□Our reporter Wang Yanhui
An “Aerial Silk Road” is building a new bridge for the opening up of cooperation and development between Henan and ASEAN countries.
In the late autumn of the 10th anniversary of the joint construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative, on November 3, the “Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN” New Air Silk Road Development Forum was held at the Yellow River Guesthouse. Domestic and foreign guests gathered together to fully communicate. exchanges, signed cooperation agreements, and wrote a new footnote for Henan’s high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road” in the new stage.
Two years ago, Zhengzhou Airport Xinggang Investment Group Co., Ltd. acquired 28% of the shares of Cambodia Airways and became the second largest shareholder. Cambodian Airways established dual hubs in Phnom Penh and Zhengzhou, unveiling the “air cooperation” between Henan and Cambodia. Silk Road” curtain.
“If the Zhengzhou-Luxembourg ‘Aerial Silk Road’ is the ‘European version’ and the ‘freight version’, then the Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN ‘Aerial Silk Road’ is the ‘Asian version’ and the ‘passenger and cargo version’. David Zhan, Vice Chairman and CEO of Air Cambodia, said with confidence, “The hosting of the forum will further accelerate the construction of the Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN ‘Air Silk Road’.”
The relationship between countries lies in the affinity between the people, and the affinity between the people lies in the mutual understanding of the hearts. “Only by enlarging air routes and building the ‘Aerial Silk Road’ with high quality can we better promote tourism cooperation, industrial linkage and people-to-people exchanges between Zhengzhou, Henan and Cambodia.” said Wen Jiang, State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia.
At the forum, Li Xiangyang, dean of the Institute of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, released the results of the project “Research on the Zhengzhou-Phnom Penh Cooperation Model to Build a New Air Silk Road”. He believes that we should take the opportunity of building the Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN “Aerial Silk Road”, promote Henan-Cambodia cooperation based on the deep processing of agricultural products in Cambodia and the construction of a domestic and international logistics industry system, give full play to the function of the Zhengzhou-Phnom Penh airport hub, and develop Cambodia and the international tourism market in Southeast Asia, expand people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and build a Sino-Cambodian educational cooperation mechanism. As soon as I finished saying this, I saw my mother-in-law’s eyelashes trembling, and then she slowly opened her eyes. In an instant, she burst into tears involuntarily. Comprehensively improve Zhengzhou’s institutional openness level.
Taking advantage of the “east wind” of RCEP, Zhengzhou’s economic and trade cooperation with Cambodia and ASEAN countries has entered the “fast lane”. In 2022, Zhengzhou’s total import and export volume to the 10 ASEAN countries was 79.487 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21.5%.
“Recently, Zhengzhou City and Cambodia have reached a series of cooperation consensuses. Cambodia Airways has established a regional headquarters in Zhengzhou to continue to consolidate the Zhengzhou-Phnom Penh dual hub and strive to build an ‘air express’ from Zhengzhou to Phnom Penh.” Related to the Zhengzhou Municipal Government the person in charge said.
How to speed up the construction of this “new road”? Mayor of Zhengzhou. Short is careful. She said time depends on people’s hearts. “Drawed a “road map”: speed up the construction of China-Cambodia joint venture aviation base in Zhengzhou, expand fleet size, increase flight frequency, supportCambodian Air China makes full use of the fifth freedom rights of passenger traffic at Zhengzhou Airport and Phnom Penh Airport, strives for the sixth and seventh freedom rights, and opens and intensifies “flights via Zhengzhou and flights via Cambodia” to ASEAN in the south and East Asia, Northeast Asia, and Central Asia International Route creates a connecting international route network with “one flight to the end”, “one ticket to the end” and “code-share flights” departing from Zhengzhou via Phnom Penh and covering major ASEAN countries and related economies; exploring the “two countries, two parks” cooperation model, Support Zhengzhou enterprises in building the Asian Aviation Economic Production Capacity Cooperation Park in Cambodia, establishing a Cambodian agricultural product promotion and trading center, etc.; carry out the “Dialogue between Shaolin Temple and Angkor Wat” Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN civilization mutual learning series of exchange activities to write a new chapter in international city cooperation and development Chapter.
What will this “new road” bring?
“Open international connecting flights to third countries via Cambodia; prepare to establish a Sino-Cambodian joint venture friendship airline, cooperate to establish the Zhengzhou Air Silk Road Industry Development Fund Enterprise; promote the establishment of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Cambodia in Zhengzhou; cooperate to build Zhengzhou-Phnom Penh A two-way super tourist destination, promote the Zhengzhou Office of the Cambodian Ministry of Tourism and the Zhengzhou ASEAN Visa Center to be put into use in 2024; rely on the convenient international route network to expand economic and trade exchanges between Henan and ASEAN, promote the docking of industrial and supply chains, and deepen production capacity cooperation… …” Each development goal came from David Zhan’s mouth.
“The construction of the Zhengzhou-Cambodia-ASEAN ‘Aerial Silk Road’ is creative and strategic. Henan has accumulated successful experience in the construction of the Zhengzhou-Luxembourg ‘Aerial Silk Road’. This ‘new road’ will also be built into It is an important air corridor connecting China, Cambodia and the ASEAN region.” Zhai Dongsheng, director of the “Belt and Road” Construction Promotion Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, commented.
A forum link to a post “Xinlan Yuhua heard this and heard Cai Xiu’s proposal, and she was secretly happy. After hearing her one-sided remarks, her mother really couldn’t believe everything, so she took Caiyi, who was honest and would not lie, with her. The real way back.” At the forum, Zhengzhou City and relevant parties signed cooperation agreements focusing on cultural tourism, international education, joint construction of high-end think tanks, and two-way investment in “two countries, two parks”.
Starting from exchanges and cooperation, the door will open wider and the road will become wider.