The Greek Consul General in Guangzhou, Martinos Mandaridis, visited Jiangmen. Li Huiwen, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Municipal Committee and Minister of the United Front Work Department, met with Martinos Mandaridis.
Li Huiwen said that Jiangmen has always had a good economic and trade cooperation relationship with Greece, and the overseas Chinese living in Greece in Jiangmen have made positive contributions to promoting exchanges and cooperation between the two sides. At present, the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and the Guangdong Provincial Government are promoting high-quality development in an all-round way. Jiangmen is based on the real economy, adheres to the leadership of the manufacturing industry, promotes economic and trade cooperation in accordance with the deployment requirements of the "six major projects", and speeds up the construction of a new pattern of high-quality development of the overseas Chinese capital in the new era. In terms of cooperation with Europe, the "Jiangmen" China-Europe international freight train was put into operation last year, and the China-Europe (Jiangmen) SME international cooperation zone, which is being accelerated, has continuously strengthened industrial cooperation with Greece and other EU countries around the new generation of electronic information, smart home appliances, food processing and other strategic industrial clusters. It is hoped that the two sides will take this meeting as an opportunity to deepen and expand exchanges and cooperation and achieve mutual benefit and win-win and coordinated development.
Martinos Mandaridis said that the new generation of information technology, shipbuilding and other industries that Jiangmen strives to build are also the main direction of Greece's development. He hoped to further seek cooperation opportunities between Greece and Jiangmen, strengthen communication and contact, and promote cooperation between Greece and Jiangmen in economic, trade, culture, tourism and other fields.
On the same day, Martinos Mandalidis visited the Jiangmen Planning Exhibition Hall and the Overseas Chinese Museum in the Capital of Overseas Chinese and visited the Heshan China-Europe Innovation Center.