BEIJING, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- The 2nd China-CEE Development Forum was held on September 25 in Prague, Czech Republic, and more than 200 government officials, experts, scholars and business representatives from China and Czech Republic attended the event.
Jan Kohout, President of the New Silk Road Institute Prague, said that this forum provides a platform for trade and business information exchange between China and Czech. Central-Eastern European (CEE) countries have long been interested in cooperation with China. Hopefully, more high-quality companies of Czech, especially high-tech enterprises could enter China and Chinese investment is welcome to Czech.
It is common aspiration of both sides to comprehensively consolidate China-Czech strategic partnership and further deepen pragmatic cooperation in various fields against the backdrop of rising trade protectionism, said Zhang Jianmin, Chinese ambassador to the Czech Republic.
China-CEE Development Forum is co-sponsored by China Europe International Business School and New Silk Road Institute Prague, aiming to strengthen cooperation and achieve win-win situation for China and CEE countries under the Belt and Road Initiative and “16+1 cooperation” framework.
(Edited by Bao Nuomin, Yang Qi, baonuomin@xinhua.org)