On June 15th, at the invitation of Mr. Glenn Penaranda, Commercial Counselor of the Philippine Embassy in China, Mr. Li Dianping, President of China-ASEAN Chamber of Agricultural Commerce (CACAC) and Secretary General Fan Huiqun visited the Philippine Embassy in China and had work exchanges with the Commercial Counsellor. Mr. Wu Tianpeng, Chief Representative of the Beijing Representative Office of Philippine Financial Bank Co., Ltd., attended the meeting.

President Li Dianping first expressed his gratitude to Counselor for his invitation. He also introduced the general situation of All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (ACFSMC) and CACAC and CACAC’s main work in recent years. He said that China and the Philippines are traditional friendly neighbors. For a long time, the pragmatic cooperation between the two countries has continued to deepen. At present, China is the largest trading partner of the Philippines and the largest import market. In recent years, the two countries have shared good opportunities in economic and trade cooperation with strong complementarities in agriculture. The potential for cooperation between the two countries is huge and the prospect is broad. They also enjoy multiple coherence points in exchanges and cooperation. CACAC, as an international organization and a window and channel for foreign exchanges and cooperation of ACFSMC, is willing to play an active role in cooperation in key areas such as agriculture, economy and trade, and jointly promote agricultural, economic and trade exchanges, cooperation and development between China and the Philippines as well as other ASEAN countries. He also put forward specific intentions and suggestions to strengthen exchanges and cooperation between the two sides.

Counsellor Glenn Penaranda introduced the agricultural development situation in the Philippines and the Philippine government's desire to expand the import and export of food and agricultural products, and establish a bilateral joint cooperation mechanism with China. He said that the Philippines welcomes the Chinese enterprises to invest in the construction of the Philippines. The Philippines can provide land, manpower and other resources which can be organically combined with China's technology and management to expand bilateral cooperation and export more products to China and ASEAN countries. The Philippine Embassy in China will actively support the work of CACAC. He agreed with the proposal of CACAC and said that the two sides can discuss on the priority areas for cooperation and specific cooperation projects, and further promote agricultural exchanges and cooperation between the two sides through specific cooperation.

Vice-president Fan Huiqun actively responded to the proposal of Counselor Glenn Penaranda. She said that China's agricultural means of production supply and service capability and equipment manufacturing level are strong, agricultural planting and management technology and serialized services are relatively mature, the two sides can further carry out exchanges, share resources, complement each other's advantages, and promote the expansion of agricultural trade and investment and exchanges and cooperation.

The work exchanges this time further strengthened the contact between CACAC and the Philippine Embassy in China, explored the willingness and direction of cooperation between the two sides, and laid a good foundation for the CACAC to expand new space for foreign exchanges.