What is APEC, what is it, and what is the meeting for?

APEC is an annual meeting of leaders in the Asia-Pacific region, which was "informal" before. It is precisely because of informality that these leaders are less serious and more relaxed.

An important goal of APEC's diplomatic mediation is to find opportunities for regional economic cooperation. In fact, APEC itself is the largest regional economic cooperation organization in the world. On a map, the reporter saw that 2 1 members of APEC are distributed around the Pacific Ocean, forming such a big circle. In fact, many small circles have been born in this big circle. The United States, Canada and Mexico established the North American Free Trade Area, and 10 ASEAN countries formed the ASEAN Free Trade Area. The (10+3) cooperation mechanism established between China, Japan and South Korea and ASEAN is gradually maturing. On October 8th, 65438/kloc-0, China joined the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia, which further enhanced the 10+1mechanism between China and ASEAN, and injected substantial significance into regional economic cooperation.

From a loose forum to a regional cooperation organization with global influence, APEC has gone through 14 years, and its membership has expanded from the initial 12 to the current 2 1. Today, the population of APEC accounts for 4 1% of the world, and the total GDP accounts for 55% of the world.

1989165438+10 In October, foreign ministers and trade ministers from two countries in the Asia-Pacific region/kloc-0 gathered in Canberra, Australia, and established the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, which is what we call APEC today.

1993165438+10, Seattle, USA. At the initiative of the United States, APEC member leaders decided to meet once a year, and APEC became famous from then on. Here, the leaders of all members have no assistants, no formal clothes and no themes. In the carefully created atmosphere of "Asia-Pacific family", they talked and laughed, showing political and diplomatic games and economic and cultural exchanges. The annual APEC Family Portrait records and changes history in such a unique way.

1994165438+1October, Bogor Island Conference, Indonesia. The leaders of the member countries jointly drew a blueprint for economic cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region in order to realize trade and investment liberalization by 2020.

200 1 10, China Shanghai conference. This is the first large-scale world summit after the 9. 1 1 incident. Under the impetus of the leaders of China, the United States and Russia, the meeting issued a counter-terrorism statement, which was the first time that APEC issued a statement on political issues.

1993 China joins APEC. 10 years, China successfully resisted the Asian financial crisis, joined the World Trade Organization, and started the construction of a free trade area with ASEAN. China plays an important role in regional and global economic cooperation.

Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand on October 20th, 2003/KLOC-0. China, president and Hu Jintao attended the APEC meeting for the first time. He shook hands with leaders of Bush, Putin and other countries, and APEC once again became the focus of world attention.

APEC meeting is like a corridor. Standing in this corridor, leaders can talk about anything, put forward any opinions, and anything can happen.