Yangtze River International Forum “Belt and Road” Series Activities & Philippine Investment and Development Cooperation Forum and Investment Promotion Meeting was held in Nanjing

Mar 27, 2017

On March 27,2017, the Yangtze River International Forum “Belt and Road” Series Activities& Philippine Investment and Development Cooperation Forum and InvestmentPromotion Meeting, co-hosted by Jiangsu Association for Friendship and InternationalExchanges (JAFIE) and the Foreign Affairs Committee of Jiangsu ProvincialPeople's Congress, was held at Minguo Building, Jiangsu Yishiyuan Hotel. TengYong, Executive Vice Chairman of JAFIE, Member of the Standing Committee ofJiangsu People’s Congress and Director of the Foreign Affairs Committee ofJiangsu Provincial People’s Congress, presided over the meeting. Lin Xiangguo,Chairman of JAFIE and former Executive Deputy Director of the StandingCommittee of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress, delivered the speech. AndrePeter C. Estanislao, Consul of Consulate-General of the Philippines inShanghai, read the letter of addressing by Wilfredo R. Cuyugan, Consul-Generalof the Philippines in Shanghai.

Franz JosefGeorge Espina Alvarez, Member of Philippine Congress and CongressionalCommittee on Fiscal Legislation and Franchising, Jefrie Ricasata Sahagun,Director-General of Philippine Congressional District (Palawan Province), Hon.Nograles, Karlo Alexei B., Member of Philippine Congress and Chairman of theCongressional Budget, Planning and Appropriation Committee, Fe Karen Musni Lamorena,Assistant of the Legislative Committee of Congress, Carlos Arturo Egay Jr.,Deputy Governor of Surigao del Norte Province of Mindanao in Philippines, andErnesto P. Kang, Former Mayor of Surigao City in Philippines delivered keynotespeeches respectively.

A total of morethan 120 people attended the forum, including leaders of Jiangsu Province,Jiangsu Municipal People's Congress and related government departments,renowned domestic experts and scholars, Chinese merchants in Philippines,business people from Jiangsu and partial members of JAFIE.

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