Chinese bizman takes Bahrain route to US

Manama

Chinese businessman Liu Jiahui, who is on a five-day business tour to Bahrain, is enamoured with the business milieu in Bahrain. “Bahrain is a better place to invest than Dubai,” he feels.

Liu had come to Bahrain to explore the business opportunities, especially something related to export for the USA from Bahrain owing to its Free Trade Agreement.

He had gone to Dubai also and received many invitations from there. But after comparing both the places, he was convinced that Bahrain was a better place to do business.

According to him, Dubai is far expensive than Bahrain. “Dubai has made its name only because of its business propaganda the world over. Meanwhile, Bahrain offers many big facilities to the foreign investors,” he said, and added that he liked the way foreign investors are treated here.

Liu, who owns two big factories of ceramics and garments in China, said: “I will come back again in October with some proposal of a viable export to the US.”

He said that he wanted to make Bahrain the centre of his business in the whole Gulf region. Liu had planned to send his son, who had just finished his high school, to the USA for learning English. But now he has changed his mind. “I will bring him here with me where he can learn English from the British Council.”

Abdul Karim Al Fulaij, who helped Liu visit the industrial area of Bahrain and understand the Bahraini market, said that Liu was a very big businessman in China and he knew him for the last 15 years.

He has two factories there –in Foshan and Ghanzhon. “He has full support in Guangdong Chamber of Commerce. He is willing to do a joint venture because of the Free Trade Agreement with the US,” Fulaij said, and added that Liu wanted to bring aluminum tiles here, quite famous for the decoration of houses.