A senior six-member Government delegation from Hubei province of People’s Republic of China met Chief Minister Raman Singh here on Monday.
Notably, Wuhan, the Provincial Capital is the political, cultural, and economic hub of Central China, officials informed.
The Chief Minister discussed several areas of collaboration such as cultural exchange, smart city and sister city concepts collaboration between Raipur and Hubei.
He also spoke about dedicated Industrial zone development in Chhattisgarh for Chinese companies.
The delegation from Hubeiwas was led by Wang Jianming, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of Hubei Provincial People’s Congress; Wu linzhang, Deputy Director General of Science & Technology, Department of Hubei Province; Feng Xiguo, Deputy Director General of Hubei Provisional Foreign Affairs; liu Qigang, Deputy Director General of Hubei Provisional Development and Reform Commission; Hu Yu, Deputy Division Chief of the General office of the Standing Committee of Hubei Provisional People’s Congress; Xu Hao, Senior Staff Member of the Hubei Provisional Foreign Affairs.
Singh also shared the brief on Chhattisgarh’s Industrial areas, sectors for investments, ease of doing business, business opportunities, pro-business policies, industrial climate, smart city etc. with the Chinese delegation.
The delegation also met with Commerce & Industries Minister Amar Agrawal.
Jiaming appreciated the development work undertaken in the State.
He said that there were number of potential areas of partnership between the two provinces.
Jiaming invited business and political delegation from the State to Hubei to take the discussions forward. In the evening, the delegation left for Kolkata.
Notably, State Commerce and Industry Minister Amar Agrawal in the month of January this year had suggested Consul General of People’s Republic of China MA Zhanwu who was on a visit to Chhattisgarh that owing to its location in the heart of the country, Chhattisgarh State can be developed as 'logistics Hub of India'.
The Consulate General then had assured that China will encourage its industrialists to extend support in development of Chhattisgarh as ‘logistics Hub’ of India.
The Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) also has plans of developing a ‘Transport Hub’ spread over an area of 161.9 hectares in the new capital city.
The hub would include setting up light Rail Transport System (lRTS) stations. The area being earmarked for the 'Transport Hub' would be 12.55 per cent of the total area of the new capital city, officials stated.