On April 3, 2016, “The seminar on the G20’s role in promoting the surge of international trade and investment” is jointly held in Nanjing by International Trade and Sustainable Development Center (ICTSD) and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of World Economics and Politics. This seminar is one of a series of activities in the G20 Trade and Investment Working Group Conference which will be held in Nanjing. ICTSD president Ricardo Melendez-Ortizh, deputy director of the Ministry of Commerce Zhang Shaogang, deputy director of the World Economic and Political Research Institute Zou Zhibo gave the opening speech. Experts and scholars in the field of trade and policy research in several countries have been invited to the conference.

The meeting is divided into three sections, the first section—“The policy coordination and cooperation of promoting global investment” is chaired by the Canadian WTO ambassador Jonathan FRIED T. Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment researcher Karl P. SAUVANT, Law professor Mark Feldman from Peking University, OECD International Investment Project Officer Ana NOVIK and president of Law School of UIBE, professor Shi Jingxia, had a discussion on the policy recommendations of G20 in promoting trade and investment facilitation.

The second section—"Supporting the multilateral trading system, making the WTO better serve and guide the global trade and investment mechanism" was hosted by ICTSD president Ricardo Melendez-Ortizh. The former WTO chief economist professor Patrick Low, Professor Tu Xinquan and World Economic and Political Studies researcher Dong Yan have carried out in-depth analysis and discussion on the issues such as the promotion of WTO multilateral negotiation and coordination of regional multilateral rules by G20.

In the third section—"Promoting the global trade growth and global value chain integration" was hosted by the director of the International Trade Division of Ministry of foreign affairs of Japan, Motosada MATANO. Professor Simon Evenett from University of St. Gallen, dean of Global Value Chain Institute of UIBE professor Wangzhi, director of the International Economic Research Department under the Ministry of Commerce Anboshan, have expressed their views on issues such as reduction of tariff and promotion of integration into the global value chain.

Contributor: Sun Lin

Reviser: LiYadong

Reviewer: SongYida