On November 9, Vice Minister of Commerce Li Fei attended and addressed the 17th China-Japan Comprehensive Forum on Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection in Tokyo, Japan.
Li Fei stated that China and Japan are both major economies in the world and each other’s important economic and trading partners, and the leaders of the two countries have reached important consensus on building a constructive and stable China-Japan relationship that meets the requirements of the new era. The two sides should work together to implement the important consensus of the two leaders, give full play to respective advantages, ensure unfettered green trade and investment channels, develop new growth drivers for green cooperation, and expand third-party green market, contributing to the upgrading of China-Japan trade and economic relations as well as to the sustainable development of the world.
Li Fei pointed out that green development is the trend of the times, and building a green home is also a common dream of mankind. The third plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee clearly put forward the idea of accelerating the comprehensive green transition of socioeconomic development, and promoting ecology prioritization, conservation and intensification, and green and low-carbon development. The China-Japan Comprehensive Forum on Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection focuses on green cooperation and has become an important platform for promoting common development of energy conservation and environmental protection of the two countries. We are ready to work with the Japanese side to leverage the role of the forum as a platform, to deepen green cooperation, share the dividends of green development, and inject more green impetus into the sustainable development of the global economy.
The China-Japan Comprehensive Forum on Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection was funded in 2006, jointly held by the National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Commerce of China, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry of Japan, and the Japan-China Economic Association.