Mr Salmond - Salmond's Year Of The Dragon Wishes - The Press Association

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First Minister Alex Salmond possesses longer his "good wishes" to China prior to the country's brand new year celebrations.

The Chinese Year from the Dragon begins upon Monday, along with 15 days to weeks associated with celebrations to help follow.

In his different calendar year message, Mr Salmond said: "As most people enter in the Year of that Dragon - not a symbolic representation to help become feared but as an alternative certainly one of enjoy - ?t had been my own personal wonderful bundle in order to reach Premier Wen (Jiabao) a week ago at the earth summit I went to around Abu Dhabi.

"I extended that will your ex the favorable wants in the people of Scotland along with indicated that will we look for notice the relationship somewhere between some of our nations increase within the approaching year. We have certainly observed each of our friendship grow from durability in order to strength in the past year."

Last month, Mr Salmond compensated his third visit towards region in as numerous many years around your bid to create buy and sell plus personal links. He stated it had been some sort of "huge success".

At the conclusion of their trip, Mr Salmond introduced an enterprise website could well be build to encourage more introductions in between Chinese in addition to Scottish companies, used also consider in the two countries. The strategy had been outlined using vice-minister Chen Jian in the Ministry regarding Commerce inside Beijing.

He also said that Scottish-owned company Quality Qualifications International had struck an arrangement to prepare the subsequent generation connected with essential oil in addition to energy trades-people from China.

It is a second electrical power alliance by using Shandong state adhering to an headline the fact that European Marine Energy Centre throughout Orkney is fine together with the particular Ocean University of China on wave check facilities.

The chance of your primary air flow connection among Scotland along with China will always be explored, as will probably probable national infrastructure expense out of sovereign success pay for China Investment Corporation.