On the morning of November 24, the Information Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province held the third press conference of the 6th China-South Asia Expo and the 26th China Kunming Import and Export Commodity Fair at the Haitang Hall, introducing the relevant situation

1 November 24, the Information Office of the People's Government of Yunnan Province held the third press conference of the 6th China-South Asia Expo and the 26th China Kunming Import and Export Commodity Fair in Haitang Hall, introducing the relevant situation and answering reporters' questions.

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The 6th China-South Asia Expo

and the 26th China Kunming Import and Export Commodity Fair

successfully held

from November 19 to 22, 2022. On the basis of ensuring security,

has made new ideas, wonderful things, and effective

Show new opportunities around high-level opening up

The 6th South Expo has received strong support from the Party Central Committee, the State Council, relevant state ministries and commissions, South Asia and Southeast Asian countries and international organizations. A total of more than 2,500 foreign politicians, ministerial officials, representatives of international organizations, envoys to China, business leaders, well-known scholars and important guests attended the South Expo offline and online.

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Build a new platform around strengthening cultural exchanges

The 6th South Expo held 16 conference activities around the theme of "Share new opportunities and seeking new development together". The opening ceremony was grand and warm, and was highly praised by national leaders, ambassadors to China and guests. The organizers of the events during each session have made solid and meticulous invitations. With the strong support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, the National International Development Cooperation Agency, the China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and other departments, a total of 2,550 domestic guests and 113 foreign guests attended the meeting offline. The China-

The China-Indian Ocean Regional Development Cooperation Forum was held for the first time thoroughly implemented the global development initiative proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping. With the theme of "Theory and Practice from the Perspective of Shared Development-Blue Economy", it sets up issues such as marine climate governance, seabed resource protection, and strengthens cooperation in tourism, education, and non-traditional security fields. The "China-Indian Ocean Regional Development Cooperation Forum" Kunming Joint News Statement was released.

The first RCEP International Trade Investment Cooperation Forum released the "Guidelines for the Application of RCEP Rules", providing guidance for governments and enterprises to better utilize RCEP key rules.

The 3rd New Era Border Opening Forum conducted exchanges and discussions on border opening indicators and evaluations, border industry and tourism development, and paths of common prosperity along the border, and released the "3rd New Era Border Opening Forum (2022) Kunming Consensus".

3rd China-South Asia Cooperation Forum, 2022 Great Mekong Subregion Economic Corridor Governor Forum, 15th China-South Asia Business Forum and other conference activities focused on issues such as policy communication, interconnection, cross-border economy, cross-border tourism, education cooperation, medical and health, talent exchange, technology transfer , humanities and arts, and formed a number of results during the conference, promoting wider communication, exchanges and cooperation among all participating countries and regions.

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About deepening economic and trade cooperation, gaining new results

The 6th South Expo takes commodity exhibitions, conference activities, talks and meetings as the links, further expands the channels and areas of economic and trade cooperation, and continuously deepens economic and trade exchanges between the countries and regions participating in the meeting.A total of 1,472 companies and 8,961 people participated in the exhibition offline. 18 top 500 companies including Huawei , JD.com , Tencent , BYD , China Datang and China Datang and Xiamen Tungsten Industry , iFLYTEK , Moutai Group and Shanghai Electric and 18 top 500 companies participated in the exhibition offline. The number of participating countries and regions ranks among the top similar exhibitions in the country, and the number of exhibitors in the two "top 500" companies hit a new high in the South China Expo.

seized the opportunity of the grand event, and put in full time before the meeting, actively built the investment promotion platform to create a strong development atmosphere of "focusing on industries, development, investment promotion, and projects" across the province. By going out to attract investment and inviting in docking and negotiation, a group of important merchants and forming a number of cooperation results. During the South Expo, 561 projects were signed, including 390 investment projects with a contract amount of 605.128 billion yuan; 171 trade contracts with a contract amount of 10.124 billion US dollars. Yangtze River Delta , Pan-Pearl River Delta, and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is still the main force in investing in Yunnan, reflecting the continuous deepening of cooperation between Yunnan and the target region and the accelerated promotion of cooperation with key regions.

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new scenes around the innovative exhibition format

This year's South China Expo is held in a dual-line fusion method of "online and offline".

online highlights the characteristics of "Cloud South Expo + Physical Exhibition", creating a beautiful landscape of cloud booths, cloud live broadcasts, cloud conferences, , cloud negotiations, electronic signing and intelligent matchmaking, attracting 1,298 offline exhibitors to register online, and 1,004 booths are built. The "Yunpin Tesco" zone has been launched, with more than 900 cloud companies entering, and the products cover many categories such as cloud tea, cloud coffee, cloud fruit, and cloud flowers, realizing that "cloud enterprises sell cloud products, cloud products sell nationwide." Set up a live broadcast area on the digital platform of the South Expo, and organize local Internet celebrities to broadcast live streaming and sell goods during the conference. During the 6th South Expo, there were 26,538 online exhibitors, 9,123 buyers, 15,656 booths, 44,393 exhibits, and online exhibitors achieved a total online sales of 246 million yuan, presenting a grand event of online and offline linkage.

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new measures to strengthen the implementation of exhibition guarantees

html During the South Expo, more than 500 reporters from more than 100 Chinese and foreign media including 20 central media, 11 provincial media, and 21 foreign media registered and signed up to attend the conference. More than 3,000 domestic media and nearly 90 overseas media around the world participated in the reprint of the South Expo news. Various media fully demonstrated Yunnan Province's firm determination and practical actions to continue to promote higher-level opening up to the outside world through all-round, multi-angle and multi-form publicity.

formulated and formed the "1+1+N" plan system for epidemic prevention and control rules, emergency response plans, and each point prevention and control plan. A total of 5 epidemic risk analysis and judgment have been carried out, and closed-loop or "two-point and one-line" management is implemented for staff, volunteers, waiters, and drivers in the core area, and classified guidance is given to special guests and entourages, guests returning to Beijing, and other participants in the exhibition.

Kunming City has effectively strengthened the guarantee of water, electricity, gas, communications, medical care, health, transportation, etc., carried out urban appearance and environmental improvement, urban landscape improvement and other work, creating a beautiful and tidy urban environment.

900 volunteers from 9 universities are distributed in exhibition halls, hotels, hotels, event venues and other areas, providing efficient and convenient services to guests and friends from all over the world, becoming a beautiful landscape at the South Expo.

provincial-level relevant departments have strengthened counterpart reception and strived to provide warm, friendly, high-quality and efficient reception services. The security department firmly adheres to the bottom line of safety, establishes a normal working system that connects the top and bottom, smooth command, and is meticulous and perfect, providing a safe, stable, safe and harmonious environment for the smooth hosting of the South China Expo.

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At the press conference

There are also these hot topics

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What are the outstanding features and highlights of this year's Nanbo?

First, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s congratulatory letter to him, has become the most milestone event of the South China Expo. General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the South Expo, which fully demonstrated his high attention to the South Expo.

Second, the guests at home and abroad have high specifications. More than 2,500 foreign guests from 80 countries, regions and international organizations attended the South China Expo online and offline, including 7 politicians (including 2 former politicians), 53 ministerial officials; 215 guests from 8 national ministries and commissions, 17 provinces and regions, 5 sub-provincial cities and independent cities, as well as relevant domestic enterprises and institutions, and 215 guests from Kunming attended the South China Expo, including 15 provincial and ministerial leaders. Zhang Chunxian, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Five foreign political leaders and one head of an international organization delivered video speeches at the opening ceremony; Maldives Former President Mohamed Wahid Hassan , and global chairman of the Australian Asian Association Rudd made video speeches at the relevant meeting activities.

Third, the exhibition hall setting highlights the advantages of Yunnan’s opening. has set up 13 exhibition halls around Yunnan's resource location advantages and industrial development plan. The Open Cooperation Hall, Digital Economy Hall, and the Special Hall of the 7th International Freight Fair are the first to be established. The Open Cooperation Pavilion highlights the characteristics of Yunnan's foreign investment, foreign trade, service trade and border trade, and displays cutting-edge products, technologies, services and solutions. The Digital Economy Pavilion takes "resource digitalization, industrial digitalization, and digital industrialization" as the main line, fully displaying the achievements made in the construction of "Digital Yunnan" in Yunnan Province. The International Freight Fair Special Pavilion was relocated in Kunming, Yunnan for the first time, attracting more than 400 companies from the entire industry chain of the logistics industry to participate in the exhibition, fully reflecting the strong attraction of Yunnan Province to build a south-facing land-sea channel.

Fourth, the conference activities highlight the national strategy. carefully designed 16 meeting activities around the theme of "Share new opportunities and seek new development together", constantly innovating the form of activities, enriching the connotation of activities, and highlighting the service of national strategies. The China-Indian Ocean Regional Development Cooperation Forum held for the first time thoroughly implements the global development initiative put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping. The 8th China-South Asia and Southeast Asia Think Tank Forum discussed and exchanged in-depth discussions and exchanges on the theme of "Deepening pragmatic cooperation and jointly seeking innovative development - the construction of a community with a shared future between China and South Asia and Southeast Asia". The 3rd New Era Border Opening Forum actively provides suggestions for high-level opening up to the outside world in my country's border areas. The first RCEP (Yunnan) International Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum aims to promote international trade and investment cooperation among RCEP countries.

Five is the rise in heat at home and abroad. On and foreign public opinion pays great attention to the 6th South China Expo. Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter to the 6th China-South Asia Expo has aroused strong response at home and abroad. In addition to traditional media, People's Daily Network , Xinhuanet , Central Radio Network , CCTV , CCTV News client, Guangming Network , China Daily Network , China News Network , China News Network , China Engineering Network, China Youth Online, etc. have reprinted related reports, and the cumulative reading volume of the entire network exceeded 100 million times. China Daily launched a series of videos of major events in the "South China Expo in the past ten years". More than 80 overseas media such as "European Times", Sri Lanka " Daily Mirror ", Malaysia " Xingzhou Daily ", India "Pioneer", Thailand "Sing Siam Daily", Myanmar "Golden Phoenix", Malaysia "Star", Namibian News Agency and other continue to pay attention. As of 15:00 on November 22, there were more than 14,000 related information about the South Expo on the entire network, with more than 260 million exposures. Using keywords such as "South Expo", we searched on search engines such as Baidu , Google , and showed more than 5.19 million related results, and the aggregation effect of Nanbo topics was obvious.

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China-South Asia Cooperation Forum was successfully held, what positive results have been achieved?

The 3rd China-South Asia Cooperation Forum was held in Kunming from November 19 to 20. The forum is co-organized by Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Yunnan Provincial People's Government. The theme of the forum is "Watching and Helping Each Other, Promoting the Common Development of ". The forum activities include the opening ceremony and the China-South Asia Health Forum and the 2nd South Asia Southeast Asia Medical Education and Medical Health Alliance Conference, and the China-Environmental Regional Think Tank Forum.

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This forum has achieved a complete success, mainly reflected in the following aspects:

First, all parties attach great importance to it. This forum participated in many countries and has high specifications. During the forum, more than 400 Chinese and foreign guests from 20 countries around South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean participated in various activities online and offline.

is the activity theme is clear. About the theme of the forum, all parties involved agreed that China and South Asian countries are friendly neighbors and development partners, and are a community with a shared future that shares weal and woe. In the face of challenges, both sides have always watched over each other, moved forward side by side, overcome difficulties together, and fought the epidemic together, writing a new chapter of the era of sharing a shared future between China and South Asia. All parties believe that the current international and regional situation is complex and requires unity and one mind to respond to the crisis, promote the implementation of the Global Development Initiative and the Global Security Initiative, shape the integration point of exchanges, cultivate growth points for cooperation, and expand common interests. All parties agreed to further strengthen the role of the China-South Asia Cooperation Forum mechanism platform, deepen trade and investment cooperation, enhance project leadership effect, continue to promote exchanges and mutual learning, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, and achieve common development.

is to effectively promote the top 20 spirits. This forum was held shortly after the closing of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. All parties generally expressed that the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is of great significance to China and the world, highly appreciated China's great achievements in the past 10 and 5 years in the new era, and highly praised the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, emphasized that China will adhere to the basic national policy of opening up to the outside world, firmly pursue an open strategy of mutual benefit and win-win, and adhere to the foreign policy purpose of maintaining world peace and promoting common development. All parties fully expressed their recognition of China's development concept, and increased their confidence in deepening friendship, mutual trust and integration of interests with China and South Asia and even the Indian Ocean region, so as to better benefit people of all countries.

is to actively serve the high-quality development of Yunnan . All the participants said that Yunnan is a frontier province for China's cooperation with South Asia, a bridge and link between China and the Indian Ocean region. Its ties with South Asia and countries around the world are increasingly close, and it plays an increasingly important and prominent role in promoting China-South Asia cooperation. We are willing to strengthen friendly cooperation with Yunnan, support Yunnan to continue to expand opening up, further transform its location advantages into dividends of development and cooperation, and make new and greater contributions to deepening China's friendly and cooperative relations with South Asian countries and promoting regional common development.

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