The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) will support the Chinese and U.S. business communities to take more proactive actions in deepening exchanges and cooperation, according to the head of the organization.
On Wednesday, Lisa Tzwu-Fang Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and Jon Moeller, CEO of Procter and Gamble, visited CCPIT in Beijing, conducting exchanges with the Chinese side regarding collaboration between the business communities of China and the United States.
The separate meetings focused on the promotion of China-U.S. commercial exchanges, facilitation of U.S. enterprises' growth in China, engagement in APEC business activities, and enhancement of industrial and supply chain collaboration.
In the meetings, Ren Hongbin, chairman of CCPIT said the organization will encourage the industrial and commercial circles of both countries to take more proactive actions to deepen exchanges and cooperation, further contributing to the steady, sound and sustainable development of bilateral relations.
U.S. representatives also noted that they will continue consolidating their presence and increasing investment in China, while deepening partnership between Chinese and U.S. enterprises in industrial chain and supply chain.
China to deepen exchanges, cooperation with US business sector: trade council
Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has reaffirmed his country's deepening ties with China, highlighting the relationship's advancement to become a strategic partnership that has produced growing cooperation across multiple fields.
In an exclusive interview with China Media Group (CMG) aired on Friday, Mohamud highlighted the evolving Somalia-China relationship, emphasizing the growing cooperation between the two nations.
Mohamud attended the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit in Beijing last September, where he and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the elevation of bilateral relations to a strategic partnership.
"I met President Xi in Beijing, and we had a very good discussion on improving the relationship between our two countries and the areas of cooperation that we can [pursue]. I also met a couple of Chinese companies there, as well as Chinese authorities from different departments of China. Some of the projects and development plans that we discussed have already been implemented. There were a couple of delegations from Somalia that visited China for experience sharing, and China (presented) their development track, the historical development of China. [We] got to experience how China started from a low level until today. This is power. So that has already started. The exchange of visits is taking place," said Mohamud.
"That's a partnership, and it is strategic. It's not piecemeal, here and there. So, being strategic, it takes some time to develop, to build, and then to implement. So we are engaging. We and China, our engagement had been (disrupted) by the civil war, by the conflict here. And these are the years that China has developed the most. And we were not engaging [with] China during all these years. So now, re-engaging and renewing our approaches will take some time, but it's [something we are] working on," said the president.
Somalia and China on Tuesday marked the 65th anniversary of their diplomatic relations, vowing to elevate their mutual cooperation and pursue more productive and shared interests.
Somalia-China cooperation expanding across sectors: Somali president
