2016年CRI Official: Preparation for CAEXPO 2016 Smooth

 

The 13th China-ASEAN expo will open in early September in Nanning, southwestern China's Guangxi Autonomous¹ Region.

Around 1,500 government officials, business men, experts and scholars are expected to attend the business and investment event.

Zhang Xiaoqin, vice² governor of Guangxi, says production capacity cooperation will be a major area the expo addresses.

"This expo will promote international production capacity cooperation. This year, an international cooperation exhibition on production capacity will be held, along with working program between project owners and investors³, a round-table meeting on production capacity among countries along the Lancangjiang-Mekong River region."

The development of the Indo-China Peninsula Economic Corridor and China-ASEAN port city network is also to be high on agenda.

A series of business-matching programs and forums⁵ will be held during the event, focusing on road, railway, port and logistics projects in the region.

Zhang says the expo this time is also tasked with promoting industrial parks.

"The 13th expo will host promotion⁶ conference on ASEAN industrial park, promotion conference on Chinese and overseas industrial park, and a round-table meeting on China-ASEAN investment cooperation to further boost industrial upgrading and cross-border cooperation."

As a tradition, a series of forums have been scheduled as part of the expo to deepen cooperation in various fields.

Zhang says a total of 35 forums will boost cooperation in such areas as technology, agriculture, environment protection and poverty-reduction.

Vietnam is the theme country of this year's forum⁴ activity, while Sri Lanka has been invited as a special guest country.

Yin Zonghua, Vice-Chair of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, says among the highlights of the forums will be one between business leaders.

"We will continue to hold the China-ASEAN Business Leaders Forum. The guests will hold deep discussions during television interviews on topics like economic and trade cooperation in the framework of the 'Belt and Road' initiative."

The scheduled forums also include a round-table meeting between the Vietnamese leadership and the Chinese entrepreneurs and a symposium⁷ on China-ASEAN business law cooperation.

This year's expo is held at a time when a sharp decline was reported in the bilateral⁸ trade after more than two decades of strong growth.

In the first five months this year, overall trade between China and ASEAN countries is down around 7-percent.

This is compared with an average growth of 18.5-percent per year before.

China's Commerce Ministry⁹ is pointing to a sluggish¹⁰ world economy as one of the factors behind the significant slowdown, noting the two sides are in the process of upgrading the China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement, which took effect in 2010.

Those upgrades will focus mostly on areas such as goods, services, investment, as well as economic and technological¹¹ cooperation.

Both sides have a goal of seeing trade volumes hit one-trillion US dollars by 2020.

For CRI, this is Liu Yuanhui. 

1 autonomous   

adj.自治的；独立的

参考例句：

• They proudly declared themselves part of a new autonomous province.他们自豪地宣布成为新自治省的一部分。
• This is a matter that comes within the jurisdiction of the autonomous region.这件事是属于自治区权限以内的事务。

2 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

3 investors   

n.投资者，出资者( investor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a con man who bilked investors out of millions of dollars 诈取投资者几百万元的骗子
• a cash bonanza for investors 投资者的赚钱机会

4 forum   

n.论坛，讨论会

参考例句：

• They're holding a forum on new ways of teaching history.他们正在举行历史教学讨论会。
• The organisation would provide a forum where problems could be discussed.这个组织将提供一个可以讨论问题的平台。

5 forums   

讨论会； 座谈会； 广播专题讲话节目； 集会的公共场所( forum的名词复数 )； 论坛，讨论会，专题讨论节目； 法庭

参考例句：

• A few of the forums were being closely monitored by the administrators. 有些论坛被管理员严密监控。
• It can cast a dark cloud over these forums. 它将是的论坛上空布满乌云。

6 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。

7 symposium   

n.讨论会，专题报告会；专题论文集

参考例句：

• What have you learned from the symposium?你参加了这次科学讨论会有什么体会？
• The specialists and scholars present at the symposium come from all corners of the country.出席研讨会的专家学者们来自全国各地。

8 bilateral   

adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的

参考例句：

• They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
• There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。

9 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

10 sluggish   

adj.懒惰的，迟钝的，无精打采的

参考例句：

• This humid heat makes you feel rather sluggish.这种湿热的天气使人感到懒洋洋的。
• Circulation is much more sluggish in the feet than in the hands.脚部的循环比手部的循环缓慢得多。

11 technological   

adj.技术的；工艺的

参考例句：

• A successful company must keep up with the pace of technological change.一家成功的公司必须得跟上技术变革的步伐。
• Today,the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements.当今， 随着科技进步，生活节奏不断增快。