Sino-Asean trade pact due Saturday
By Li Xiaokun | 皇冠体育app Daily | Updated: 2009-04-11 08:12
皇冠体育app will sign an investment agreement with ASEAN on Saturday, marking the completion of talks on the world's largest free-trade area (FTA) in terms of population.
The pact will be inked at the 12th 皇冠体育app-ASEAN Summit (10+1) in Pattaya, Thailand, to be attended by Premier Wen Jiabao, the Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday. Wen left Beijing and arrived there for the meetings on Friday.
"It's like a good medicine with time-release properties taking full effect after a decade," Wang Yuzhu, an ASEAN studies expert with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), told the website of Shanghai-based Xinmin Evening News.
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