China And Cotton Four Countries Jointly Issue Joint Communiques

< p > China and Benin, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Africa, < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > cotton < /a > four countries jointly issued the joint press communiqu of the Ministry of Commerce of People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Commerce of four cotton trade under the WTO framework in Bali Island, Indonesia, and held a press conference.

Chinese Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng, representatives of Benin, Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, and director general of WTO, Azevedo, attended the news conference.

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< p > Gao Hucheng said at a news conference that since the launch of the Doha round, China has always stressed that negotiations should give priority to the problems of developing members, especially those of the least developed countries.

Therefore, China firmly supports the aspirations of the four cotton countries and actively promotes the solution of the cotton problem.

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< p > Gao Hucheng pointed out that since the Ministry of Commerce of China and the cotton four countries jointly issued the joint news bulletin on cotton field cooperation under the "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp "WTO < /a" framework in December 14, 2011, China has sent experts to Africa to investigate and jointly formulate 3 years cooperative plan under the economic and technical assistance provided by China. The 20 million countries have helped to build and popularize excellent cotton varieties, pfer technology and experience, improve cotton planting, processing and trade capabilities, and promote the development of the cotton industry in four countries by making use of the cotton technology extension projects, providing agricultural materials, personnel training and technical cooperation.

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< p > Gao Hucheng said that China is willing to further increase aid efforts and expand cooperation with the four cotton countries.

China will actively explore innovative ways of aid with the four countries, and focus on six measures to further deepen cooperation.

One is to build infrastructure, the two is to provide production materials, three is to increase training, four is to strengthen scientific research cooperation, five is to enhance trade capability, and six is to promote enterprise cooperation.

We hope to further help cotton four countries to enhance cotton production, processing, storage, pportation and trade capacity in an all-round way, and strive to make our cooperation in the cotton field a new bright spot in South South cooperation.

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< p > > a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/pioneer/" > GAO Hu Cheng < /a > also indicated that China appreciates Mr. Azevedo and the Secretariat's untiring efforts to promote the concern of the least developed countries and will continue to support the work of the director general and the Secretariat in these areas.

China calls on members to make joint efforts to solve the concerns of the least developed countries as soon as possible, and finally to promote the Doha Round negotiations to reach a "package" agreement, and to achieve development goals at an early date.

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< p > China has taken further measures to promote cotton production in C4 countries. C4 countries include Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, the four countries account for 15% of world cotton exports.

Trade officials from both sides announced that China has expanded its cooperation plan with C4 countries, announced during the ninth round of World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference held in Bali, Indonesia.

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"P > China will promote the capacity of C4 countries through cooperation in the production, processing and logistics operations of the cotton industry," Gao Hucheng, Minister of Commerce of China, said in a news briefing.

The current agreement is a follow-up to the cooperation plan initiated at the eighth round of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization in 2011.

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< p > represents the interests of C4 countries. Hamid, Minister of Commerce and industry of Chad, said that this cooperation opportunity helped cotton growers in four countries in West and Africa.

The two sides said that according to the results of the previous plan, the adoption of practical measures would be more effective and diversified cooperation under the framework of South South cooperation.

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