Shi Guangsheng, in charge of China 's Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC), held bilateral consultations Tuesday morning with heads of the delegations to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Trade (MRT) at the Shanghai International Convention Center.
Shi, also chairman of the 2001 APEC MRT Meeting, already held talks with Pehin Dato Abdul Rahman Taib, minister of industry and primary resources of Brunei, Jim Sutton, minister of agriculture and minister for trade negotiations of New Zealand and George Yeo Yong-Boon, minister for trade and industry of Singapore.
Shi and Long Yongtu, MOFTEC chief negotiator and head of the Chinese delegation to the MRT Meeting, are scheduled to meet respectively with top trade officials from other APEC member economies including the United States, Russia, the Republic of Korea, Australia and Japan Tuesday.
(Xinhua 06/05/2001)
