Ministry of Commerce: Promoting the BRICS mechanism has become a accelerator for global economic recovery and sustainable development

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 25 (Reporter Xie Xiyao) Wang Shuowen, deputy minister of the Ministry of Commerce and deputy representative of international trade negotiations, said on the 24th that I believe that the BRICS leader's 14th meeting is the opportunity, the BRICS will further consolidate and develop In cooperation momentum, the "golden signboard" of BRICS is brighter, and the BRICS mechanism has been promoted to become a accelerator for global economic recovery and sustainable development.

On the 24th, Wang Shouwen was interviewed by the media to introduce the fourteenth economic and trade achievements of the leaders of the BRICS countries. He said that the Leaders of the BRICS Five Kingdoms jointly published the "Fourteen Declaration of the BRICS Leader Leaders" on the 23rd, approved a number of economic and trade results, which are rich in content and significant. The focus is on the direction.

The first is to approve the "BRICS Digital Economy Partnership Framework", propose cooperation measures such as improving the level of digitalization of ports, encouraging digital infrastructure investment, and enhancing the capabilities of small and medium -sized enterprises, and opened a new process of digital economic cooperation in the BRICS countries.

The second is to approve the "BRICS Trade Investment and Sustainable Development Initiative", focus on creating a good trade investment environment, improvement capacity building, etc., and put forward more than ten cooperation measures. Green, sustainable development path.

The third is to approve the "BRICS countries to strengthen the supply chain cooperation initiative", and emphasize that it cannot artificially interfere with the stability of the supply chain of the industrial chain.

The fourth is to approve the "Statement of the Reform of the BRICS countries and the WTO Reform of the WTO", and issued a "BRICS sound" that firmly supports the multilateral trading system.

Wang Shouwen said that the current international situation is unstable, uncertain, and unsafe factors are increasingly prominent. However, from the perspective of the rich and positive results of this meeting, the willingness of the unity and cooperation of the BRICS countries has not changed, the power has not been decayed, and the color of the BRICS economic and trade cooperation is achieved It will definitely be more and more expensive.

According to Wang Shouwen, in 2021, bilateral trade between China and other BRICS countries rose against the trend, with a total of more than 490 billion U.S. dollars, a year -on -year increase of 40%, which turned over five years ago, showing a strong toughness. From January to May this year, the number was 205.1 billion US dollars, an increase of about 16%year -on -year, and continued to maintain a high growth rate.

Wang Shouwen pointed out that economic and trade cooperation has become an important starting point for tightening the interests of the five countries and condensing. At the same time, the trade volume of BRICS countries accounts for about 20%of the world's, but the trade with each other only accounts for 6%of their respective foreign trade, which is relatively low. BRICS economic and trade cooperation has huge growth potential.

Talking about the deepening of the supply chain cooperation in the BRICS countries, Wang Shouwen said that at present, some countries have implemented a "detachable chain" to build a "small courtyard high wall", which seriously affects the security and stability of the global supply chain and hinders the global economic recovery. As a representative of the main emerging market countries, the BRICS country is also an important supply chain node country in the world. It issues an initiative to strengthen the supply chain cooperation, which reflects the responsibility and active actions of the BRICS countries to make an example for the world.

"We look forward to developing wider areas and deeper cooperation with the BRICS countries around the industrial chain supply chain to jointly build a stable, safe, mutually beneficial and win -win industrial chain supply chain system, and promote the continuous recovery of trade investment and economic recovery." Wang Shouwen said.

【Edit: Jiang Yuwei】

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