While the National Government battered diplomatic relations with China, and now finds itself with the dilemma of having to pay with reservations the maturities of the swap signed with that country, there are already three provinces that establish direct diplomatic relations with the Asian giant: Buenos Aires, La Rioja and La Pampa. More provinces would join the initiative.
The first to make a point to establish a direct relationship with the Asian giant, was the Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof, when on February 19 of this year, he met with the ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in Argentina, Wang Wei, for ““strengthen the political and commercial relationship between the Asian country and the province.”
Subsequently, the Minister of the Buenos Aires Government, Carlos Bianco, met with the vice governor of China’s Hebei province, Shi Qingshuang, at a time when ““The relationship between the Kicillof administration and China is advancing at a good pace.”
It was on May 10 within the framework of the opening of a business round held at the Teatro Argentina in La Plata, which he led together with the vice-governor of the Chinese province of Hebei, Shi Qingshuang.
A few days later, on May 29, the undersecretary of International Relations of the province of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel Padinthe Undersecretary of Science and TechnologyFederico Agueroand the head of the Scientific Research Commission (CIC), Roberto Salvarezza, They participated in a meeting with members of the Department of Science and Technology of the Chinese province of Hubei. The official visit was led by the director general of said department.Feng Yanfeiwhich included the national lithium cell and battery technological development plant of the National University of La Plata.
The province of Hubei has 58 million inhabitants, a GDP per capita greater than USD 13 thousand and stands out both for its diversified productive profile and its scientific and technological network as for the links it managed to establish with the private sector in order to promote techno-productive development.
RRII with La Pampa
The governor of La Pampa, Sergio Ziliotto, On June 1, he received a mission of Chinese businessmen headed by the ambassador Wang Weiwhose delegation was made up of: Shanghai Electric Power, dedicated to the construction of power plants, high voltage transmission lines, gas pipelines and aqueducts; Goldwind, which operates with clean energy on six continents and more than 40 countries.
Also participating: ICBC, a banking institution with more than one hundred years operating in the world and since 2012 in Argentina; LiuGong, dedicated to developing professional construction machinery, industrial machinery and infrastructure machinery for more than 65 years; and Huawei, the cell phone technology company.
The Rioja
Along the same lines, the governor of La Rioja, Ricardo Quintelavisited the ambassador at his residence this Friday, with the expectation of receiving a mission similar to the one that recently concluded in La Pampa.”
China, the second largest economy in the world,could advance that year with the disbursement of funds for infrastructure works in some provinces”within the framework of an unprecedented initiative that already includes three Argentine provinces, but which, according to a Buenos Aires government source told InfoGEI, there are several provinces interested in taking that path.
