Zhao said, this year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) proposed by President Xi Jinping. With the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits, the BRI has become an open, green, and innovative path to peace, prosperity and cultural exchanges. The Chinese side is willing to work with friends of political parties and the business community in South Asia and Southeast Asia and other countries to adhere to high-standard, sustainable and people-centered growth, stay committed to deepening mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, deeply tap into the potential of local cooperation, create a new platform for pragmatic cooperation, and constantly expand new space for cooperation, so as to promote high-quality development of the BRI cooperation.

Zhang said, Tianjin adheres to its positioning as a pioneer zone for reform and opening up, deeply participates in the BRI cooperation, and has achieved fruitful results in cooperation with South Asian and Southeast Asian countries in sister cities, economy, trade, culture, education and other fields. CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee and Tianjin Municipal People's Government advance Chinese modernization, and take measures to boost high-quality development from ten aspects. Zhang sincerely invited friends from the business community of all countries to invest in Tianjin and strive for a better future together.

Mawardi said, Indonesia, a representative of South Asian and Southeast Asian countries, and China have continued to strengthen interconnection under the BRI framework, promote economic and trade exchanges, enhance people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and boost respective economic development and regional prosperity. We hope to take this opportunity to establish closer cooperative relations with Chinese governments at local level and Chinese enterprises, to achieve win-win cooperation.

Wong Chen expressed, this visit to China has deepened the understanding of business representatives from various countries on Chinese modernization. He expressed the willingness to actively explore cooperation opportunities with the Chinese side in the fields of economy, trade, industry and other fields, so as to realize more pragmatic results.

The event was jointly organized by the China Economic Cooperation Center, and Foreign Affairs Office of Tianjin Municipal People's Government. Nearly 100 people from Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries, as well as representatives from departments of Tianjin Municipal People's Government, business associations and entrepreneurs attended the event. After the dialogue, Chinese and foreign enterprises conducted matchmaking and had good results.

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