A delegation from China’s Yinchuan City recently visited Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority (Dafza) to discuss potential avenues of collaboration and the prevailing business and investment environments of China and Dubai.

Vice mayor Guo Bai Chun, deputy mayor of Yinchuan City, the provincial capital of China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, led a high-level group of international affairs, financial, administrative and health officials committed to forging strong ties in various social and economic areas, said a statement from Dafza.

The visiting delegates were received by Dr Mohammed Al Zarooni, director general of Dubai Airport Freezone (Dafza) and also included Zhao Bo, commissioner of foreign affairs; Tian Yong Hua, director of health commission; Yong Hui, commissioner of treasury; Yang Zhao Hua, commissioner of administration and audit; and Yu De Wai, director of secretarial office, it added.

Over the past years Dafza has witnessed a significant rise in the number of Chinese companies interested in doing business with the free zone due to our strategic location, advanced infrastructure and services, and the success of the Chinese enterprises we have been hosting, said the statement.

Al Zarooni held discussions with deputy mayor Bai Chun and his group regarding Dafza’s capabilities to meet Yinchuan's business and investment needs and to ensure mutually beneficial growth moving forward, it stated.

The UAE is China's largest export market in the Gulf, and Dafza has conducted informative seminars in China to outline the benefits of partnering with Dubai and specifically Dafza and also using the free zone as an entry point to the thriving Gulf and broader Middle East and North Africa (Mena) markets, it said.

China is currently among Dafza’s primary target markets under its ongoing global expansion plan, it added. – TradeArabia News Service