Tatarstan and Hong Kong have serious prospects for cooperation
17 April 2014, Thursday
On April 17 at a meeting at Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that Tatarstan and Hong Kong have serious prospects for cooperation. Tatarstan is interested in developing cooperation with Hong Kong in the sphere of economy, innovations, logistics, and infrastructure projects.
Founded in 1966, Hong Kong Trade Development Council is an official foreign trade organization that provides assistance to Hong Kong companies, manufacturers and service providers.
Within the help of foreign representative offices located in 40 world business centres, HKTDC monitors market opportunities, organizes events to promote Hong Kong services and goods, established business contacts and gives information about condition of economy and markets.
At today’s meeting Rustam Minnikhanov said that HKTDC plays important role in establishing Hong Kong business contacts on international level. “Tatarstan and Hong Kong have serious prospects for mutually beneficial cooperation. We have to establish new contacts, and organize visits of our businessmen for closer interaction and increasing trade turnover between Tatarstan and Hong Kong,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.
Tatarstan President's Press Office, Elena Britvina
On 9 May Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin took part in a ceremony of laying flowers to the monument “The victorious soldier” dedicated to the celebrations of the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (WW II) 1941-1945 and held at Arsk cemetery in Kazan.
On 8 May, speaking at a meeting held by the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, the Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector of the republic Marat Ayzatullin reported that capital overhaul of social facilities is in full swing in the republic with 170 educational facilities having been included into regional and federal programmes.
On 4 May at a briefing held in the Tatarstan Government House it was told that currently there are 92 combat veterans, the last witnesses of the Great Patriotic War (WW II) of 1941-1945, living in the republic. The briefing also informed about veterans’ support measures and how the republic is planning to celebrate the Victory Day on 9 May.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Leyla Fazleeva told that names of 353 Heroes of the Soviet Union from Tatarstan “ are immortalized in street names, on memorials, in monuments and squares and, of course, in our memory”. “The Victory Day is the day of memory, mourning and joy. It is the event which today should be clearly understandable to all young people and younger generation of Tatarstan,” she said.
On 24 April, upon his arrival to the Kazan International Airport, the Defense Minister of China Dong Jun was welcomed by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin, representatives of the General Consulate of China in Kazan and other officials