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XIANGHE, Oct. 14 (Xinhuanet) --The seventh G-20
Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting will inaugurate in Beijing,
capital of China, on Saturday morning and be continued in the Grand Epoch City
in Xianghe County, Hebei Province.
The theme of the meeting is "Global
Cooperation: Promoting Balanced and Orderly World Economic Development". The
member countries will exchange views on five major topics: the review
andprospect of the global economy, the review of the Bretton Woods institutional
system in 60 years and its reform, achieving the Millennium Development Goals -
institutional innovation of international development aid and financing, the
problems of ageing and immigration, and the conceptual innovation of
development.
It is the first time for China to assume the G-20
presidency. Chinese President Hu Jintao will make a keynote speech at the
opening ceremony. Chinese Finance Minister Jin Renqing and Governor of China's
central bank Zhou Xiaochuan will attend the meeting as head of the Chinese
delegation and co-host the G20 meeting.
The seventh G-20 ministerial meeting plans to publish
two otherdocuments apart from the regular communique if all parties agreed after
one and a half days of discussion: "G-20 Joint Statement of the Development of
the Global Economy" and "G-20 Joint Statement of the Institutional Reform of the
Bretton Woods System".
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the
G-20 member countries, and head of the three international institutions,that is
the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank,
will attend the meetings. Colombian financeminister is also invited to the G-20
meeting as the president of the IMF/World Bank Development Commission.
Established in 1999, the G-20 is an informal forum
that seeks to promote an open and constructive dialogue between industrial
nations and emerging-market countries on key issues relating to the
international monetary and financial system and, in the process, to pursue
stability and sustainable growth of the world economy. Enditem
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