On the afternoon of July 4, the CCPIT chairman Jiang Zengwei attended the second China-Greece Maritime Cooperation Business Forum and delivered a keynote speech. 

Jiang said that Greece is an important bridge that links Asian, European and African market. It is the country with the largest shipping capacity in the world. China is the world’s second largest economy, third largest outbound investor and largest shipping-building and foreign trade country. China’s “21stCentury Maritime Silk Road” proposal perfectly fit with the “Trans-Mediterranean Sea Blue Economic Cooperation Rights” raised by Greece and other South European countries. China and Greece are complementary economically and companies of both countries share a lot of mutual interests. The bilateral cooperation has huge potential and great prospect.  

Jiang emphasized that the CCPTI will further increase cooperation with Greek Enterprise Department, to encourage and support Chinese companies to invest in Greece through various means, including policy recommendation, organization of reciprocal visits, holding of forum and conference and providing information consulting and commercial legal services. The aim is to promote bilateral cooperation in infrastructure, telecommunication, energy and tourism. It will also promote the import of Greece-made products and meet the upgrading of local demand structure, to make more contributions to the development of bilateral trade and economic cooperation.  

The second China-Greece Maritime Cooperation Business Forum is held by the CCPIT and Greek Enterprise Department. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made keynote speeches at the forum. The CCPIT chairman Jiang Zengwei, Greek Economy, Development and Tourism Minister Giorgos Stathakis, State Oceanic Administration Director Wang Hong and Greek Enterprise Department director Staiks also addressed the forum. 

About 500 representatives from 215 Chinese and Greek companies, involving the shipping, electric power, energy, finance, real estate and tourism industries, attended the forum and made deep communications around the theme “grasp opportunities and maintain cooperation”. The forum also featured about 100 “one-to-one” business discussions for companies of both countries, with the cooperation orders reaching about 200 million USD. A batch of preliminary cooperation agreements have also been reached in the sectors of port construction, ship building, tourism, agriculture and exhibition.