Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in Guangzhou
Thursday that Singapore hopes to further promote cooperation with
south China's Guangdong Province and the Pan-Pearl River Delta
areas.
During his meeting with the Governor of Guangdong Province Huang
Huahua, Lee said the economic and trade cooperation between
Singapore and Guangdong have developed well, as over a score of
Guangdong enterprises are listed in Singapore.
According to statistics from China Customs, the import and
export volume between Singapore and Guangdong reached US$10
billion, accounting for 30 percent of the total volume between the
two nation.
The bilateral import and export volume in the first 9 months
this year reached US$8.4 billion, up 17 percent from the same
period last year.
The Singaporean Prime Minister will also visit Chengdu, capital
of southwest China's Sichuan Province later this week.
Lee was in China for the China-ASEAN commemorative summit
scheduled for Oct. 30-31 in Nanning, capital of south China's
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
(Xinhua News Agency October 26, 2006)