Clair Neevel, chief financial officer of the Boeing 737 Completion and Delivery Center in Zhoushan, East China's Zhejiang province, visited the local municipal science and technology bureau, on Feb 24.

Wang Li, deputy director of the Zhoushan municipal science and technology bureau, extended a warm welcome to Neevel and introduced the city's favorable policies for high-tech companies.

Neevel said that his visit was to express his gratitude for the bureau's support in improving the working and living conditions of the company's foreign employees.

At the beginning of 2020, the Zhoushan bureau helped foreign experts from Boeing enter China and apply for work permits the moment they arrived in the city.

Last year, the Zhoushan municipal science and technology bureau assisted 21 foreign experts in applying for provincial and national recognition, accounting for 43.75 percent of the city's total number.

The Boeing 737 Completion and Delivery Center, a joint venture between Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd, specializes in installing interiors and painting liveries for 737 MAX airplanes bound for Chinese customers.

China is the world's largest market for commercial airplanes and Chinese customers are now taking delivery of about a third of all 737s built. Over the next 20 years, China will require 7,240 new airplanes valued at nearly $1.1 trillion.

Clair Neevel, CFO of Boeing 737 Completion and Delivery Center in Zhoushan, presents a letter of appreciation to Wang Li, deputy director of the Zhoushan municipal science and technology bureau, on Feb 24. [Photo/zhoushan.gov.cn]