Vice President of China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products (CCCME) Shi Yonghong met with visiting Vice Director of Portuguese Trade Promotion Bureau Luis CASTRO HENRIQUES and Economic Counselor of Portugal’s ambassador to China Alexandra Ferreira Leite on March 30.
Luis CASTRO HENRIQUES first introduced the investment environment of Portugal, he said that Portugal enjoys a sound geographical location with complete infrastructure and fast transportation, radiating the European and Portuguese-spoken countries. Meanwhile, Portugal boasts labor of high quality, 78% of its people could speak two languages, and is an ideal investment destination. Luis CASTRO HENRIQUES also introduced some ongoing privatized projects in Portugal, and hoped to make stronger its attraction to Chinese investment in key areas like automobile, logistics and agriculture.
Shi said the CCCME will push forward to promote the Chinese enterprises to trade and invest overseas, hope to deepen cooperation with Portuguese Trade Promotion Bureau and advance more Chinese enterprises to conduct greenfield investment and make M&A in Portugal. Shi also paid attentions to brief on CCCME’s overseas investment project release platform that has gone online, and the Portuguese side could release its investment policies and latest projects via this platform so as to improve the matchmaking efficiency.
Officials from the department of international liaison and department of investment promotion of CCCME also attended the meeting.