Ambassador Met With Mr.Xue Qingguo Vice Mayor of Qingdao

Ambassador Thorir Ibsen met with Vice Mayor Xue Qingguo at the City Hall of Qingdao. William Freyr Huntingdon-Williams, Deputy Head of Mission, and Petur Yang Li, Trade Counsellor of the Embassy of Iceland in Beijing participated also in the meeting as did Mou Jundian, Director Genneral of Qingdao Municipal FAO, Wang Xiaoxun, Deputy Director General of Qingdao Municipal Marine Development Bureau and Wang Xiangyu, Deputy Director General of Qingdao Municipal FAO. They discussed the strong relations between Iceland and the city of Qingdao through the China Fisheries & Seafood Expo and the operations and investments of Iceland’s Eimskip. The meeting confirmed that there is strong interest in further marine related cooperation, such as in the areas of ocean research, marine related businesses and high-tech fish processing such as the one of Iceland’s Marel as well as further people-to-people relations.