The City of London is lobbying China's 200-billion-dollar foreign exchange investment agency to set up a branch in the leading international financial centre, state media said on October 26.
Alderman John Stuttard, lord mayor of the City of London, met chairman of China Investment Corp (CIC) Lou Jiwei to discuss the proposal, the China Daily reported.
"I hope CIC will choose to draw on the UK's expertise in asset management and use the investment channel for its sovereign wealth fund," Stuttard said before the meeting.
China's new forex investment vehicle, launched in September with a task to maximise returns on part of the nation's 1.43 trillion dollars of foreign exchange reserves, has yet to open an overseas office, the China Daily said. The company invested three billion dollars in US private equity firm Blackstone in May even before it formally started operations.
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