The delegation of Tatarstan visited the oldest University of Hong Kong
14 May 2015, Thursday
On May 11, 2015 the official delegation of the Republic of Tatarstan headed by the deputy minister of economy of the Republic of Tatarstan Natalya Tarkayeva within business mission to Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China visited the oldest University of Hong Kong.
The university of Hong Kong is 27 000 students, including more than 1000 foreign students, from them 22 students are from Russia. The university of Hong Kong specializes on development of electric cars, biotechnological light-emitting diodes, biomedicine, ecology, a water obessolevaniye and so forth and closely cooperates with clusters of continental China and with the international clusters within collaboration in new development and technologies.
The Council for development of trade of Hong Kong which is engaged in advance of Hong Kong in the world market became the second organization which accepted delegation of Tatarstan. During a meeting the head of committee on the international relations of the State Council Benjamin Yau briefly told about economic indicators of Hong Kong, about infrastructure projects of a development of the city and opportunities of the Hong Kong companies in the light of cooperation with the Tatarstan enterprises.
As part of the program, the Minister visited the Arsky Industrial Park, where he got acquainted with the current activities and long-term plans of the residents. During the inspection of the production facilities, Midkhat Shagiakhmetov held a substantive discussion with the heads of enterprises on capacity expansion and improving the efficiency of using the existing infrastructure.
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