Foreign Advisers to Meet for Development of Guangdong

Guangdong Province in south China is to hold its second consultative conference on economic development at which foreign advisers to the provincial governor will offer their advice.

Altogether 25 foreign advisers, including John Browne from BP Amoco, Peter Knook from Microsoft, Mark Moody Stuart from the Royal Dutch-Shell Group and Dr. Colin Lucas from University of Oxford, are scheduled to attend the meeting slated for November 15-16 in Guangzhou, the provincial capital.

Patrzio Bianchi, a professor from an Italy's think tank on industrial development policies, the first foreign adviser who arrived in Guangzhou Monday afternoon, is expected to discuss the possibility of setting up a branch of the think tank in China.

From 1999, Guangdong Governor Lu Ruihua began to invite economists and senior officials of multinational companies to offer advice on the province's economic development.

Guangdong is one of the fastest development regions in China.



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