July 29th, the State Council Information Office held a China - ASEAN Economic and trade cooperation and the twelfth China - ASEAN Expo China - ASEAN Business and Investment Summit news conference. This is the country's new office for 12 consecutive years on the China - ASEAN Expo and business and Investment Summit held a news conference. Gaoyan, Vice Minister of China's Ministry of Commerce, China Council for the promotion of international trade, Yu Ping, vice chairman, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region vice chairman Zhang Xiaoqin respectively to Chinese and foreign media reporters introduced to build "along the way" under the new situation, China and ASEAN Economic and trade cooperation and 12th China - ASEAN Expo, business and Investment Summit highlights and progress of the preparations.

In recent years, with the strengthening of political trust between China and ASEAN, China - ASEAN Free Trade Zone to accelerate the construction process, economic integration deepened, bilateral economic and trade cooperation fruitful, both companies and people greatly benefit. Gao Yan said that China - ASEAN bilateral trade has steadily increased, the ASEAN trade accounted for about 12% of China's total foreign trade. China is the largest trading partner of ASEAN, ASEAN is China's third largest trading partner. Mutual investment continued to expand, as of the end of 2014, the cumulative two-way investment between China and ASEAN more than 130000000000 u.. Mutually beneficial cooperation between the two sides has deepened, the two sides cooperate in the implementation of electricity, bridges, agriculture, manufacturing, and a large number of projects, in promoting the local economic development, improving people's livelihood and other aspects play a positive role. At present, China and ASEAN are the intention of founding member states of the Asian infrastructure investment bank is accelerating the construction, will provide financing platform for ASEAN and the local area of interoperability, in order to open the way to improve the financing capacity. China - ASEAN Free Trade Area upgrade version of the negotiations have made positive progress, is expected to complete the negotiations this year. Positive progress has also been made in the negotiations on the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP).

Gao Yan said that China - ASEAN Economic and trade cooperation has achieved fruitful results, due to the strong support of the two sides of the political trust, a good foundation of economic cooperation, but also benefited from the important role played by China - ASEAN expo. EASTPO will remarkable results, the trade facilitation policies directly transformed into real business opportunities and reached a large number of practical cooperation projects, play the FTA construction "booster" role, the "China Unicom communication policy, infrastructure, trade flow, financing, Min Xinxiang through implement. Under the new situation, China is willing to strengthen cooperation with the ASEAN countries, together to consolidate, improve and develop EASTPO will this platform, so as to better play a role, "along the way" for the service, and make greater contributions to constructing China - ASEAN Community of destiny.

China - ASEAN Expo, business and Investment Summit for the China - ASEAN Free Trade Zone, tailored to become a consensus, docking development strategy, the implementation of trade and investment facilitation, and constantly create new business opportunities, and expand cooperation in various fields, driven by an important engine to promote comprehensive and in-depth exchange of friendly cooperation between China and ASEAN, the maritime silk road construction has played an important role. Zhang Xiaoqin said that China ASEAN maritime cooperation in 2015, is "along the way" the construction of the full implementation of the start of the year, set the current Dongbo, business and Investment Summit in the theme, contents of the exhibition, event arrangement all aspects of a comprehensive upgrade, showing new features.

One is to highlight the "along the way" theme. This exhibition to build the Silk Road on the sea in twenty-first Century - a beautiful blueprint for the theme, the opening of the exhibition, the leaders and entrepreneurs forum, a series of high-level exchanges and economic cooperation and trade and economic activities, promote the parties to build consensus, docking development planning, to promote priority projects.

Two is to promote international cooperation in production capacity. For the first time to hold the 2015 international cooperation in production capacity, driven by the advantages of production capacity and equipment manufacturing cooperation, technology transfer, financial services and other areas of cooperation. Will also focus on China - ASEAN Free Trade Area, China - ASEAN Information Port and finance, customs, logistics, think tank, statistics, environmental protection, culture, education and other areas of the forum held a series of meetings. Hongkong as the "city of charm", China will fully display the style and business opportunities in the construction of the maritime silk road.

Three is integrated into the global value chain. The World Trade Organization [microblogging] will be held WTO [microblogging] establishment of the 20th anniversary of the senior seminar, highlighting EASTPO will in the promotion of China and ASEAN to deepen cooperation and into Asia and the process of global integration. South Korea as the Expo special guest country, there will be a government delegation and business groups.