Officials, representatives, experts and scholars from China and the 16 Central and Eastern European countries will gather in Macedonia's capital of Skopje next week to discuss ways to further enhance cooperation under the framework of the "16+1," a senior research fellow with the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) said at a press briefing held in Beijing on Monday.

Liu Zuokui, director of the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies, said the annual High-Level Think Tanks Symposium of China and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) would run from Oct. 30 to 31. 

"It is one of the major cultural exchange activities under the framework of '16+1 Cooperation'," he said, adding that it will be the largest and most influential think tank symposium of its kind since first held in 2013.

About 50 scholars will discuss "how to enhance and deepen China-CEEC cooperation" in regard to four topics, namely enhancing policy communication and the alignment of strategies; expanding cooperation in the areas of trade, investment, finance, agriculture and infrastructure; strengthening China-CEEC cooperation under the framework of the "16+1" and promoting China-CEEC sub-regional cooperation.

Supported by the China-CEEC cooperation office of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the symposium of this year will be jointly-organized by the Institute of European Studies under CASS, the China Foundation for International Studies, China Institute of International Studies, the Institute for Geostrategic Research and Foreign Policy of Macedonia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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