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Botswana’s Minister of Investment, Trade, and Industry Mmusi Kgafela attended the opening ceremony of the 4th China International Import Expo (CIIE) via video link.

With an exhibition area of more than 366, 000 square meters, this year’s CIIE held in Shanghai from 5^th to 10^th November draws nearly 3, 000 businesses from 127 countries and regions, both numbers are higher than its last edition.

Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the opening ceremony titled ‘Let the Breeze of Openness Bring Warmth to the World’.

According to Xi, opening up is the hallmark of contemporary China. This year marks the 20th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Over the last two decades, China, the world’s second-biggest economy after the USA, has fully delivered on its accession commitments and kept opening wider to the world, thus generating a new wave of domestic development while injecting fresh impetus into the world economy.

http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/04/c_1310290787.htm

Ambassador Wang pays a courtesy call on SADC ES

On 3^rd November, Chinese Ambassador Wang Xuefeng, Representative of China to SADC, paid a courtesy call on H.E. Elias Magosi, the new Executive Secretary of SADC. The two sides exchanged views on strengthening cordial relations and practical cooperation between China and SADC. Ambassador Wang said that China attaches great importance to the SADC and its member states. China will continue to strengthen cooperation with SADC under the framework of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) to promote more new results in bilateral relations for the benefit of our peoples.

China calls on all parties to take actions against the climate challenge

On 1^st November, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a written speech at the World Leaders Summit at the 26th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Noting that the adverse impacts of climate change have become increasingly evident, presenting a growing urgency for global action, President Xi said that how to respond to climate change and revive the world economy are challenges of our times that we must meet.

He put forward three proposals in this regard. First, we need to uphold multilateral consensus. Second, we need to focus on concrete actions. Third, we need to accelerate the green transition.

http://www.news.cn/english/2021-11/01/c_1310284288.htm

UNGA passes draft resolution submitted by China

The First Committee of the 76th United Nations General Assembly has passed a draft resolution submitted by China.

“Promoting Peaceful Use of International Cooperation in the Field of International Security” indicates all countries have the right to exchange materials, science, and technology for peaceful purposes.

This is the first time China has proposed and promoted the adoption of a resolution on international arms control and disarmament issues in the United Nations in the past 30 years.

Twenty-six (26) countries including Cuba, Russia, Syria, and Pakistan participated in the joint proposal of the Chinese resolution.

President Xi attends the 16th G20 Leaders’ Summit

From 30^th to 31^st October, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the 16^th G20 Leaders’ Summit via video link. President Xi said that faced with changes and a pandemic both unseen in a century, the G20, the premier forum for international economic cooperation, needs to shoulder its due responsibilities, bear in mind the future of humanity and the welfare of the people, uphold openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation, practice true multilateralism, and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. The summit was hosted by Italy, which holds the rotating G20 presidency in Rome. The G20 Rome Leaders’ Declaration was adopted at the Summit.