Chief Minister Raghubar Das invited Chinese investors to invest in the uptapped food processing sector in Jharkhand while calling their attention to cultural richness of the State in terms of Lord Buddha.
On the fourth day of his China visit the CM was at Hennan of China on Wednesday where the delegation led by him met Secretary of Communist Party of China of the province Wang Guoshang. “Indian soil has signatures of Hiuen Tsang and Fa Hien who visited India from Henan. Jharkhand’s Itkhori is the place from where Lord Buddha started his spiritual journey. We expect better relations with Henan,” said the CM.
He also apprised the Secretary during the bilateral talk about Global Agricultural and Food Summit slated to take place on November 29-30 this year in Ranchi where several companies from world over are participating. The CM extended invitation to Wang Guoshang to attend the summit.
Wang Guoshang referring to three meetings between the heads of both the countries taken in recent past said that diplomacy between India and China is presenting new dimensions to the world and the present visit of Jharkhand Government delegation is due to that. He highlighted Henan’s progress where modern transport system is in place for its over 10 crore population along with ports, cultural heritage points and historic places. The province has done well in terms of agriculture, commerce, food processing and information technology which can be vital for Jharkhand as well, he added.
Wang Guoshang also praised ease of doing performance of Jharkhand and termed it as a State full with potential. Ministers Neelkanth Singh Munda, CP Singh and Amar Kumar Bauri along with Development Commissioner DK Tiwari and Principal Secretary of the CM Sunil Kumar Barnwal are on the trip.