Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 20 (International observation) China-ASEAN cooperation is fruitful
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Jiawei Guo Yifan Huang Haoming
More than 1,600 companies participated in offline exhibitions, nearly 100 online and offline business and business activities, and a total exhibition area of more than 100,000 square meters … The 19th four-day China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and The Summit on investments ended on 19..
Against the backdrop of the effective implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the scope of the China-ASEAN Expo as a dialogue and exchange and platform for economic and trade investment between China and ASEAN has continued to expand and its participation continued to increase Industrialization and the facilitation of trade and investment have given strong momentum. International observers believe that under the vision of China-ASEAN mutual benefit and shared destiny, the closer cooperation between the two sides in various fields has reaped fruitful fruits.
Provide a solid guarantee for regional cooperation with a mature mechanism
China and ASEAN have established dialogue relations for over 30 years.The two sides have continuously strengthened cooperation in economic and trade exchanges, cooperation on investment, connectivity and other fields, and have continued to innovate, establish and improve relevant mechanisms to open wider space for China-ASEAN cooperation and provide regional cooperation.
Carrying the mission of promoting the construction of the China-ASEAN free trade area, CAEXPO was held for 19 consecutive sessions. The stable and mature mechanism for organizing the conference has made CAEXPO increasingly an important platform for dialogue and cooperation between China and ASEAN, helping exhibitors from various countries to continuously achieve new cooperation and promoting constant and long-term development termination of the regional economy and commercial cooperation.
Philippine President Marcos gave a video speech at the CAEXPO opening ceremony, stating that CAEXPO has strengthened cooperation between China and ASEAN in various fields and has become a “touchstone” for the entry of Filipino products into the Chinese market. , to the benefit of many Filipino companies. He also said he hopes to attract more Chinese companies to invest in the Philippines through the China-ASEAN Expo.
This year is the first year of the China-ASEAN global strategic partnership and the first year of implementation of RCEP. As a free trade agreement that China and ASEAN actively participate in and promote to take effect, RCEP helps build a more open, free and mutually beneficial market environment. Li Yan, president of Petronas China, said that RCEP fosters regional industrial circulation, division of labor and cooperation by forming a complementary mechanism for resources and technology and allowing member states to fully exploit their advantages in international trade.
Looking back, in the process of building and improving the cooperation mechanism between China and ASEAN, from the construction of the China-ASEAN free trade area to the signing and entry into force of the RCEP, from the promotion of the “Belt and Road” for the joint construction of new international land-sea trade channels … China and ASEAN ASEAN strongly supports regional cooperation and development with mature and effective cooperation mechanisms.
Providing inexhaustible power for common development with fruitful results
In 2019, the 19th China-ASEAN Expo, Vietnam Central Plains Coffee was never absent. With the help of the China-ASEAN Expo platform, the company launched a brand and opened the market. “CAEXPO will vigorously promote enterprise development in China,” said Le Vuqiang, Sales Director of the Shanghai Representative Office of Vietnam Zhongyuan Group Co., Ltd.
With the new way of combining online and offline, “China-ASEAN Expo that never ends in 365 days” has borne fruit. A total of 267 international and national cooperation projects were signed at this year’s CAEXPO, with a total investment of over 400 billion yuan, an increase of 37% over the previous session. The total investment of the signed projects has reached a new high, adding further impetus to regional cooperation and global economic development.
Heng Swee Keat, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic Policy, said today’s world is facing multiple challenges and CAEXPO is an important platform for China and ASEAN to expand new opportunities and provide opportunities to both sides to study the direction of future economic and trade cooperation. Through the CAEXPO platform, both sides can effectively address current challenges and contribute to the common growth and development of the region and the world.
Today China and ASEAN, the second and fifth largest economies in the world respectively, contribute more than 30% to the global economy. Despite the complex and unstable international context, bilateral trade has maintained upward momentum, contributing to the development of the world economy. Statistics show that in the first eight months of this year, the total trade value between China and ASEAN was 4.09 trillion yuan, a year-over-year increase of 14%; as of the end of July this year, the cumulative two-way investment has exceeded US $ 340 billion.
The increasingly close exchanges and dialogues between the two sides, increasingly diversified areas of cooperation and increasing economic and trade data are providing an inexhaustible impetus to revive regional economic development, which will benefit the region’s 2 billion people. Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said that strengthening relations between ASEAN and China will help regional economic recovery and improve the resilience of economic development.
With the win-win concept for regional stability and joint forces development
As good neighbors, good friends and good partners, China and ASEAN have developed friendly cooperative relations and are committed to promoting win-win development. With the theme “Sharing new opportunities of the RCEP and strengthening the China-ASEAN free trade area version 3.0”, this year’s CAEXPO demonstrates the important consensus of both sides on the high-quality implementation of the RCEP and their determination to improve the quality and upgrade of the economy and trade cooperation and achieve mutual benefits and win-win results.
Laotian Deputy Prime Minister Song Sai said China’s initiatives and concepts have further exploited the growth potential of the China-ASEAN free trade area, narrowed the development gap between ASEAN member states and further integrated the ASEAN and China for development.
Win-win cooperation is the only way for Asia’s development. Adhering to the concept of inclusiveness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation, China-ASEAN relations have always played a leading and exemplary role in regional cooperation, establishing the most dynamic, fruitful and promising regional cooperation benchmark. Cai Weicai, senior vice president of Kasikorn Bank of Thailand, believes that ASEAN and China are two very important and large-scale markets with great potential for the future.The close cooperation between the two markets will play an important role in promoting the long prosperity and stability of the world economy.
Over the past 30 years, the successful practice of China-ASEAN relations is to strengthen mutual trust, coordinate cooperation, and seek common prosperity. This guides the direction of regional economic development, conforms to the common interests and needs of regional development, and brings together a strong development synergy to build a China-ASEAN community with a shared future.
Gather people’s hearts and gather strength. As a large family connected by mountains and rivers and sharing a common destiny, China and ASEAN go hand in hand, uphold the common vision of fulfilling development opportunities and jointly build the “Five Houses” of peace, tranquility. , prosperity, beauty and friendship. (Participating reporters: Zhu Lili, Zhao Huan, Wang Yaguang)
(Wang Jiawei Guo Yifan Huang Haoming)
[Direttore responsabile: Xu Dan]
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