Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin in his weekly press conference on December 30, said: "President Ferdinand marcos is the reception of the first foreign head of state in 2023." For Marx, it was his last June open after the President's first visit to China, as well as the first official visit to the asean countries outside.
On January 5, the two sides also issued a rich content of the joint statement, the two sides are committed to deepen agriculture, infrastructure, energy and humanities four key areas of cooperation, and in the defense, security, science and technology, trade and investment in areas such as expand more ways of cooperation.
The Philippines cooperation to a higher level
After the establishment of diplomatic ties nearly 50 years of development, China has become the first largest trading partner and largest source of imports and second largest export market. According to Chinese customs data, from January 2022 to 10 months Philippines trade amounted to $72.7 billion, of which the Philippine exports $53.223 billion, $19.477 billion of value.
The Philippines has a population of more than 100 million people, has thousands of islands, but the infrastructure is not perfect. The Philippines, according to the ministry of transportation in 2014 the country because of the traffic infrastructure backwardness losses as high as $24 billion. In order to solve the pain points, former Philippine President Du Teer, launched in 2017 "to build to build" massive infrastructure investment plan, will invest 8.4 trillion pesos in six years (1 trillion RMB), in the Philippines national infrastructure construction. based on the characteristics of many islands, the investment and the development of the port is an important content of "to build to build" plan.
In recent years, China's "neighbourhood" initiative "to build building" with the Philippines "good building of building" planning depth and docking, disease resistance, disaster relief, infrastructure, agriculture and other fields has carried out nearly 40 intergovernmental cooperation projects. China aid phoebe, - interlochen jose Ross bridge as clock in Manila web celebrity, davao - samal bridge project starts smoothly, comprehensive irrigation agno river, red river mouth project nourishes the fertile land, white.
Before the outbreak, China is the second largest inbound tourists in tourism in the Philippines. Marcos before departure also said that as China to reopen the border, he will return to the Philippines invited Chinese tourists. In a joint statement also mentioned that "both sides pledged to committed to promoting the number of visitors and direct flights between Chinese cities especially in the capital back to before the epidemic level".
In Max's visit to China, the Philippines two countries signed the "about the Philippines imports fresh durian phytosanitary requirements of the protocol, shortly after, the long-awaited fresh durian in the Philippines will be placed on the table of Chinese people.
The southern Philippines city of davao is known as "fruit basket" in the Philippines, durian production accounted for about 80% of the Philippines national. Davao or Du Teer's hometown and bases, he also widely seen in davao street eat durian.
Compared to other varieties of durian, davao durian varieties more resistant to pests, not only local production is higher, at present, mainly exported to Thailand, Malaysia, South Korea, Singapore and other places. Every year from July to October, the local durian a large number of listed, one of the most important and the most popular varieties of "puya tower" sweet full-bodied, rich and smooth taste.
With the Philippines to deepen agricultural cooperation between the two countries, banana, coconut, shea butter from davao, tuna has been on the table of the Chinese people. Candela koro, meters of cloth, a former davao durian association for 15 years. He told the Xinhua News Agency said the davao durian annual output of more than 50000 tons, currently has more than 3000 households farmers, at least five processing plants. If press 1 hectare per family, the equivalent of 100 durian tree planting area computation, each household income after the realization of exports to China would add about $2800 (19200 yuan), "davao China will become the largest export destination" durian.
The Philippines is an important agricultural exporters in southeast Asia. The Philippine department of agriculture is also expected to achieve durian exports to China will be on a farm, packaging and logistics, and other fields for the Philippines to create more than 10000 jobs.
China's ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xi said yesterday, the first of four key areas of cooperation to is the agricultural cooperation. Philippine tropical fruits are of good quality, fruit large population but income level is relatively low. From banana, pineapple, mango, avocado, coconut, and then to today's durian, huge market in China is to bring business in the Philippines, create jobs, increase their income for local farmers.
In 2021, the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) took effect, promoting agricultural trade cooperation between member states more closely, durian in September 2022, Vietnam has achieved trade imports, changed after Thailand durian the dominance in the Chinese market.
In addition, the agricultural cooperation of Taiwan and the Philippines is not one-way. In 2001, the Chinese government aid of agricultural technology center was established in the Philippines, in 20 years time, vigorously promote hybrid rice planting technology, according to Huang Xi even, a move that benefit more than 30 peasant households, promote the income of 4.821 billion kg of grain.
The Philippines is Asia's largest net importer of rice, food cannot be self-sufficient, rice consumption demand of the country's more than 20% dependent on imports, imports about 2.77 million tons in 2021. Marx in his inauguration speech that emphasized the Philippines to raise its self-sufficiency rate of grain.
