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People work hard and spring comes early. In order to strengthen the economic and trade cooperation between Guangxi and Japan and South Korea, on March 12, a delegation of more than 40 people from Guangxi to Japan and South Korea set out to the east and traveled thousands of miles to Japan and South Korea to seek cooperation. This is the largest outbound group for business cooperation with Japan and South Korea organized by Guangxi after the implementation of RCEP, and it is also the first group for Guangxi to carry out economic and trade cooperation with Japan and South Korea since the COVID-19 occurred three years ago, which sounded a new call for deepening international trade and economic cooperation.

From the Beibu Gulf to the west coast of the Pacific, this exchange activity has a compact schedule and rich content. During this time, we will visit the Chinese Embassy in Japan and South Korea, the Japanese Trade Promotion Agency, the official institutions of the Japan Association for the Promotion of International Trade, as well as the Chinese Enterprise Association in Japan, the Japanese enterprises in Tokyo, the European Group, Kirin Holding Co., Ltd., the Korean Doosan Group and other associations and organizations, the world's top 500 enterprises and well-known enterprises in Japan and South Korea, The promotion meeting of Guangxi open park in Japan and the docking meeting of medical and American enterprises in South Korea were held. At the same time, project investigation and cooperation were carried out on electronic information, high-end manufacturing, precision equipment, biomedicine, automobile and spare parts, health food and other industries.

China, Japan and South Korea are separated by a strip of water. As a bridgehead and distribution center for trade and cultural exchanges between China and ASEAN, Guangxi has always attracted the attention of Japanese and South Korean businessmen due to its unique geographical advantages and good business environment. "We will visit a number of well-known enterprises in Japan and South Korea, negotiate a number of projects with investment intentions, promote and sign a number of mature projects under discussion, publicize the development opportunities and advantages of Guangxi, and discuss and share the development dividend of RCEP through this' knock on the door '," said the head of the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Li Wenjie, Vice President of South Black Sesame Group Co., Ltd., is very looking forward to the visit of Japan and South Korea. "The aging industry in Japan and South Korea is very developed, which has a good reference for the transformation and upgrading of our enterprise product function group. I hope to meet old friends, make new friends and find more cooperation possibilities through the investigation." said Huang Hanzhu, General Manager of Pingguo Jintong Investment Group Co., Ltd, "We will go to Japan with a sincere purchase order for raw materials. With the government's investment support, this trip will be full of harvest!"

Behind the "outbound cooperation" is the "two-way travel" of the government and enterprises. In order to promote the economic and trade exchange and cooperation between Guangxi and Japan and South Korea to achieve new results, the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region screened 22 enterprises from more than 100 registered enterprises based on the demand of the investment attraction industry, and improved the accuracy of investment attraction and the signing rate. At the same time, it provided the "one-stop" services for the economic and trade delegations, such as project attraction, order intention signing, entry-exit visa and logistics support, Let foreign investment go on the green channel and race in the "spring".

For a long time, Japan and South Korea have maintained friendly relations and sincere cooperation with 12 cities in Guangxi. After the RCEP came into effect, Guangxi has more frequent interaction with Japan and South Korea in economic and trade investment. In 2022, the import and export volume of international trade between Guangxi and Japan reached 1.18 billion dollars, and the import and export volume of foreign trade with South Korea reached 2.04 billion dollars.

This visit will seize the opportunity of rapid expansion between Guangxi and its trading partners, strive to create a "model of Guangxi" in the field of business, and help to build a core area for the convenience of operation in the dual-cycle market of domestic and international trade.