ASEAN and Nanning - Singapore Economic Corridor

2013-06-08

China - ASEAN Expo is the initiative by the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce and the ASEAN countries, international trade department co-sponsored exhibition event, held each fall in Nanning, China. China - ASEAN Expo set of goods, trade in services, investment cooperation, seminars and cultural exchanges in one.From China, ASEAN and buyers from around the world, exhibitors, investors and project owners will gather in Nanning to share trade integration and investment facilitation opportunities and outcomes. EAFTA November 29, 2004 The People's Republic of China and ASEAN signed in Laos capital Vientiane "The People's Republic of China - ASEAN Framework Agreement on Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement on Trade in Goods", towards promoting the establishment of a free trade agreement area (ASEAN 10 +1) the direction of the advance. To achieve the 2010 China - ASEAN free trade zone logistics goal of zero tariffs, the two sides decided since 2005, began to negotiate for some of the goods duty-free, and then gradually expand to full tax exemption in 2010 and reached the goal. On the other hand, Japan and South Korea also announced since 2005, in consultation with the ten countries of ASEAN FTA talks, as established EAFTA (10 +3) starting. (Reference: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ASEAN) 10th ASEAN official website: http://www.caexpo.org/

"Nanning - Singapore Economic Corridor" is the "one axis wings" China ASEAN regional cooperation in the new pattern of "one axis", which first conceived in 2006, the Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum was

raised by the Chinese Central Government's affirmation, positive October 2008, the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau Standing Committee, Premier Wen Jiabao came to the three cities of Guangxi Beibu Gulf coastal Inspects special requests should Beibu Gulf Economic Zone development with regional economic cooperation closely together to promote the Nanning - Singapore Economic Zone channel of the building. First, the "Nanning - Singapore Economic Corridor" Introduction "Nanning - Singapore Economic Corridor", is based in Nanning as a starting point, along the connecting China, Vietnam, Laos (or Cambodia), Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and other seven countries, the East-West corridor and through direct radiation to Burma's economic corridor. It Nanning, Hanoi, Vientiane (or Phnom Penh), Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and other cities along the route based, railways, highways as a link to flow, logistics, information flow, capital flow basis, through regional transportation infrastructure within facilities and industry, agriculture, tourism, and service industries as well as investment and trade cooperation, to build industrial clusters along the edge of urban systems, port systems and border economic cooperation zone, a variety of resources and factors of production to promote cross-regional, cross-border flows, in order to form a dominant complementary regional division of labor, joint development, joint development of transnational economic corridors. The corridor through China and Indochina, the realization of China ASEAN linkage between land and sea, will not only help to improve the efficiency of logistics with each other to promote the China - ASEAN and the world economy and trade and exchange, and will greatly facilitate this regional economic development, will develop into the Pacific West Coast people have unlimited anticipated economic growth belt.