Anna Bligh, state premier of Queensland in east Australia, will travel to China and the United States in the next 10 days to promote the state's tourism, export and biotechnology industries.
Bligh's first stop will be Hong Kong for a state reception on Tuesday, before flying to Beijing for three days.
She said on Monday that China was potentially the world's largest tourism market and while the global financial crisis has shown Queensland's resources industry was benefiting from growing demand from China, it was important to have a diversified economy.
"China is one of our largest trading partners. Keeping our trade links going, and growing them is now more important than ever," she told reporters in the tourist city of Gold Coast.
Bligh said it was just as important to keep trade links in big areas like mining open with China, as it was to break into new industries like biotechnology.
She will then fly to Washington where she will lead 70 Queensland delegates at the Bio 2011 conference.
"This is the 13th year in a row that Queensland has been represented by a premier at the Bio Conference, the biggest bio event in the world," she said.
Editor: Zhang Xiang
English.news.cn 2011-06-20 17:55:31 FeedbackPrintRSS
BRISBANE, June 20 (Xinhua)
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