International Observation: China -ASEAN cooperation fruit RCEP starts a new height of cooperation

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 18th (International Observation) China -ASEAN cooperation with fruit RCEP to start a new height of cooperation

Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Jiawei Huang Haoming Guo Yifan

The 19th China -ASEAN Expo and China -ASEAN Business and Investment Summit opened in Nanning, Guangxi. International observer believes that with the East Expo as the window, the outside world has witnessed China -ASEAN cooperation continuously releases vitality and fruitful results. In the first year of the implementation of the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP), China and ASEAN trade and investment cooperation ushered in new opportunities, and regional economic integration injected new momentum into new momentum.

The charm of the platform is increasingly prominent

Since the successful held in 2004, the East Expo has become an important dialogue and cooperation platform between China and ASEAN. The total area of ​​the exhibition of the East Expo reached 102,000 square meters. For the first time, the ASEAN and RCEP boutique exhibition area was set up, which attracted more than 1,600 companies to participate in the exhibition. About 2,000 companies participated in the exhibition, giving full play to the role of the communication platform and the dialogue window.

Entering the exhibition hall, the specialty products of various countries are dazzling, and the people are crowded before the booth. "This is the third time I have participated in the East Expo. The exhibition site is very lively!" Philippine businessman Caroline, who is engaged in skin protection trade, hopes to introduce high -quality Philippine products through platforms such as the Expo, the Service Trade Association, the East Expo and other platforms Chinese consumers.

Chen Liangjun, vice chairman of the Guangxi Federation of Thailand, said that starting from the first East Expo, the association organized Thai companies to participate in the exhibition every year. The Eastern Expo has injects the driving force into the construction and development of China -ASEAN and the construction and development of the China -ASEAN Free Trade Zone.

Malaysia is the theme country of the Eastern Expo this year. Participants involved in many fields such as food and beverage, health care, oil and natural gas. Mustafa, CEO of the Malaysian Foreign Trade Development Bureau, recently said that although the new crown epidemic is still raging, Malaysian companies still actively participate in the current East Expo, looking forward to establishing close and long -term business relationships with Chinese companies.

In the past 18 years, in terms of Unicom and promotion cooperation, the platform's platform charm has become increasingly prominent. So far, it has attracted about 1.015 million merchants to participate in the conference to help the construction of the China -ASEAN Free Trade Zone and the "Belt and Road" project.

ASEAN Secretary -General Lin Yuhui said: "The East Expo is essential for strengthening the commercial network and regional interconnection between enterprises, traders and investors in the region."

RCEP dividend resonance

Over the past 18 years, the East Expo has always focused on promoting the purpose of promoting China -ASEAN friendly cooperation. It is committed to building platforms, unblocking channels, enhancing exchanges, expanding cooperation, and continuously stimulating the vitality of cooperation under the effect of the RCEP policy.

This year is the beginning of the start of the ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership, and the first year of RCEP's effective implementation. The theme of this East Expo is "Sharing New RCEP Opportunities and Promoting the China -ASEAN Free Trade Zone 3.0".

Since the implementation of RCEP's effectiveness, connectivity has continued to advance, trade dividends have been released, and economic and trade investment has upgraded. According to data from the General Administration of Customs, the import and export of China in the first eight months of this year increased by 14%year -on -year. During the same period, the import and export of 14 other members of China and RCEP increased by 7.5%year -on -year.

"The effectiveness of RCEP is real." Yuan Neolong, the chairman of the Shanghai Japanese Business Club, said in the relevant activities of the East Expo that RCEP is an important tool for revitalizing the economic activities of the region.

From January to April of this year, Thai exporters applied for a total value of US $ 204 million under RCEP framework; in terms of RCEP preferential policy imports, Thailand's total value of imported goods exceeded 70 million US dollars.

A Songxi, an associate professor at the School of Economics of Thailand, believes that RCEP member states share preferential policy dividends, improve the level of trade facilitation, promote economic and trade and investment growth, and show the pragmatic cooperation results brought by RCEP.

Regional cooperation has achieved remarkable results

As a platform for cooperation between China and ASEAN, the East Expo and Summit have held a total of 40 high -level forums involving interconnection, production capacity, customs, and finance in more than 40 fields, promoting new channels for international land and sea trade, China -ASEAN Information Port, China -China -China A number of projects such as the ASEAN Multi -Type Transportation Alliance have been launched to witness the establishment of the China -ASEAN Free Trade Zone, China and ASEAN as the largest trading partners, and the effective implementation of RCEP.

Observer believes that cooperation between China and ASEAN not only stimulates greater development potential, but also injects new kinetic energy into regional economic integration.

Mitsubishi Commercial East Asia General representative Nakamuka Runichiro said that although the epidemic has not ended, the import and export volume of RCEP member states continued to grow, showing the toughness of regional economic development and the positive role of RCEP on consolidating the regional supply chain.

Zhang Songsheng, executive chairman of the Taiping Shipping Group in Singapore, believes that the strong complementary industry of RCEP member states will help expand trade cooperation between Asia -Pacific regions and enhance the level of security, stability and opening up of the regional industrial chain supply chain. RCEP will also become a key driving force for improving international economic and trade exchanges.

Song Hailiang, chairman of China Energy Construction Group Co., Ltd., told reporters that from the co -construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative to take effect in RCEP in ASEAN countries, the East Expo has witnessed that the relationship between China and ASEAN has gradually become the most successful and most successful cooperation in the Asia -Pacific region. Vitality model. (Participate in reporters: Mao Pengfei, Cheng Ruize, Wang Yiguang))

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