On December 30, 2021, the first general meeting of the "Fujian Association for the promotion of Asia Pacific Economic and trade cooperation" (hereinafter referred to as "APEC") led by the Department of Commerce of Fujian Province was successfully held, marking the formal establishment of Fujian APEC. Neoole Holdings Co., Ltd. was invited to participate in the Asia Pacific Cooperation meeting. Executive director Tu Zexin attended and participated in the president unit election on site.
More than 900 enterprises attended the meeting, and the meeting elected the president unit, vice president unit, secretary general and executive director unit of the first Council. Yongrong holding group was elected as the chairman of the first Council, and Wu Huaxin, the chairman, served as the first chairman; Neoole Holding Co., Ltd. was elected as the vice president unit of the first Council, and Tu Zexin, the executive director, served as the vice president; Ma Guowu, director of Asia Department of Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce, served as the first secretary general.
Tu Zexin said at the meeting: "Neoole Holdings will give full play to the role of the vice president unit, support the Asia Pacific Cooperation Association to continuously enhance its cohesion, centripetal force and appeal, and do a good job in the work of the Council. At the same time, with the help of the platform of Fujian Asia Pacific Cooperation Association, it will grasp the context of industrial upgrading in Fujian Province and the opportunity of RCEP economic and trade development, rely on the global brand industrial chain, operation management and other advantages of the Global Outlets Alliance, and Neoole innovated its business model and jointly helped Fujian industrial optimization, integrated development of production capacity and comprehensive integration with internationalization ".
At the subsequent RCEP economic and trade cooperation and development promotion meeting, Guo Ningning, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and executive vice governor of Fujian Province, Huang Dezhi, deputy director of the Fujian Provincial Department of Commerce and first-class inspector, and other political and business leaders and guests, as well as experts and scholars represented by Professor Deng Liping congratulated the establishment of Fujian Asia Pacific Cooperation and looked forward to the future of the Asia Pacific cooperation. "We should make full use of the good opportunity for the effective implementation of RCEP, shape new advantages in international cooperation and competition, further promote the interconnection between Fujian Province and RCEP Member States, and strengthen cooperation in investment, trade, finance, transportation, personnel exchanges and other fields," Guo Ningning said.
In the post epidemic era, RCEP will bring new opportunities and challenges to Fujian, which is expected to become an important engine for deepening industrial cooperation, promoting market opening, stabilizing industrial chain supply chain and promoting regional development, and contribute new strength to promoting a higher level of opening up of Fujian Province to the outside world and promoting the high-quality development of Fujian economy.
According to the work deployment of the Fujian provincial Party committee and the Fujian provincial government, the Fujian Provincial Department of commerce takes multiple measures to optimize the business environment, accelerate the construction of the carrier platform of the market procurement and economic and Trade Bureau, strengthen the construction of the bearing capacity of the Development Zone, comprehensively strengthen the industrial foundation, promote transformation and upgrading, deepen international production capacity cooperation, strengthen interconnection It plays an important role in holding economic and trade cooperation and exchange activities.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement (RCEP) officially entered into force on January 1, 2022. It covers about 30% of the global population, about 30% of the global GDP and about 30% of the global trade and investment. It will further promote the liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment in this region and further deepen the regional economic cooperation. This also marks the official sailing of the free trade zone with the largest population, the largest economic and trade scale and the most development potential in the world.
As the first provincial commercial association responding to RCEP in China, Fujian Asia Pacific Cooperation Association will become a bridge for effective communication and interaction between the government and enterprises, promote Fujian's foreign economic and trade exchanges and cooperation, comprehensively promote the high-quality business development of Fujian Province, help Fujian enterprises make good use of the benefits of RCEP rules, and continue to expand the breadth and depth of exchanges and cooperation between Fujian Province and RCEP member states.
