miércoles, 15 de diciembre de 2010

A plan to triple in 2012 Chinese tourism

The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce wants the 89,523 Chinese tourists arriving in Spain in 2009 to be 300,000 in 2012 and one million in 2020. To this end, the holder of the portfolio, Miguel Sebastian, has used his official visit to China to present the China Tourism Plan. However, this niche market grew last year by 2.9% over the previous 470% in the last decade.

This package will include the development of guides on Spain in Mandarin, adjusting meal times, training for tour guides and exploring ways to increase the frequency of direct flights between China and Spain.
For now, Spain has two tourist offices in China, in Beijing and Guangzhou, although the government is considering strengthening the promotion campaign in China and the Chinese tourism.
Spain Tourism

Spain is not a relevant target of China's foreign investment, which represents less than 1% of foreign direct contribution, while Spain goes to China for 1.8% of direct investment. The minister "trusts" that the forthcoming visit to Spain of Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, are finally closed several contracts which will provide 1,000 million euros in investments in China.
One of the awards "unlocked thanks to work done by all parties is that of Villar Mir, which plans to invest 860 million euros in two factories of silicon and power complex and the Chinese tourism..

Chinese tourism

Another contract is closed and the Spanish company ENSA nuclear equipment and SENPEC China, which will provide two steam generators at a nuclear future China 100 million euros and the Chinese tourism..
For his part, stressed the importance Sebastian to be opening an office in Spain in the Chinese bank Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), scheduled for January 24, to attract investment from China to Spain and to make Bridge for SMEs that decide to export to China.

martes, 7 de diciembre de 2010

U.S. wins U.S. $ 12,000 million to the rescue of Citigroup


The Treasury Department United States has sold the last package of shares held in Citigroup in exchange for their support during the financial crisis.
Have entered the public purse of $ 10,440 million (7.828 million euros) for the sale of 7% of shares still owned by the state, so the gross profit of the whole speech was about 12,000 million dollars (8.985 million euros) and the U.S. Economy.

City Group

The government injected between 2008 and 2009 to 45,000 million dollars in the state, the operation which took control over 36% of the capital stock of Citigroup. Citi paid $ 20,000 million in preferred stock and another 25,000 billion dollars were converted into common shares of the bank, which were held by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Economy..

U.S. Economy


"With the sale of remaining shares of Citigroup have had the opportunity to achieve substantial benefits for taxpayers and avoid future risks," said Tim Massad, representative of the Treasury and the U.S. Economy..
"With this transaction, we advance our goals of recovering funds (TARP, created in the Bush administration to save the banks), to protect the interests of taxpayers and to end government involvement in the companies," he said and the U.S. Economy.