Qatar Chamber (QC) launched the promotion campaign for the ‘Made in China 2017’ expo during a press conference held yesterday in China’s Dalian City, according to a press statement issued by the Chamber.
The statement said that Ali Bu Sherbak Al Mansouri (pictured), QC’s Assistant Director-General for Governmental and International Relations, represented the Chamber in the conference in the attendance of the president of Dalian Chamber of Commerce Cui Tie, and officials of Chinese Chambers Federation in Dalian City. The third edition of the ‘Made in China 2017’ exhibition will be held at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre (DECC) under the patronage of Prime Minister and Minister of Interior H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, on November 16-19.
The four-day expo is being be organised by the Qatar Chamber with the aim of presenting an opportunity for the local business community to get acquainted with the Chinese products and to help them build constructive partnerships and alliances with their Chinese counterparts
Addressing the media, Al Mansouri noted that the expo was highly acclaimed in its first and second editions and saw several contracts and joint ventures signed between Qatari and Chinese companies.
“Qatar, China relations witnessed great progress over recent years. China is a very key trade partner to Qatar. Trade exchange hit last year $5.5bn including $4bn Qatari exports to China and China is Qatar’s fourth trade partner, while Qatar is China’s second largest supplier of LNG.”
He pointed out that this year expo comes concurrently with the Gulf crisis and the unjust siege imposed by neighboring countries on the State of Qatar whose economy is not affected by this blockade, affirming Qatar’s success in dealing with these unfair measures very quickly and directly shifted to alternative sources.
Al Mansouri called on Chinese companies to take part in these projects and to provide Qatar with all goods and building materials needed for its upcoming projects.
He expressed his hope that the expo would help Chinese exhibitors inform Qatari business community of their latest technological innovations, explore the available investment opportunities in the Qatari market and to end in transactions and agreements among Qatari and Chinese companies.
On the sidelines of the conference, Al Mansouri met with Cui Tie and discussed ways of boosting trade cooperation between Qatar and China and viewed the preparations of the expo being organised in Qatar for the third year in a row.
