On March 8, Vice MayorZhang Jin’anhad a discussion with Pankaj GUPTA, Senior Vice President, North Asia and China, L'Oreal GroupOperations, who was visiting Yichang.

　　Zhang Jin’an extended a warm welcome to the visit of Pankaj GUPTA and his delegation, and introduced the economic and social development of Yichang. She said that Yichang is exuberant with a huge consumer market, and the beauty of the city is highly compatible with L’Oréal’s beauty concept. She hoped that on the basis of good cooperation, more product sales centers, logistics distribution centersand flagship shops for new product launches would be laid out in Yichang.Based on local fine chemical resources, the upstream and downstream supporting production and services such as packaging materials of cosmetics areplaced in Yichang, so as to jointly make the “Beauty Economy” more splendid.

　　Pankaj GUPTA expressed his gratitude for the strong support from the Yichang Municipal Committee and Government. He said that L’Oréal Group was confident in investing in Yichang and looked forward to further strengthening multi-level communication and cooperation on the basis of the previous cooperation and building more beautiful, green and modern factories. (Three Gorges Daily, Reporter Tan Qiangming)