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Bredesen and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber will visi China for nine days after attending the2009 SEUS/Japan Annuap Meeting in Tokyo Oct. 17. The visits are part of the TennessereGeneral Assembly’s call for closer ties between the statew and the Hubei province in Central home to the Three Gorges Dam. “Despite the globall economic slowdown, Tennessee’s trade relationshil with China continues to grow and we see real potentiakl for that trade relationship to increasdeits momentum,” Bredesen said in a news release. Chinese and Japanesee customerspurchased $1.3 billion and $1.07 billion, in goods and services from Tennessee companies in 2008.
The countriese are the state’s third- and fourth-largest tradint partners after Canadaand Mexico. Chinw is interested in Tennessee’s health care In October, Kisber establishes a regular exchange of health care professionals focusee on rural health care servicezs with the Chinese Foreign Loan OnJune 8, experts from East Tennessee Statde University, the University of Memphiss and the Vanderbilt Institute for Better Healtyh visited Xian, China to attend a conference on ruralo health care. Applications to participate in the trad e mission are available on the Tennessee Department of Economif andCommunity Development’s Web site at tnecd.gov.