kolkata chinese vicepresident li yuanchao has assured chief minister mamata banerjee of soft loans from asian infrastructure investment bank which is likely to facilitate infrastructure development projects in bengal with an authorised capital of 100 billion and subscribed capital of 50 billion aiibchina is a major stakeholderplans to invest for the development in the energy transportation urban construction and logistics as well as education and healthcare sectors across the world state officials hope that as they had already expressed their willingness to avail of loans once aiib started giving out soft loans bengal would benefit from it in order to find out the key areas where soft loans can be used to improve infrastructure in bengal soon a committee will be formed with chief secretary sanjay mitra at the head mamata said before yuanchao left for delhi mamata held a meeting with him at eco park on thursday evening calling the discussion fruitful the chinese vp hoped it would help increase cooperation between india and china he has also invited mamata to china the chinese vp was highly impressed and promised to cooperate in infrastructure sectors he also wants increased exchange programmes in areas like education and culture mamata said she also posted on facebook we are extremely honoured with the visit of chinese vp to kolkata i had a meeting with his excellency and a 12member delegation including four ministers the delegation expressed interest to further relations with bengal and set up economic investment zone in the bengal as their first preferred destination china has expressed interest to set up an auto hub in bengal apart from collaborations in several key areas of infrastructure development the vp mentioned that kolkata is the closest point to china both geographically and strategically i requested him to send a strong business delegation to bengal global business summit in january 2016 to which he responded very positively the two reportedly discussed the chinese population in the city and how chinese culture can be nourished tourism was another major topic as bengal wants to provide a special package to chinese tourists during durga puja a joint venture bengal zhongtong bus holding co was formed as an mou was signed in the presence of mamata and yuanchao finance minister amit mitra said yuanchao is willing to to invest in bengal