China And African Countries Strengthen Cotton Cooperation

< p > December 3rd, China and Benin, Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso composed of four African cotton countries jointly issued the joint press communiqu of the Ministry of Commerce of People's Republic of China and the a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp" > cotton < /a > four countries trade ministry under the framework of WTO, and held a press conference in Bali Island.

China's commerce minister Gao Hucheng said at a news conference that since the launch of the Doha round, China has always stressed that negotiations should give priority to the problems of developing members, especially those of the least developed countries.

Therefore, China resolutely supports the aspirations of the four cotton farmers in Africa and actively promotes the solution of the cotton problem.

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< p > Gao Hucheng pointed out that since the Ministry of Commerce of China and the cotton four countries jointly issued the joint news bulletin on cotton field cooperation in December 14, 2011, China has sent experts to Africa to make joint efforts in the economic and technological assistance provided by China, and jointly formulated 3 years' cooperative planning. Through helping to build cotton technology extension projects, providing agricultural materials, carrying out personnel training and technical cooperation, China has helped 20 million countries to cultivate and popularize high-quality cotton seeds, pfer technology and experience, improve cotton planting, processing and trade power, and promote the development of cotton industry in four countries, and achieved good results in the development of Gao Hucheng.

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< p > Gao Hucheng said that China is willing to further increase aid efforts and expand cooperation with the four cotton countries.

China will actively explore innovative ways of aid with the four countries, and focus on six measures to further deepen cooperation.

One is to build infrastructure, the two is to provide production materials, three is to increase training, four is to strengthen scientific research cooperation, five is to enhance trade capability, and six is to promote enterprise cooperation.

We hope to further help cotton four countries to enhance cotton production, processing, storage, pportation and trade capacity in an all-round way, and strive to make our cooperation in the cotton field a new bright spot in South South cooperation.

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Gao Hucheng also said that China thanked Mr. Azevedo and the Secretariat for their untiring efforts to promote the resolution of the concerns of the least developed countries, and will continue to support the work of the director general and the Secretariat in these areas.

China calls on members to make joint efforts to solve the concerns of the least developed countries as soon as possible, and finally to promote the Doha Round negotiations to reach a "package" agreement, and to achieve development goals at an early date.

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Yu Jianhua, P, China's permanent representative to the World Trade Organization and ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, attended the news conference.

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