A number of provincial party and government "leaders" met with American guests, and they have important backgrounds

A number of provincial party and government "leaders" met with American guests, and they have important backgrounds

    On March 19, Fujian Provincial Party Secretary Zhou Zuyi met with U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns and his delegation in Fuzhou.

    On the same day, Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee Wang Xiaohui met with President of the US-China Business Council Allen and his delegation in Chengdu.

    Zheng Zhijun noted that recently, a number of provincial Party and government "leaders" in Heilongjiang, Shanghai and other provinces met with American guests, and these meetings have two important backgrounds.

    On March 19, Zhou Zuyi, Party secretary of Fujian Province, met with Nicholas Burns, the US Ambassador to China.

    Zhou Zuyi said that this year marks the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and the United States. He hopes that the two sides will take this visit to Fujian as an opportunity to earnestly implement the consensus reached at the San Francisco meeting between the two heads of state, further deepen friendly exchanges and practical cooperation with US localities, work together to strengthen economic and trade docking, promote people-to-people exchanges, deepen people-to-people exchanges, and promote two-way investment and development of more enterprises from the two places.

    Burns also expressed the hope that through this visit, further deepen the understanding of the profound origin and history of friendly exchanges between the United States and Fujian, and enhance economic and trade cooperation and exchanges between the two sides.

    On February 3, Liang Huiling, governor of Heilongjiang Province, met with Nicholas Burns and his delegation in Harbin.

    Liang Huiling mentioned that she is willing to work with the ambassador to jointly implement the important consensus of the two heads of state, strengthen exchanges between local governments, deepen cooperation in industry, culture, education, sports, tourism and other fields, and carry out more exchange and cooperation projects conducive to the development of both sides.

    In addition, just on March 19, The General Office of the State Council issued the Action Plan to Steadily Promote High-level opening up and make Greater efforts to Attract and utilize foreign investment.

    Expand market access and liberalize foreign investment, the plan said. Strengthen policies to make them more attractive to foreign investment; Optimize the fair competition environment and do a good job in providing services for foreign-invested enterprises; Smooth the flow of innovation factors and promote innovation cooperation between domestic and foreign enterprises; We will improve domestic regulations and better align them with high-standard international economic and trade rules.

    The programme also makes demands on the regions and sectors.

    All regions and departments should take the initiative, pay close attention to implementation, and effectively enhance the sense of gain of foreign-invested enterprises. All regions should make greater efforts to create an environment and improve services, take the practical problems of concern to foreign-invested enterprises as breakthroughs, be good at solving problems with innovative thinking, and consolidate confidence in the development of foreign investment in China.