Co-hosted by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) and the China India Friendship Association (CIFA), the 4th China India Forum, with the theme of “Constructing Win-win Investment Partnership”, was successfully convened in Mumbai, India on 19th November. CIFA President Jiang Zhenghua, Chinese Ambassador in India Le Yucheng, Vice President of Anhui Provincial People’s Political Consultative Conference Tong Huaiwei, Vice President of Jiangxi Provincial People’s Political Consultative Conference Liu Xiaozhuang, CPAFFC Vice President Lin Yi, President of Parliament Group on India-China Friendship Tarun Vijay, Industry Minister of Maharashtra Desai, Industry Minister of Karnataka R.V. Deshpande and other 400 guests from governments, associations, business circles and various fields of China and India attended the forum. President Jiang Zhenghua, Ambassador Le Yucheng, MP Tarun Vijay, Maharashtra Industry Minister Desai, Karnataka Industry Minister Deshpande delivered speeches at the opening ceremony.
At the forum, 20 guests from Chinese and Indian local governments, and well-known enterprises shared their views and made proposals on the following five themes, namely “Made in China” & “Make in India”, Collaborative Cooperation and Development for Global Competitiveness, Opportunities in Infrastructure, Ports and Smart Cities, Initiatives for New Energy, Financing of Cross Border Investments-China-India, and China-India: e-commerce and services.
In order to encourage mutual investment and promote further development of bilateral trade relations, the “China India Models” awarding ceremony was held at the forum, felicitating the Chinese and Indian enterprises with outstanding performance in the field of investment. They are: TBEA, Foton Group, Liugong Machinery Co. Ltd., Shanghai Highly Group, ZTE Co., Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., Tata Group, Infosys Technologies and Adani Group. These enterprises were selected by the Podar Enterprise,Indian Host of the forum and Fortune Plus, organizer of the forum in line with the criteria of popularity, foresight, localization level, scale of cooperation, innovativeness and reputation of the enterprises.
