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The 7th Partner Regional Leaders’ Summit was Held in United States

2014/6/16 17:11:35   source:en.sdfao.gov.cn

  From June 2nd to 3rd, Hon. Guo Shuqing, Deputy Secretary of Shandong Provincial Party Committee, Governor of Shandong Province, together with the government delegation, attended the 7th Partner Regional Leaders’ Summit (PRLS) held in Atlanta. The deputies had discussions on the topics of “The Development of Global Logistics Supply Chain” and “The Important Role that Big Sports Events Play in Promoting Sustainable Development” and signed the agreement. Mr. Guo Shuqing had bilateral meetings with the deputies from the partner religions and set solid foundations for the future cooperation.

  In reply to the invitation of Mr. Nathan Deal, Governor of Georgia, Governor Guo Shuqing, together with the deputies from Upper Austria, Quebec, Bavaria and Western Cape also attended the summit.

  The main themes of the summit were “The Development of Global Logistics Supply Chain” and “The Important Role that Big Sports Events Play in Promoting Sustainable Development”. In the forum before the summit, the deputies had a deep discussion on the two topics and sent the results to the leaders of the summit.

  Mr. Guo Shuqing reported the practice of the Sao Paulo agreement. He said that Shandong Province took an active part in the cooperation of clean energy under the summit frame and sent experts to the academic events held in Sao Paulo and Western Cape and had fruitful results. Till the end of 2013, the amount of new energy electricity had gone to 9.5% from 6.7%. It shows that we work closely under the requirement of the agreement of Sao Paulo.

  Mr. Guo Shuqing pointed out that Shandong Province was faced with the pressure and requirement of fastening the transformation of economic development and promoting the industry upgrading despite the development of economy. The topics of the summit are in accordance to the requirement of sustainable development as well as the work of Shandong Province.

  Mr. Guo Shuqing said that with the advantages of its geographical location, Shandong Province always pays much attention to the development of logistics and strengthens the construction of logistics infrastructure and takes an active part in the supply chain of global logistics. In the recent years, Shandong Province lays enough emphasis on the infrastructure construction of port, rails, airport and highway. On the other hand, Shandong Province makes the market play a decisive role in the distribution of resources in logistics through diminishing the process of administrative examination and approval, clearing industry barrier, lowering logistics costs, lessening the burdens of enterprises. Shandong is willing to carry out bilateral and multilateral cooperation with partner provinces and states and share the experiences of development and promote the development of logistics industry, which will make Shandong into the most business-suitable region. In terms of the economic benefits of sports events, Mr. Guo Shuqing said that the biggest challenge of sports events is how to make good use of the chance of the event to fasten the development of the city and improve the employment rate. In 2009, the 11th National Games was held in Shandong Province. During the event, over 600,000 new employment was created through the construction of city infrastructure, the construction of stadium and the development of the tertiary industry and the amount of GDP was up to 172.2 billion yuan. After the event, the stadium was put into good use, which promoted the development of economy and people’s life. It is our hope to further strengthen the bilateral and multilateral communication and cooperation with the partner regions in sports and culture and deepen the friendship.

  The deputies all agreed on the importance of the supply chain of logistics in the global economy. The present logistics mode is needed changing in accordance to the change of purchasing and trade to fully satisfy the need of the global development. All the partner regions would establish the sharing knowledge tank and share the challenges and chances of logistics. All the deputies had held the sport event for once or several times. Through the communication, we can learn from each other and promote the economic development of the local regions.

  The 7th PRLS passed the agreement. The next one will be held in Bavaria.

  Before the summit, Mr. Guo Shuqing had meetings with the deputies of each region and had discussions on further cooperation in the areas of culture, sports, environment protection, new energy, agriculture and education. He hoped that through the platform of the summit, the friendly relationship would be furthered and improved.

  The PRLS was established in 2000, with 7 members, including Shandong Province, Bavaria, Upper Austria, Quebec, Western Cape, Georgia and Sao Paulo. The summit is held every two years. Since the beginning, the partner regions have carried out over 200 bilateral and multi-lateral cooperative projects and have achieved fruitful results.

  Mr. Hao Feng, Secretary-General of Shandong Provincial Government also accompanied.

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