(Jakarta News) A 21-member delegation led by Chen Haiming, deputy mayor of Dezhou City, including Gai Xueyong, deputy director of the office, Zhang Fangrui, director of the Foreign Affairs Office, Xia Lianhong, director of the Commerce Bureau, Su Shujiang, deputy mayor of Laoling City and other entrepreneurs, will be held in March 2024. Visited Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association at 5:30 pm on Monday, November 4th, and was welcomed by Vice Chairman Chen Xin, Secretary General Zhou Weiliang, Honorary Chairman Zhong Yanchao, Vice Chairman Gao Pengcai, Deputy Secretary General Xu Qunhao and other directors.
Vice President Chen Xin said that Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association has a very close relationship with The Dezhou Municipal Government. Since February 26, 2011, it has received Vice Mayor Li Baohai, May 20, 2011, and Government Secretary-General Cui Shuqiang on April 21, 2012. I have received Vice Mayor Yang Jiuqing, Mayor Chen Fei on June 30, 2018, Vice Mayor Chen Xiaoqiang on May 16, 2023, etc.
Indonesia has a stable society, steady improvement in people's living standards, openness, diversity and tolerance. Indonesia has also shown its own advantages in the new era of economic development, including a good population structure, with young people accounting for more than half of the total population. In recent years, the Indonesian government has actively guided and encouraged young people to start businesses and innovate, and has provided a large number of policies to encourage and support small and medium-sized enterprises, which has protected the foundation and vitality of Indonesia's economic development.
In 2020, the Indonesian government also introduced the "Comprehensive Employment Law", which opened more investment fields to foreign investment, greatly lowered the threshold for foreign investment, and attracted more domestic and foreign investment to participate in Indonesia's current economic construction and development. We have seen that in the past few years, domestic and foreign investment in Indonesia has continued to increase, and international sovereign rating agencies, including The World Bank, have given positive investment evaluations to Indonesia.
China has been Indonesia's largest international trading partner for many years. At the same time, with the launch of RECP, both Indonesia's market capacity and Indonesia's business environment have made Chinese companies very optimistic and have come to invest in Indonesia. In 2022, China has become Indonesia's second largest source of foreign investment. With the gradual resumption of international business travel, we believe that bilateral economic and trade cooperation has returned to its former busyness.
Today, Vice Mayor Chen Haiming personally led a delegation to visit, and I believe he is very optimistic about the Indonesian market. We welcome the Chinese government and entrepreneurs to visit Indonesia more, learn more about the market, and consider investing and building factories in Indonesia to expand overseas markets. Whether it is technology, the Internet, or commerce, we hope that our future cooperation will be open, mutually beneficial, and win-win. Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association, will also actively provide chamber services and provide necessary consultation and related assistance for Chinese companies to settle in Indonesia.
Finally, I wish tomorrow’s “Shandong-Indonesia Enterprise Exchange Meeting” a complete success, and I also wish you all a fruitful trip to Indonesia! thank you all.
Vice Mayor Chen Haiming pointed out that Dezhou City’s import and export volume with Indonesia reached 1.799 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 97%, accounting for 2.58% of the city’s total import and export volume. Among them, exports were 1.606 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 96.2%, and imports were 193 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 104.5%. This reflects the good development momentum of economic and trade cooperation between our city and Indonesia. We are very willing to take the opportunity of our visit to promote further practical cooperation between the two parties.
Chen Haiming said that he put forward three suggestions to further deepen cooperation: First, expand local friendly exchanges. Mutual visits between local governments are an important support for promoting all-round and wide-area exchanges. We look forward to the leaders of the Association actively promoting more Indonesian entrepreneurs to visit and understand Texas, continue to support more interested provinces and cities to establish communication channels and friendly relations with Texas, expand the "circle of friends" of Texas, and lay a solid foundation for practical cooperation in various fields. Base.
The second is to deepen project-industry cooperation. Dezhou is making every effort to build a strong advanced manufacturing city, a famous Chinese food city, a famous sports city, and a national integrated circuit high-end material base, focusing on cultivating electronic information, green chemicals and new materials, food processing, high-end equipment, biomedicine, and sports equipment manufacturing. There are 7 leading industries and 11 key industrial chains in light industry and textiles. Indonesia is the largest economy in ASEAN and a member of the G20, with strong advantages in agriculture, manufacturing and service industries. We look forward to your continued support for Texas companies to participate in infrastructure construction and other projects in Indonesia, promote the construction of industrial parks, guide and encourage Indonesian companies to invest and start business in Texas, and we will provide Indonesian companies with a first-class business environment and high-quality and efficient services.
The third is to promote and expand non-governmental exchanges. The people of Texas are very warm and hospitable. Indonesia also has a long history and splendid civilization. We look forward to Ambassador Lu Kang and the embassy supporting both sides in jointly organizing more exchange activities in the fields of culture, education, tourism and other fields, and expanding exchanges in the humanities field.
At present, cooperation and exchanges between Dezhou and Indonesia have many favorable conditions such as "the right time", "the right location" and "the right people". We hope that all friends will have the opportunity to come to Dezhou, take a look, and promote Dezhou more. I believe that with the care and support of all friends, the practical cooperation between Texas and Indonesia will surely reach a new level and reach a new level.
