Singapore DPM Lawrence Wong to visit China from Dec 5 to 8, co-chair top-level bilateral meeting - CNA

BEIJING: Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Tuesday (Dec 5) began a four-day official visit to China where he is set to co-chair an annual apex bilateral meeting for the first time.

During his trip, Mr Wong will also call on Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing and visit the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, which marks its 15th anniversary this year, said the Prime Minister’s Office in a statement on Tuesday.

Bilateral ties between Singapore and China were upgraded after a meeting in March between Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing.

Mr Wong last visited China in May. He met Premier Li then and took over as co-chair of the Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC) – the highest-level annual forum between the two nations – from Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat.

The JCBC reviews the substantive collaboration between Singapore and China and charts the direction of cooperation.

Mr Wong will co-chair the 19th JCBC meeting with Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang in Tianjin on Dec 7.

At the last JCBC meeting in November 2022, Singapore and China signed 19 agreements – the most in recent years – that covered areas like e-commerce, tourism exchanges, green development and green finance.

Mr Wong and Vice Premier Ding will also co-chair the 24th China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Joint Steering Council (JSC), the 15th Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City JSC, and the 7th China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Cooperation JSC.

These JSCs review the progress of and discuss further cooperation on the three flagship government-to-government projects.

On top of that, Mr Wong will have a bilateral meeting with Vice Premier Ding.

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2023-12-05 04:00:23Z
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