We hope this forum will kick-start our endeavor to pool wisdom and resources. China will strengthen cooperation with countries in the Indian Ocean region to grow the blue economy, advance the implementation of the GDI in the region, embark on the path to shared development, accelerate cooperation and work together to build a maritime community with a shared future.
The China-Indian Ocean Region Forum on Development Cooperation was held in hybrid way under the theme of "Shared Development: Theory and Practice from the Perspective of the Blue Economy" in Kunming, Yunnan Province on November 21, 2022.
A meeting on the China-Laos development cooperation mechanism was held via video link on Nov 17, 2022.Deng Boqing, vice-chairman of the CIDCA, and Xaysana Sitthiphone, vice-president of the Laos-China Cooperation Committee, co-chaired the meeting.
Luo Zhaohui, chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), met with Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, via video link on Nov 17, 2022.
Luo Zhaohui, chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), met with Farhod Arziev, ambassador of Uzbekistan to China, on Nov 15.
This forum is an opportune platform to sustain dialogue, exchange ideas, and establish greater cooperation between and among our countries concerning the utilization of hybrid rice to meet our food security targets.
I hope through this initiative, the countries around the world can adopt measures to ensure proper functioning of rice commodity markets and facilitate timely access to market information, reserves, in order to help limit extreme price volatility of rice.
I am sure that through this Forum, the scientific research institutions and rice processing industries of China and Pakistan, would collaborate for enhancing hybrid rice production and processing in Pakistan, which will facilitate in modernizing our agriculture sector, alleviating poverty, and improving standards of living of our citizens.