The 14th session of the Singapore-Jiangsu Cooperation Council was held through video-link on Wednesday. Wu Zhenglong, governor of Jiangsu and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Jiangsu, addressed the event. Indranee Rajah, Senior Minister of State for Finance and Law of Singapore and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Singapore, addressed the meeting.
Wu Zhenglong expressed his warm welcome to all the guests and his gratitude to people from all walks of life that have long been concerned about and give support to Jiangsu’s development and its cooperation with Singapore.
Noting that this year’s session of the Singapore-Jiangsu Cooperation Council was held soon after the conclusion of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee held at the end of last month, Wu Zhenglong said the event is of special significance due to the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, making it necessary to hold the meeting through video-link.
Against the adversities of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jiangsu and Singapore have joined hands to fight the virus, promote the industrial chain, smooth the supply chain, thus ensuring the steady and healthy development of the province’s economy, the governor said.
Wu Zhenglong said that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Singapore， adding that the relations between the two countries have stood at a new historical starting point and the prospects for deepening mutually beneficial cooperation between Singapore and Jiangsu are broad and huge.
The important speeches made by President Xi Jinping during his inspection tour in Jiangsu last week has pointed out the way forward and provided fundamental follow-up for Jiangsu to further deepen reform and opening up in the new development stage and start a new journey of comprehensively building socialist modernization, said the governor.
Wu Zhenglong remarked that Jiangsu will implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, practice President Xi Jinping’s important speeches and important instructions, give further play to the role of the Singapore Jiangsu Cooperation Council as an important platform, continue to uphold the principle of "mutual trust, mutual assistance, and mutual benefit", and deepen the all-round, deep-level, multi-channel opening-up and cooperation.
He envisions the prospects of joining hands to build a new development pattern to seize development opportunities, create a high-level opening to the outside world, seek closer cooperation to create a new high-level opening to the outside world, deepen technological innovation and industrial cooperation to achieve mutual benefit and win-win, expand exchanges and cooperation in the humanities field, take greater steps, strengthen anti-pandemic cooperation, better benefit the people of the two places and write a new chapter of open cooperation and win-win development.
Indranee Rajah said that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Singapore and China, adding that the exchanges and cooperation between Singapore and Jiangsu have achieved fruitful results, which are a vivid epitome of the vigorous development of Singapore-China relations.
In the face of the sudden onset of COVID-19 pandemic, Jiangsu responded effectively so that its economy and society returned to normal in a relatively short period of time, she said.
Indranee also said Jiangsu maintained smooth exchanges and contacts with Singapore, supported Singapore in the fight against the epidemic, highlighting Jiangsu's efficient and pragmatic work, and reflecting the deep friendship between the people of Singapore and Singapore.
She hoped that both parties will seize new opportunities to deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields such as biomedicine and professional services in open innovation, and continue to achieve new results.
Also present at the meeting were Hui Jianlin, vice governor of Jiangsu and vice director of the Jiangsu-Singapore cooperation council, and Koh Poh Koon, Minister of State for Trade and Industry and National Development of Singapore.
