Chinese companies have offered to assist Andhra Pradesh State in building infrastructure, expressways, wind power projects and hardware manufacturing during interaction with Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on the third day of his visit to China on Tuesday.
During the meeting with Gezhouba company, Mr. Naidu asked them to think of linking rivers in Andhra Pradesh. “We have huge amount of water going waste into the sea, you can help us to irrigate our fields with your expertise”. The company officials assured the Chief Minister of organising funding and equity in carrying out the projects.
The leader of Guizhou delegation which included Silk Road International Investment Corporation and other companies, said that they were keen to invest in India.
In the first meeting, Chairman of China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd. Mo Wenhe told the delegation led by Mr. Naidu that his company was looking forward for development and business opportunities in India.
‘Our company has accumulated considerable experience in development of infrastructure. We hope to contribute to the development of Andhra Pradesh’, he added. The company’s core business areas were ports, marine and airports building, besides road and railway and civil engineering. ‘We want to replicate our Chinese experience in Andhra Pradesh’, he said.
Observing that China had done amazingly well in the last 40 years, Mr. Naidu said: “you have started reforms 13 years ahead of us. Your public sector undertakings are doing well”. Listing out the advantages of A.P. like long coastline, human and mineral resources, land, water and power, the Chief Minister said ‘I am a reformer. I admire Deng Xiaoping, we remember his saying as long as the cat catches mice, it doesn’t matter whether it is black or white’.
Mr. Wen told Mr. Naidu that they were also keen on developing industrial parks and that proposals would soon be submitted in this regard. He said that the company was also preparing detailed project reports on developing infrastructure in A.P. The Chief Minister suggested to them to open their office in the new capital area, named Amaravati.
