Latest News from the Governor's Office
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SHANGHAI, CHINA – Today, Governor Pete Ricketts and the Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED), helped Preferred Popcorn LLC of Chapman announce a contract with their long-time Chinese partner, Zhong Liang Tian Run (ZLTR) Trading Inc. This contract keeps ZLTR on track to purchase millions of pounds of bulk popcorn from Nebraska-based Preferred Popcorn and for China to remain one of the largest markets among the 70 countries where Preferred has customers. The contract was signed by Preferred CEO Norm Krug and ZLTR CEO Mr. Xiaodong Pan during a signing ceremony.
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SHANGHAI, CHINA – Today, Governor Pete Ricketts recognized and congratulated Werner Enterprises on its 10-year anniversary in China. During his second trade mission to China, Governor Ricketts met with Werner’s Global Vice President Craig Stoffel in Shanghai.
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XI’AN, CHINA – Today, Governor Pete Ricketts announced that the Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED) had signed an agreement with Chinese officials to create a working demonstration farm, known as the Nebraska (Yangling) Agricultural Sci-tech Park. Under the agreement, the farm will be capitalized and managed by Chinese partners, and will showcase the equipment of Nebraska-based farm equipment manufacturers. The project is a partnership among the State of Nebraska, the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, and the Yangling Agriculture Hi-tech Demonstration Zone located in China’s Shaanxi Province.
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Service and sacrifice. This week, we honor our nation’s current and past members of the military during annual Veterans Day observances across Nebraska and the United States.
Full article: https://governor.nebraska.gov/press/honor-them