Negotiations On Upgrading China ASEAN Free Trade Area Are Imminent.

The twelfth China ASEAN Expo and China ASEAN Business and Investment Summit opened in Nanning, Guangxi on the morning of 18.

Zhang Gaoli, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony and delivered keynote speeches.

Zhang Gaoli emphasized that

As always, we will attach great importance to developing friendly cooperation with ASEAN and insisting on ASEAN as the priority direction of neighboring diplomacy.

China is ready to work together with ASEAN to push forward the strategic partnership between the two countries.

First, we should further enhance political mutual trust, strengthen the construction of "one belt and one road" and docking with the blueprint of the ASEAN Community and the development strategy of ASEAN countries, promote the signing of the Treaty of good neighborly friendship and cooperation between China and ASEAN countries, and accelerate the formulation of the joint declaration action plan for implementing the strategic partnership between China and ASEAN for peace and prosperity (2016-2020).

The two is to further deepen economic and trade cooperation and strive for the early completion of the China ASEAN Free Trade Area upgrading negotiations, and jointly promote the negotiation process of regional comprehensive economic partnership (RCEP).

Three, we should further promote international capacity cooperation and jointly build various industrial parks to enhance the competitiveness of China and ASEAN industries in the world.

We should make good use of investment and financing platforms such as the Asian infrastructure investment bank and the Silk Road Fund, so as to give play to the key supporting role of Finance in infrastructure construction and production capacity cooperation.

Four, we should further strengthen interoperability and promote the construction of a new North-South Road between China's western region and the Indochina Peninsula, and build a China ASEAN Information Port.

The five is to further develop maritime cooperation and make efforts to make maritime cooperation a new bright spot and new impetus for the development of China ASEAN relations.

Six, we should further strengthen cultural exchanges and strengthen exchanges and cooperation in the fields of culture, education, science and technology, tourism, agriculture and environmental protection.

China and ASEAN countries are friendly neighbors with land and sea, and they are natural partners.

In keeping with the trend of the times and adhering to the same boat, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation and friendly cooperative relations, the two sides have become an important pillar for safeguarding regional peace and stability and promoting regional development and prosperity.

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President Xi Jinping proposed to jointly build the maritime Silk Road in twenty-first Century and work together to build closer China ASEAN destiny community. It is a great cause to promote regional economic cooperation, enhance exchanges among civilizations, promote world peace and development, and benefit people from all over the world.

Premier Li Keqiang put forward the "2+7 cooperation framework".

China and ASEAN should further strengthen cooperation and strive to build a political mutual trust, economic integration, cultural inclusion interest community, destiny community and responsibility community.

Zhang Gaoli said that China will implement a more proactive open strategy and better benefit its neighboring countries and countries around the world through its own development.

China will import more goods and services in the future, expand overseas investment cooperation on a larger scale, and provide more opportunities for development and cooperation to all countries in the world.

Facing the sluggish recovery of the world economy, China is willing to complement each other with ASEAN countries, win each other and win together, overcome difficulties and challenges together, and promote the strong, sustainable and balanced growth of the world economy and the development and prosperity of the region.