129 MoUs signed between Indian and Chinese
India-China should continue to strengthen cooperation in trade facilitation, upgrade bilateral, regional and multilateral trade facilitation, and create favorable conditions for expanding bilateral trade scale and alleviating trade imbalances.
This call was made by Chinese Embassy Counselor Zhu Xiaohong at the ‘India-China Business Meeting and Signing Ceremony’ organized by FICCI on 10 Oct 2019.
Zhu highlighted that India’s agriculture products, pharmaceuticals, handicrafts have certain advantages.
However, due to lack of necessary understanding and cognition of Chinese market, their way into China is not smooth, she noted.
She further suggested that the Indian side should focus more on ‘4Cs’ – Compatibility, Competitiveness, Creativity and Cooperation. “Indian companies should make good use of its advantages in the service industry to create manufacturing plus service innovative products.”
Zhu further added that India is China’s largest trading partner in South Asia and Indian companies are expanding in the Chinese market with a cumulative investment of nearly US$1 billion.
“With a combined market of over 2.7 billion people and GDP of 20% of the world’s total, China and India enjoy huge potential and broad prospects for economic and trade cooperation,” she pointed out.
Highlighting the trade imbalance between the two countries, Zhu said that China has taken series of steps to reduce the trade imbalance and made positive progress in promoting the import of agricultural products from India.
LIU Changyu, Deputy Director General, Foreign Trade Department of Ministry of Commerce, added that mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries is also deepening.
Chinese enterprises have responded positively to the strategy of ‘Make in India’ and ‘Digital India’ and their investment in India has exceeded US$8 billion.
“In the next 15 years, China will import US$30 trillion of goods and US$100 billion of services from the world. As the only two major developing countries with a population of more than 1 billion each in the world, China and India are focusing on development,” he said.
Liu said that the China’s Commerce Ministry is willing to further strengthen cooperation with relevant departments of India to jointly create a better future for economic and trade development.
A total of 129 MoUs were signed between the Indian and Chinese companies during the event in sectors like agri-related products, minerals, textiles, etc. to further strengthen the trade relations between the two countries.
India and China have been the strongest economic partners and that India values the contribution of Chinese companies in its economic growth, responded Vikramjit Singh Sahney, Executive Committee Member, FICCI, at the business meeting.
“Indian industry is upbeat about its relations with China,” added Sahney who is also Chairman of Sun International and President-International Chamber of Commerce. fiinews.com
