2023-10-15 19:15:00
This Saturday night in Shanghai (in the morning of Argentina, due to the 11 hour difference) President Alberto Fernández held a meeting with directors of the technology company Gotiona manufacturer of lithium batteries for cars, buses and bicycles with investments in the country.
The president arrived at 5 p.m. local time (6 a.m. in Argentina) to the most populated city in China and following landing at the Pudong airport, he stayed at the Jinjiang Hotel, to minutes later move to a restaurant in the city, venue of the meetingalong with the entourage that accompanies him.
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In ShanghaiFernández will maintain meetings with businessmen y will meet with the head of the New Development Bank (NBD) of the BRICS, Dilma Roussefwhile on Tuesday he will travel to Beijing to participate in the Third Belt and Road Forum on International Cooperation, at the invitation of Xi Jimping himself.
Meeting with businessmen
The meeting with Gotion representatives took place in a relaxed atmosphere in the restaurant “Baldomir”of Argentine food.
Along with Fernández were the Secretary General of the Presidency, Julio Vitobello; the head of the Central Bank, Miguel Pesce; the Argentine ambassador in Beijing, Sabino Narvaja Cowand the Secretary of International Economic Relations of the Foreign Ministry, Cecilia Todesca Bocco.
The meeting was also attended by representatives of the Shanghai Central Publishing House “Lucida Books”responsible for the publication in China of a Mandarin language version of the comic “The Eternaut”.
The Gotion Argentina firm signed cooperation agreements with the Jujuy mining company JEMSE to develop the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium project in the province of Jujuy. This includes lithium extraction and refining operations in a plant that will be built in the Free Zone of the city of Perico, according to official sources.
The venture has already begun exploration tasks together with Argentine counterparts, while the possibility of expand cooperation to areas such as batteries, energy storage systems, electric vehicles and charging stations, according to what was stated by spokespersons for the official delegation. As a first step, it was agreed construction of a standardized production line of battery packs for domestic and commercial use.
The President’s agenda
Fernández’s agenda will continue this Sunday with more meetings with Chinese investors with interests in Argentina, with the objective “of promoting the development of electromobility, the industrialization of lithium and renewable energies,” as reported.
The head of state will meet with directors of the CST mining company and then he will have a work meeting in the Huawei Technology Center, the giant that offers cutting-edge technology in 5G services around the world. In the followingnoon, at 6:00 p.m. (local time), he will receive executives from the Tsingshan mining companyand on Monday morning he will do the same with company executives Tibet Summitdedicated to geological exploitation.
Next Tuesday, Fernández will be interviewed with Rousseff to reaffirm Argentina’s intention to consolidate its membership in the bloc of emerging nations, which was initially founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, and which was expanded in August following a summit held in Johannesburg. Argentina, along with Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, will join as of January 1, 2024 the group of countries that make up 36 percent of the world’s GDP and 46 percent of the world’s population. planet.
Belt and Road Summit
After Tuesday’s meeting with the former Brazilian president, Fernández will travel to Beijing to participate in the Forum that will have the motto “High Quality Belt and Road Cooperation: Together for Common Development and Prosperity.” It is estimated that the forum It will be attended by different heads of state and authorities from more than 110 countries.
The Belt and Road summit will deliberate on issues such as “Connectivity in an Open Global Economy”, “Green Silk Road for Harmony with Nature” and “Digital Economy as a New Source of Growth”.
The presidential visit to Beijing will also allow both countries to announce the expansion of its monetary agreementswhich has as a precedent the currency swaps that allowed the BCRA’s reserves to be strengthened with yuan provided by the People’s Bank of China (official monetary entity of that country).
“The central banks of the two countries have a parallel work agenda. On this occasion, they are going to activate the Memorandum of Understanding MOU (for its acronym in English), which has four areas of action: Economic Investigations, International, Superintendency and Operations, which includes the management of the ‘swap’,” official sources stated. .
In an interview with the news agency Xinhua of China, Fernández highlighted the country’s incorporation into the Belt and Road Initiative, and assured that it is a project that “It promotes the development of Argentina and is a paradigm of multilateralism”. “When we signed our entry into the Belt and Road, we did so precisely with the idea of achieving a deeper, more strategic agreement with China,” he stressed and stressed that his trip to the Asian giant aims to see “how to move forward” in that sense. .
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