On December 15, the BRICS Special Economic Zone China Cooperation Center Construction Promotion Conference was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Li Chenggang, international trade negotiator and vice-minister of the Ministry of Commerce, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Li Chenggang said that the establishment of the BRICS Center is a major step personally announced by President Xi Jinping. We must earnestly implement it, and strive to make the BRICS Center an important platform for deepening BRICS economic and trade cooperation in the new era and promoting the construction of an open world economy. It is necessary to further improve our political standing and carry out the BRICS center construction work with a high sense of responsibility and urgency. Li Chenggang pointed out that 2026 is the beginning of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, and the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made a strategic plan to “expand high-level opening-up to the outside world and create a new situation of win-win cooperation.” The BRICS Center should earnestly implement the spirit of the plenary session, adhere to the strategy of serving the country, adhere to practical economic and trade cooperation, adhere to openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation, continuously improve the work promotion mechanism, accelerate the construction of an international and domestic cooperation network, focus on using special economic zones as carriers to promote BRICS economic and trade cooperation, promote the common development of BRICS members, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win situation.

On December 15, the BRICS Special Economic Zone China Cooperation Center Construction Promotion Conference was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Li Chenggang, international trade negotiator and vice-minister of the Ministry of Commerce, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Li Chenggang said that the establishment of the BRICS Center is a major step personally announced by President Xi Jinping. We must earnestly implement it, and strive to make the BRICS Center an important platform for deepening BRICS economic and trade cooperation in the new era and promoting the construction of an open world economy. It is necessary to further improve our political standing and carry out the BRICS center construction work with a high sense of responsibility and urgency. Li Chenggang pointed out that 2026 is the beginning of the “15th Five-Year Plan”, and the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made a strategic plan to “expand high-level opening-up to the outside world and create a new situation of win-win cooperation.” The BRICS Center should earnestly implement the spirit of the plenary session, adhere to the strategy of serving the country, adhere to practical economic and trade cooperation, adhere to openness, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation, continuously improve the work promotion mechanism, accelerate the construction of an international and domestic cooperation network, focus on using special economic zones as carriers to promote BRICS economic and trade cooperation, promote the common development of BRICS members, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win situation.