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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->DEPUTY Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng leaves today for a five-day official visit to China.
Mr Wong, who is visiting the country at the invitation of Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan, will hold meetings on two Sino-Singapore flagship projects - the eco-city in Tianjin and the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP).
In the northern port city of Tianjin, he will co-chair the inaugural Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Joint Steering Council meeting with Mr Wang. The meeting will take stock of the progress of and chart directions for the project, according to a press statement by Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
DPM Wong, who is also Home Affairs Minister, will also co-chair the 10th SIP Joint Steering Council and the fifth Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) meetings with Mr Wang.
Mr Wang is the new Chinese co-chair of JCBC, taking over from his retired predecessor, Madam Wu Yi.
These meetings will review and explore new areas of cooperation, said the MFA in its joint press statement with the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of National Development.
In Tianjin, DPM Wong will meet Tianjin party secretary Zhang Gaoli, Tianjin mayor Huang Xingguo and other municipal leaders as well as receive briefings on the eco-city and the Tianjin Binhai New Area.
On Thursday and Friday, he will visit Beijing to meet Premier Wen Jiabao and State Councillor and Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu. Accompanying DPM Wong will be National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang, Minister (Prime Minister's Office) Lim Swee Say, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, Senior Minister of State (Foreign Affairs) Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State (National Development and Education) Grace Fu, Minister of State (Trade and Industry) Lee Yi Shyan and senior officials.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>DPM Wong and four ministers on visit to China
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->DEPUTY Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng leaves today for a five-day official visit to China.
Mr Wong, who is visiting the country at the invitation of Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan, will hold meetings on two Sino-Singapore flagship projects - the eco-city in Tianjin and the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP).
In the northern port city of Tianjin, he will co-chair the inaugural Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City Joint Steering Council meeting with Mr Wang. The meeting will take stock of the progress of and chart directions for the project, according to a press statement by Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).
DPM Wong, who is also Home Affairs Minister, will also co-chair the 10th SIP Joint Steering Council and the fifth Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) meetings with Mr Wang.
Mr Wang is the new Chinese co-chair of JCBC, taking over from his retired predecessor, Madam Wu Yi.
These meetings will review and explore new areas of cooperation, said the MFA in its joint press statement with the Ministry of Trade and Industry and Ministry of National Development.
In Tianjin, DPM Wong will meet Tianjin party secretary Zhang Gaoli, Tianjin mayor Huang Xingguo and other municipal leaders as well as receive briefings on the eco-city and the Tianjin Binhai New Area.
On Thursday and Friday, he will visit Beijing to meet Premier Wen Jiabao and State Councillor and Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu. Accompanying DPM Wong will be National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan, Trade and Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang, Minister (Prime Minister's Office) Lim Swee Say, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan, Senior Minister of State (Foreign Affairs) Balaji Sadasivan, Senior Minister of State (National Development and Education) Grace Fu, Minister of State (Trade and Industry) Lee Yi Shyan and senior officials.