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The 14th China-ASEAN Expo Opened in Nanning, Guangxi

  

On September 12, the 14th China-ASEAN Expo opened in Nanning, Guangxi at Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center. The member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council Zhang Gaoli attended the opening conference and delivered a keynote speech. China International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce Fu Ziying accompanied him to attend the conference and made a speech and so did Vice Minister of Commerce Qian Keming.

Fu Ziying pointed out at his speech that the ASEAN countries were China’s friendly neighbors and important partners to build the Belt and Road Initiative. President Xi Jinping said at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation that we should build a road of peace, prosperity, opening up, and innovation, showing us the directions and ways to build a shared future for mankind and putting forward China’s view on developing an open global economy. The Initiative on Promoting Unimpeded Trade Cooperation along the Belt and Road launched during the conference injected new vitalities into the China-ASEAN cooperation.

Fu stressed that the China-ASEAN Expo was an important platform for cooperation. This Expo, with the theme of “Co-Building the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, Promoting Regional Economic Integration through Tourism”, will further serve the upgraded version of China-ASEAN free trade areas, deepen China-ASEAN cooperation in key areas such as trade, investment, tourism, international production capacity and interconnectivity, enhance the trade and economic exchanges among countries along the Belt and Road and regions, and promote the implementation of policy exchanges, facility linkage, unimpeded trade, capital circulating and shared public thoughts.

Attending were the Sultan of Brunei Hassanal, the Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen, the permanent Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam Truong Hoa Binh, the Deputy Prime Minister of Laos Sonexay, the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin, the Party Chief of the Communist Party of China of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Peng Qinghua, the chairman of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region government Chen Wu, several ministers of China and ASEAN countries and the Secretary-General of ASEAN.

China-ASEAN Expo is cohosted by China’s Ministry of Commerce, the commercial departments of the ten ASEAN countries and the ASEAN Secretariat. Thirteen Expos have been held with the attendance of over 60 Chinese and ASEAN leaders and 2500 ministerial guests, becoming an important platform to promote the comprehensive and practical cooperation between China and ASEAN.

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