周可仁谈中国与亚洲区域经济合作（Zhou Keren on regional economic cooperation between China and Asia）.docVIP

周可仁谈中国与亚洲区域经济合作（Zhou Keren on regional economic cooperation between China and Asia） Zhou Keren, Vice Minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation, talks about regional economic cooperation between China and Asia at the China day annual meeting of the ADB held here this morning. The report reads as follows: Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen: Today, I am very glad to have the opportunity to attend the China Economic high-level seminar and discuss the economic and development issues of China and Asia with all the guests present here. I would like to take this opportunity to make a basic introduction to Chinas participation in regional economic cooperation and to give you an in-depth exchange of views on topics that are of great concern to you. As we all know, in recent years, along with the surging tide of economic globalization, regional economic cooperation has shown a strong momentum of development. Most countries and regions in the world have participated in different forms of regional economic cooperation and signed a large number of regional trade agreements. According to the statistics of the world trade organization, by January 2002, regional trade agreements have been reported to the organization for a total of 162, in addition to the regional trade organizations of EU and NAFTA, ASEAN Free Trade Area and the southern common market, there are a large number of bilateral free trade agreement. Of particular note is that regional economic cooperation has now broken through the traditional regional concept, and there has been an increasing number of trans continental and trans regional trade agreements. In addition to the regional economic and trade arrangements, the world has also set up a cooperation mechanism in various other forms, such as APEC, ASEM and so on, the more countries and regions into the framework of regional economic cooperation, has greatly expanded the influence of regional economic cooperation. With Europe,