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JI'NAN, China, Aug. 17, 2021 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--

Dialogue with Shandong -- the Japan-Shandong Industry Cooperation and Exchange

Seminar was held in Jinan, Shandong province on August 13. Government officials

and business executives from across all sectors in Shandong as well as in Japan

attended the seminar via the cloud. The seminar was designed to analyze the

economic development situation in China and Japan, explore trends in

China-Japan industry cooperation and industry upgrading under the RCEP, promote

key cooperation projects, and to share development opportunities.

Liu Jiayi, Secretary of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee, attended the

seminar, and took the opportunity to exchange ideas online with JETRO (Japan

External Trade Organization) Chairman Sasaki Nobuhiko before the meeting began.

Li Ganjie, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Shandong Provincial Committee and

Governor of Shandong Province, delivered a speech.

The event, with the theme "New Vision for Sino-Japanese Economic and Trade

Cooperation under the RCEP Framework", is held via both online and offline

channels. The event consists of theme seminars, a series of industry matching

and exchange fairs, Japan (Shandong) International Commodities Expo, and

Shandong city cooperation conferences. 136 projects from six key industry

sectors, including ecological and environmental protection, cultural tourism,

automotive manufacturing, modern agriculture, machinery and equipment, and

medical care and health, are specifically selected from more than 300

Sino/Japan cooperation projects in Shandong Province for industry matching and

exchange fairs. The event will run until November 30.

The influence of Dialogue with Shandong continues to impel. More than 20

industry and other leaders from Japan, including Ejima Kiyoshi, State Minister

of Economy, Trade and Industry, Hideo Tarumi, the Japanese Ambassador to China,

Sasaki Nobuhiko, Chairman of JETRO, and Hirofumi Yoshimura, Governor of Osaka

Prefecture, attended the meeting online. Delegates from local governments in

Japan, including Osaka Prefecture, Oita Prefecture, Fukui Prefecture, Yamagata

Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture, Iwate

Prefecture, Nagasaki Prefecture, and Okinawa Prefecture, and representatives

from over 600 well known Japanese enterprises, with Fortune Global 500

companies included, such as Mitsubishi Group, Mitsui Group, Toray Industries,

Marubeni Corporation, Omron Corporation, Mizuho Financial Group, Itochu

Corporation, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, attended the virtual meeting. The

number of online participants from both countries exceeded 70,000.

Source: China Council for the Promotion of International Trade Shandong

Sub-council

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