Surat Thani and Surat City of Gujarat State to become twin cities

The Surat Thani governor and committee members in charge of economic development of Surat Thani have agreed in today’s meeting to push ahead with the plan to make Surat Thani and Surat City of Gujarat State become twin cities, so that both countries could promote mutual trade, investment, and tourism, as well as exchange of cultural knowledge and activities.

The participants also discussed several other issues concerning the solution to economic problems, including recruitment of local workers for the rubber industry, reduction of the alien workers’ number, the zoning of oil palm plantations, ways to prop up rubber prices, tourism development, the ring road construction project, as well as flood and drought preparatory measures.