On 13 of June 2016, Forum of International Capacity Cooperation co-hosted by China National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC) and Yunnan Provincial Government was held in Kunming. Mr. Li Jiheng, Secretary of Yunnan Provincial Party Committee delivered a speech. Mr. Ning Jizhe, Vice Chairman of NDRC and Commissioner of National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) made a keynote speech. More than 200 people representing relevant national government, enterprises and financial institutions of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and other South Asian and Southeast Asian countries. ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) Secretary-General H. E. Mme. Yang Xiuping attended the forum and exchanged views with the guests.
Mr. Li Jiheng pointed out that to promote international capacity and equipment manufacturing cooperation had an important meaning to maintain medium and high speed economic growth of China, realize mutual complementarity of advantages among different countries, and promote global economic recovery and sound growth. Yunnan located in the Southwest part of China as a strategic intersection of the Belt and Road and Yangtze River Economic Belt, hence had outstanding advantages for push forward international capacity cooperation. Yunnan would make neighboring countries a priority to promote cooperation in electricity, equipment and manufacturing, metallurgy, chemical industry and building material. It would uphold the principle of “infrastructure goes first while realizing connectivity, enterprises-oriented with government support, put same weight on righteousness and benefit and achieve mutual benefit and win-win”, to jointly pursue the great course of opening up and enjoy together the development opportunity with neighboring countries.
Mr. Ning Jizhe said that promoting China-South Asia and China-Southeast Asia international capacity cooperation would exert significant impact on strengthening their trade and economic ties and facilitate economic and social development. Insisting on principles of enterprises-oriented and market operation, pro-innovation and environmental protection, opening and inclusive development, mutual benefit and win-win, China actively promoted international capacity cooperation to generate progress and concrete effects. Industrial sectors in China, South Asia and Southeast Asia should seize the opportunity, expand cooperation scope, improve cooperation level and prioritizing main focus areas, so as to lead the international capacity cooperation to a new harvest and bring more benefit to the people.
Mr. Chhuon Dara, State Secretary of Cambodia, Mr. Khurram Dastagir Khan, Pakistani Minister for Commerce and Mr. Amir Hussain Amu, Bangladesh Minister for Industry introduced in their speeches about capacity cooperation between their own countries and China. They expressed their wish to strengthening communication with China and further improve investment environment to attract more Chinese investors and to achieve win-win.