Australian trade minister Andrew Robb departs for China to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in Beijing and to hold high-level talks on a free trade agreement with China, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said on Thursday.
China has done more than expected in the Asia Pacific regional economic integration and should be congratulated for its role in strengthening the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation as a regional forum, according to a senior Philippine official in an interview with Xinhua on Wednesday.
Moscow is playing a more "active and constructive" role in the Asia-Pacific to facilitate the establishment of "one single economic entity" in the region, a senior Russian diplomat told China Daily on Thursday.
There's no need to worry that the expected launch of work on a free trade zone would complicate the trade terrain in the Asia-Pacific. Instead, it would raise hopes for a solution of the current "spaghetti bowl" dilemma.
As a "final rehearsal" for next week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' meeting, senior officials from the 21 member economies of APEC gathered in Beijing on Wednesday to finalize policy details that aimed at reinvigorating trade, productivity and sustainable development.
The transition from traditional financial services to Internet-based alternatives has become "a new norm" of the Chinese economy, according to market insiders.
China was an unlikely birthplace for the world's largest e-commerce market.
Beijing will plant large areas of forest to compensate for greenhouse gas emissions caused during the APEC meetings, with planting expected to be completed by June.
Planting trees may seem as easy as digging holes, transplanting then watering saplings, but when almost 1,000 hectares of land is being forested, the process is not so simple.
Strong measures taken by the government to curb air pollution may contribute to better air during the APEC meetings in Beijing, but to resolve the problem at its core will take much longer, experts said.
The city was hit by thick smog on July 26, 1943, after which it started to analyze the causes of smog and took measures that included promoting air pollution control technologies, reducing vehicle emissions and encouraging the use of natural gas and ethanol to replace gasoline.
The traditional skills of Beijing's intangible cultural heritage are being displayed on the first floor of the China National Convention Center.
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