Global Courant 2023-04-21 07:00:22
Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina received representatives of the Chinese textile company Texhong, who expressed their intention to invest at least 400 million dollars in the country.
After the opening of relations between Honduras and China on March 26, the foreign minister has had meetings with Chinese diplomats and businessmen who refine the frameworks of cooperation and trade between both nations.
The Foreign Ministry specified that the investors transferred the intention to build at least six production factories, one of them in the city of Choloma, department of Cortés.
Texhong of China would be generating more than 7,000 direct jobs, the Foreign Ministry added after the meeting between Reina and Chinese investors.
In addition to commercial efforts, the process of phytosanitary requirements that Honduras has asked China to introduce products such as shrimp and others into Chinese territory has also been added.
Currently in Honduras there is a Chinese delegation working in the embassy facility, a delegation of seven people led by the counselor of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Yu Bo.
Also in Honduras is the director of the department for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Chinese government, Cai Wei.
The government is preparing the trip of President Xiomara Castro to China where she will meet with her counterpart, Xi Jinping. In said meeting, the cooperation agreements that will be signed will be established and clearly establish in which areas and projects there will be investment.
