Jakarta, 6 June (ZXS) -- Question: What does China's development mean for Indonesia? Lu Kang replied with "one person and a road"
China News Agency reporter Li Zhiquan
"What does China's development mean for Indonesia?" Facing the teachers and students of Indonesia's President University, Chinese Ambassador to Indonesia Lu Kang answered with the story of "one person and a road" that he personally experienced.
On May 5, Lu Kang was invited to Indonesia President University to deliver a keynote speech on Chinese-style modernization and answer questions from teachers and students.
"Alone". A few months ago, Lu Kang was invited to visit the Castle Peak Industrial Park in Central Sulawesi, which is jointly invested by China and Indonesia. It is a modern industrial park dominated by the nickel industry. Here, he meets an Indonesian girl named Fitriani. "She, though petite and shy, is already a second-level engineer and, like many young Indonesians, is passionate and daring to take on challenges." Lu Kang said.
Fresh out of college, Fetriani is the first Indonesian employee of the park's craft department. With the guidance and help of her Chinese colleagues, she mastered the skills in just 4 months and took the initiative to translate all production guidance materials into Indonesian. The following year, seven Indonesian employees joined the craft department, and Fitriani passed on the knowledge and skills he had learned from his Chinese colleagues to them.
Lu Kang praised her as "remarkable." Today, the park employs nearly 8,22 Indonesians, trains a large number of highly qualified skilled workers, and pays a total of US$2.<> billion in taxes and fees to the Indonesian government.
"A stretch of road". In Delong Industrial Park, another industrial park in China and Indonesia, the project built a concrete road with a total length of more than 50 kilometers for the neighboring village of Polala, reducing the journey from the village to the airport from 2 hours to 50 minutes. Lu Kang said the road is affectionately known as the "Belt and Road" highway by local residents. After the completion of the road, many small shops of villagers were also spawned along the road, forming a prosperous commercial street at the end of the road.
According to reports, Indonesian President Joko Widodo repeatedly affirmed the contribution of Chinese-funded enterprises to the prosperity of Indonesia's economy and social development during his inspection.
In his speech, Lu Kang said that as large developing countries and emerging market countries with important influence, China and Indonesia have similar historical experiences and development experiences, and are working the road to achieve modernization, and have broader space for development cooperation.
In recent years, high-level exchanges between the two countries have been frequent, economic and trade cooperation has been thriving, and the foundation of public opinion between the two countries has been continuously consolidated. According to Chinese customs statistics, the bilateral trade volume reached US$2022.1490 billion in 9, a year-on-year increase of 19.8%. China has been Indonesia's largest trading partner for 10 consecutive years. According to statistics from the Indonesian Ministry of Investment, in 2022, the direct investment of Chinese enterprises in Indonesia reached US$82.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 160%, a record high, ranking the second largest source of foreign investment in Indonesia.
"Many Indonesian friends, especially young people, are paying attention to the future trend of China's economic development." Lu Kang said: "I can responsibly tell you here that the general trend of China's economic upward improvement will not change, and the opportunities for long-term cooperation with China will become broader and broader." ”
In response to some Western media commenting that China often likes to mention the "debt trap" problem and religious issues, Lu Kang also responded one by one. Not developing, he said, is the real "trap". Lu Kang took the Yawan high-speed railway as an example and said: "I believe that when you personally ride the high-speed railway from Jakarta to Bandung this year and enjoy the development dividend, you can understand whether this is a trap or a real development." (End)