Sixteen Chinese MBA students from the University of Illinois at Chicago were in Galesburg Monday for a forum at the Knox Agri Center. The event was sponsored by the Galesburg Regional Economic Development Association. The students had an informal get-together with GREDA board members and some local residents Sunday. After the forum, the students toured the Lincoln and Underground Railroad sites at Knox College and got a look at the BNSF Railway yard here from the County Highway 10 bridge. The students, from Ningxia Province in northwest China, gave a PowerPoint presentation about the advantages of investing in their region. Mayor Gary Smith said the students are taking the two-year UIC MBA program “on a special, accelerated program. They’re the first representatives from Ningxia Province to ever be at (UIC), so they are the best of the best, the future leaders of their province.” Most visits to Galesburg by Chinese business people have focused on local efforts to persuade companies to locate in Logistics Park-Galesburg. GREDA Executive Director Greg Mangieri said, in this case, both areas are looking for economic development investments. “I think we’re looking for reciprocal opportunities,” Mangieri said. Zhu Dong, deputy division chief of the Ningxia Investment Promotion Bureau, was refreshingly open. He said 30,000 people in the province have jobs because of foreign investment from 24 countries, including Japan, the U.S., Great ...
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Sixteen Chinese MBA students from the University of Illinois at Chicago were in Galesburg Monday for a forum at the Knox Agri Center. The event was sponsored by the Galesburg Regional Economic Development Association. The students had an informal get-together with GREDA board members and some local residents Sunday. After the forum, the students toured the Lincoln and Underground Railroad sites at Knox College and got a look at the BNSF Railway yard here from the County Highway 10 bridge. The students, from Ningxia Province in northwest China, gave a PowerPoint presentation about the advantages of investing in their region. Mayor Gary Smith said the students are taking the two-year UIC MBA program “on a special, accelerated program. They’re the first representatives from Ningxia Province to ever be at (UIC), so they are the best of the best, the future leaders of their province.” Most visits to Galesburg by Chinese business people have focused on local efforts to persuade companies to locate in Logistics Park-Galesburg. GREDA Executive Director Greg Mangieri said, in this case, both areas are looking for economic development investments. “I think we’re looking for reciprocal opportunities,” Mangieri said. Zhu Dong, deputy division chief of the Ningxia Investment Promotion Bureau, was refreshingly open. He said 30,000 people in the province have jobs because of foreign investment from 24 countries, including Japan, the U.S., Great ...