2016 Yangtze River International Forum & “Jiangsu-SADC High Level Forum on Investment and Development” was grandly held in Dongjiao State Guesthouse

May 23, 2016

On May 23, 2016,“2016 Yangtze River International Forum” & “Jiangsu-SADC High Level Forumon Investment and Development”, co-hosted by Jiangsu Association for Friendshipand International Exchanges (JAFIE) and embassies and consulates of 14countries in China as included in Southern African Development Community (SADC), was grandly heldin Nanjing Dongjiao State Guesthouse. Teng Yong, Executive Vice Chairman ofJAFIE and Director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Jiangsu ProvincialPeople's Congress, presided over the forum. Xu Jinrong, Deputy Governor ofJiangsu Province, Lin Xiangguo, Chairman of JAFIE and former Executive DeputyDirector of the Standing Committee of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress, andSasara C. George, Chairman of the SADC Diplomatic Corps in China and Ambassadorof Botswana in China, addressed the opening ceremony respectively. Liu Renfei,Senior Consultant of UNDP China, Dai Bing, Deputy Director of the AfricanDepartment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yong, Vice President ofChina-Africa Development Fund, etc., delivered keynote speeches. A total ofmore than 320 people attended the forum, including more than 20 ambassadors,consuls-general and other senior diplomatic officials of the Diplomatic Corpsof 14 countries of SADC, leaders of Jiangsu Development and Reform Commission,Foreign Affairs Office, Department of Commerce, and Department of Finance,experts and scholars on Africa from Nanjing University, Tsinghua University,Renmin University of China, Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences,etc., well-known senior executives of financial, insurance, legal and otherinstitutions both at home and abroad, representatives of more than 120investment enterprises and lawyers in Africa from co-organizers of this forumsuch as Jiangsu Federation of Industry and Commerce, Chamber of Commerce forImport and Export Firms, Building Material Industry Association, LawyersAssociation and Association of Women Entrepreneurs, and partial council membersof JAFIE. More than 20 news media covered the forum on the spot.

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