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Viewing cable 07GUANGZHOU200, AmCham Explores Guangxi, Discovers Investment Opportunities

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07GUANGZHOU200 2007-02-13 08:45 2011-08-23 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Consulate Guangzhou
VZCZCXRO5764
RR RUEHCN RUEHGH RUEHVC
DE RUEHGZ #0200/01 0440845
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 130845Z FEB 07
FM AMCONSUL GUANGZHOU
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 5783
INFO RUEHOO/CHINA POSTS COLLECTIVE
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 GUANGZHOU 000200 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/CM AND EB 
USDOC FOR 4420/ITA/MAC/MCQUEEN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ECON EINV PREL CH
SUBJECT: AmCham Explores Guangxi, Discovers Investment Opportunities 
in Nanning, Liuzhou, and Guilin 
 
REF: A) 06 Guangzhou 4469 
 
     B) 06 Guangzhou 4352 
     C) 06 Guangzhou 4059 
     D) 06 Guangzhou 4033 
     E) 06 Guangzhou 3992 
 
1. (U) SUMMARY: Provincial-level and city leaders in the Guangxi 
cities of Nanning, Liuzhou and Guilin told the Consul General, the 
President of the American Chamber of Commerce South China and a 
72-person business delegation that Guangxi was open for foreign 
business trade and investment. The leaders in each city stressed 
that the favorable business environment combined with rapid 
infrastructure development in Guangxi makes now the time to invest. 
By the end of the January 23-26 visit in Guangxi, several delegation 
members had either begun or completed negotiations for an expansion 
of their businesses into Guangxi.  END SUMMARY. 
 
2.  (U) The Consul General fulfilled a 2006 promise made by the 
former Consul General to the leaders of Guangxi that the consulate 
would work with the Amcham to bring a trade and investment 
delegation to the region.  AmCham President Harley Seyedin 
accompanied the Consul General and brought 72 members of the Chamber 
(all with a business presence in South China) to investigate trade 
and investment opportunities.  This was the largest investment 
delegation AmCham had ever sent to Guangxi.  The Consul General and 
consulate members met separately with various development officials 
in each city during the trip (septel). 
 
3.  (U) The delegation visited Nanning, Guangxi's political capital, 
from January 23-24.  Deputy Director Yan of the Administrative 
Commission of Nanning's National High-tech Zone led the delegation 
on a brief tour of the Zone, which was named a national-level 
high-tech zone in 1992.  The Zone and surrounding areas are home to 
hundreds of enterprises in the biotechnology (particularly Chinese 
traditional medicine), power equipment, industrial lighting, and 
modern agriculture sectors, among others.  The Coca-Cola Company and 
more than 150 other foreign companies operate within the Zone; 20% 
of Nanning's business and industrial output is the result of foreign 
investment.  In addition, the Deputy Director stressed that the Zone 
hosts 31 educational institutions.  In a separate meeting, Vice 
Governor Li Jinzao said that despite increasing investment levels, 
Guangxi is still well behind other provinces in terms of attracting 
foreign business.  Guangxi's 2006 economic volume of RMB 500 billion 
(USD 64 billion, ranked 17th in China) trails both its population 
(ranked 10th in China at 50 million) and land mass (9th in China). 
 
4.  (U) On January 24, in Liuzhou, the industrial capital of 
Guangxi, Vice Mayor Zheng told the delegation that Liuzhou's 2006 
GDP reached RMB 62 billion (USD 7.9 billion), a 17.7% increase over 
last year.  Liuzhou's primary industries are automobile 
manufacturing, metallurgy (steel), and industrial machinery 
production.  According to Zheng, Liuzhou's automobile plants 
(including the joint venture GM-Wuling Automobile Plant) produced 
520,000 cars in 2006, the 5th highest output in China.  As part of 
the trip, the Company Party Secretary led the delegation on a brief 
tour of the General Motors factory, which produces the 
Wuling-branded mini-vans, pickups, and the GM Spark - a small 
passenger car that the delegates saw frequently on the streets of 
Guangxi.  Zheng said Liuzhou's 2006 steel output was 5.5 million 
tons, and 2007 output is expected to reach 7 million tons.  He noted 
that the Liugong Industrial Machinery Company is the top industrial 
machinery producer in China, and the second biggest producer in the 
world next to Caterpillar (which introduced its technology to 
Liugong in the 1980s).  Of the top 500 enterprises in China, only 5 
have operations in Liuzhou. 
 
5.  (U) Guilin Deputy Mayor Chen Jianjun told the delegation January 
25 that Guangxi's natural beauty made the city the province's 
cultural capital and top tourist destination.  He added that the 
city needed to balance economic development with environmental 
protection.  Deputy Mayor Chen and Vice Deputy General for 
Investment Jing both said that in order to maintain this balance, 
economic development in Guilin's National High-tech Zone 
(established in 2000) focused on high-tech, less polluting 
industries.  Core industries included: electronic and information 
production, medicine, food and beverage, environmental, and 
bioengineering.  Jing said companies such as Pepsi, NEC Japan, and 
Ingersoll-Rand had all invested in the High-tech Zone. 
 
6.  (U) In all three cities, leaders emphasized that Nanning, 
Liuzhou, and Guilin represent an important corridor of economic 
development in China and a gateway to southwest China and ASEAN.  At 
the juncture of the Pan-Pearl River Delta, southwest China, and the 
ASEAN free trade zone, Guangxi was now as ripe for development as 
Guangdong had been a decade before.  Moreover, investors could take 
advantage of the Chinese government's preferential tax policies for 
Western China development and minority autonomous regions, as well 
as lower labor and resource costs. Finally, leaders in each city 
 
GUANGZHOU 00000200  002 OF 002 
 
 
emphasized their commitment to improving infrastructure - roads, 
railways, airport upgrades, and ports (including Beibu port and the 
expressway linking Guangxi to the countries of Southeast Asia) - as 
a sign of the ease with which goods could flow inside China and to 
the outside world. 
 
7.  (U) Officials commented that the trip further strengthened the 
long and friendly relations between Guangxi and the United States. 
Several officials reminded the delegation that Guangxi's friendship 
with the United States dated to when the Flying Tigers were based in 
Guangxi during the war against Japan. 
 
GOLDBERG