Beijing: In a rare honour, Ratan Tata, chairman, Tata group of companies, was on Wednesday made honorary economic advisor to the booming east Chinese city of Hangzhou. 

The title was conferred on Mr Tata when he called on the mayor of Hangzhou city, Mao Linsheng. 

Mr Tata and Mao discussed issues of common interest and ways to further promote business relations between the Tata group and Hangzhou city as well as between 

India and China. Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang province, one of the main engines of China’s near-double digit economic growth. 

Mr. Ratan Tata 
Mr Tata, now on a visit to China, also toured the state-of-the-art software facility of Tata Information Technology (Shanghai) Co. Lt., a wholly-owned foreign entiry (WOFE) of Tata Consulancy Services (TCS), located in the high-tech zone in Hangzhou, company sources said. 

Mr Tata on Tuesday called on the vice mayor of Shanghai, Zhou Yupeng, who is in charge of foreign trade and investment in the gleaming east Chinese metropolis, which is also the communist Nation’s largest city and financial hub.