Hu Visit Another Potential Boost For China Hub Project
St. Louis Chinese American News
January 28, 2011
Efforts by the St. Louis region to boost trade connections with hina paid off this week with the announcement a chinese airline is prepared to begin negotiations on regular cargo flights into lambert airport.
The Chinese Trade Delegation and the Midwest China Hub Commission signed a memorandum of understanding of mutual cooperation In St. Louis Today at the Four Seasons Hotel on the Riverfront.
During his visit to Chicago this week, China's President Hu Jintao and his Commerce Minister pointed to agricultural and manufacturing products produced in the Midwest as important to future trade between the two countries.
Delegates scheduled to visit St. Louis this weekend were said to be interested in investment in U.S. companies as well. Local development experts are working to find midwestern products to export to china when the regular cargo flights begin later this year.
The midwest China Hub Commission was formed in 2009. It includes public officials and business leaders working to boost local companies and jobs through trade.
