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The governor of southwest China's Yunnan province, Xu Rongkai, says his province is pleased to host a series of meetings between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Xu made this remark at a meeting with business leaders of 10 ASEAN nations, who currently are in the provincial capital of Kunming to attend the second meeting of the ASEAN-China Business Council, which opened earlier on Monday.
He said his province and the ASEAN had enjoyed long-term friendly cooperation, boosted by the plans to set up a China-ASEAN free trade area and the subregional cooperative system on the Lancang-Mekong rivers.
Yunnan province was ready to play a still bigger role and contribute more in this regard, he added.
The president of the ASEAN Chambers of Commerce and Industry and chairman of the ASEAN-China Business Council, Pyone Maung Maung, said that his council would bring some enterprises to the annual trade fair for export goods scheduled for June in Kunming every year.
(Xinhua News Agency December 17, 2002)
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