Asia-Pacific Partnership

The Asia-Pacific is the region with the most potential and vigor in economy and trade, and APEC is playing a leading role in regional economic integration and economic globalization. Since its founding in 1989, APEC has promoted free and open trade and investment, and economic and technological cooperation among members. Impressive successes have been achieved in these aspects. As the largest, highest- level mechanism for economic cooperation in this region, APEC serves as an important platform for policy exchange and economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific sphere. As a major pillar for global economic integration it is exercising profound and far-reaching influence on the global economy and trade.

China has been an active player in APEC activities, and is willing to do more to promote growth. At the opening of the 22nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November 2014 in Beijing, Xi Jinping made a speech entitled "Shaping the Future Through Asia-Pacific Partnership." He said, "We are all members of the APEC community. It meets the common interests of us all to foster an open economy in the Asia-Pacific featuring innovative development, interconnected growth and converging interests. To achieve this goal, all the economies in the region need to work together to build an Asia-Pacific partnership of mutual trust, inclusiveness, cooperation and win-win progress, and this will inject new energy into the economic development of both the Asia-Pacific and the world." To this end, he made four proposals: jointly charting the course for future development, jointly meeting global challenges, jointly building cooperation platforms, and jointly pursuing interconnected development.

共建面向未來的亞太伙伴關系

亞太是全球經濟貿易最具潛力和活力的地區，亞太經合組織對推動區域經濟一體化和經濟全球化發揮著重要的引領作用。自1989年成立以來，亞太經合組織始終秉持開放的區域主義精神，積極推動亞太地區貿易投資自由化和便利化，加強成員間的經濟技術合作，取得了累累碩果。亞太經合組織作為本地區規模最大、層次最高的區域經濟合作組織，不僅是亞太地區政策交流和經濟合作的重要平臺，也是全球經濟一體化的重要支柱之一，對全球經濟貿易走向正產生日益重大而深遠的影響。中國一貫高度重視并積極參與亞太經合組織合作，愿在新時期為促進亞太經合組織發展作出更大貢獻。2014年11月，在亞太經合組織第二十二次領導人非正式會議上，習近平發表了題為“共建面向未來的亞太伙伴關系”的開幕辭。習近平強調，亞太經合組織是一個大家庭，打造發展創新、增長聯動、利益融合的開放型亞太經濟格局，符合所有成員共同利益。為了實現上述目標，亞太經濟體需要共同構建互信、包容、合作、共贏的亞太伙伴關系，為亞太地區和世界經濟發展增添動力。為此，他還提出四點建議：共同規劃發展愿景，共同應對全球性挑戰，共同打造合作平臺，共同謀求聯動發展。