Chandrababu Naidu To Tour China From April 12

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and other delegates will leave for China in the wee hours of April 12.

With India looking towards China for investors, the Chief Minister will make a high-level pitch to attract investments to Andhra Pradesh, focused mostly on the energy sector and manufacturing.

In the first leg of his visit, he will be in Beijing. He will meet executives from iPhone-maker Foxconn and also Chinese low-cost smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi, and highlight how AP has the potential to become a hub of manufacturing for these gadget-makers within and outside the country.

With Andhra Pradesh planning to have electronic clusters as part of its electronics and manufacturing policy, Xioami and Foxconn will be prompted to set up facilities here. He will also speak to software giant Siemens, Sinoma International Engineering, the SUMEC group, and several industrial bodies in China.

In the second leg of his tour, he will visit Chengdu where he will have a tour of Peking University - well-known for its research work.

In the last leg of his tour, he will visit Shanghai's Yangshan Deep Water Port - the world's busiest trading port handling a staggering 32 million containers a year, and carrying 736 million tonnes of goods to far-flung places around the globe.

During his visit, the Chief Minister will also address industrialists, investors and businessmen at three round-table meetings in Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai, explaining the investment opportunities in AP.

He will also meet government officials of China including the Mayors of Beijing Municipality, Chengdu and Shanghai.

The AP delegation includes ministers Yanamala Ramakrishnudu, P Narayana and K Achhan Naidu, AP special representative in Delhi K Ramamohan Rao, Principal Secretary to the CM Satish Chandra, Secretaries P V Ramesh, S S Rawat and Ajay Jain, Director of Industries Karthikeya Mishra and OSD to the CM Ch Venkaiah Chowdary. (INN)