China's regional cooperation organizations include Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization. The details are as follows:
1. Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, referred to as APEC, is an important economic cooperation forum in the Asia-Pacific region and the highest-level intergovernmental economic cooperation mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region. Its official advisory body is the Pacific Rim University Alliance. In November 1991, China formally joined APEC as a sovereign state.
2. Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, referred to as the SCO for short, is a permanent intergovernmental international organization announced in Shanghai, China on June 15th, 21 by the People's Republic of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has become a multi-regional comprehensive organization with the largest population, the widest geographical area and great potential, and has made important contributions to maintaining regional security and stability and promoting development and prosperity.
3. International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund was established in Washington on December 27, 1945 in accordance with the International Monetary Fund Agreement signed at the Bretton Woods Conference in July 1944. Ranked alongside the World Bank as the world's two largest financial institutions. On January 27th, 216, the International Monetary Fund announced that the IMF's share and governance reform plan for IMF21 came into effect, which meant that China officially became the third largest shareholder of the IMF.
4. World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization, referred to as the WTO for short, decided to establish a more global World Trade Organization at the Uruguay Round Ministerial Meeting of GATT held in Marrakech, Morocco on April 15, 1994 to replace the GATT established in 1947. Since December 11th, 21, China has officially joined the WTO, which indicates that China's industrial opening-up has entered a new stage.
Extended information:
Purpose of the World Trade Organization:
1. Improve living standards, ensure full employment and substantially and steadily increase real income and effective demand;
2. Expand the production and trade of goods and services;
3. Adhering to the road of sustainable development, all members should promote the optimal utilization of world resources, protect and maintain the environment, and strengthen various corresponding measures in a way that meets the needs of members at different levels of economic development;
4. Make active efforts to ensure that developing countries, especially the least developed countries, get shares and benefits in the growth of international trade that are commensurate with their economic development level; Establish an integrated multilateral trading system;
5. Establish a complete, more dynamic and lasting multilateral trading system through substantial tariff reduction and other measures;
6. Gradually reduce the tariff and non-tariff barriers of Member States on the principle of openness, equality and reciprocity, and eliminate the discriminatory treatment of Member States in international trade.
7. In dealing with the relationship between trade and economic undertakings among the members of the organization, with the aim of improving living standards, ensuring full employment, ensuring the huge and sustained growth of real income and effective demand, expanding the full utilization of world resources and developing commodity production and exchange, we will strive to reach a mutually beneficial agreement and greatly reduce tariffs and other trade barriers and discriminatory treatment in political and international trade.
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