Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and governor of Hunan Province, met with a delegation led by Pimphattra Wichaikul, minister of Industry of Thailand. 

Mao Weiming, deputy secretary of the CPC Hunan Provincial Committee and governor of Hunan Province, met in Changsha with a delegation led by Pimphattra Wichaikul, minister of Industry of Thailand.

Qu Hai, secretary general of the Hunan Province People's Government, attended.

At the meeting.

Governor Mao extended a warm welcome to the Thai guests attending the Expo Central China 2024 in Hunan. Mao briefed them on Hunan's economic and social development. He noted that Thailand is Hunan's important trading partner in AEASN countries. In recent years, the friendly exchanges between the two places have deepened, people-to-people exchanges have continued to expand and economic and trade cooperation has yielded fruitful results. A multi-level, multi-channel and multi-faceted cooperation pattern has taken shape. In 2023, the bilateral trade volume between Hunan and Thailand reached 2.52 billion USD. Hunan has set up a total of 130 overseas investment enterprises in Thailand, and the Hunan Industrial Park in Thailand is progressing smoothly. Mao noted that Hunan and Thailand are highly complementary in the fields of resource endowment and production capacity cooperation, and the two regions enjoy broad cooperation prospects. He expressed hope that the two sides will jointly implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state of China and Thailand, taking the opportunity of the delegation's participation in the Expo Central China 2024 in Hunan to continue to strengthen friendly personnel exchanges, enhance cooperation in industrial fields such as construction machinery, rail transit, and new energy vehicles, and expand exchanges in education, cultural tourism, agriculture and other fields, so as to contribute to building a more stable, prosperous and sustainable China-Thailand community with a shared future.

At the meeting.

The photos were taken by Liu Shangwen.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Xiao Juan

Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn