The 6th Silk Road International Expo

On the morning of August 14th, the 6th Silk Road International Expo and China East-West Cooperation and Investment and Trade Fair was grandly opened in Xi'an. Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Yang Jiechi attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Photo by our reporter Zhang Chen

According to reports (reporter Mu Jialiang  Sun Peng) On the morning of August 14th, the 6th Silk Road International Expo and China East-West Cooperation and Investment and Trade Fair opened in Xi'an.

Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Yang Jiechi attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Investment and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan Khozayev delivered a speech via video. Liu Guozhong, Secretary of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, delivered a speech and announced the opening of the conference. Zhao Yide, Governor of Shaanxi Province, presided over the opening ceremony.

Wang Lixia, Chairman of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Zhang Yizhen, Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Political Consultative Conference, Xu Xinrong, Chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Political Consultative Conference, Qin Yizhi, deputy director of the State Administration for Market Regulation, and Ren Hongbin, chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, heads of relevant central organs, state ministries, associations and central enterprises, heads of some provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country, relevant leaders of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, the provincial government, and the Provincial Political Consultative Conference, as well as diplomatic envoys from Uzbekistan, Uruguay, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia and other countries in China and representatives of international organizations such as the China-ASEAN Center attended the opening ceremony.

Yang Jiechi said that nearly 9 years since President Xi Jinping proposed the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" has achieved solid and heavy achievements, and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has become a popular global public product and international cooperation platform. Show more vigorous vitality, more powerful attraction. China proposes that all parties should watch and help each other, overcome difficulties together, jointly safeguard human life and health, jointly consolidate the foundation of connectivity and cooperation, jointly expand new areas of cooperation, jointly build landmark livelihood projects, unswervingly deepen the "Belt and Road" cooperation, and promote The world economy will recover and grow at an early date, and efforts will be made to build the "Belt and Road" into a "development belt" that benefits the world and a "happiness road" that benefits people of all countries.

Yang Jiechi stressed that China is willing to continue to uphold the principles of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation to develop sound cooperative relations with all countries, and will, as always, respect and support the people of all countries in pursuing an independent development path, so as to jointly promote world peace, stability, development and prosperity. China's determination and will to safeguard national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity are unswerving. China's complete national reunification and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation are unstoppable by any force.

Liu Guozhong said in his speech that since 2013, under the personal planning, deployment and promotion of President Xi Jinping, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has become the most extensive and largest international cooperation platform in the world today. Located at the starting point of the ancient Silk Road, Shaanxi is at the forefront of China's opening up to the west. Today, the momentum of high-quality development is getting stronger and stronger, the door to internal and external opening is wider and wider, and the business environment is getting better and better. Opportunities in Shaanxi are shared, and we sincerely look forward to "bringing in", intensifying trade exchanges with all parties, strengthening industrial cooperation, and working together to write a new chapter in Shaanxi's high-quality development. Shaanxi's resources are shared, and we are eagerly looking forward to "going out" and jointly developing overseas markets with our brother provinces. We hope that overseas friends will give more support to Shaanxi manufacturing, Shaanxi construction, Shaanxi products and Shaanxi services. As the organizer of the Silk Expo, we must build a good platform for everyone to carry out exchanges and cooperation, and provide good services.

After the opening ceremony, the Silk Road Economic Belt International Cooperation Forum was held. Ren Hongbin, Chairman of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Li Fei, Assistant Minister of Commerce, Lian Xiaomin, member of the Leading Party Members' Group of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, Wang Lixia, Chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and Zhang Yizhen, Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference delivered speeches successively.

With the theme of "interconnection, mutual integration, progress, sharing and win-win", this year's Silk Expo will set up 6 exhibition halls in Xi'an International Convention and Exhibition Center, including the International Pavilion, the China Pavilion, the Shaanxi Pavilion, the Rural Revitalization Pavilion, the Intelligent Manufacturing Pavilion, and the Green Industry Pavilion. , with a total display area of 72,000 square meters. A number of important forums and conferences will also be held during the conference.