China-Africa TEDA Appears at CICA Commission Meeting and CICA Business Forum

China-Africa TEDA Appears at CICA Commission Meeting and CICA Business Forum
The Asian Conference on Interaction and Confidence Measures (hereinafter referred to as "CICA") Business Forum and CICA Business Committee (hereinafter referred to as "CICA") Conference will be held on June 24 and 25, 2021 in the form of an online video conference. Members of the board of directors of the CICA Commission and more than 100 representatives from government departments, financial institutions, enterprises and embassies of CICA member states attended the meeting. China-Africa TEDA Investment Co., Ltd. was invited to become a member of the CICA industrialists Committee and attended the meeting to speak.

Since its establishment in 1992, the CICA has promoted cooperation among member states and enhanced confidence-building measures in various fields in the spirit of peace, harmony and unity. Its purpose has been widely recognized by Asian countries and the international community. The CICA mechanism has continued to grow and mature. Strengthening regional economic cooperation and realizing the complementary elements of economic development have become the general consensus of all member states and an important means to realize the purpose of CICA.

The CICA is a concrete measure to implement the joint initiative of the heads of state of the CICA Shanghai Summit in May 2014 and promote the in-depth development of economic cooperation among countries in the CICA region. The CICA will be incorporated into the overall framework of the CICA as a new mechanism for uniting the business circles of member states, promoting the establishment of mutually beneficial regional economic cooperation, and carrying out comprehensive cooperation in the economic field.

There are three representative units of AsiaInfo China Industrialists Committee: China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Mechanical and Electrical Products as the chairman unit; China-Africa TEDA Investment Co., Ltd., as the representative enterprise of China's industrial parks, is mainly responsible for the establishment of cooperation mechanisms and resource docking of industrial parks in various countries; CITIC Construction Co., Ltd. As a representative enterprise of China's engineering construction, the company is mainly responsible for the docking of infrastructure construction in various countries.

The current CICA and CICA Business Forum meetings were organized and hosted by Kazakhstan as the rotating presidency to discuss how to deepen economic and trade cooperation among CICA member states. At 14:00 on June 24 (Nursultan time), the CICA meeting began. Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tereubbedi, Chairman of CICA Able Myrzahmetov, Ambassador Hailat Sareby, Executive Director of the CICA Secretariat, and others delivered speeches successively.

In the speech session of the Chinese side, Zhang Yujing, chairman of the CICA China industrialists Committee and president of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic products, spoke first. He said that as the largest member of CICA in terms of economic aggregate, foreign trade and foreign investment, the Chinese industrialists Committee is willing to actively participate in the CICA economic action plan, strengthen working contacts with the industrialists committees of member countries, exchange enterprise cooperation willingness and project information, and use various economic and trade activities and industrial parks as platforms to connect the cooperation willingness of enterprises, encourage and support Chinese enterprises to participate in infrastructure projects of CICA member countries, to provide support and services for cooperation among enterprises of Member States in the fields of agriculture, food and construction. At the same time, China invited Liu Aimin, chairman of China Africa TEDA Investment Co., Ltd., and Chen Xiaojia, chairman of CITIC Construction Co., Ltd., to participate in the relevant work of the industrialist committee.

Subsequently, Liu Aimin, chairman of China-Africa TEDA, made a speech. He said that China's domestic and global exploration and practice have proved that industrial parks are an important carrier for promoting the development of national industrialization, an important platform for attracting corporate investment, and an important way to increase labor and increase taxes. The way is an important starting point for promoting production capacity and economic and trade cooperation between countries. How to promote the infrastructure construction of AsiaInfo countries through industrial parks, increase economic and trade cooperation, and strengthen various industrial cooperation including building materials industry, machinery manufacturing, food processing, and agro-industry is a key topic of the AsiaInfo Commission. China's industrial parks Industrialists are willing to contribute to the promotion of cooperation in the national industrial parks of AsiaInfo and create a new situation of cooperation in the industrial parks of AsiaInfo member states.

At 14:00 on June 25th (Nursultan time), the CICA Business Forum was held. At the meeting, representatives of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Egypt, UAE, Thailand, Turkey, Bangladesh and other CICA member states spoke respectively to discuss economic and trade cooperation Opportunities and suggestions for cooperation in the field.

Liu Aimin, chairman of China-Africa TEDA, spoke as a representative of the Chinese side. The theme of the speech is to promote economic and trade cooperation among CICA member states with industrial parks as the starting point. Chairman Liu Aimin first quoted President Xi Jinping's speech at the fifth CICA summit in June 2019: "Development is the master key to solving all problems. By promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, regional integration goals such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement will be reached at an early date. The implementation of the consensus of the second" Belt and Road "International Cooperation Summit Forum will help strengthen the docking of development strategies, promote all-round interconnection, and promote the high-quality economic development of all countries". Subsequently, he elaborated from three aspects: First, the co-construction of industrial parks is highly compatible with the goals of AsiaInfo. As an important starting point for the construction of "Belt and Road Initiative", China's overseas industrial parks have achieved fruitful results in recent years. AsiaInfo member states can promote economic and trade cooperation among AsiaInfo member states by jointly building industrial parks. Secondly, the establishment of CICA member countries industrial park cooperation mechanism. Establish the AsiaInfo Industrial Park Alliance and establish a normalized exchange and cooperation mechanism between industrial parks of various countries. Third, Chinese industrial park industrialists are willing to help CICA member countries to cooperate in industrial parks, such as sharing experience in park development and operation, linkage of park resources, joint investment promotion and training of park talents.

The speech was widely praised by CICA and representatives of various countries, and the meeting was successfully concluded at 20:00 on the same day.

In the future, China-Africa TEDA, as a member of the CICA China Commission, will continue to promote the construction of cooperation mechanisms and resource linkages between China and Asian and African countries in industrial parks, share more than ten years of experience in the development and operation of overseas industrial parks, and promote the development of China's overseas industrial parks. Promote the "China Model" to go global and help China's "One Belt One Road" construction!