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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday called on China, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to strive to set a model for global cooperation and development featuring regional openness, cooperation among countries at different stages of development and integration of different civilizations.
Li Qiang made the announcement at the first ASEAN-China-GCC summit in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
The premier called on the three parties to create a model of inter-regional openness, noting that the combined population and economic strength of China, ASEAN and GCC countries account for about a quarter of the world’s total.
According to him, the full connection of the three markets will undoubtedly provide much greater space for development and a more significant effect of scale.
China and ASEAN have fully completed negotiations on upgrading the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) to version 3.0, Li Qiang recalled, adding that the FTA negotiations between various parties and the GCC are expected to be completed soon, thereby raising the level of trilateral trade.
He called on the three parties to steadily expand regional opening-up and unite adjacent regions into a large common market where resources, technology and talent circulate more efficiently and trade and investment enjoy greater freedom and convenience, so as to give full play to the powerful effect of open development.
The Chinese leader also called on the three sides to develop a model of cooperation at different stages of development, saying that although the three sides are at different stages of development, their differences do not hinder cooperation, but rather complement each other through their strengths.
China, he said, is willing to deepen the alignment of development strategies with ASEAN and the GCC on the basis of mutual respect and equal treatment, strengthen coordination of macroeconomic policies and strengthen cooperation in industrial specialization.
“We should strive to turn our own strengths into each other’s advantages, while helping each other overcome new challenges arising in the development process, create new paths for international industrial and economic cooperation, and promote coordinated development in which everyone’s capabilities can be fully unleashed and the benefits doubled and shared,” Li Qiang stressed.
The Premier called on the three sides to create a model of inter-civilizational integration, noting that they are the cradles of vibrant civilizations and share the Asian values of peace, cooperation, openness and inclusiveness.
Li Qiang said it is important to deepen cultural and people-to-people exchanges and strengthen the foundation of mutual trust, and called on the three sides to effectively overcome differences through mutual understanding, develop mutually beneficial cooperation through the exchange of ideas, and seek a new path for the inclusive development of various civilizations.
The Chinese side, he pointed out, actively supports the initiative of Confucian-Islamic inter-civilizational dialogue put forward by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
China is willing to work with ASEAN and the GCC to implement the Global Civilization Initiative, promote mutual learning among civilizations, build greater consensus, and inject impetus into peace and development, Li added. –0–