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Remarks of Amb. Luis Schmidt at CCG’s Pacific Alliance Event
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Pacific Alliance. On Dec 13, CCG hosted public lecture series featuring the Pacific Alliance ambassadors - H.E. Luis Diego Monsalve, Ambassador of Colombia to China, H.E. Jesus Seade, Ambassador of Mexico to China, H.E. Luis Quesada, Ambassador of Peru to China and H.E. Luis Schmidt, Ambassador of Chile to China, on the future development of PA and prospects of China-PA cooperation. The Pacific Alliance (PA) is a regional trade bloc launched in 2011 that includes Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru as well as 59 observer states. With a combined population of 230 million, a per capita GDP of USD19,000, the Alliance is now the 8th largest exporter in the world. China is a key trading partner of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as China-LAC trade grew 26-fold over the last two decades and expected to more than double by 2035. A special address was made by H.E. Luis Schmidt, Ambassador of Chile to China. Full text of his remarks is as below: Strategic vision 2030 Thank you, CCG, for the kind invitation to today’s public lecture, It is a great pleasure to be here today with my colleagues from Colombia, Mexico and Peru who have eloquently introduced the different aspects of the Pacific Alliance. Now, last but not least, let me introduce you what is our common vision for year 2030. Today, as we celebrate our 10th anniversary, the Pacific Alliance has consolidated itself as an innovative, flexible, and visionary regional mechanism, with concrete goals, consistent with the development model and foreign policy of the four member countries. To continue promoting and consolidating our deep integration, to generate development, and contribute to the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Pacific Alliance seeks to focus its work on four goals: More integrated, more global, more connected and closer to the citizens. These central concepts will contribute to achieving the free movement of goods, services, capital and people in 2030: · More integrated The Pacific Alliance in 2030 will be a trading block that grows sustainably, will depend less on raw materials, and will have a more competitive, efficient, productive, and fully integrated market. We aim at having a fiscal, tax and financial regulatory framework that favors an integrated market, to support the financing of infrastructure projects, responding to natural disasters, and developing an integrated electronic market. · More Global The Pacific Alliance aims consolidating its double dimension. On one hand, the articulation of the Pacific Alliance in international forums, such as APEC and the OECD and with regional blocs such as ASEAN and European Union. On the other hand, reaching the proposed levels of integration as a regional economy; taking into consideration the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. · More Connected By the year 2030, our citizens and companies will be digitally connected, having better access to information and communication, which will foster relationships at all levels. The Pacific alliance aims at becoming a “Digital Regional Market”. Incorporating Information and Communication Technologies in production processes. It will aim at closing the digital gap by training our human talent, promoting the access od SMES to new technologies, and promoting an inclusive and agile trade. · Closer to the citizens Thanks to the fact that the Pacific Alliance will enjoy the free movement of people, we aim at providing job, academic, cultural, and business opportunities to its citizens, which help to consolidate a widely recognized identity based on values, principles, customs, and a common vision. We believe these goals will be a roadmap to strengthen our cooperation internally and externally. China is for our countries a strategic partner; in this regard we are willing to create synergies with China that will foster a better future for all our people and our countries. Thank you very much.
December 13 , 2021 -
Remarks of Amb.Luis Quesada at CCG’s Pacific Alliance Event
Considering the important participation of Small and Mediums companies in the markets of the members of the Pacific Alliance, our block has established a business incubators network as a mechanism to support entrepreneurs, promoting their development in the early stages for their strengthening within the market.
December 13 , 2021 -
Remarks of Amb. Jesus Seade at CCG’s Pacific Alliance Event
The Pacific Alliance opens a door for member countries to export to new markets to which they previously had limited or no access, thus strengthening their supply chain to become more competitive on the global stage, with a particular focus on Asia, and specifically to China and its known growing domestic market boosted by its circular economy model.
December 13 , 2021 -
Remarks of Amb. Luis D. Monsalve at CCG’s Pacific Alliance Event
Accordingly, our main objectives are to BUILD an area of deep integration to progressively advance towards the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people.
December 13 , 2021 -
Opening Remarks by Wang Huiyao at CCG’s Pacific Alliance Event
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Pacific Alliance. On Dec 13, CCG hosted public lecture series featuring the Pacific Alliance ambassadors - H.E. Luis Diego Monsalve, Ambassador of Colombia to China, H.E. Jesus Seade, Ambassador of Mexico to China, H.E. Luis Quesada, Ambassador of Peru to China and H.E. Luis Schmidt, Ambassador of Chile to China, on the future development of PA and prospects of China-PA cooperation.
December 13 , 2021 -
[CGTN] Chinese students’ appetite for studying abroad remains strong
The number of Chinese students studying in the UK grew 12 percent in 2021 compared with that in 2015, according to data from Statista, a Hamburg-based company specializing in market and consumer data.
December 07 , 2021 -
Jorge Heine: Honduras’ chance for a fresh start
The election of Xiomara Castro as Honduras's first woman president ( and the only one in today's Latin America) made worldwide news. Election results in Central American countries rarely do that, but there is a good reason for it.
December 06 , 2021
