The 11th China-ASEAN Expo and China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (CABIS) organizing committee meeting was held in Beijing on July 30. Director-General of China-ASEAN Expo and Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng, Director-General of CABIS and President of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Jiang Zengwei, and Deputy Director-General of China-ASEAN Expo and President of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Chenwu attended and addressed the meeting. Deputy Director-General of China-ASEAN Expo and Vice Minister of Commerce Gao Yan chaired the meeting and made summary remarks.
Gao said that as a key international forum and exhibition at the country level, China-ASEAN Expo is the first overall cooperative platform centering on and held in China among the present China-ASEAN cooperative mechanism with important missions in trade and economic cooperation, political diplomacy and cultural exchanges. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have put forth clear requirements on holding China-ASEAN Expo and CABIS well, which direct us to further deepen China-ASEAN cooperation. Gao hoped the committee members could work closely, make overall arrangements and render support to China-ASEAN Expo so as to build well platforms of China-ASEAN Expo and CABIS.
The meeting reviewed and agreed that the National Internet Information Office and All-China Federation of Industry & Commerce were admitted into the organizing committee.
Also present at the meeting were 23 committee members from the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Development and Reform Commission. Director-General of the Foreign Trade Development Department Sun Chenghai and Deputy Director-General Jia Guoyong also attended the meeting.
China-ASEAN Expo was jointly held by the Ministry of Commerce of China, departments in charge of trade from 10 ASEAN countries and ASEAN Secretariat, undertaken by Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The 11th China-ASEAN Expo will be held in Nanning of Guangxi on September 16-19, 2014.
