Summary: Australian business community is optimistic about the Chinese market and economic prospects

Xinhua News Agency, Canberra, September 18th: Australian business community is optimistic about the Chinese market and economic prospects

Xinhua News Agency reporter Yue Dongxing Baixu

The Australian China Industry and Commerce Commission held an annual friendship day on Canberra. Former Australian trading officials and business people who attended the event said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency that in the face of global challenges such as high inflation and new crown epidemic, the Chinese economy showed toughness and potential. Deepen economic and trade cooperation.

According to the recent release of data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China, in August, the national economy continued to resume development, production demand was steady, and employment prices were generally stable. Most indicators were better than last month. In the month, the added value of industries above designated size increased by 4.2%year -on -year, which was 0.4 percentage points accelerated from last month; the total retail sales of social consumer goods increased by 5.4%year -on -year, which was 2.7 percentage points from last month.

Former Australia's Minister of Trade and Investment Andrew Rob said that his overall feeling of participating in the Friendship Day event was that the participants held a positive and optimistic attitude and were full of expectations for China's economy and market. The current world economy is facing some difficulties, while China's economic potential has great potential and has the ability to deal with challenges.

Rob said that Australia and China have strong economic and trade complementarity and strong cooperation. Since the Sino -Australian Free Trade Agreement has officially entered into force at the end of 2015, bilateral trade volume has been increasing almost every month. In the future, he is looking forward to the continued increase in bilateral trade investment, and the economic and trade exchanges between enterprises of the two countries will continue to deepen.

In 2021, China continued to maintain Australia's largest cargo trading partner, source of import sources and export market status. According to Chinese statistics, the bilateral trade volume in 2021 was about US $ 231.2 billion, a year -on -year increase of 35.1%. Among them, China imported 164.82 billion US dollars, an increase of 40.6%year -on -year.

Shi Weili, chairman of the Global Cooperation Committee of the Australian Commercial Council (English name Walk Smith), said that the overall atmosphere of the friendship day activity was positive and enthusiastic, and the Australian business and business circles were generally optimistic about the Chinese market and economic prospects.

He said that Australia has imported a large number of products from China, with a wide variety of types and strong complementary trade. Although the new crown epidemic has challenged the interaction of economic, trade and tourism in both sides, in the long run, the trade relations between the two countries and humanistic exchanges are close, and in the future, there will be broad prospects for responding to climate change and new technology research and development.

Tim Ford, chief executive officer of Aoyuyi Wine Group, told reporters that the general attitude of the participating companies is to continue cooperation, and he also looks forward to deepening cooperation with the Chinese wine industry. "As an enterprise, our role is to continue to establish and cultivate the relationship between Australian -Chinese enterprises," he said.

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