Netherlands-China Trade and Economic Forum

Dutch Waste Management was invited on Sunday 23^rd March 2014 at the Netherlands-China Trade and Economic Forum in Noordwijk (the Netherlands), where China President Xi Jinping was present with a large delegation, along with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and a large delegation of business from both the Netherlands and China (250 companies and institutions).President Xi said, “just as China needs to learn more about the world, the world needs to learn more about China”
He said China welcomes Dutch enterprises to engage in China’s reform and development and jointly share opportunities. 
He also encouraged more established Chinese enterprises to invest in the Netherlands.

Xi Jinping said he hopes the two sides can settle trade disputes properly, and promote healthy development of China-EU trade. He also noted the Netherlands has been China’s second largest trading partner in the EU for 11 consecutive years.

King Willem-Alexander echoed Xi Jinping’s words, and said that his country is willing to step up mutually beneficial cooperation and further promote trade.

During the opening ceremony, witnessed by the leaders of China and Netherlands, representatives of enterprises from the two countries signed 8 cooperative agreements involving finance, science and technology, and agricultural cooperation, which amounted to about USD 2 billion. 

After the opening ceremony, the Forum held a plenary session, which was co-held by Sun Chenghai, the Director-general of the Foreign Trade Development Bureau of China, and the Director-general of the Netherlands Bureau of Enterprises. 5 entrepreneurs from Bank of China, Yili Group, Netherlands Association of Employers, DSM and Royal Dutch Shell made speeches at the session on behalf of other entrepreneurs, talking about China-Netherland Cooperation.

During the network lunch some new partnerships on waste to energy were made between Dutch Waste Management and Chinese companies and institutions.