In the morning of June 2, 2016, the 2nd”Made in China 2016 –Qatar” Chengdu Briefing was held at Shangri-La Hotel by China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges, Qatar Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Embassy of the State of Qatar in China, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Sichuan council and Sichuan International Chamber of Commerce jointly. Su Hongyi, inspector from Council for Promotion of International Trade of Sichuan, Adbullah Haiyelin, counselor of Embassy of Qatar in China and Tian Guofeng, Director of Exhibition Department of China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges attended the Briefing. Delegates from China and Qatar Have huge confidence on economic and trade cooperation between the two countries to achieve the preparations of the second “Made in China 2016 –Qatar”.
Inspector Su Hongyi, said that Qatar plays a critical role along the line of China’s “the Belt and Road Initiative”, as well as a hub country connecting Asia, Africa and Europe. In recent years, the frequent exchange visits of both sides have helped to construct the strategic partnership. He also encouraged that enterprises in Sichuan could take the platform of the second “Made in China 2016 –Qatar” to connect with local businesses and seek cooperation business opportunities, by which, those enterprises can expand the broad market in West Asia countries.
Counselor Adbullah Haiyelin made a statement and introduced the economic development conditions, cooperation opportunities and foreign investment preferential policies of Qatar; he said the Qatari government would invest more than $ 285 billion in infrastructure construction field for preparations of 2019 IAAF World Championships in Athletics and 2022 FIFA World Cup, and Qatar welcomed enterprises of infrastructures, heavy equipment, building materials, innovation technology, new energies and other fields from Sichuan to take part in infrastructure construction of Qatar actively, and Qatari government wished to launch cooperation between gulf areas and China by “Made in China 2016 –Qatar
Mr. Tian Guofeng introduced specific preparations for the 2nd”Qatar Made in China Exhibition”. The exhibition will be held in Doha, Qatar, during November 15-18. With the theme of “architecture, science and technology”, participants of the exhibition are mainly high-end manufacturing enterprises, including China’s construction industry leader enterprises and high-quality building materials and top-level science and technology products and services. The exhibition intends to invite 300 Chinese enterprises, and held “China-GCC Economic, Trade and investment Forum” meanwhile.
At the same time, he gave detailed interpretation of Qatar market demand, scale of investment, infrastructure construction and other issues, and answered questions raised by enterprises, which warms the atmosphere.
The responsible person of Sichuan Huashi Overseas Investment Construction Co., Ltd. shared the experience and advice of “going out” to open up the international market to guests and business representatives.
A total of 100 people, from related organizations and enterprises in Sichuan Province, took part in the briefing session.