Councillor Gastón continues her official visit to China and leads a conference on logistics in front of more than 150 businessmen and officials.
In the last few hours, the government of the Chinese town Yiwu has signed a document of accession with Aragon Logistics Platform (APL), an initiative promoted by the Government of Aragon that has the public collaboration of other administrations and private companies, a strategy that seeks to promote and reorder the logistics sector in the Region through the unification of management and marketing of the Regional Government’s platform, as well as through the synergies promoted by all the agents involved. The general secretary of Yiwu, Sheng Qiuping, has signed the agreement accompanied by the councillor for Economy, Industry and Employment, Marta Gastón -responsible for the company APL- in the city of Yiwu, where she is on an official visit to strengthen relations with this important point of global distribution, and which houses the largest sales centre on the planet aimed at the traditional market, and the second biggest in terms of distribution volume in the electronic market. Yiwu – through its logistics platform (Yiwu International Land Port Group Corporation) – will be part of the advisory committees and design logistics strategies to develop the sector.
Qiuoing explained to councillor Gastón that, “for Yiwu, Zaragoza has huge potential as a land port,” highlight Aragon’s logistics development and the Chinese interest in strengthening relationships. The senior representative was pleased that the company Timex has finally chosen to make the Aragonese capital one of the stops on the so-called Silk Train, which allows them strengthen economic relationships between the two regions via the rail union. This fact, as well as the signing of APL’s Letter of Commitment by the Secretary General, represents a further step in this link, started in 2015 by President Javier Lambán in Zaragoza with Quiuping himself, and which has subsequently been developed via six official Chinese visits to Aragon.
That reciprocal interest has been highlighted by Marta Gastón, who during the meeting held with the senior Chinese representative, recalled the words she had spoken just minutes before at the Yiwu government headquarters before more than 150 businessmen and officials linked to the country’s foreign trade and administrative representatives from the region, gathered to attend a logistics conference on Aragón. In her first official visit to this city, the councillor pointed out that “Yiwu and Aragon have important shared aspects, a dynamic, prosperous, open, diversified and competitive economy.” And the arrival of the Silk Train “unites our purposes and the development of our economies”.
