On July 11th, Mr. Pan Jiang, Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Cooperation NDRC, who also serves as Head of the External Affairs Coordination and Promotion Group of the Office of the Leading Group for Promoting the Construction of the Belt and Road, met with Aketa Atsuhiro, Chief Executive for China Hitachi Group. Both sides exchanged views on issues concerning Hitachi’s expansion of investment cooperation in China and NDRC’s support for the Economic and Technical Exchange Conference held by Hitachi in China.