The solution seems to come from China for the Oltchim power plant. After years of failed attempts, the Chinese want to invest in Râmnicu Vâlcea . But Oltchim is not the only objective that the Chinese investors target. They are interested in the modernization and expansion of the production capacity in thermal power plant at Rovinari, in the development of Units 3 and 4 of Cernavoda and the building of the hydroelectric power plant in Tarniţa.
But the Chinese want to invest in infrastructure too: building the highway of Craiova - Pitesti and the construction of the high-speed railway Bucharest - Constanta. In fact, two months ago Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragnea signed a memorandum with the Chinese regarding the onset of the technical analysis for high-speed rail line linking Constanta to the Hungarian border, via Bucharest, a project whose costs would amount to approximately 11 billion euro.
Chinese investors would also be interested in the IT field and access to the Chinese market of Romanian products, especially those of animal origin.
Trade between Romania and China amounted to 3.28 billion dollars last year, according to the Ministry of Economy. And in the first three months of this year, the amount has increased by over 23% compared to same period of 2013, reaching 931 million dollars.
Entrepreneur Ilan Laufer, invited on the Daily Income show, said that "Romania represent a zero point of interest". "It is one thing to make an investment in a western state, whatever it may be, and there’s another thing to make investments in Romania. Romania has not yet passed the alphabet of road and rail infrastructure and fierce. Therefore any investment they would make in Romania becomes a strategic investment, " Ilan Laufer said.