China News Service, Chengdu, December 16 (Shan Peng) The "Sichuan Event Day" of the China Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai with the theme of "Cooperative Innovation, Abundant Opportunities" was launched on the 15th in Dubai, Chengdu and Chongqing online and offline simultaneously. 3.54 million people at home and abroad watched the grand event of "Sichuan Event Day" through simultaneous webcast.
An opening performance of "Le Tour in Sichuan" kicked off the Sichuan Event Day.
The three places of Dubai, Chengdu and Chongqing are linked together, online and offline interact on the same screen, and the Dubai World Expo will enter Sichuan time.
Through a video speech, Zhang Shenfeng, the representative of the Chinese government at the Dubai World Expo and vice chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said that Sichuan is an important economic center and consumption center in western China and is vigorously implementing a comprehensive opening up and cooperation strategy to accelerate its integration into the “Belt and Road” international cooperation and the world. Economic integration pattern.
The Sichuan Activity Day will display the colorful Sichuan in a three-dimensional, comprehensive and vivid manner.
Chengdu city image display.
Photo courtesy of Sichuan Council for the Promotion of International Trade
UAE ambassador to China Ali Tashiri said that the Dubai World Expo China Pavilion is one of the largest pavilions at this World Expo. It focuses on displaying China’s outstanding achievements in the fields of science, technology and sustainable development. At the same time as business opportunities, it also creates more new opportunities for Chinese companies to develop in the UAE.
According to Li Yunze, Member of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and Deputy Governor of the Provincial Government, Sichuan's GDP ranks sixth in the country, reaching 4.86 trillion yuan in 2020, and is expected to reach a level of 5 trillion yuan in 2021; total imports and exports in 2020 will break through 800 billion yuan, ranking eighth in the country.
The host of this World Expo, the UAE, is Sichuan’s important economic and trade partner in the Middle East. The two sides have in-depth cooperation in the fields of mutual government visits, economy and trade, humanities, agriculture, and tourism. In 2015, Chengdu and Dubai have opened direct flights. In 2020, Sichuan and Afghanistan The total import and export volume was 5.58 billion yuan, which exceeded 6.77 billion yuan in the first October of this year.
In order to further strengthen the economic and trade exchanges and cooperation between Sichuan Province and the UAE, the Sichuan Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Sichuan International Chamber of Commerce established the Sichuan International Chamber of Commerce representative office in the UAE based on the UAE Sichuan-Chongqing Chamber of Commerce.
Huang Li, president of Sichuan Council for the Promotion of International Trade and Sichuan International Chamber of Commerce, awarded the plaque to Yu Shili, president of the UAE Sichuan-Chongqing Chamber of Commerce Association.
It is understood that the Sichuan Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Sichuan International Chamber of Commerce have established regular business contacts with 204 business associations and economic organizations in 74 countries, and have established representative offices in 17 countries relying on overseas Sichuan Business Associations and Sichuan enterprises.
At the Dubai World Expo site, audiences participated in offline activities on Sichuan Event Day.
Photo courtesy of Sichuan Council for the Promotion of International Trade
The signing ceremony of Sichuan-Arab cooperation projects was also held on the same day.
The signing of this session was carried out in the form of online, Sichuan International Chamber of Commerce and Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry China Representative Office, Sichuan International Chamber of Commerce Middle East Market Professional Committee and UAE Chinese Overseas Chinese Federation, Huaheng Xintian Chengdu Industrial Co., Ltd. and UAE Bumur Commodities Co., Ltd. A cooperation agreement was signed, and the contract amount reached 5 billion yuan.
Outside Chengdu, the "Expo Yaoba Shu·Sichuan-Chongqing Advantage Industry Exhibition" showcased the perfect industrial system and characteristic brand products in Sichuan and Chongqing, including drones, smart irrigation, smart parking, smart control systems, medical beauty equipment, and security equipment , Agricultural and sideline products, etc.
The relevant person in charge of the Sichuan Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade said that the Sichuan-Chongqing advantage product exhibition area is to implement the major decision-making arrangements for the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing dual-city economic circle, deepen the cooperation of Sichuan-Chongqing trade promotion, and use the Sichuan-Chongqing open-up cooperation platform jointly built by the World Expo to spread the world. Exhibiting and recommending Sichuan-Chongqing superior technologies and products, highlighting the economic carrying capacity and radiating driving force of the modern industrial system of Sichuan’s industry "5+1", agriculture "10+3", and service industry "4+6", helping to build a new development pattern .
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