First CEO conference under BRI calls to deepen cooperation

The Belt and Road Initiative cooperation stands on the principle of consultation, contribution and shared benefits, and is widely recognized among the Belt and Road CEO Conference under the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at Beijing on Thursday.

The first CEO conference under the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation from April 25 to 27 is jointly held by China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC) and State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration of Commission Council (SASAC) with more than 900 participants from companies, governments and business organizations in 88 countries and international organizations.

As the proposer of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China will spare no efforts to build a fair, legal, international and convenient environment for global business, said Gao Yunlong, vice chairman of the national committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and chairman of ACFIC at the plenary session, hoping that the principle of BRI, consultation, contribution and shared benefits Companies can be accepted by more countries and further benefits the world.

Until now, central SOEs have participated in over 3120 BRI projects with local employees accounting for over 85 percent of the whole staffs in their overseas branches, Xiao Yaqing, chairman of SASAC said, indicating that more and more people worldwide are benefiting from BRI.

He also mentioned that as the first Chinese-financed wind farm in Chile, Punta Sierra wind farm invested by China's state energy giant State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) could reduce 114,000 tons of greenhouse emissions every year.

China's private sector has driven the BRI construction as the total value of imports and exports between Chinese private companies and BRI countries in 2018 exceeded 600 billion U.S. dollars.

More than 170 pieces of inter-governmental cooperation documents with 124 countries and 29 international organizations have been signed since the launching of BRI.

Gao Yan, chairperson of CCPIT, Arancha Gonzalez, executive director of the International Trade Centre, Eleni Kounalakis, lieutenant governor of State of California, among other guests also attended the plenary session.

The CEO conference, mainly composed of the plenary session hosted by Chen Zhou, vice chairman of CCPIT, the signing ceremony as well as the B2B Match Making Session, is a warm-up of the three-day meeting when Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a keynote speech on April 26.

(CGTN)