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Xinhua Silk Road: Int'l forum on RCEP local gov't, sister city cooperation opens in E. China's Huangshan
BEIJING, June 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The 2025 RCEP Local Governments and Friendship Cities Cooperation (Huangshan) Forum opened on Thursday in Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province. Co-hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and People's Government of Anhui Province, the forum gathered some 300 delegates from Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member countries to discuss regional cooperation in economy, culture, and sister-city ties under the theme 'Regional Partnership for Common Development'. During the forum, Anhui forged sister province ties with Cambodia's Preah Sihanouk Province and strengthened ties with South Korea's Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province. The Huangshan Initiative launched the RCEP World Heritage Sites Cooperation Alliance. Ten deals covering investment, trade, and cultural exchanges were signed. In addition, the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation released the 'RCEP Regional Cooperation Development Report 2025,' detailing the pact's implementation results and offering forward-looking cooperation suggestions. Bhokin Bhalakula, president of Thai-Chinese Culture and Economy Association, noted fruitful cooperation under RCEP, including the China–Thailand railway and projects in smart grids and solar PV systems. He proposed building innovative demonstration zones and youth entrepreneurship platforms. Shi Zhongjun, Secretary-General of the ASEAN-China Centre, said RCEP stabilizes the Asia-Pacific economy and injects certainty into global economy. He called for expanded cooperation in digital and green economies, and deeper integration in standards and rules. Multiple sessions were also held, including dialogues on new energy vehicles, photovoltaic supply chains, youth business leaders, agricultural products, e-commerce and overseas Chinese businesses as well as cultural tours. Data showed that Anhui's trade with other RCEP members hit 208.54 billion yuan (about 29.05 billion U.S. dollars) in 2024, up 17.3 percent from that in 2021,accounting for 25 percent of the province's total foreign trade. Trade reached 75.38 billion yuan (approximately 10.5 billion U.S. dollars) in the first four months of 2025, rising 22.8 percent year on year. Since taking effect, the RCEP has spurred regional growth through tariff cuts, streamlined customs clearance, and trade facilitation. Original link:
Yahoo
3 days ago
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- Yahoo
Xinhua Silk Road: Int'l forum on RCEP local gov't, sister city cooperation opens in E. China's Huangshan
BEIJING, June 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2025 RCEP Local Governments and Friendship Cities Cooperation (Huangshan) Forum opened on Thursday in Huangshan City, east China's Anhui Province. Co-hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and People's Government of Anhui Province, the forum gathered some 300 delegates from Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) member countries to discuss regional cooperation in economy, culture, and sister-city ties under the theme "Regional Partnership for Common Development". During the forum, Anhui forged sister province ties with Cambodia's Preah Sihanouk Province and strengthened ties with South Korea's Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province. The Huangshan Initiative launched the RCEP World Heritage Sites Cooperation Alliance. Ten deals covering investment, trade, and cultural exchanges were signed. In addition, the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation released the "RCEP Regional Cooperation Development Report 2025," detailing the pact's implementation results and offering forward-looking cooperation suggestions. Bhokin Bhalakula, president of Thai-Chinese Culture and Economy Association, noted fruitful cooperation under RCEP, including the China-Thailand railway and projects in smart grids and solar PV systems. He proposed building innovative demonstration zones and youth entrepreneurship platforms. Shi Zhongjun, Secretary-General of the ASEAN-China Centre, said RCEP stabilizes the Asia-Pacific economy and injects certainty into global economy. He called for expanded cooperation in digital and green economies, and deeper integration in standards and rules. Multiple sessions were also held, including dialogues on new energy vehicles, photovoltaic supply chains, youth business leaders, agricultural products, e-commerce and overseas Chinese businesses as well as cultural tours. Data showed that Anhui's trade with other RCEP members hit 208.54 billion yuan (about 29.05 billion U.S. dollars) in 2024, up 17.3 percent from that in 2021,accounting for 25 percent of the province's total foreign trade. Trade reached 75.38 billion yuan (approximately 10.5 billion U.S. dollars) in the first four months of 2025, rising 22.8 percent year on year. Since taking effect, the RCEP has spurred regional growth through tariff cuts, streamlined customs clearance, and trade facilitation. Original link: View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Xinhua Silk Road Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
The Mainichi
29-04-2025
- Politics
- The Mainichi
Cross-party Japan lawmakers meet with China's top legislator
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- A cross-party group of China-friendly Japanese lawmakers are meeting in Beijing with the country's top legislator Zhao Leji, the No. 3 in the ruling Chinese Communist Party's leadership, on Tuesday as Tokyo presses its neighbor to lift its blanket ban on Japanese seafood imports. The delegation led by Hiroshi Moriyama, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, is on a three-day visit to China through Tuesday. The group is set to call for an end to the seafood import ban imposed in August 2023 over Japan's discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the sea. On Monday, the Japanese lawmakers asked Beijing to lease some more giant pandas to the neighboring country as four pandas currently at a western Japan zoo will return to China around late June. During their trip, the lawmakers met with Liu Jianchao, head of the Chinese Communist Party's International Department, and Yang Wanming, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. The parliamentarians' group last sent a delegation to China in August last year, headed by then LDP heavyweight lawmaker Toshihiro Nikai, who retired from politics in October.
The Mainichi
29-04-2025
- Politics
- The Mainichi
Cross-party lawmakers ask China to lease giant pandas to Japan
BEIJING (Kyodo) -- A cross-party group of China-friendly Japanese lawmakers on Monday asked Beijing to lease some more giant pandas to the neighboring country, the head of the delegation told reporters, as four pandas currently at a western Japan zoo will return to China around late June. The request was made during the group's meeting in Beijing with Yang Wanming, president of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. The lawmakers are on a three-day visit to China through Tuesday. The departure of the four pandas from the zoo in Wakayama Prefecture will leave just two giant pandas in Japan, at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens. Hiroshi Moriyama, secretary general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party who heads the delegation, told Yang, "Personnel exchanges and mutual understanding are indispensable to put bilateral relations on a path for improvement" when public sentiments toward each other remain unfavorable. He proposed that young Japanese parliamentarians who belong to the group visit China later this year. A meeting between the delegation members and China's top legislator Zhao Leji, the No. 3 in the ruling Chinese Communist Party's leadership, is being arranged for Tuesday. Kazuo Shii, chairman of the Japanese Communist Party Central Committee, is visiting China for the first time in 27 years as a member of the lawmakers' group. In 2016, Shii criticized the Chinese ruling party's negative stance toward nuclear disarmament at an international conference, dampening relations between the Communist parties of the two Asian neighbors.
