On May 18, the conference of the 70th anniversary of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit was held in Beijing. CCPIT Sichuan Council attended the conference via the cloud connection and held the Sichuan Symposium on Promoting International Trade. Li Yunze, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and Vice Governor of Sichuan Province attended Sichuan parallel sessions. 

In recent years, Sichuan has deepened its economic and trade exchanges with other countries around the world, making remarkable achievements in global trade and investment promotion and economic and technological cooperation with foreign countries. It has an ever-growing "circle of friends". So far, Sichuan has approved 21 foreign consulates in Sichuan and formed friendships with 114 foreign cities and friendly cooperation relationships with 304 foreign cities, ranking first in central and west China and among the top in the country.

With Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle construction becoming part of the national strategy and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) coming into effect, Sichuan's investment and development potential attracts great attention at home and abroad. 

As an important member of CCPIT and the world's trade promotion system, CCPIT Sichuan Council has played an important role in deepening Sichuan's opening up and cooperation with foreign countries and forming a new trend of full-scale opening up. In Sichuan parallel sessions, CCPIT Sichuan Council released the Sichuan Action Plan in response to the Beijing Initiative of Global Trade and Investment Promotion Summit, declaring that Sichuan will practice the concept of opening up and cooperation, promote innovative and green development, create a top-grade business environment, deepen international exchanges and cooperation, build more open platforms, and strengthen Sichuan's global trade and investment promotion through exchanges and cooperation with trade promotion agencies around the world, and enhance Sichuan's high-level opening up. 

Lee KwangHo (Consul General of the ROK in Chengdu)，Thippawan Supamitkitja (Consul General of Royal Thai Consulate-General in Chengdu), Massimo Bagnasco (European Chamber VP and Southwest China Chapter Chair) and Nur Azni Aziz (Trade Commissioner of Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation Chengdu Representative Office) attended the Sichuan parallel sessions. Lee KwangHo and Massimo Bagnasco made their remarks in the sessions.