{"id":183,"date":"2020-09-23T11:01:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T03:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/?p=183"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:01:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T03:01:57","slug":"pan-beibu-gulf-economic-cooperation-forum-to-be-held-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/pan-beibu-gulf-economic-cooperation-forum-to-be-held-in-october.html","title":{"rendered":"Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation Forum to be held in October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 11th Pan-Beibu Gulf (PBG) Economic Cooperation Forum will be held on Oct. 15 in Nanning, capital of south China&#8217;s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with main focus on cooperation between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20200923100853.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20200923100853.png 632w, https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/\u5fae\u4fe1\u622a\u56fe_20200923100853-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The event, to be held both online and offline, will have discussions on topics such as the construction of international gateway ports and the new international land-sea trade corridor, as well as the development of the digital and marine economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PBG economic zone covers Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan in China, as well as some ASEAN members including Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, and Thailand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initiated in 2006, the PBG Economic Cooperation Forum has attracted more than 3,000 government officials, scholars and entrepreneurs from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China&#8217;s trade with ASEAN stood at 2.51 trillion yuan (about 371 billion U.S. dollars) in the first seven months of 2020, up 6.6 percent year-on-year, data from the General Administration of Customs shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ASEAN remained China&#8217;s biggest trading partner during the same period, accounting for 14.6 percent of the nation&#8217;s total foreign trade volume, amid upgraded free trade area protocols and supply chain cooperation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source\uff1aXinhua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PBG economic zone covers Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan in China, as well as some ASEAN members <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}