Tag: economic cooperation
On August 13-14, the Ministry of Commerce held the National Border Economic Cooperation Zone and Cross-border Economic Cooperation Zone Work Meeting & “Small Groups” Rolling Development on-site Meeting in Pingxiang, Guangxi. The responsible comrades of the Department of Foreign Investment of the Ministry of Commerce and the Department of Natural Resources Exploitation and Utilization of the Ministry of Natural Resources attended the meeting and delivered speeches. The responsible comrades of the commercial departments of seven border provinces (regions) including Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Guangxi, Yunnan, and Xinjiang, 19 border and cross-border economic cooperation zones and the Export-Import Bank of China attended the meeting.
Guided by the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the meeting fully implemented the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress and the second and third plenary sessions of the 19th CPC Central Committee. It also implemented the strategies of the Party Central Committee and the State Council to form a new pattern of comprehensive opening-up, strengthen border defense and boost the border regions and make their people to benefit. Based on the central work requirements of commerce, the meeting reviewed and summarized the development achievements and experience of the border and the cross-border cooperation zones, and studied the key work of the next stage. In accordance with the Notice of the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Natural Resources on Promoting Border Economic Cooperation Zones to Explore the Rolling Development of Small Groups and Teams, the meeting studied and arranged the work of the rolling development of small groups and teams in border cooperation zones. The representatives of the meeting visited the relevant industrial groups and teams in the Pingxiang Border Economic Cooperation Zone. The relevant provincial (regional) branches of the Export-Import Bank of China carried out policy finance matchmaking activities with the border and cross-border cooperation zones.
The meeting emphasized that border and cross-border economic cooperation zones are important platforms for China to deepen cooperation with neighboring countries and regions, are the important support for economic and social development of the border areas, and are the important protective screen to ensure border and homeland security. They are becoming the pioneers and vanguards of the Belt and Road Initiative. The open development of border and cross-border economic cooperation zones is a vivid practice of China's reform and opening up and has achieved remarkable results. In the new era, border and cross-border economic cooperation zones should further enhance their development and expand new space for open cooperation. The rolling development of “small groups and teams” is an important way for the border cooperation zones to give full play to the advantages of border areas, cultivate industries with characteristics and advantages, intensively utilize resources, and achieve open and innovative development. It should be set as the priority of the next stage. All parties should pragmatically set goals, elaborate implementation plans, improve mechanism and policy guarantee, timely summarize and promote experience and continuously advance it step-by-step in a planned way.
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