Good news for travelers and businesses seeking to travel to China to make business, the Ministry of International Trade and Investment has advised that following talks between Prime Minister James Marape and Wang Weizhong, Governor of the Guangdong Province in China, direct flights between both Guangzhou and Port Moresby will be possible. The Governor for Guangdong Province of China, Wang Weizhong said his Government was already working with a local airline company, the China Southern Airlines to open direct flights between Port Moresby and Guangzhou following his discussion with Prime Minister Marape during his visit to Port Moresby. Governor Weizhong said the opening of direct flights between Port Moresby and Guangzhou would improve more business connectivity between Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Guangdong Province, and China. The Governor added that Chinese private sector and the Chinese enterprises in Papua New Guinea (PNG) raised a concern that it took relatively long for them to get visas, suggesting to the PNG Government to establish a consulate in Guangzhou to help facilitate visas for not only business travelers, but also for tourists with tourism being a huge market which was untapped. Vanuatu had just recently opened its consulate in Guangzhou in addition to their embassy in Beijing, making it the 68th country to open a consulate in Guangzhou specially to facilitate the process of visas. Governor Weizhong said he was keen to support more investors from his province to invest in PNG and he would be sending a large delegation to attend the inaugural PNG-Asia Investment Conference in Hong Kong, which will be hosted in October.