated.
Chhattisgarh is to adopt the US model of developing dedicated Public Transport corridors in its cities, the Minister had stated.
The development of a highly evolved Public Transport System with dedicated corridors will begin from the road connecting Swami Vivekananda Airport to Raipur city, Agrawal had stated.