On the afternoon of August 21, Yin Li, Secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, met with Dhanin Chearavanont, Senior Chairman of Charoen Pokphand Group, also known as C.P. Group.

Yin praised C.P. Group as an outstanding representative of businesses with Chinese roots. Being the first foreign-funded company to invest in China after the launch of reform and opening-up in 1978, the company has witnessed and engaged in China's robust economic growth. As a capital and a super-large city with a vast market and abundant resources, Beijing enjoys policy support in the building of the Integrated National Demonstration Zone for Opening up the Services Sector and the China (Beijing) Pilot Free Trade Zone, which offers ample opportunities for both sides to deepen their cooperation. It is hoped that the C.P. Group will speed up the progress of the C.P. Research Institute by integrating resources and increasing investment, so as to achieve better growth while actively participating in Beijing's agricultural modernization. It is expected to expand its investment and presence in Beijing by leveraging the city's sound financial market system and clusters of financial institutions, thereby boosting win-win cooperation. Furthermore, it is encouraged to continue to serve as a bridge and facilitate friendly exchanges and economic cooperation between the two countries, thus promoting the idea of "China and Thailand as one family". Beijing will create a market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized business environment, and support the C.P. Group in its investment and operation in the city with better services as always.

Mr. Dhanin spoke highly of Beijing's high-quality development and conveyed his unwavering confidence in the future of Beijing and China. He affirmed that C.P. Group is committed to increasing its investment, supporting Beijing's transformation into an international center of innovation, and driving the growth of high-tech industries in the city. With a complete agricultural industry chain, C.P. Group will facilitate the development of industries such as logistics, retail, and finance, thereby creating more job opportunities and boosting people's income. Furthermore, it will attract more high-quality enterprises to develop in Beijing and enable more Beijing’s enterprises to go global and engage in international competition and cooperation.

Municipal leaders, including Xia Linmao and Zhao Lei attended the meeting.

(Written by Liu Feifei; Photo by Sun Yue; Video by Fan Yu, Tian Xueyin and Wang Yi)