www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
World / US and Canada

US states seek China ties at investment summit

By CHEN WEIHUA in National Harbor, Maryland (China Daily USA) Updated: 2015-03-25 11:25

US states seek China ties at investment summit

Kristi Tanner, managing director of JobsOhio, talks to China Daily on Tuesday in the exhibtion hall of SelectUSA Investment Summit held in the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Chen Weihua/China Daily



When US Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews said on Tuesday morning that the SelectUSA Investment Summit had a "powerful start" on Monday, he was facing the huge Potomac Ballroom in the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

In front of him, the hundreds of tables where breakfast was served were sparsely seated. Most of the 2,600 registered delegates were missing, including most of the 150 from the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong. It was a sharp contrast to the full house when US President Barack Obama spoke in the hall Monday afternoon to promote the government initiative to woo foreign investment into the US.

Downstairs, representatives from local governments and businesses were busy promoting their attractiveness to foreign investors in about 100 booths set up in the SelectUSA exhibition hall. Some clearly were targeting Chinese visitors, as evidenced by Chinese-language brochures and billboards.

Carl Quinata, from the Guam Economic Development Authority, said Guam is seeing an increasing number of Chinese tourists.

"We are applying for a visa waiver for Chinese tourists and maybe we will have it by the end of the year," he said.

With a visa waiver program, it is expected that some 350,000 Chinese tourists will visit Guam in 2020, compared with just 8,939 in 2012 or 100,000 in 2020 if the visa waiver program is not approved, according to a Guam Visitors Bureau brochure in Chinese.

Kristi Tanner, managing director of JobsOhio, a private non-profit organization, said she was proud of the instrumental role she played in getting China's Fuyao Group to invest in a $300 million automotive glass plant in Dayton, Ohio. The investment allows Fuyao to transform a former GM facility into a modern automotive glass plant.

Fuyao has made three investments in the US in recent years, totaling $500 million and creating an additional 1,500 jobs by 2017. Its chairman Cao Dewang, a noted philanthropist in China, visited the booth on Monday.

While touting the favorable business environment in Ohio appealing to companies like Fuyao Glass, Tanner, whose business card is in both English and Chinese, said Ohio is seeing more interest from Chinese investors.

"The size and significance of Fuyao's investment really raised quite a bit of interest in the state. When I talked to them, I told them Fuyao's story and they all know Chairman Cao. It certainly gets their interest," she said.

Tanner and her people are working to get Governor John Kasich on a trip to China this year at the invitation of Cao. Kasich was present when Fuyao announced a major expansion in Ohio on Jan 13 of this year.

Both Fuyao Group and Wanda Group, which acquired AMC Entertainment in 2012, were cited in 15 recent foreign investment projects in a SelectUSA document distributed at the second SelectUSA Investment Summit.

A videotaped speech by Wang Jianlin, chairman of the Wanda Group, was played at the summit conference Tuesday morning in which Wang explained why he chose to invest in the US.

Tanner's colleague, Tao Zhang, is a recent graduate from a US school. Originally from Shanghai, Zhang said that with an increasing number of Chinese companies going global, he wanted Chinese investors to know Ohio's economic strength, in such areas as manufacturing, auto, aerospace, biotechnology and shale gas, low business taxes, low costs and complete supply chains.

"And we will see how our strength and their industries match in order to achieve win-wins," he said.

Monica Wahlberg, of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, said she is helping the work of the University of Wisconsin at River Falls in getting some Wisconsin companies to attend the World Dairy Expo and Summit 2015 in Harbin in northeast China's Heilongjiang province in April.

She said Wisconsin is assisting its companies in exporting to China while seeing Chinese investments in areas such as the water industry.

She added that Wisconsin not only boasts dairy but also other industries. On a shelf in the booth, flyers introduce Wisconsin's strength in manufacturing, bioscience, water technology, food and beverage and energy power and control.

Learning that Wisconsin is best known in China for its ginseng, Wahlberg said, "We know you cannot get the highest quality ginseng in Wisconsin, because it's all been exported."

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker travelled to China in 2013, visiting Shanghai, Beijing and Harbin. He also announced the Wisconsin China Center that year in a bid to further boost China trade ties. His lieutenant governor Rebecca Kleefisch led a mission to China last December. China is Wisconsin's third largest trade partner, trailing Canada and Mexico.

More and more US governors and mayors are leading trade missions to China in recent years to woo Chinese investment. Compared with politicians in Washington, local governors and mayors care about job creation and local economies rather than hot geopolitical issues that often divide Washington and Beijing.

According to a US-China Business Council (USCBC) report last year, 47 US states had witnessed their exports to China grow by more than 100 percent from 2004-2013. For the states of Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, Michigan, Nebraska, Alabama and Washington, the growth rate exceeded 500 percent.

In 2013, China ranked among the top three export markets for 42 US states, with the exports of 32 US states to China exceeding $1 billion each, according to USCBC.

Dong Leshuo contributed to the reporting.

chenweihua@chinadailyusa.com

Trudeau visits Sina Weibo
May gets little gasp as EU extends deadline for sufficient progress in Brexit talks
Ethiopian FM urges strengthened Ethiopia-China ties
Yemen's ex-president Saleh, relatives killed by Houthis
Most Popular
Hot Topics

...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 在线亚洲精品视频 | 欧美一级毛片不卡免费观看 | 在线精品国内外视频 | 精品免费视频 | 美女视频全部免费 | 九九久久精品视频 | 91九色首页 | 国产美女精品一区二区三区 | 国产三区视频在线观看 | 一级片免费在线播放 | 97人摸人人澡人人人超一碰 | 久久精品国产免费看久久精品 | 精品国产免费一区二区三区五区 | a级片在线免费观看 | 亚洲成人福利网站 | 亚洲国产一区二区a毛片日本 | 免费观看性欧美大片无片 | 中文字幕天堂久久精品 | 免费 成年人 | 国产亚洲精 | 91视频99| 久久在线国产 | 欧美性一区二区三区 | 久久在视频 | 色综合久久88中文字幕 | 免费人成年短视频在线观看免费网站 | 五月色婷婷综合开心网亚 | 免费观看a视频 | 可以免费看黄的网站 | 国产青草 | 波多野结衣在线中文 | 亚洲欧美国产精品 | 国产成人久视频免费 | 九九精品视频在线播放 | 亚洲伦理天堂 | 精品亚洲视频在线 | 欧美精品久久一区二区三区 | 色香欲综合成人免费视频 | 美美女高清毛片视频免费观看 | 精品热99| 一级毛毛片毛片毛片毛片在线看 |