(Jakarta News) Yang Jinbai, President of the Beijing Overseas Friendship Association, and Huang Keying, Vice President, Li Yi, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Beijing Municipal People's Government, Wang Bo, President of the Beijing Xicheng Overseas Friendship Association, and Li Xiaowei, Deputy Secretary-General of the Beijing Xicheng Overseas Friendship Association, and Huan Tai, the Foreign Affairs Office of the Beijing Municipal People's Government Wu Xiaotong, Deputy Director of the Division, visited ICEA ( Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association ) at 4 pm on December 13, 2023 (Wednesday). He was welcomed by General Chairman Zhang Jinxiong, Secretary-General Zhou Weiliang, Guo Guihe, Member of the Steering Committee, Vice Chairman Xue Tianzeng, Jiang Miaocheng, Lin Zuoheng and other directors Welcome.
Chairman Zhang Jinxiong pointed out that first of all, please allow me, on behalf of all Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association, to extend a warm welcome and sincere greetings to all of you.
Zhang Jinxiong said that Indonesia has always attached great importance to economic and trade cooperation and cultural exchanges with China. In the past ten years, high-level government visits from the two countries have been frequent, and people-to-people cultural exchanges and personnel exchanges have been even closer. The monthly bilateral trade volume between Indonesia and China in 2022 is US$149.1 billion. As of the third quarter of this year, our bilateral trade volume is approximately US$93.44 billion. At the same time, China has become Indonesia's second largest source of foreign investment. As of the third quarter of this year, China's investment in Indonesia has reached US$10.8 billion, which has fully exceeded the US$8.2 billion for the whole of 2022. These figures also truly reflect the increasingly close economic and trade cooperation between our two countries.
Today, President Yang personally led a delegation to visit. We are very happy. Beijing is the capital of China and a famous historical and cultural city. It has a very profound foundation in terms of economy, trade, scientific research, and cultural strength. We welcome the Beijing Municipal Government and friends from Beijing to come to Indonesia for more visits, inspections and exchanges, and to more advanced discussions on topics and plans for social and cultural exchanges between our two sides. Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association is not only an association of service providers and a platform for entrepreneurs, but it is also willing to actively assist in promoting cooperation in some social and cultural exchange projects and contribute to the promotion of friendship between Indonesia and China. Finally, I wish you all a successful trip to Indonesia.
President Yang Jinbai first introduced the latest development situation in Beijing. He said that Beijing has a population of 21.83 million and a GDP of 4.14 trillion yuan, making it the second largest economic city in China together with Shanghai. This visit hopes to strengthen and deepen exchanges and cooperation with Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association and do good work through this platform. Service work with overseas Chinese,
President Yang Jinbai said that he sincerely hopes that Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association will prosper under the leadership of President Zhang Jinxiong, continue to strengthen exchanges and communication between overseas Chinese and China in various fields, and promote friendly exchanges between China and Indonesia in culture and other fields. Welcome to Indonesia Entrepreneurs from the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce took the time to visit Beijing and strengthen exchanges.
After the exchange meeting, the 2024 "Chinese Character Carnival" Overseas-Indonesia Jakarta Station was signed by Zhou Weiliang, Secretary General of Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association, He Min of the Jakarta Chinese Education Coordination Agency, Huang Keying, Vice President of the Beijing Overseas Friendship Association, and Wang Bo, President of the Beijing Xicheng Overseas Friendship Association. The cooperation agreement was witnessed by Zhang Jinxiong and Yang Jinbai. Afterwards, representatives from both sides exchanged souvenirs and took photos.
