A delegation from the General Department of Customs and Excise of Cambodia (GDCE) visited HOdo during their business trip in Wuxi, Jiangsu on April 14.

Chen Jiangang, president of Cambodia Sihanoukville Special Economy Zone (SSEZ) Company, expressed gratitude and extended welcome to them for their support during the zone’s ten years’ development.

“The booming SSEZ is a model for China-Cambodia pragmatic cooperation,” Chinese President Xi Jinping pointed out in a signed article published in Cambodia's daily newspaper, Rasmei Kampuchea, when visiting Cambodia last October.

So far a total of 160 mills have been built on the soil of first-phased 5-square-kilometer park, and 109 textile, clothing, luggage and leather enterprises have been introduced, of which 94 are China-funded ones.

The industrial output of the zone, where 16,000 people are working, has contributed more than 50 percent to the economy of Preah Sihanouk province.

The locals used to live on corps and tree-cutting, but now almost each household, who has members working in industrial park, can afford to buy a motorcycle, adding that their lives have been much improved.

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, on multiple occasions, also expressed his expectation to build the special economic zone into the “Shenzhen in Cambodia”.

The delegation said that the GDCE will exhaust its abilities as always to support the SSEZ’s development.