The Yunnan delegation led by Qin Guangrong, Vice Party Secretary and Governor is departing Kunming today, for visiting five GMS countries including Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and Yunnan Provincial Government held a mobilizing conference and made detailed arrangement for the visit Yesterday afternoon.
Provincial leaders including Party Secretary Bai Enpei, Governor Qin Guangrong attended the mobilizing conference.
Party Secretary Bai Enpei delivered a remark on the conference. He said, the visit with high standard and large scale is a very important foreign affair in Yunnan’s opening-up, it is an action in implementing instructions given by foreign affairs working meeting of Central Government, and is also a specific action in carrying out the tasks set on the 8th congress of provincial party committee. The Central Government is quite care about the visit. Bai requested that all delegates should closely coordinate with each other, try to make a success to the task of “furthering understanding, enhancing friendship, promoting cooperation and realizing mutual development”, seek for cooperative potential and get more results through launching a series of pragmatic and efficient activities.
Governor Qin Guangrong hosted the conference and gave a remark. He said, the visit is an implementation of the diplomatic policy of Central Government oriented to neighbouring countries, and an action in driving the construction of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area and GMS cooperation; it is also a specific action in making use of the superior location of Yunnan and expanding its opening-up. The delegation should focus on the theme of the visit which is “friendship, cooperation and development”, and main activities going to be launched which are “establishing good relationship, holding exhibitions, signing contracts and serving for the country”, try to do a good work in exchanges and communication with high officials of the visiting five countries, reach a substantial result in promoting bilateral trade cooperation, and widely strengthen the contact with overseas Chinese and foreigners with Chinese origin. Through all kinds of activities, the delegation should display the new image of harmonious Yunnan, and the achievements resulted from reform and opening-up to visiting countries, try to make a successful visit.
Vice Governor Liu Ping elaborated detailed information on the tasks and activities in the visit.
The delegation is comprised of provincial government delegation and provincial economic and trade delegation, in total 200 delegates, and the term of the visit is half of a month. During the visit, the two delegations will pay courtesy calls to State leaders and high officials in the five countries, activities like business matching, signing of agreements, foundation-laying ceremony of new projects, donation ceremony, and visits to related enterprises and projects under construction, communication and exchanges with related departments and provinces in the five countries will be conducted as well.