Under the active guidance and coordination of the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar, the first charter flight of textile and garment raw materials organized by the China Enterprises Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar and operated by Jiuyuan Airlines successfully departed from Guangzhou, China on the evening of March 17 Arrive in Yangon, Myanmar. The charter flight carried 15 tons of raw materials, which will help meet the urgent production needs of some Chinese-funded textile and garment enterprises.
Tan Shufu, Commercial Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar, and Tan Xinlun, Director of the Investment and Company Management Bureau of the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations of Myanmar and Secretary-General of the Myanmar Investment Commission, Yangon Sundar Min, Chairman of the Provincial Council’s Finance, Planning and Economic Committee, and other Myanmar officials attended the welcoming ceremony. Liu Ying, President of the China Enterprise Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar, Luo Jun, Executive Vice President, Shi Kun, President of the Textile and Garment Branch, and others attended the ceremony.
Counselor Tan Shufu said in an interview at the airport that China and Myanmar have a deep “paukphaw” friendship. After the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia, the embassy in Myanmar immediately strengthened cooperation with the Myanmar government. Cooperate and actively coordinate domestic measures to temporarily open freight charter flights, accelerate the resumption of work and production, and speed up customs clearance procedures to solve problems for Chinese-funded enterprises in Myanmar, help enterprises get rid of business difficulties, protect Myanmar’s employment and people’s livelihood, and economic and social stability, and use practical actions to explain the “China The connotation of “Myanmar Community with a Shared Future”.
As China’s domestic epidemic prevention and control situation continues to improve, the resumption of work and production is accelerating, and the shortage of raw materials is being alleviated from the source. On March 16, State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi delivered a televised speech, announcing that special preferential loans and tax exemption policies would be provided to industries such as processing and export of imported materials that have been greatly affected by the epidemic, so as to minimize people’s losses and allow factories to continue to operate and people to There is no unemployment, which is highly consistent with the Chinese government’s vigorous promotion of resumption of work and production. This fight against the epidemic has once again proved that all countries in the world have an interconnected destiny and share weal and woe, and that mankind is a community with a shared future. In the face of the epidemic, the challenges are common and so are the responsibilities. At this juncture, holding together for warmth and overcoming the difficulties together is the only right choice. It is believed that with the joint efforts of all walks of life in China and Myanmar, the two countries will overcome the epidemic as soon as possible and continue to deepen cooperation.