La Rioja presented in Changsha, capital of the Hunan province in southeastern China, the Bioceanic Corridor and the export offer of Atacalar - a region made up of the Argentine provinces of La Rioja, Catamarca, Tucumán, Santiago del Estero, Córdoba and Santa Fe, and the Chilean province of Atacama-, on a working tour of Riojan officials.
The mission is headed by the vice-governor-elect, Florencia López; the Minister of Planning and Industry, Rubén Galleguillo; the national deputy Danilo Flores; the secretary of Regional Integration and International Cooperation Luis Agost Carreño; and the president of SAPEM Cerdo de Los Llanos, Laura Vergara, among other officials.
"The agreement aims to exchange, cooperation and promotion of trade between the macro region of Atacalar where we are included, and the Province of Hunan, which has a population of around 80 million inhabitants, and with a great industrial, productive and economic activity", He stressed.
The Riojan minister then explained that “In Hunan we saw that many of the region's leading companies in the food, infrastructure, logistics, construction and services sectors were concentrated there."
"That is why we invited the Chinese businessmen who were present at the event to invest in La Rioja and especially in Atacalar, in sectors in which we have comparative advantages, which will allow technological diffusion and the injection of capital to transform them into competitive advantages."He said.
"Finally, we made available to them all the information related to tourism, renewable energy, agro-foods, technology-based industries, and we left them with the firm will to have educational and scientific-technological exchange, which both they and we agree on.”, Galleguillo concluded.
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