Mr. Wang Qishan, Vice Premier of the State Council and Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish Prime Minister, attended together on 10th April China-Turkey Business Forum and gave speeches respectively in Beijing.



Mr. Wang said that in the last 41 years since establishment of China-Turkey diplomatic relations, bilateral cooperation are fruitful in trade and economy, investment, finance, tourism and infrastructure, and cooperation in local region and enterprise has been moving forward fast. China-Turkey bilateral trade volume has grown for 18 times over the past decade and China has become the third largest trading partner of Turkey. Development of China-Turkey strategic cooperation has been sound and full of vitality.



Mr. Wang said that both China and Turkey are G20 members and emerging economies, with complementary economic advantages and broad cooperation prospect. Turkey is striving to achieve the grand objective of being among the top ten economies in the world by 2023; China is implementing the 12th Five-Year Plan, stepping up transformation of economic development mode, adjusting economic structure, and releasing huge market potential. He hoped the two sides to continue to strengthen cooperation in transportation, energy and telecommunication, put railway construction as a priority in infrastructure cooperation, explore cooperation in new fields such as nuclear power, aerospace and energy-conservation and environmental protection, innovate cooperation mode, and foster new cooperation growth point. The Chinese government would like to join forces with Turkish government and continue to create sound environment of cooperation for the enterprises of the two sides.



Before the Forum, Mr. Wang met with Mr. Erdogan briefly. Total 500 people from the governments and business circles of the two countries attended the Forum.