Original Title: Ningbo Hosts Central and Eastern European Countries (Greece) Activities to Promote Cultural and Economic Exchanges between the Two Sides
China News Service, Ningbo, October 29 (Reporter Li Dian) On the 29th, in order to further promote the exchanges and cooperation between Zhejiang Ningbo and Greece in the fields of culture, economy and trade, and investment, the Ningbo Council for the Promotion of International Trade held an event to enter the Central and Eastern European Countries (Greece).
As a demonstration zone for economic and trade cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries and an important node city of the “One Belt and One Road” initiative, Ningbo has been in close contact with Central and Eastern European countries in recent years, and the scale of trade cooperation has continued to expand.
From January to August this year, the total import and export volume of Ningbo and Central and Eastern European countries reached 24.74 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 40.6%. On June 8, the second China-CEEC Expo was successfully held in Ningbo, injecting new momentum into leading China and CEEC cooperation and exchanges, promoting mutual benefit and win-win results for the business community, and advancing the construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative.
Yu Haidong, Director of the Central and Eastern Europe Division of the Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that Ningbo has gone through a 7-year journey of cooperation with Central and Eastern Europe. Positive results have been achieved in other aspects.
Greece joined the China-CEEC Cooperation Mechanism during the Eighth China-CEEC Leaders’ Meeting in April 2019. “Greece’s entry has made Central and Eastern Europe a real Eurasian Continental Bridge, which runs from the northernmost Gulf of Finland to the southernmost Mediterranean Sea.” Yu Haidong said.
In 2020, the bilateral trade volume between China and Greece reached 54.086 billion yuan, making it China’s fifth largest trading partner and third largest exporter in Central and Eastern Europe. Greece is Ningbo’s seventh largest trading partner in Central and Eastern Europe. In 2020, the trade volume between Ningbo and Greece was 2.06 billion yuan, an increase of 7% year-on-year; from January to August this year, the trade volume between Ningbo and Greece was 1.73 billion yuan, an increase of 29% year-on-year .
Participants took a group photo as a souvenir photo by Wang Qiaoyue“The purpose of this event is to further promote the exchanges and cooperation between Ningbo and Greece in the fields of culture, economy and trade, and investment, and to guide people of insight to participate in the cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries, and to better assist Ningbo China and Central and Eastern Europe. The construction of a national economic and trade cooperation demonstration zone.” Talking about the original intention of holding this event, Zhao Dafang, a member of the party group and a first-level researcher of the Ningbo Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said.
As a local-level international investment and trade promotion agency, Ningbo Council for the Promotion of International Trade has established the China-CEEC Joint Chamber of Commerce Ningbo Liaison Office authorized by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the China Chamber of International Commerce.
Zhao Dafang introduced that this is a local liaison platform under the framework of the China-CEEC business cooperation mechanism. , To undertake activities, and to build a platform” to continuously build consensus and build a bridge for economic and trade exchanges with the business communities of Central and Eastern European countries. (over)
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