Mr. Qian Keming

Vice Minister of Commerce of PRC

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The 1st China-Kazakhstan Local Cooperation Forum Held in Nanning, Guangxi

On the afternoon of September 11, the 1st China-Kazakhstan Local Cooperation Forum was held in Nanning, Guangxi. 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 ceremony and made a speech respectively. China International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce Fu Ziying accompanied them to attend the forum. Vice Minister of Commerce Qian Keming attended the forum and made a speech.

Qian said that the China-Kazakhstan trade and economic cooperation remained stable with rapid growth momentum. The trade and economic cooperation between China and Kazakhstan consolidated the material basis of the two countries’ comprehensive strategic partnership and made great contribution to the Belt and Road construction. In recent years, because of the concerns and promotion of the leaders, bilateral trade developed rapidly, the cooperation in economy, technology and production capacity gained fruitful outcomes, the investment and financial cooperation was remarkable and the cooperation in agriculture and cross-border transportation enjoyed a flourish growth.

Qian pointed out that strengthening the cooperation of regions and small-and-medium sized enterprises was an important meeting point as well as a new growth point for bilateral trade and economic cooperation. It was hoped that enterprises of both countries could jointly open up new cooperation opportunities and push forward the mutually beneficial cooperation between regions to a higher level so as to give fresh momentum to the China-Kazakhstan comprehensive strategic partnership.

This forum is cohosted by the MOFCOM and the Ministry of National Economy of Kazakhstan with the theme of “strengthening docking cooperation, sharing development opportunities”. Over 400 representatives of government and business circles in 35 provinces and states showed up at this forum, including industries of trade, energy minerals, agriculture, IT, processing and manufacturing, transportation and tourism. The representatives of both countries delivered speeches on the practical cooperation in above areas and held the matchmaking meeting.