Here you go SenTinel, the finer points of Andrews trip slowly seeing the light of day.
, and its all very promising IMO.
On the evening of Nov.24, Zhou Qiang ,deputy of Hunan Provincial Party Committee and governor of Hunan province, met with the senior delegation of Fortescue Metals Group Ltd (FMG) in Australia headed by Andrew Forrest, executive director and CEO of FMG, in Changsha.
FMG is the world's fourth largest provider of iron ore and Hunan's steel enterprises are its clients. This delegation paid a special visit to Hunan to discuss about further cooperation with the Valin Group.
Zhou briefed that, to tackle effects brought by the present international financial crisis, Hunan actively implements the CPC Central Committee's significant decision of expanding domestic demand to promote economic growth by strengthening construction of such infrastucture as expressways and railways so as to ensure stable and relatively rapid growth of Hunan's overall economy. Zhou said steel demand is bound to continuously increase with the further progress of infrastructure construction and the steel market is therefore promising. Hunan supports wide, comprehensive, thorough and stable cooperation between Hunan and Australia and pushes forward bilateral cooperation in such aspects as low-grade ore exploitation and raw ore processing, relying on the world's leading low-grade ore dressing technology of Central South University in Hunan in the hope of making it a successful example of steel cooperation between China and Australia, furthering exchanges between Hunan and Australia and driving cooperation in such fields as tourism, sports, science and technology. Andrew Forrest expressed his gratitude for Zhou Qiang's meeting and said, he was deeply impressed by steady and healthy development of Hunan and was confident of bilateral further cooperation. Chiefs of relevant departments directly under Hunan Provincial Committee of the CPC accompanied the meeting.