A delegation of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), led by the chairman of the CSIC Board of Directors, Hu Wenming, arrived in the Pula-based Uljanik shipyard on Tuesday morning to talk to Uljanik Management Board and Supervisory Boar officials and to be briefed about the dock's business activities.

Also present at the talks is Croatian Assistant Economy Minister Zvonimir Novak.

Several CSIC representatives arrived in Uljanik already on Monday to see the plants and make an unofficial assessment of the shipyards production capacities.

Uljanik’s workers and unionists said they were not skeptical about the Chinese but about the Croatian government and its promises.

Union representatives are not included in the talks with the Chinese executives, at least for the time being.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Monday that the talks with CISC representatives about the Uljanik and 3. Maj docks were very substantive and open and that after it visits the two shipyards, the Chinese delegation is expected to consider the possibility of cooperation or partnership.