A 20-member delegation from Taiwan, led by Chien-Nan Kuo, CEO Yu Tong Steel reached out to the Indian investors and members of World Trade Centre Mumbai. In a joint effort to encourage bilateral trade, an ‘Interactive meeting on 2015 Taiwan Trade Mission India,’ was organized by WTC Mumbai, All India Association of Industries and Taiwan External Trade Development Council on May 15, at the World Trade Centre.

In her welcome address, Emma Yang, Director of Taipei World Trade Centre presented the Taiwan delegation with a warm ‘Namaste’. Yang highlighted the grand food fair that is organized annually in Taiwan. She announced a joint delegation of WTC Mumbai and WTC Taipei to the food fair. She emphasised the importance of Taiwan market for international investors as it is good testing market for Asia.

Rupa Naik, Director (Projects) in her opening remarks called the visit an encouraging development in Indo-Taipei ties. She said that there were ample opportunities for investments in India. Apart from Mumbai, Naik emphasized the immense scope for new projects and investments in Bhubaneshwar, Jaipur and Goa. Naik also called upon Indian investors to visit Taipei.

In his remarks, the delegation leader, Chien-Nan Kuo, CEO, Yu Tong Steel Company introduced the are 20 members from various sectors representing hardware, livestock, poultry, food processing, water treatment, education, software, steel, metal, air-cooling, engineering, electrical and solar power companies, and so on.

Richmond from Get Kuang Enterprise expressed his happiness over India’s progress and expressed a lot of confidence under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership. He said, “You have a huge population that can actually boost the economy and under Modi’s leadership Indian economy is sure to overtake China and America.”

While answering a question from an Indian consultant as to how Taipei will compete with China’s aggressive marketing in India, Yang said, Taipei has brought large companies to Gujarat when Modi was the CM, like China steel company, thanks to his open door policy and is hopeful this policy at the national level will ensure more Taiwanese companies will enter the Indian markets.

Executive Director, Y R Warerkar in his vote of thanks appreciated the efforts of Taipei World Trade Centre organized by Emma Yang. He pointed out that Taiwan and India have been growing steadily due to mutual cooperation in science and technology, culture and educational exchange.

Warerkar also mentioned the recent to visit Taiwan by WTC Chairman, Kamal Morarka and Vice Chairman Vijay Kalantri along with other officials.

Caption: L-R Rupa Naik, Director- Projects, WTC Mumbai, Chien-Nan Kuo, CEO, Yu Tong Steel Co. Ltd., Y. R. Warerkar, Executive Director, WTC Mumbai & Emma Yang, Director, Taipei World Trade Center, (Mumbai) during an interactive meeting on May 15 2015 held at WTC Mumbai