唐市长武汉访问团

唐良智率团访匹兹堡和底特律 取得系列招商成果

美国联邦航太将在汉生产直升机

本报美国底特律讯（记者瞿凌云）20至21日，市长唐良智率团访问友城匹兹堡和汽车城底特律，与匹兹堡市市长签署合作备忘录外，还取得系列招商成果，其中包括美国联邦航太控股集团在汉建亚太直升机生产基地，上海通用拟在汉扩大投资等。

今年是我市与匹兹堡市缔结友好城市关系30周年，唐良智与该市市长卢克

·雷文斯塔尔签署《2012武汉匹兹堡备忘录》：两市保持密切联系和高层领导人互访；加强经济联系及经贸合作；深化科技、体育、文化、教育、生物

医药、金融服务、环保及旅游等领域的合作等。

唐良智考察了匹兹堡机场，并与机场CEO就开通武汉—匹兹堡机场货运航线事宜进行了商讨。在AGL公司，双方就 AGL公司在武汉开发区投资建厂事宜交换意见。

在底特律，唐良智参观了美国通用汽车博物馆和通用技术研发中心，欣赏了通用近年来开发设计并即将上市的多款车型。双方就上海通用在汉扩大投资项目进行了沟通。

总部位于佛罗里达州墨尔本市的美国联邦航太与我市签订协议，计划在汉建亚太直升机生产基地，第一年计划生产组装200架整机与各种零部件，三年内达到生产600架整机的规模。

此外，武汉竹叶山集团与总部位于新泽西州的美国潘娜品诺（Panepinto）签约，双方投资10亿美元在后湖地区建国际性的大型商业地产。据悉，这是潘娜品诺首次在中国布局项目，业态包括购物中心、室内游乐场、五星级酒店、电影院、超市、写字楼与豪华住宅等。

市委常委、武汉开发区工委书记朱毅，市委常委、东湖高新区党工委书记马旭明，市政府秘书长郭胜伟等陪同考察。

Sept. 18, 2012, 8:14 p.m. EDT

China Partners with Space Coast for Aircraft Purchases

City of Wuhan triggers $28 million deal for planes and helicopters

MELBOURNE, Fla., Sep 18, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- With a promise of "bringing jobs back to America," officials with the city of Wuhan, China and Federal Aerospace Holdings Group announced today agreements to purchase

100 fixed- and rotary -wing aircraft from area manufacturers, including 50 Liberty Aerospace XL2s.

The announcement holds the promise for a long-term, lucrative relationship for Space Coast aircraft and avionics

suppliers to China's vast new general aviation market. China, which historically limited flights to commercial and

military aircraft, plans to open all its airspace to general aviation flights by 2015.

"We are very excited not just about today, but about the long-term prospects for Wuhan and the Space Coast," said Chad Lewis, managing director of North America for Federal Aerospace, who estimated the fiscal impact in jobs and manufacturing at $28 million.

Federal Aerospace Holdings Group LLC, a U.S. investment firm specializing in the development of the Chinese

general aviation market, arranged the delegation's visit to the United States.

Preliminary plans are for the China Aviation Industrial Base to purchase 50 XL2, two-seat training/touring aircraft

from Melbourne-based Liberty Aerospace and 50 four-seat helicopters, which Federal Aerospace will acquire from U.S. manufacturers.

"We are genuinely excited about this," said Paul M. Bartlett, Liberty president and CEO. "The relationship formed

today will enable Liberty Aerospace to enter the growing Chinese general aviation market."

Plans are for flight training to occur on the Space Coast, as well. The officials also toured the Florida Institute of

Technology's flight operations building at the Melbourne International Airport and Bristow Academy in Titusville on Tuesday.

Wuhan Vice Secretary General Li Zuoqing and Melbourne Mayor Harry Goode formalized cooperative agreements among Wuhan, Melbourne and the Economic Development Commission of Florida's Space Coast at a news

conference held the airport.

武汉此次成功参访之行获得中外媒体大篇幅广泛报道