Edmund Ho Hau Wah, chief executive of China's Macao Special Administrative Region, left Macao Wednesday to attend the second Expo Central China to be held Thursday in Zhengzhou, Henan province.

Ho is to attend the opening ceremony of the Expo and the signing ceremony of Major Cooperation Projects on Pushing Industrial Shift on Thursday, according to a press release issued by Macao's Information Bureau.

He is also scheduled to deliver a speech in the Central China Business Summit 2007, said the release.

During his two-day visit, Ho will meet with Henan's communist party chief Xu Guangchun and the province's governor Li Chengyu.

The three-day Expo Central China 2007 provides a platform for traders and investors from various countries and regions to fully understand investment and trade policies of the central area, to obtain information on priority projects and commodities, and to start trade relationship and industrial development.

The Expo is co-sponsored by the six provincial governments of Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan and Henan.

Source: Xinhua