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New trends in international trade! In order to seize the opportunity of the optimization of epidemic prevention measures and the opening up of the country, implement the deployment of the requirements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to "build a new frontier of opening up to the outside world" with practical actions, and accelerate the promotion of higher level international trade and economic cooperation with key countries of RCEP, at the beginning of the new year, Dalian's first overseas investment promotion group led by municipal leaders set out for Japan to carry out a series of economic and trade exchanges and investment promotion activities. This is also the first overseas investment promotion group led by a municipal leader in a city of the same level, which shows the determination and confidence of Dalian to strive for the first place and build a leading city in the opening and cooperation of Northeast Asia, and the clear guidance of attracting investment and making every effort to attract projects.

China and Japan are important close neighbors to each other. On February 2, Foreign Minister Qin Gang and Japanese Foreign Minister Lin Fang were on the phone and mentioned that China was willing to take the 45th anniversary of the conclusion of the China-Japan Peace and Friendship Treaty as an opportunity to maintain high-level dialogue and communication with Japan and deepen cooperation in international trade fields such as digital economy, green development, and maintaining the stability of the supply chain.

As a hub city facing Northeast Asia, Dalian has accumulated deep roots and fruitful achievements with Japan in economic cooperation, industrial exchanges, civil exchanges, cultural integration and other aspects since the reform and opening up. At present, Japan has become Dalian's largest international trading partner and the largest source of foreign capital. The two sides have strong complementarity in industrial structure in the fields of high-end equipment manufacturing, electronic information, automobile and its components, biomedicine, petrochemical and other fields, and have a good foundation and broad prospects for deepening mutually beneficial cooperation.

The Dalian economic and trade delegation to Japan was organized by the Dalian Municipal Bureau of Commerce, with Leng Xuefeng, the deputy mayor of the municipal government, as the head of the delegation, and the main heads of the economic departments of the municipal government, such as the Development and Reform Commission, the Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, and the Economic Cooperation Office. From February 7 to 11, the delegation went to Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe and other cities in Japan to carry out a five-day intensive economic and trade exchange and investment promotion activities. During the visit to Japan, the visiting delegation will visit the Chinese Embassy in Japan, the Kobe Municipal Government, the Japan Trade Promotion Agency, the Japan-China Friendship Association, and key project enterprises such as Nikko, Eurex, Matsushita Electric, Kawasaki Heavy Industry, Panqi Industry, etc., to have face-to-face talks and exchanges with Japanese politicians and businessmen, promote the landing of investment projects, publicize the advantages of cooperation with Japan, and attract more Japanese enterprises to carry out two-way investment and trade activities with Dalian, Share opportunities for open cooperation.

Throughout 2023, the Dalian Municipal Bureau of Commerce will organize and participate in a number of large-scale foreign-related economic and trade activities, visit overseas to carry out investment promotion, innovate cooperation models, expand international trade cooperation space, and increase efforts to attract foreign capital, which will play a powerful role in accelerating the realization of the goal of a trillion GDP city and promoting the upgrading of foreign economic and trade cooperation.