GUANGZHOU (China), Apr 3: Two US firms have won a design contract for the main terminal of the new 2.3 billion dollars airport in the southern economic boom town of Guangzhou, state media reported, says AFP.

Parsons Corp and Urs Greiner Corp, will collaborate on the design with the Guangdong Provincial Architectural Design Institute, said Guangzhou Mayor Lin Shusen, quoted in an overnight report of the Xinhua news agency.

His comments came after he met Thursday with US Secretary of Commerce William Daley, who was on the last day of an official visit to China, and who presided over the signing of 18 accords, mainly for infras7 tructure projects.