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Distinguished guests, friends, ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I’m very glad to meet you new and old friends here in beautiful Bangkok. Firstly, on behalf of the government of Jilin Province I would like to express my gratitude to the Ministry of Commerce of Thailand, the Export and Import Department of Thailand, Investment Committee of Thailand, Chinese General Chamber of Commerce of Thailand, Chinese Embassy in Thailand, Zheng Da Group of Thailand and all friends from Thailand for offering support and help to this meeting. I would also like to extend a warm welcome to distinguished guests for coming to Trade Exchanging Meeting between Jilin China and Thailand. I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the economic and social development of Jilin Province, its developing direction and characters. Firstly, Jilin Province has abundant natural resource, prominent competitive advantages and basic situations for expanding open-up and realizing vigorous economic growth. Jilin Province lies in the middle part of northeast of China with nine cities and sixty counties. There are three aspects, which account for 2% of that of China. The area of Jilin Province is 187.4 thousand square kilometers, which accounts for 2.1% of that of the whole country. The population of Jilin Province is 27. 34 million, which account for 2.07% of that of the whole county. In 2008, the total output value in this area reaches 642.4 billion yuan, which account for 2.1%. The outstanding features of Jilin Province can be concluded as “one center”, “two bases” and “three advantages”. “One center” means that Jilin is located in the center of Northeast Asia. Jilin is an inland frontier province close to the sea. It borders on Russia in east and DPRK in northeast. It has a boundary line about 1438.7 miles (China- Russia boundary line is 232.7 miles and China- Korea line is 1206 miles). The nearest spot of Hunchun City, which lies in the most east of Jilin Province, is 15 miles away from the