MOLDOVA’S INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTED TO CHINESE BUSINESS DELEGATION

The main theme at the Moldova-China business forum, which is concluding in Chisinau on Thursday, was “Moldova – New Direction for Investment”.

According to its organizers from the Moldovan Investment Agency, the event was attended by 12 largest Chinese investors headed by Deputy Chairman of the China-Europe Association for Technical and Economic Cooperation CEATEC Pan Feng, who agreed with the Moldova’s attractiveness for long-term investments in strategic branches of economy.

According to Agency Director Rodica Verbeniuc, it is for the first time ever when Moldova is visited by such a high-ranked delegation, which includes managers of the leading Chinese companies, headed by the CEATEC leadership – the China’s only nongovernmental organization empowered to cooperate with partners from Europe.

“For us it is a great honor that along with France, Italy, Monaco, the Moldovan capital was included in the program of the CEATEC tour through Europe. Also, for the first time our forum is attended by such a large number of local companies – around 100 – whose representatives will participate in the B2B sessions, having the possibility to directly interact with world scale investors, who decided to start or extend their businesses in our country. It is pleasant that investment interests of these giants of the world economy correspond with the possibilities, proposed by strategic branches of the Moldovan economy, in particular the tourism, the informational technologies and telecommunications”, she said.

Pan Feng expressed Chinese businesses’ interest in using the business opportunities of the Moldovan market, which meets both modern world trends and long-term interests of the two countries’ peoples.

The Chinese Government encourages the implementation by Chinese enterprises of international cooperation project with governmental assistance for achieving mutual profit regardless of the countries’ size, wealth or power.

“I assure you that we will keep supporting and developing cooperation between business circles, companies and enterprises from China and Moldova for enhancing mutual trade and economic partnership”, he stressed.

During their stay in Chisinau, the delegation managed not only to meet with representatives of the Moldovan Government and potential Moldovan partners, but also visited the “Expo-Business-Chisinau” Free Economic Zone, wine cellars Cricova and Milestii Mici.