CICG hosts symposium on China-LAC cooperation

A symposium on common development and knowledge sharing between China and Latin American and Caribbean countries is held in Beijing on Jan. 29, 2024. [Photo/CICG]

On Monday, a symposium on common development and knowledge sharing between China and Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries was held in Beijing, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the China-CELAC Forum. 

Lu Cairong, vice president of China International Communications Group (CICG), speaks at a symposium commemorating the 10th anniversary of the China-CELAC Forum in Beijing on Jan. 29, 2024. [Photo/CICG]

Lu Cairong, vice president of China International Communications Group (CICG), said in his keynote speech that, since the launch of the China-CELAC Forum in 2014, all parties have actively engaged in experience sharing, cultural exchange, and mutual learning, yielding fruitful results in regional coordination, trade and investment, infrastructure construction, and health care and education. 

In face of a sluggish world economy and turbulent international landscape, China and LAC countries should leverage the China-CELAC Forum to promote in strategic alignment, economic and trade cooperation, and scientific and technological exchange, Lu said. 

Qiu Xiaoqi, special representative of the Chinese government on Latin American affairs, speaks at a symposium commemorating the 10th anniversary of the China-CELAC Forum in Beijing on Jan. 29, 2024. [Photo/CICG]

Qiu Xiaoqi, special representative of the Chinese government on Latin American affairs, said that, as an important platform for boosting South-South cooperation and building a China-LAC community with a shared future, the China-CELAC Forum enhances consensus on unity and facilitates regional integrated development. In the past 10 years, China and LAC countries have consolidated political mutual trust, expanded pragmatic cooperation, and supported each other in the international arena. 

China is willing to work with LAC countries to champion a multipolar world and inclusive economic globalization, and contribute to shaping a just and equitable global governance system, Qiu said. 

More than 50 think tank scholars, enterprise representatives, and journalists from China, Brazil, Mexico, and Bolivia attended the event. 

CICG's Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies, Blossom Press, and Center for the Americas were among the event organizers.