Xinhua News Agency:
My question is related to President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to Myanmar. Can you brief us the trade between China and Myanmar in 2019 and any special arrangements this year? And you just mentioned that the private economy has become the largest part of foreign trade, and private enterprises in the central and western regions are particularly dynamic. However, this is not backed by the availability of statistics on foreign trade in the eastern, central, western, and northeastern regions in 2019. Can you give us a brief introduction on it? Thank you.
Zou Zhiwu:
Mr. Huang will give you details on the trade between China and Myanmar. As a whole, this is progressing smoothly in various aspects. As for the performance of private enterprises in eastern and western China, I will provide you specific statistics soon after this press conference concludes.
Huang Guohua:
I'd like to talk about the bilateral trade between China and Myanmar. In 2019, the trade volume hit 128.91 billion yuan, up 28.5 percent year-on-year. Exports reached 84.9 billion yuan, up 22.1 percent and imports totaled 44.01 billion yuan, up 42.8 percent. China and Myanmar are good neighbors supporting each other. The two countries share a high-degree of mutual political trust, seek to further deepen economic cooperation and closely collaborate on global and regional issues. Over the past 70 years, the relationship between China and Myanmar has continuously developed based on mutual respect, mutual trust and mutual assistance, setting a model of a relationship between big and small countries featuring peaceful coexistence and win-win cooperation. President Xi's visit will further promote connectivity between the two countries. I believe the two sides will advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, boost the building of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor with three-end support, facilitate major connectivity projects, and bring benefits to the two countries and their people. Thank you.
Shou Xiaoli:
Thanks go to the two speakers and the media representatives, and that's the end of today's press conference.
Translated and edited by Chen Xia, Wang Yiming, Zhang Liying, Cui Can, Lin Liyao, Zhu Bochen, Zhang Rui, Li Xiao, Chen Yinjun, Fan Junmei, Zhang Junmian, Li Huiru, Wang Yanfang, Zhou Jing, He Shan, Wang Qian, Wang Wei, Geoffrey Murray. In case of any dispute over a discrepancy, the Chinese version is deemed to prevail.
