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investors visit Guiuan;
Evardone welcomes more businesses to the province
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Governor
Ben P. Evardone (center) poses with Chinese investors
during a site visit at Cali-coan Island in Guiuan. The
Chinese nationals are interested in putting up various
businesses in Guiuan town. Evardone is wooing foreign
and local investors to uplift the economic condition
of Eastern Samar.
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Governor
Ben P. Evardone personally accompanied a group of 10 Chinese
investors who visited very recently for a site survey to possible
business ventures in the municipality of Guiuan.
Evardone said he is hopeful that the group of Chinese nationals
will put up investments in the province, particularly in Guiuan,
as economic potential in the area is very high. “We
are grooming up Guiuan as the next eco-tourism hub in the
country as the place offers a lot when it comes to tour sites,
cultural and historical heritage, natural wealth and human
resources,” Evardone said.
The prospect investors, all natives of Wuhan City of Hu-bei
province in China, are eyeing on telecommunications, hotels
& restaurants, agriculture developments, mining industry
and other tourism related services as possible business enterprises
that can be established in Guiuan.
The
Chinese, led by Steve Yang, already have existing commercial
industries in other parts of the Philippines and in Asia.
“This group is convinced that there is huge economic
future in Eastern Samar and is willing to help the province
in improving its economic situation,” says Yang, apparently
the only Chinese in the group who can speak English.
Mayor Analiz Kwan is likewise exuberant in welcoming the foreigners.
“We will continue to promote Guiuan to attract more
local and foreign investors,” Kwan said during the group’s
courtesy call to the mayor upon its arrival. “As of
the moment, you are very much a priority,” Kwan said
to the Chinese nationals.
Recently, Governor Evardone and Mayor Kwan made a business
trip to South Korea to forge an agreement with a Korean real
estate company for the construction and establishment of 200-room
Intercontinental Hotel also in Guiuan.
Evardone
also divulged that another Korean company intends to put up
a 700-room hotel in this southern municipality. “All
we have to do is to improve the road conditions in the province,
electric services and rehabilitate the already existing airport
in Guiuan for commercial flights,” says Evardone, “and
the project will certainly be pushed through.”
During his inauguration, the governor in his speech, reported
as well that a Chinese company will soon start the construction
of Amandaraga Hydropower Plant in Lawaan worth P700 million.
The project is set to provide the energy requirements of four
gateway municipalities: Lawaan, Balangiga, Giporlos and Quinapondan.
(BRYAN M. AZURA Media Affairs Office, PGO)
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