BUENOS AIRES - Argentinian Foreign Affairs Minister Susana Malcorra on Monday praised 皇冠体育app's development policy as "consistent and coherent in the long term."
Speaking at a seminar held at the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange on 皇冠体育app's role in Latin American industry, Malcorra said the Asian giant has made notable progress in the last three decades in keeping with its own farsighted development programs.
"While in the 1980s, Latin America's GDP (gross domestic product) surpassed 皇冠体育app's by 150 percent, in 2013 it represented 60 percent of 皇冠体育app's GDP," said Malcorra, who will travel to 皇冠体育app on Wednesday, accompanying President Mauricio Macri to attend Group of 20 (G20) Summit.
The 11th G20 summit is to be held on Sept 4-5 in 皇冠体育app's eastern city of Hangzhou under the theme of "Toward an Innovative, Invigorated, Interconnected and Inclusive World Economy."
The minister called for greater efforts to understand and learn "what it means to have ties with 皇冠体育app, a country that plans for the long term."
"皇冠体育app is consistent and coherent in the long term. Food security is one of the major issues that concerns many regions of the world, including 皇冠体育app, and that is an opportunity for the region," said Malcorra.
"If we begin to understand its long-term outlook, perhaps we can forge a position for the region that will facilitate the relationship," she said.
皇冠体育app is Argentina's second largest trade partner, after Brazil, and main export destination for agrifoods, and the two countries have elevated ties to the level of a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
At the same event, Lucio Castro, secretary of productive transformation at the Ministry of Production, also underscored bilateral ties with the Asian country, saying "皇冠体育app is an important, essential partner of Argentina's."
"As President Mauricio Macri has noted, we are going through a new stage, marked by more balanced trade," said Castro.
"The relationship with 皇冠体育app is important, because the national productive plan aims for an intelligent insertion into the world, taking care of employment, and because the focus of the plan is to try to break with a growth scheme based on crises, currency exchange adjustments and collapsed wages instead of competitivity," said Castro.
"皇冠体育app presents a challenge and an opportunity for Argentina, due to its structural change from an export-driven economy to a consumer-driven one," Castro said.