Signing ceremony site

On February 25th, Chen Shaowang, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor, met with Mutaz Gando, co-founder of UAE Meidi Group, and his delegation at Bangchuidao Hotel, and witnessed the signing of the water project agreement of Xizhongdao Petrochemical Base between Changxing Island Economic Zone Management Committee and Meidi Investment (Dalian) Co., Ltd. Ruimi Gando, CEO of Meidi Group, Liu Alei, President of Meidi Group China, Liu Enju, Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor, and Tang Yi, Secretary General of the Municipal Government attended the meeting.

On behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, Chen Shaowang welcomed the visit of Mutaz Gando and his delegation and congratulated the signing of the project. He said that Dalian is the leader and window of Northeast China's opening to the outside world, the bridgehead of Eurasia, and an important node city of "the belt and road initiative". At present, we are fully implementing the spirit of Xi's important speech and important instructions during his inspection in Liaoning, anchoring the strategic positioning of "twoleading areas", focusing on the goals and tasks of "six constructions", deepening all-round, multi-field, in-depth and high-level opening to the outside world, and accelerating the construction of China's important coastal central cities, modern marine cities and international comprehensive transportation hub cities.

Chen Shaowang said that Meidi Group has leading technologies in water resources management fields such as seawater desalination and sewage treatment, and has many points of convergence and broad prospects for cooperation with Dalian. The Liaoning Friendship Economic and Trade Delegation visited the United Arab Emirates in January last year, and held discussions with Meidi Group on matters such as investing in seawater desalination projects inDalian and setting up China headquarters. In July, Meidi Group's China headquarters officially settled in Dalian, which fully reflected the Group's high recognition of Dalian's investment environment and its firm confidence in its development in Dalian. It is hoped that Meidi Group will take this signing as an opportunity to promote the early start, early construction and early production of the water project of Xizhongdao Petrochemical Base, speed up the layout of more industrial projects in Dalian, and actively promote Dalian to drive more entrepreneurs and friends from the Middle Eastto Daliantoinspects and invests. We will continue to create a stable, fair, transparent and predictable market-oriented, legal and international first-class business environment, and create better conditions and provide better services for all kinds of enterprises, including Meidi Group, to invest and develop in China.

Mutaz Gando thanked relevant parties in Dalian for their concern and support for the development of enterprises. He said that Meidi Group will build the water project of Xizhongdao Petrochemical Base into a demonstration project for the group to explore the Chinese market, and use the China headquarters as a platform to continue to increase its investment layout in China and serve as a good economic and trade relationship between enterprises in the Middle East and Dalian. A bridge for exchanges and make greater contributions to the high-quality development of Dalian.

After the meeting, Chen Shaowang and Mutaz Gando attended the signing ceremony together. According to the agreement, Meidi Investment (Dalian) Co., Ltd. will jointly build industrial water and seawater desalination water supply projects with state-owned companies in Changxing Island Economic Zone at Xizhongdao Petrochemical Base to provide various water supply needs for enterprises in the park.