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CHANGSHA, China : Singapore could deepen its cooperation and relationship with central China, said Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Wednesday.
Mr Lee was in Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province, for the second leg of his visit in China.
At a meeting with Hunan Party Secretary Zhou Qiang, Mr Lee said that both sides could move beyond economic and financial cooperation to include new areas such as culture, education, tourism and training.
Party Secretary Zhou invited Singapore enterprises to participate in the development of the Chang-Zhu-Tan City Cluster.
The new development zone spans across three cities - Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan - which together account for half of the province's GDP growth.
Prime Minister Lee, who was in Chongqing in the morning, toured the city's Liangjiang New Area - a development zone which enjoys preferential policies.
It is slated to be the next engine of growth for the municipality.
Mr Lee also visited the office of Great Eastern Life China, a joint-venture between Singapore-based Great Eastern Life and Chongqing Land Property.
Great Eastern is the biggest Singapore investor in Chongqing, as well as the largest foreign joint-venture life insurer in revenue in western China.
- CNA/al
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