The Sharjah FDI Office (Invest in Sharjah) has presented the investment advantages and business opportunities offered by the business-friendly emirate to a number of high-profile investors and decision-makers from India and around the world participating in the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019, which will conclude tomorrow in the state capital, Gandhinagar.
Invest in Sharjah participated in one of India’s most important business forums, as part of the UAE pavilion, with the presence of Dr. Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment, and Dr. Ahmed Al Banna, UAE Ambassador to India, and a number of senior officials who explored Sharjah’s key investment opportunities for the new year, and its developing strategy for FDI growth.
Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, along with senior representatives of several of the nation’s economic and political entities visited the UAE pavilion at the summit. Modi toured the stands of Emirati foundations and departments and explored the nation’s efforts, such as the attractive investment legislation and key achievements since its inception.
The emirate’s FDI Office has furthered its international strategy to bring foreign investors closer to the fast-growing foreign direct investment landscape in Sharjah and the UAE, which has been diversifying rapidly in the past few years to record a sizeable growth in the non-oil sectors.
The UAE and India are the most important trading partners in the non-oil trade sector.
The event linked representatives from Invest in Sharjah with the best economic experts from across the world to explore how future partnerships can be established to promote the agenda of inclusive and sustainable development whilst meeting some of the current global challenges.
During the UAE Country Seminar, which took place as part of the summit’s main event, Mohamed Juma Al Musharrkh, CEO of Sharjah FDI Office (Invest in Sharjah), presented an overview of Sharjah’s leading FDI sectors, particularly, Tourism and Leisure, Light Manufacturing, Education, Transport and Logistics, Healthcare, Environment, and spoke about the development projects currently being implemented in the emirate.
