TEDA Cooperation Zone Spring Festival Association: Happy New Year

On the second day of the Lunar New Year on February 11, 2024, in the breath of the Spring Festival and the warm wind of Egypt, with the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the shore of the Red Sea, the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (hereinafter referred to as TEDA Cooperation Zone), A unique Spring Festival fellowship event kicked off. The entire TEDA Cooperation Zone is permeated with a strong flavor of Chinese New Year. About 200 entrepreneurs and employees of TEDA cooperation zone enterprises gathered in the auditorium of TEDA cooperation zone. All Chinese and Egyptian personnel wore red scarves and waved Chinese flags. They said to each other "happy new year" and sang and danced to welcome the new year.

 

 

At the beginning of the fraternity, all Chinese personnel in the TEDA Cooperation Zone paid New Year's greetings to the great motherland, and paid the deepest respect to the mother river and the majestic mountains and rivers thousands of miles away: "All the personnel of the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone pay New Year's greetings to the people of the motherland. I wish the great motherland prosperity and peace of the country and the people!"

"Thousands of families always exchange new peaches for old ones. Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, and according to our Chinese customs, today is the day to go back to our natal home, and the TEDA Cooperation Zone is the common natal home of all the Chinese and Egyptians present here." Cao Hui, Executive Director of Egypt TEDA Special Administrative Region Development Company, delivered a speech.

 

 

Xu Qifeng, executive director of Egypt's TEDA Investment Company, said in his speech: "Looking forward to the year of Jiachen Dragon, which belongs to the 'original year' of all the descendants of dragons, TEDA will also 'renew in one yuan and renew Vientian', based on reality, optimize the environment, upgrade supporting facilities, and strengthen services. While continuing to provide supporting services for the production and operation of enterprises, we should pay attention to the 'clothing, food, housing and transportation, we will make every effort to create a 360-degree high-quality production and ecological environment for enterprises, and strive to turn the 'park' into a 'home '".

 

 

With the playing of the national anthem, all the staff stood up and expressed their love for the motherland with affectionate songs. Immediately afterwards, the familiar melodies of "My Motherland" and "Singing the Motherland" sounded in the TEDA cooperation zone, and many people's eyes were moist. All the staff could not help singing spontaneously, and the voices converged into a shocking hymn, praising the magnificent rivers and mountains of the motherland and the ever-developing prosperity in a foreign country. At this moment, everyone's heart is closely linked. In the warm atmosphere, both Chinese and Egyptian personnel deeply felt the friendship and unity between each other. Everyone lamented that the past 2023 was an extraordinary year, and the superposition of many factors had an impact on the economic growth of many developing countries. In this case, the TEDA Cooperation Zone gives full play to its economic, trade and cultural cooperation platform attributes, through the gathering of industrial chains to help companies keep warm, avoid overseas investment and operation risks, help companies develop steadily, and strengthen cultural exchanges and integration between China and Egypt.

The program of the evening party was brilliant, from Egyptian folk dance to passionate Chinese song singing, each performance incisively and vividly integrated the cultures of China and Egypt, showing a beautiful picture of friendly exchanges between the two peoples. A song "Broad Sea and Sky" instantly aroused the resonance of the whole audience, and an adaptation of "One Night in TEDA" also won the applause of the crowd. As the party entered its climax, the atmosphere at the event became extremely warm. The lights make the venue warm and festive, as if every Chinese knot tells the story of the friendship between China and Egypt. Everyone raised their glasses and clinked glasses with each other. The music sounded gently in their ears. The melody was melodious. The laughter and singing were intertwined to form a warm and harmonious Spring Festival painting. At this moment, whether it is a friend from Egypt or a compatriot from China, there is only heart-to-heart communication and understanding. Everyone was smiling, and their eyes were full of respect for each other and good expectations for the future.

 

 

"There is an old Egyptian proverb that says, 'walk alone fast, travel far away. 'There is also a saying in our" The Analects "called" It's a pleasure to have friends from afar'." Xu Qifeng told the Chinese and Egyptian entrepreneurs present, "Today's world is a world of win-win cooperation, and only a cooperative and symbiotic ecosystem can produce real winners. During the Spring Festival, TEDA will offer a hand of cooperation and invite all entrepreneurs and friends to join hands and shoulder to shoulder to create a better future together in the TEDA cooperation zone, in Egypt and in more places along the 'Belt and Road' route."

"Under the complex and changeable external environment, the political, economic, and cultural cooperation between China and Egypt has become closer. This has also provided strong support and guarantee for the development of our TEDA Cooperation Zone and all Chinese-funded enterprises in Egypt. In 2024, on the one hand, the TEDA Cooperation Zone will continue to make efforts in industrial investment promotion to further consolidate the industrial foundation of the park; on the other hand, we will strengthen industrial service capabilities and make every effort to ensure the construction, commissioning and operation of enterprises." Cao Hui said.

The entrepreneurs entering the zone, such as Jushi Group, Xidian, Midea and Hengtong, expressed their approval. They sincerely praised the pioneering spirit of Tianjin TEDA people. Since the establishment of the Egyptian TEDA Investment Company in 2008, the TEDA Cooperation Zone has grown from scratch, from small to large, from excellent to strong, from a piece of Gobi desert, with more than ten years of hard work, and has developed into a thriving modern industrial new city. The spirit of the older generation of TEDA people in TEDA, who are not afraid of hardships and dare to be the first, has been inherited and carried forward in the friendly countries 7000 kilometers away.

 

 

At the climax of the party, bright fireworks bloomed in the night sky of the cooperation zone. Each light represents good wishes for the future, pushing the party to the ultimate joy and warmth.

After the fraternity, Egyptian employee Ahmed Radwan sighed, "Since the establishment of the park for nearly 15 years, Chinese and Egyptian employees have always had a tradition of sharing each other's holiday customs. This has greatly promoted the cultural exchanges between the two parties. The cooperation zone is to promote China-Egypt cultural exchanges. Created a good platform."

 

 

Egyptian employee Mary (Mariam Elsayed) sent New Year's greetings to Chinese friends in fluent Chinese to the camera: "I wish you a happy Chinese New Year, a long journey of gambling, and a lot of money."

Egyptian employee Mina (Esraa Monir Ibrahim) hopes: "In the new year, the TEDA cooperation zone can be built more beautiful."

 

 

Liu Hua (Ahmed Abady), a local employee of TEDA in Egypt, shared that during his more than three years of working in the park, he has witnessed the rapid development of TEDA and brought a lot of benefits to the Egyptian economy. At the same time, he also made many Chinese friends and learned Chinese culture from them, which was of great help to his personal development. "I hope that in the new year, our Egypt will develop better and better, the TEDA cooperation zone will develop into the development zone built by TEDA in Tianjin, and the friendship between China and Egypt will continue to strengthen through the development of the cooperation zone."

 

 

On this special night, the TEDA Cooperation Zone not only provided the taste of "home" thousands of miles away for all Chinese personnel who entered the zone during the Spring Festival, relieved the feeling of homesickness, but also demonstrated China and Egypt. The exchange and integration of culture emphasizes the cultural concept of win-win cooperation and progress together. In the new year, under the guidance of the "Belt and Road Initiative" initiative, the TEDA Cooperation Zone will continue to serve as a bridge and link of friendship between China and Egypt, bringing more opportunities for cooperation and exchanges between the two peoples and jointly creating a better future.

 

 

The Spring Festival Friendship of the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone is only the beginning of 2024. Please look forward to the TEDA Cooperation Zone in the new year to achieve more brilliant achievements, provide high-quality services for enterprises, and promote China-Egypt economic and trade Cooperation to help China-Egypt cultural exchanges!

 

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