People attend the opening ceremony of the 6th Pan-Pearl River Delta Regional Cooperation &Development Forum and Economic &Trade Fair in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, Aug 27, 2010. The forum and fair kicked off here on Friday. (Xinhua/Jiang Kehong)
The 6th Pan Pearl River Delta (PPRD) Regional Cooperation and Development Forum opened Friday in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province.
The forum is scheduled to run from Aug 27-31 with a theme entitled "deepening cooperation and seeking common development". It has attracted more than 10,000 participants, including officials, entrepreneurs and celebrities from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions, as well as Taiwan.
The forum, begun in 2004, seeks to stimulate the economy within the -pan-Pearl River delta region, which covers Hainan, Yunnan, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi as well as Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions.
More than 14,000 cooperative projects have been sealed during the previous five PPRD forums, with their total investments exceeding 1.8 trillion RMB (264.71 billion USD), according to government statistics.
