China Tobacco Deputy Director Meets KT&G Vice President

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Jul.12.2023
China Tobacco Deputy Director Meets KT&G Vice President
On July 11th, Wang Gongcheng, Deputy Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, met with a delegation from KT&G.

On July 11, Wang Gongcheng, a member of the Party group and deputy director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, met with Lee Sang-hak, Vice President and Head of Operations Department at the Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation (KT&G), who was visiting Beijing. The two sides engaged in a friendly discussion.

 

The heads of the Office of the China Tobacco Monopoly Bureau (Department of Foreign Affairs), the Department of Policy, Regulations and Institutional Reforms, and the Tobacco Economic Research Institute (Policy Research Office) attended the meeting.

 

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