The 2nd Lecture Tour (Chongqing & Chengdu)

Date: June 7 to 13, 2009

Venue: Chongqing MunicipalityChengdu, Sichuan Province

Key Participants:
H.E. Mr. Omar Ramadhan Mapuri, Ambassador of Tanzania to China
H.E. Mr. Julius L. Ole Sunkuli, Ambassador of Kenya to China
Mr. Hany Moawad S. Labib, Minister Plenipotentiary, the Embassy of Egypt in China
Mr. Recado Hein Andrews, Counsellor, the Embassy of South Africa in China
Mdm. Lin Yi, Secretary General of CAPFA
Chinese officials from:
Department of Foreign Investment & Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Commerce
Department of Western Asian & African Affairs, Ministry of Commerce
 

Lectures
The Lectures were given on June 911 in ChongqingChengdu respectively. Representatives from local governmentsenterprises participated in the Lectures.

Visiting local enterprises
There are some state-ownedprivate enterprises, both in ChongqingChengdu, doingintending to do business with African enterprises. To help them find solutions to the

difficulties they encountered, the CAPFA made a questionnaire to collect the informationquestions of the local enterprisessent their informationquestions to the

related embassies, so that the Ambassadors could provide practical suggestionsmore targeted answers to the enterprises, according to their national economic policies and

investment environment.

Meeting with governorsmayors
The delegation was met by Mr. Yu Yuanmu, Vice Chairman of Chongqing Municipal People's Congress,Mr. Wang Zhonglin, Vice Mayor of Chengdu.

Visiting & Studying
The delegation went to Chongqing University to meet the African exchange student studying there, visited Sansheng Flower Village to study on the practice of China’s new rural

construction policy,made studies on the post disaster reconstruction project in Dujiangyan city which was struck by the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, etc.