APEC Trade Ministers Meeting to be Held; China: Willing to Open Up and Promote Regional Cooperation
China's International Trade Negotiator and Vice Minister of Commerce, Li Chenggang, announced that for the 'APEC China Year,' China hopes to send three signals through this meeting, including China's advocacy for 'high-level opening-up' and 'inclusive benefits,' and its willingness to use its own openness to promote regional openness. The meeting will discuss building a regional economic and trade order and cooperation in emerging fields.
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(Central News Agency, Taipei 10th) China's International Trade Negotiator and Vice Minister of Commerce, Li Chenggang, announced that for the 'APEC China Year,' China hopes to send three signals through this meeting, including China's advocacy for 'high-level opening-up' and 'inclusive benefits,' and its willingness to use its own openness to promote regional openness.
The 2026 APEC Trade Ministers Meeting will be held from May 22nd to 23rd in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. According to Xinhua News Agency and First Financial Daily, China's Ministry of Commerce held a special press conference on the 9th to introduce the preparations for the meeting.
Li Chenggang stated at the meeting that this year's APEC cooperation theme is 'Building an Asia-Pacific Community and Promoting Common Prosperity,' with three main lines (themes): 'Openness, Innovation, and Cooperation.'
Li Chenggang said that the current international situation is volatile and intertwined, global economic growth is sluggish, and development in the Asia-Pacific region faces multiple complex challenges. Against this backdrop, China will work with all APEC parties to actively promote consensus on two aspects of issues at the meeting.
Li Chenggang further stated that, specifically, regarding 'Building an open and predictable regional and multilateral economic and trade order,' China is willing to take the '20th anniversary of the vision for an Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area' as an opportunity to promote coordinated development of economic and trade rules within the region, strengthen supply chain connectivity and resilience, and build a mutually trusting trade and investment partnership to provide clearer and more pragmatic guidance for advancing the Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area process.
He also said that, regarding 'Creating new engines for innovative and vibrant trade and investment cooperation,' China will deeply discuss with all APEC parties the pathways and measures to expand and strengthen cooperation in emerging fields such as digital and green, injecting strong impetus for promoting innovative development of Asia-Pacific economic and trade and leading global industrial transformation and upgrading.
When talking about how this Trade Ministers Meeting will embody the annual main theme, Li Chenggang said that China hopes to send three signals through this meeting. First, China advocates 'high-level opening-up' and is willing to use its own openness to promote regional openness; second, China advocates developing 'new quality productive forces' and is willing to use its own development to promote innovative development in Asia-Pacific; third, China advocates 'inclusive benefits' and is willing to promote common prosperity in Asia-Pacific through win-win cooperation. (Editors: Lu Chia-jung / Chiu Kuo-chiang) 1150510
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(Central News Agency, Taipei 10th) China's International Trade Negotiator and Vice Minister of Commerce, Li Chenggang, announced that for the 'APEC China Year,' China hopes to send three signals through this meeting, including China's advocacy for 'high-level opening-up' and 'inclusive benefits,' and its willingness to use its own openness to promote regional openness.
The 2026 APEC Trade Ministers Meeting will be held from May 22nd to 23rd in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. According to Xinhua News Agency and First Financial Daily, China's Ministry of Commerce held a special press conference on the 9th to introduce the preparations for the meeting.
Li Chenggang stated at the meeting that this year's APEC cooperation theme is 'Building an Asia-Pacific Community and Promoting Common Prosperity,' with three main lines (themes): 'Openness, Innovation, and Cooperation.'
Li Chenggang said that the current international situation is volatile and intertwined, global economic growth is sluggish, and development in the Asia-Pacific region faces multiple complex challenges. Against this backdrop, China will work with all APEC parties to actively promote consensus on two aspects of issues at the meeting.
Li Chenggang further stated that, specifically, regarding 'Building an open and predictable regional and multilateral economic and trade order,' China is willing to take the '20th anniversary of the vision for an Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area' as an opportunity to promote coordinated development of economic and trade rules within the region, strengthen supply chain connectivity and resilience, and build a mutually trusting trade and investment partnership to provide clearer and more pragmatic guidance for advancing the Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area process.
He also said that, regarding 'Creating new engines for innovative and vibrant trade and investment cooperation,' China will deeply discuss with all APEC parties the pathways and measures to expand and strengthen cooperation in emerging fields such as digital and green, injecting strong impetus for promoting innovative development of Asia-Pacific economic and trade and leading global industrial transformation and upgrading.
When talking about how this Trade Ministers Meeting will embody the annual main theme, Li Chenggang said that China hopes to send three signals through this meeting. First, China advocates 'high-level opening-up' and is willing to use its own openness to promote regional openness; second, China advocates developing 'new quality productive forces' and is willing to use its own development to promote innovative development in Asia-Pacific; third, China advocates 'inclusive benefits' and is willing to promote common prosperity in Asia-Pacific through win-win cooperation. (Editors: Lu Chia-jung / Chiu Kuo-chiang) 1150510
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