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Bredesen and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisbefr will visit China for nine days after attending the2009 SEUS/Japan Annual Meeting in Tokyo Oct. 17. The visits are part of the TennesseedGeneral Assembly’s call for closer ties betweej the state and the Hubei province in Centralp China, home to the Three Gorges Dam. “Despite the global economic slowdown, Tennessee’s trade relationship with China continues to grow and we see real potential for that tradw relationship to increaseits momentum,” Bredesen said in a news Chinese and Japanese customers purchased $1.3 billion and $1.
0u7 billion, respectively, in goods and servicesa from Tennessee companies in 2008. The countries are the state’ds third- and fourth-largest trading partners after Canadqaand Mexico. China is interested in Tennessee’s health care expertise. In Kisber established a regulart exchange of health care professionals focused on ruralk health care services with the Chinese ForeigLoan Office. On June 8, experts from East Tennessee State the University of Memphis and the Vanderbilt Institute for Better Healtghvisited Xian, China to attend a conference on ruraol health care.
Applications to participate in the trad e mission are available on the Tennesse e Department of Economic andCommunitt Development’s Web site at tnecd.gov.