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On August 22, the fifth China-Arab States Expo concluded in Yinchuan, Ningxia. The china-arab exposition "inheriting the friendship, deepen cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win progress, and promote development" for the purpose, to "deepen economic and trade cooperation, all the way to build 'area'" as the theme, held the opening meeting and BBS meeting business summit and eight, six exhibition activities, as well as the guest countries, Morocco, the united Arab emirates (uae) theme province (city), chongqing, henan series of activities. A total of 277 achievements were signed at the Expo, with a total planned investment and trade worth 156.67 billion yuan. The expo has opened up new areas of economic and trade cooperation between China and Arab states and vigorously promoted china-Arab states cooperation to a higher level.
China-arab cooperation and belt and Road cooperation have shown strong resilience and vitality. The China-Arab States Expo has set up an exchange platform for bilateral cooperation in economy and trade, science and technology, medical treatment, tourism and other fields, which has effectively promoted the economic, trade and investment exchanges and cooperation between China and countries and regions along the belt and Road.
Create new opportunities:
Focus on economic and trade cooperation
"This expo adheres to the concept of upholding integrity and innovation, inheriting, deepening and innovating on the basis of the previous four sessions." On the morning of August 22, in the 5th China-Arab States Expo results press conference, Ningxia Xia Hui Autonomous Region Party Committee Standing Committee, executive vice chairman Zhao Yongqing said. With the continuous expansion of the scale and increasingly rich achievements, the China-Arab States Expo has become an important platform to serve the national strategy and a bridge for china-Arab cooperation and exchange.
At the Expo Business Summit, the Chinese and English versions of the 2020 Annual Report on the Development Process of China-Arab Economic and Trade Relations were officially released. As natural partners in belt and Road cooperation, China and Arab states will continue to accelerate high-quality belt and Road cooperation, strengthen the synergy of their development strategies, and set an example for China and other developing countries to improve the belt and Road cooperation mechanism, the report said.
China and Arab countries have complementary strengths and converging interests. In 2020, china-Arab trade reached us $239.8 billion, and China's export to Arab countries reached US $123.1 billion. Despite the impact of the epidemic, China still achieved a year-on-year growth of 2.2 percent. At present, China has become the largest trading partner of Arab countries, and Arab countries are the largest overseas suppliers of crude oil to China. The economic and trade cooperation between China and Arab countries has great potential.
Kamal Hassan Ali, Assistant Secretary-general of the Secretariat of the League of Arab States, said that the China-Arab States Expo is one of the most important economic platforms under the framework of Arab-china cooperation, and has played a positive role in promoting economic development, continuing to promote "China's experience" in COVID-19 response and policies formulated by various economic sectors.
"The China-Arab States Expo not only promotes the economic and trade relations between China and Arab countries, but also helps to show the true, three-dimensional and comprehensive China." Zhang Weiwei, distinguished professor of Fudan University and president of The Institute of Chinese Studies, said in an interview with our reporter that the China-Arab States Expo shows China's opening-up and high-quality development to the countries along the belt and Road in an all-round way.
The China-Arab States Expo has provided more opportunities for Chinese localities to expand foreign cooperation. Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Zhejiang, Hubei, Henan, Guangdong and Shaanxi provinces (municipalities) signed 12 investment projects with Arab countries and other countries along the belt and Road through the expo platform, with a total investment of 7.43 billion YUAN.
Share new achievements:
Focus on scientific and technological innovation
We will exchange agricultural cooperation results, discuss digital water supply mechanism, promote new energy technology and products, and share 5G industry innovation. At the expo, technical exchanges and cooperation between China and Arab states have become the focus of attention, and many new products, new technologies and new services have been unveiled.
It is understood that during the China-Arab Countries Technology Transfer and Innovation Cooperation Conference held during the exhibition, participants signed 42 projects, covering clean energy, electronic information, cultural tourism, new materials, modern agriculture and other fields, the agreement amount of more than 900 million yuan.
"China has achieved agricultural development and modernization using modern and renewable technologies. We welcome China's establishment of an agricultural technology research and transfer center in Jordan and look forward to more cooperation between Jordan and China in the field of agriculture." On August 20, Jordanian Ambassador to China Hussam Hosseini delivered a speech via video to invite the Chinese embassy to China.
Since September 2015, China has set up eight bilateral technology transfer centers with Arab countries, including the League of Arab States, Egypt and Oman. More than 20 training sessions for transnational technical personnel have been held, and more than 300 international technology transfer talents with "seed" effect have been cultivated.
Take agriculture as an example. Mauritania's first embryo transfer cow was born at the China-assisted Mauritania Livestock Husbandry Technology Demonstration Center. With the support of Chinese experts at the Technology Demonstration Center, the edge of the desert east of Nouakchott, Mauritania's capital, has undergone a dramatic change: nearly a thousand acres of green crops are growing and rows of irrigation rods are spraying water. This oasis has become an important base for cultivating livestock professionals in Mauritania.
Ningxia is a national "Internet + urban and rural water supply" demonstration area, and the expo set up a "water Resources forum" for the first time. "Arab countries, especially middle Eastern countries, have a similar climate environment to Ningxia, so they have a strong demand for water-saving technologies." "We have carried out extensive training and technical cooperation to meet the technology needs of countries along the Belt and Road," said Li Guofeng, director of the China-Arab Technology Transfer Center.
At the China-Arab States Expo, the China-Arab States Energy Summit Cooperation Forum, The Big Health Industry Forum, the Cross-border E-commerce Innovation and Development Summit Forum and other activities were held one after another, and more and more Chinese experience was shared.
"China has integrated the goal of" double carbon "into the overall layout of the country's ecological progress, and raised China's green development to a new height." Dang Yanbao, chairman of Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co LTD, said, "Our group will focus on scientific governance and source governance, actively integrate into the Belt and Road Initiative, and realize green development."
Build new platform:
Work together for win-win Results
It is understood that the expo has attracted 90 world top 500 enterprises, more than 100 Chinese Top 500 enterprises and industry leading enterprises online and offline to participate in the exhibition.
"5G and ARTIFICIAL intelligence will be the most core and basic digital technologies in the future, and their rapid development will profoundly change human social life and the world." Is focused on the industrial revolution 4.0, huawei technologies co., LTD., vice President of Jiang Yafei introduces technology abroad application of the latest achievements in China, "this year, huawei with Saudi telecom, Saudi aramco in 5 g oil and gas field to carry out cooperation, jointly explore the 5 g in the innovative application of oil and natural gas industry, it is also the Middle East area of the first 5 g oil and gas zone project."
In the cross-border e-commerce exhibition area, The Italian merchant Emma for a wide range of goods thumbs up. He said that the Belt and Road Initiative is the most important cooperation initiative put forward globally in recent decades. He hoped that the China-Arab States Expo would be a platform to share development opportunities and achieve win-win results together.
"I have been living and working in China for nearly a decade. I have witnessed the great changes and marveled at the speed of China's development," said Asma, an Egyptian expert based in Jilin. Seeing the latest achievements of china-Arab medical cooperation, he said, "China is not only concerned about its own development, but also committed to the common development of countries and regions along the belt and Road, which reflects the responsibility of a major country."
"Cloud exhibition", "cloud conference", "cloud negotiation", "cloud contract"... The first online expo was not only popular, but also established a "cloud platform" for cooperation, yielding fruitful results. It is understood that the expo has set up 26 cloud conference rooms, attracting more than 1,000 enterprises to visit the negotiation, negotiation and procurement.
Haifa ABU Ghazali, assistant Secretary-General for Social Affairs of the League of Arab States, said, "The Expo is a platform to discuss and exchange experiences, a window to set up new projects, launch new plans and put forward new initiatives around scientific and technological innovation, and an opportunity to deepen Arab-china relations and establish cooperation in various fields."
