China quick to act on trade promise
An across-the-board trade and investment deal signed with China’s Yunnan province on Friday was a jump-start to Chinese President Hu Jintao’s pledge a week earlier to double bilateral trade with the Kingdom to US$5 billion by 2017. The package signing, which brought a delegation of 45 Chinese corporations into the room with about 250 Cambodian businesspeople, included investments in energy, cement, rice milling and agricultural technology, as well as proposed direct flights with China’s south-westernmost province. …
