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Green Sustainable Development Conference (2022) & China-EU High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development held successfully

2022-12-12
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From 10th to 11th December, the Green Sustainable Development Conference (2022) & China-EU High-Level Forum on Sustainable Development, co-hosted by the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) and the China Society of Industrial Economics (CSIE) and themed with “ Synergizing Green and Digital Transition & Chin’s Practice”, was held successfully in Taicang, Jiangsu Province. Mr. Liang Zhenying, Vice Chairman of the 13th CPPCC National Committee, made the opening remarks in a pre-recorded video. Mr. Wang Chao, President of the CPIFA, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Mr. Zhang Ji, Deputy Director of the Social and Legal Affairs Committee of the 13th CPPCC National Committee and Chairman of the CSIE, moderated the opening ceremony.
Over 40 high-level delegates from the Chinese and European political and economic sector and some business leaders attended the meeting. The Chinese participants include Mr. Xie Zhenhua, China’s Special Envoy on Climate Change, Mr. Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Mr. Zheng Xinli, former Deputy Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee and Mr. Fang Wei, Deputy Governor of Jiangsu Province. The European participants include Mr. Frans Timmermans, Executive-Vice President of the European Commission, Mr. Laurent Fabius, President of the Paris Climate Change Conference and former Prime Minister of France, Mrs. Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, Mrs. Teresa Ribera Rodríguez, Vice President of the Government of Spain and Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge. All the participants conducted friendly and in-depth exchanges of views in the Symposium on Digitalization Drives Green and Sustainable Development and China-Europe Carbon-Neutral City Forum. A Signing and Launch Ceremony of China-EU Carbon Neutrality Innovation Cooperation Projects was also held, along with the launch of an Initiative on Earth Aspiration Action.
Major leaders of Chinese Mission to the EU, Chinese Embassy in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Ireland as well as Norwegian Ambassador to China attended the conference via video link. The activity was organized by China-EU Carbon Neutrality Cooperation Office, Center for International Economic and Technological Cooperation and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China and Taicang Municipal People’s Government, Jiangsu Province.