Phil Center will rise in Taihu Lake Paradise Resort, Huzhou City in China

Amidst world-class hotels, condominiums, water sports, a yacht club, educational facilities, shopping centers and other attractions, a Philippine Center will emerge in a 40-hectare lake resort in Huzhou City near Shanghai, in China.

Taihu Lake Paradise Resort, now existing with limited amenities, will soon be developed and upgraded with facilities that will even exceed the standards of similar international resorts.

Thus, the envisioned Philippine Center will be a showcase of the country’s tourism and investment potentials. No doubt, it will be an effective information venue for mainland Chinese wanting to know more about the Philippines.

Last year, Taihu Lake Paradise Resort with substandard comforts, has attracted 8.2 million visitors. It is the only government-owned lake resort that has been privatized.

The scenic area is surrounded by five cities the heart of which is Huzhou City, and the center of some 15 other circumferential cities under the Shanghai Pudong Development Zone. The resort is just as hour’s drive from Shanghai City, and 40 minutes from Hangzhou City.

The project developer is the Philippine Jiesheng International Investment Group Co., Ltd. It will handle planning, construction, marketing and management of the leisure and vacation paradise.

Significantly, the venture is the first joint real estate project between China and the Philippines in the area.

The developers are the Tang family of Shanghai and the Bautista family of Baguio and Manila. The former owns 60 percent and the latter, 40 percent.

Shanghai Deputy Mayor Ding Wen Ben who is also the top official of the city’s Economic and Technological Development office, is the collaborator of the development project.

Recently officials of the Huzhou Municipal People’s Government and from the Jiesheng group came over for a five-day visit of some major cities in the country, and conferred with Benjamin C. Bautista, chairman and CEO of Eduplan Philippines, Inc.

The delegation members, most of whom were first-time visitors to the Philippines, were Cai Zhemin, deputy secretary of Huzhou Municipal People’s Government; Yao Xinmin, director of Huzhou Water Resources Bureau; Dai Jian, assistant director of Huzhou Construction Bureau; Ye Jianxin, director of Land Resources Bureau HETD Branch; Xu Guosheng, deputy director of the Administration of Huzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone; Sun Yunhua, interpreter of the Administration of Huzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone; and Zhu Liqun, section chief of Huzhou Merchant Bureau.

From the Philippines – Jiesheng were Alice Tang Shiling, Clark Tang Shiming and Jason Wang.