(Jakarta News) Zhang Jinxiong, Huang Shuangan, Zheng Nianjin, Yang Kelin, Chen Bainian, Liang Yuanan, Wu Futai, Wu Guofu, Zhou Weiliang, Xue Tianzeng, Lin Wenxian, Xu Jinxiang, Weng Zuhui and Wang Lisong were invited as executive vice chairmen and executive chairman of the Indonesian Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Ambassador Sun Weide, Wang Liping, Counselor and Consul General of Hong Kong Embassy, Consul General and Consul General of Hong Kong Embassy and Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce, hosted a dinner at the Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta on Saturday, October 7, at honor of Liang Zhenying, vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Zhang Jinxiong said here tonight hosted by the Indonesian Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Liang Zhengying, vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, is warmly welcome to visit Indonesia. First of all, on behalf of all my colleagues at the Indonesian Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, I would like to express my warmest welcome and sincere regards to Leung Chun-ying and all of you.
Hong Kong has enjoyed very close economic and trade cooperation with Indonesia for many years. In the first seven months of this year alone, the bilateral trade between Indonesia and Hong Kong was about 3.24 billion U.S. dollars, up 20.7% over the same period of last year. At the same time, we are also very happy to see that in the first half of 2017, Indonesia had invested 15.55 billion U.S. dollars in foreign investments, the top five were Singapore (3.66 billion U.S. dollars), Japan (2.85 billion U.S. dollars ), The Mainland of China (1.96 billion U.S. dollars), Hong Kong (1.02 billion U.S. dollars) and the United States (970 million U.S. dollars). Hong Kong ranks second only to mainland China and is Indonesia's fourth largest source of investment.
Along with the initiative of the Chinese government to jointly build the "One Belt and One Road", more and more Chinese enterprises and Hong Kong enterprises are seizing this opportunity and come to Indonesia to look for cooperation opportunities. We very much welcome and look forward to closer cooperation and cooperation with entrepreneurs in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong government so as to jointly promote economic and trade cooperation and personnel exchanges between the two sides and complement each other's efforts to create a prosperous and prosperous economy.
The Indonesian Chinese Chamber of Commerce, will also continue to do a good service Chamber of Commerce, Indonesia and Hong Kong play a good trade and economic cooperation and exchange platform role. Establish a mechanism of regular communication of information and trade with the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government to provide more and more accurate recruit and investment information, policy introduction and legal and legal advisory services to entrepreneurs of both sides, and provide assistance to entrepreneurs of both sides as much as possible so as to promote Trade between the two sides, prosperity of the economies of the two countries, make positive efforts. Finally, I wish Vice-Chairman Liang Zhenying a successful and successful trip to Indonesia.
Leung Chun-ying pointed out: "This visit to Indonesia is mainly for the opening ceremony of the 19th International Tide Conference. Indonesia is the largest economy of ASEAN. For many years, Hong Kong has attached great importance to its relations with Indonesia. Indonesia is also Hong Kong's major trading nation. In addition, the Hong Kong-ASEAN Free Trade Area Agreement, which has been negotiated for three years, will be signed in November this year. I believe Hong Kong and the ASEAN countries including Indonesia will enjoy rapid trade and will not only encourage Hong Kong businessmen to go global Hong Kong examines investment and makes greater efforts to further promote the cooperation between Hong Kong and Indonesia in the fields of economy, trade, investment and other fields. "
