Presidenta Chinchilla Ends Visit to China and Travels to South Korea

Costa Rican Presidenta Laura Chinchilla, spoke with authorities in the province of Shaanxi in the final stage of her visit to China, after which she traveled to South Korea, the other stage of a tour that began in Shanghai.



In Shaanxi the Presidenta  and her delegation held talks with Zhao Zhengyong, governor of the territory, with which she hopes to expand cooperation in education, energy and construction of infrastructure.

They also visited the Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Emperor Qin Shihuang, the old city wall of Xian, the provincial capital, and other historic sites, according to information from the site.

Chinchilla traveled to Shaanxi after caring out a busy program in Beijing, where she also attended a business forum to promote trade and investment opportunities, including the country as a tourist destination, and the ceremony of the signing of several cooperation agreements in fields like health, agriculture, oil and air services (training).

Another refers to the beginning of a strategic partnership with a view to building a special economic zone in Costa Rica.

Besides these agreements there was an understanding memorandum for co-organizing the VII Business Summit China-Latin America, to be held in San Jose next year.

In all these meetings, the parties congratulated the progress in bilateral relations, first between China and a Central American country, established on June 1, 2007. These links include a free trade agreement signed in April 2010 and in force since August last year.

These week contacts will mark the beginning of a new stage in the bilateral relations, which have among other developments, a visit here in October 2007 of the then President Oscar Arias, reciprocated by Hu in November of the following year.