news.am, Armenia
May 1 2010
RA President attended Suzhou Technopark
18:22 / 05/01/2010RA President Serzh Sargsyan being on a visit to
China for the Expo 2010 Shanghai today attended the Technopark in
Jiangsu province, a joint project of Singapore and China. The area of
`Chinese Venice’ is 288 km2 (larger than Yerevan’s administrative
area). By volume of industrial and finished products export Suzhou
comes second only to Shanghai.
Sargsyan also visited `Higer’ Bus company, where was met by the Suzhou
Deputy Mayor Zhou Weiqiang and Higer General Manager Wu Wenwen.
The Suzhou plant employs 4000 people, generating last year a profit of USD 730m.
A civil authorities’ representative stated that Suzhou is interested
in the cooperation development with Armenia in educational, scientific
and cultural fields. RA President and escorting officials toured
around the Higer Bus Company and familiarized themselves with
production process.
Thereafter, Armenian delegation headed to Suzhou Science & Culture
Arts Centre (SSCAC) and had a look at the exhibits.
Besides, Sargsyan met with Mayor of Suzhou Yan Li. `I saw new
opportunities of China, feeling myself like in the city of future. You
almost made a reality the idea underlying the expo’, Sargsyan said
adding that Armenia-China political ties are positive and the economic
development rate should be kept in parallel with political ones.
S.T.
From: Baghdasarian