President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner took it to Twitter once again to provide an account of her official trip to China, after meeting with the CEOs of Chinese leading companies. “They have no doubts of Argentina’s potential after 10 years of growth and development,” she tweeted.
“It has been a long day, but a very fruitful one. Argentina confirms its presence and importance in the world’s No.1 economy. The welcome could not be better,” the president said at the end of her first day in a three-day trip to China.
The head of state explained on her Twitter account that she met with several Chinese businessmen, all from the world’s top 500 firms. “The meeting went great. I was surprised by the businessmen’s knowledge of Argentina and its business possibilities,” M.s Kirchner wrote.
She mentioned meeting with executives from Hile Bio pharmaceutical, Citic –which supplied new carriages for Buenos Aires City subway-, the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), Sinosure State-owned insurance company, CSR and CNR, who have supplied Argentina with railroad materials, and China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) –contractor for the Belgrano Cargas freight train system, among others.
The president expressed her “entushiasm” for the beggining of the infrastructure work for the Jorge Cepernic and Néstor Kirchner hydroelectric dams in Santa Cruz province after meeting with representatives from Gezhouba group, which holds a 60 percent interest in the project.
Ms. Kirchner told local businessmen that Argentina’s “integral strategic alliance” with Beijing “is not a policy of this political party but a public policy of the Argentine Republic.”
She explained to the executives of Chinese leading companies that the alliance “is not merely a commercial one” and stressed that she has arrived in Beijing to “reaffirm” it.
Spatial industry
The president pointed out that Argentina is the only country in Latin America to “have produced a satellite and put it into orbit” and “one of the twelve” countries in the world to produce and put satellites in orbit. She expressed her hopes for a “strategic spatial partnership” with China.
Ms. Kirchner gave details on the development of the ARSAT-1 Argentine geostationary satellite, which was put into orbit last year. “We also built the Acuarius satellite together with NASA (…), which measures the ocean’s salinity and is operated in Córdoba province,” she explained.
Source. Buenos Aires Herald