SCO meeting to promote new approach to cooperation

Premier Li Keqiang is visiting Uzbekistan to attend the 18th meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent from Friday to Saturday. Aimed at enhancing and extending multilateral cooperation to promote regional development and stability, the meeting will also focus on promoting multilateral trade in the long term.

The SCO has made strenuous efforts to counter the rising wave of protectionism, and boost the global economy. And the SCO economic ministers' meeting on Sept 26 vowed to deepen cooperation in fields such as information, communication, scientific and technological innovation, and environmental protection.

The Sept 26 meeting also drafted a document on multilateral trade and economic cooperation among the SCO member states for the period up to 2035, which will be discussed at the Tashkent SCO meeting. The meeting will also discuss the draft of SCO cooperation and how the development can improve people's living standards in remote and rural areas.