China’s Xinjiang party chief Ma Xingrui meets top Temasek executives from Singapore
- Both traditional energy sources and new ones such as wind and solar power feature in talks as Xinjiang eyes foreign investment
Ma Xingrui, party secretary for the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, met Temasek chairman Lim Boon Heng and executive director and CEO Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara in the regional capital Urumqi on Monday, the official Xinjiang Daily reported.
One focus of the talks was the energy sector, including traditional sources such as oil, gas and coal, as well as new energy sources such as wind and solar power, the paper said.
Xinjiang – with its strong winds and long daylight hours – topped the country in the first half of this year in terms of newly installed capacity for new energy, which more than doubled from the same period a year ago, official data showed.
Temasek also hopes to strengthen cooperation with Xinjiang in cultural exchanges and tourism, according to the report.
Senior Xinjiang officials and representatives of state-owned enterprises based in the region also attended the meeting.
The vast Xinjiang region is home to nearly 26 million people, about two-thirds of whom are members of ethnic minorities, including the mostly Muslim Uygurs and Kazakhs.
