Georgia Hires South Carolina's Chinese Investment Guru
Thursday, August 13th, 2015
After years of slow going in the state’s efforts to woo Chinese investors, the Georgia Department of Economic Development has made a new hire that shows its commitment to the country for the long haul.
The state earlier this year declined to renew the contract of Seth Jacobs, its former investment representative in the city of Qingdao. In recent weeks, the department brought in John Ling, the man behind South Carolina’s successful recruitment of Chinese manufacturing investments worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the past decade.
