On 5th December, Ambasssaor Zhang Junsai attended the China-Canada Business Cooperation Forum(CCCC) held by Canada China Chamber of Commerce and delivered the keynote speech entitled "New Reform, New Development, and New Opportunity".

Ambassador Zhang introduced to the audience the decision of comprehensively deepening reforms made at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. He emphasized that economic reform is the key of the entire reform drive, and China will leave the market to play the decisive role in allocating resources, build a unified and open market system with orderly competition, improve urban-rural integration system, deepen the reform of the fiscal and taxation system and develop a new open economic system.

Ambassador Zhang also pointed out that with the tranformation of development mode and industrial restructuring going on smoothly, China's demands for Canadian energy and high-tech products will keep growing and the bilateral cooperation in service secotr and strategic emerging industries will further expand. He encouraged the Canadian business communities to seize the opportunity of China's development and further explore the bilateral trade and economic cooperation.

Mr. Wang Lijun, President of Canada-China Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Yu Benlin, Minister Counsellor for Economic and Commercial Affairs at the Chinese Embassy, and about 150 people including business leaders, scholars and journalists from the two countries attended the Forum.

CCCC was registered in 2012 in Canada as a not-for-profit business association with its head office located in Toronto. Its mandate is to assist and represent Chinese enterprises, and promote the economic ties and trade between China and Canada through increased business development and exchanges among individual enterprises.

The full text of speech:http://ca.china-embassy.org/eng/sgxw/t1106550.htm