Planning for the future, the annual “China-South East Asia Business Leaders’ Summit” will be held in the Chengdu City in the Sichuan Province from September 14 to 17, 2020.
This is an important move for Sichuan Province to promote “One Belt One Road” construction and implement Western Development Strategy and it has been successfully held for 10 sessions.
The Western Trade Fair, which will also showcase the industrial and agricultural capabilities of the Sichuwan Province will also be held coincidentally at the same time.
With the support of Sichuan Province’s current policy of promoting “south-oriented development”, the summit has been continuously expanded and upgraded, and has become an important portal and platform for Sichuan Province to cooperate with South & Southeast Asia on investment promotion and trade cooperation, President of the International Business Council, Kosala Wickremanayake told ‘Daily News Finance’ yesterday.
He also said that there will be ample scope for Sri Lanka to get Chinese investments into Sri Lanka to have joint ventures into agriculture and agro- processing and similar ventures aimed at import substitutions as well. Chinese are very keen to invest in Sri Lanka, he said.
He also said that the Summit is endorsed by China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Sichuan Provincial People’s Government, SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry and ASEAN-China Centre, with the theme of “Promote Standards Connectivity, Deepen the Trade in Service and Investment Cooperation” (TBD).
Under the theme, a series of professional side events with rich contents shall be performed, such as keynote speech, investment promotion, mechanism construction, project matchmaking, B2B interviews, city visit and exhibitions.
“We are expecting business leaders, experts, representatives of business agencies and government departments getting together on the special occasion, focusing on regional trade investment promotion and standardization construction, discussing together and sharing the cooperation and development between Sichuan and South and Southeast Asian Countries.”
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