(Jakarta News) Zhou Weiliang, Secretary-General of Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association, Honorary Chairman Liu Xinhua, Vice Chairman Xue Jingyong, Lin Songshi and other directors welcomed Liu, the second-level inspector of the Beijing Overseas Chinese Federation, at the club at 4:30 pm on September 6, 2024 (Friday). Feng, Li Juan, Party Secretary of the Dongcheng District Overseas Chinese Federation of Beijing, Xu Jing, a first-level researcher from the Beijing Overseas Chinese Federation Office, and others visited. Representatives from both sides had cordial exchanges, enhanced cooperation, and sought common development.
Vice Chairman Xue Jingyong said, first of all, please allow me to extend a warm welcome and sincere greetings to all guests on behalf of the Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association! Indonesia is a country with multicultural and multi-ethnic coexistence, and its economic and social development has made remarkable achievements in the past few decades. Last year, Indonesia's GDP growth rate reached 5.3%. Despite the complex and volatile global economic situation, Indonesia still showed strong resilience.
As the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesia has a total population of nearly 280 million. At the same time, Indonesia is also the country with the largest number of overseas Chinese. There are more than 20 million Chinese Indonesians out of the 50 million overseas Chinese. After hundreds of years of development, the Indonesian Chinese have long been deeply integrated into the local society. With diligence, wisdom and excellent business spirit, they have been harmonious and friendly with their brothers and sisters, helped each other, and jointly devoted themselves to Indonesia's economic construction, becoming a driving force for Indonesia's development. the backbone of.
Indonesia and China have been friendly neighbors across the sea since ancient times, regardless of history, culture, or modern economic and trade, science and technology, and cultural exchanges. Both countries have close ties and have the mission and need to lead hundreds of millions of people to develop together. With the further advancement of the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, large-scale infrastructure projects symbolized by the "Japan-Bandung High-Speed Railway" are being implemented in Indonesia. The friendly cooperation between Indonesia and China is using projects and strength to prove to the world that only Only through mutual trust, openness and cooperation can we achieve win-win and multi-win!
Xue Jingyong said that Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association and the Beijing Overseas Chinese Federation have maintained a good communication mechanism for many years. We also very much welcome the Beijing Municipal Government and friends from Beijing to come to Indonesia to promote social and cultural exchanges between us. . Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association is not only a platform for service providers associations and entrepreneurs, but also hopes to actively assist and promote exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in the cultural field, and contribute to promoting friendly exchanges between Indonesia and China. Finally, I wish you all a successful and fruitful trip to Indonesia.
Inspector Liu Feng II pointed out that the vigorous development of Indonesia's economy is closely related to the hard work and great contributions of the local Chinese. He hopes that through this exchange, he can strengthen and deepen exchanges and cooperation with Indonesian Chinese Entrepreneur Association, to make the relationship between the two parties closer, and to provide better services to overseas Chinese through this platform.
He said that Beijing and Indonesia are inextricably linked. Due to the epidemic, the exchanges between the two sides have become very rare. He hopes that through our visit, the exchanges between the two sides will become smooth again. He briefly introduced the transformation of Beijing's economic construction in recent years. Various ecological industries have also taken on a new look, and we sincerely welcome everyone to take the time to visit Beijing, visit, and invest in it.
