President Chavez met with high-level Chinese delegation
The Asian group travels the country to plan projects. He heads the party president of China Development Bank, Liu Kegu


Prensa Web RNV / Presidential Press
May 16, 2010, 1:56 PM Increase Decrease


Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Saturday night met with members of the high-level Chinese delegation that for several days on a visit to Venezuela.

"We went to talk to Liu Kegu, the top envoy of the Chinese government and more than 20 Chinese and Chinese citizens who were traveling through the area of iron," said the head of state in the opening minutes of the program Alo Presidente 357, from state Cojedes .

After completing the swearing of the basic business policy of Guyana, the president spoke to the planning team from the Asian nation.

"We were working last night, estimating, rounding the iron reserves is Venezuela. They were amazed at what they saw, because they are full of iron hills, a giant Chinese reserve and takes a long iron, a lot of steel, "he said.

The meeting served to address the agenda and expose the chief of the impressions obtained by visits made by the commission to places like the Orinoco Oil Belt and basic industries.

"We are putting together a structure Chinese-Venezuelan joint ventures to raise production, bringing Chinese investment, Chinese technology," the President Chavez.

Today should be sweeping the gold area, are interested in raising gold production. A coal area Monday and Tuesday Guasare go to the area of aluminum are this afternoon also, another group, which is there in the Pijiguaos, where the bauxite.

He said on Sunday the Chinese delegation to visit the area of gold and aluminum, while the region will travel Monday to Guasare Guyana, known as the zone of coal.

"This will allow us to craft a strategy with this colossal giant that is China, with its investment, with its technology, to raise and strengthen the core businesses, but also making Guyana a socialist platform," he said.

Participants at the meeting Minister Jose Khan, Basic Industries and Mining, Jorge Giordani, Planning and Finance; Isis Ochoa, the Office of the Presidency, and Tania Diaz, Communication and Information.

Also present were directors of the Ferrominera del Orinoco, Minerva and the governor of Bolivar state, Francisco Rangel Gomez.

On 17 April the governments of China and Venezuela signed seven legal instruments for the development of the national electricity system and operating in the Orinoco Oil Belt, through joint ventures, assistance and technology transfer.

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