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China: The fourth leaders' meeting of China and Central and Eastern European (CEE)

2015/11/18

The fourth leaders' conference of China and Central and Eastern European (CEE) nations will be held in east China's Suzhou city from Nov.24 to 25, the initial time for China to host the conference.

LEADERS' MEETING

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and the leaders from the 16 CEE nations will attend the conference in Suzhou, Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet the 16 nations' leaders in Beijing, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Chao said.

Leaders' conference is the majority significant schedule under the framework of China-CEE cooperation this year, Wang said, noting it will lay a stronger foundation for next development.

The conference in China this year will be meaningful to the sustained, balanced and in-depth relationship between China and Europe, Wang said.

Li will as well attend a "16+1" round table conference and an economic and trade forum.

The 16+1 conference mechanism, launched in 2012, has helped to deepen traditional friendship, strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation and promote China-Europe relations, Wang said.

CEE nations that attended the conference included Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.

NEW MILESTONE

China is willing to be a good host and make the conference a new milestone to the development of China-CEE cooperation, Wang said.

The theme of the conference this year is "New beginning, New fields, New vision" , Wang said.

It is the initial time for China to host the China-CEE leaders' conference, Wang said, so the new beginning means it's an significant period to inherit the completed and usher someday.

The conference will propose new measures and expand new fields for China-CEE cooperation, covering inter-connectivity, investment and trade, finance, agriculture, people-to-people exchanges and so forth, Wang said.

The leaders will as well plan the new vision of development in the next five years, aiming to strengthen top-level design for the cooperation, Wang said, adding that some outcome documents will be released next the conference.

Wang said China-CEE cooperation has expanded into new areas and produced better results, thanks to the increasingly mature mechanism and emerging platforms.

TRADE AND INVESTMENT

Li will deliver a speech at the opening ceremony of a trade and investment forum in Suzhou, Vice Commerce Minister Gao Yan said, adding that about 1,000 China and CEE business leaders will participate in the forum.

In 2010, the trade volume between China and CEE nations was 43.9 billion U.S. dollars. The figure increased to 60.2 billion U.S. dollars in 2014.

China-CEE economic and trade cooperation faces new chances, Gao said, calling on the two sides to deepen cooperation in industrial capacity and equipment manufacturing.

According to Gao, at present, Chinese companies have invested additional than 5 billion U.S. dollars in CEE nations and the 16 CEE nations have invested additional than 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in China.

Gao said both sides are expanding investment areas and diversifying investment forms.

China and CEE nations are closely linked by the China-proposed Belt and Road initiative, Gao said, adding the two sides have huge potentials in energy and infrastructure cooperation.

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