International observation: Joining hands to build a more unbreakable community with a shared future between China and Cambodia
Recently, Cambodia's newly appointed Prime Minister, Hun Manai, made an official visit to China and attended the 20th China ASEAN Expo and China ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Nanning, Guangxi, achieving fruitful results.
The policy communication has achieved significant results. Hong Manai made China the first stop of his bilateral visit, fully demonstrating China's important position in Cambodia's foreign exchanges and demonstrating the sincerity of the new Cambodian government in continuing to pursue a friendly policy towards China. Before his visit to China, Hong Manai stated that the new government aims to further enhance the relationship between China and Cambodia; During their visit to China, China and Cambodia signed the Action Plan for Building a Community of Shared Future between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Royal Government of Cambodia, as well as a series of practical cooperation documents. The Chinese and Cambodian governments also reached consensus on the docking of development strategies, issued a joint communiqu é, agreed to promote the docking of the "the Belt and Road" initiative with Cambodia's "Five Corners Strategy", and deepened the China Cambodia comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation around the China Cambodia "Diamond Six Sides" cooperation framework to achieve high-quality and sustainable common development of the two countries.
Clarify the direction of future cooperation. Since the "the Belt and Road" initiative was launched in Cambodia, bilateral cooperation in production capacity, energy, trade and other fields has achieved remarkable results, and deepening existing cooperation is one of the future directions. To promote economic recovery after the epidemic, cooperation in areas such as youth exchanges, tourism cooperation, and poverty alleviation between China and Cambodia will accelerate and deepen. In addition, security cooperation between China and Cambodia will continue to expand. The two countries will increase their joint efforts to combat cross-border crimes and continue to carry out military joint exercises and training. Hong Manai's visit shattered various unfounded speculations in the West, indicating that the "iron friendship" between China and Cambodia is not based on a political game of selecting sides and taking sides, but on the principles of equality, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.
Explore new potential for bilateral cooperation between China and Cambodia. During his visit to China, Hong Manai and Chinese Premier Li Qiang jointly witnessed the signing of multiple bilateral cooperation documents in areas such as industry, agriculture, infrastructure, digital economy, green development, inspection and quarantine, and development cooperation. The Cambodian development strategy "Five Corners Strategy" implemented by the government of Hong Manai has added "Technology" to the four major focus areas of road, water conservancy, electricity, and human resources in the previous "Four Corners Strategy", and pointed out that in the first stage of the "Five Corners Strategy", the Cambodian government will focus on the development of digital technology. In the field of digital technology, the Hong Manai government intends to leverage China's digital technology advantages to attract Chinese digital enterprises to invest and develop in Cambodia. On the one hand, it aims to build e-commerce and information transmission platforms in Cambodia, produce electronic components, and lead the development of new forms of digital economy in Cambodia; On the other hand, to cultivate a large number of digital technology talents for Cambodia and enhance the digital skills of government officials at all levels and types. To reduce Cambodia's dependence on the US dollar in the financial market, China and Cambodia still hope to strengthen cooperation in the field of digital finance. At present, the RMB cross-border payment system has covered ten ASEAN countries. In the future, the promotion and use of digital RMB, as well as the construction of digital RMB cross-border payment systems, will play an important role in financial cooperation between China and Cambodia.
This year marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Cambodia and the "China Cambodia Friendship Year". Since the establishment of diplomatic relations 65 years ago, the traditional friendship between China and Cambodia has gone through international changes and is unbreakable; The cooperation between China and Cambodia has deepened and achieved remarkable results. Standing at a new starting point of bilateral relations, Prime Minister Hung Manai's visit will not only promote the continuous deepening of China Cambodia cooperation in various fields under the framework of high-quality joint construction of the "the Belt and Road", but also lay a solid foundation for the two countries to work together towards a new era of high-quality, high-level and high standard China Cambodia community of common destiny.