NEAT Working Group Meeting on East Asian Investment Cooperation was held in Bluesky Hotel, Weihai,Shandong Province, China, on July 1st, 2005. The meeting was sponsored by the China Foreign Affairs University. 26 representatives from Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam attended the meeting.
The participants had very heated and fruitful discussions within three panels: “Economic Development and Investment Cooperation in East Asia", “Current Situation of East Asian Investment Cooperation" and “Policy Proposals for Furthering East Asian Investment Cooperation". All participants agreed that East Asian Investment Cooperation is at the point of a great development. And some valuable policy recommendations to promote East Asian Investment Cooperation were made during the meeting.
The Working Group will draft a policy recommendation report based on the results of the meeting and put forward to the 3rd Annual Conference of NEAT for further discussion.
The East Asian Investment Forum was held there as well immediately after this Working Group meeting, co-sponsored by the China Foreign Affairs University, China Development Bank and Shandong Provincial Government.