Investment Immigration to Latvia focuses on Latvia News: From April 29 to 30 local time, the Third Eurasian Transport Ministers' Conference was grandly held in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The conference unanimously adopted the "Riga Declaration" with the theme of "Developing Eurasian Multimodal Transport." Eurasian countries attach great importance to the conference, with ministers or senior officials from 40 countries in the region attending. Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. The Deputy Minister of Transport of China, Weng Mengyong, as the representative of the previous chair country of the Eurasian Transport Ministers' Conference, made an important speech titled "Developing Eurasian Multimodal Transport, Creating a Bright Future for Practical Cooperation" at the opening ceremony.
In his speech, Weng Mengyong introduced the new trends in Eurasian multimodal transport in recent years: First, the Eurasian land transport connection represented by the "China-Europe Container Railway Express" is rising; second, the practice of land-sea transport in Northeast Asia and Central and Eastern Europe has revitalized maritime transport; third, there is strong demand for air transport between Asia and Europe. However, the development of Eurasian multimodal transport also faces multiple challenges such as insufficient transport infrastructure, mismatched technical standards, and inconsistent legal systems and management frameworks. To accelerate the development of comprehensive, safe, and efficient transport connections in Eurasia, he suggested the following measures: First, formulate a medium- and long-term outline for the development of Eurasian transport and prioritize projects to accelerate the construction of a comprehensive Eurasian transport network; second, improve international transport cooperation mechanisms and legal documents to enhance the level of international transport facilitation; third, create a low-cost and efficient international logistics system and promote the construction of an Eurasian logistics information service platform; fourth, strive to eliminate legal barriers such as market access and technology transfer, and further standardize the international transport market. Finally, he stated that China will actively work with Eurasian countries to develop transport connections based on the principle of "consultation, joint construction, and shared benefits." At the conference, the EU Transport Commissioner and ministers from countries such as Russia and Poland actively responded to our initiative to jointly build the "Belt and Road," expressing their willingness to strengthen practical cooperation with China.
The Eurasian Transport Ministers' Conference is a high-level dialogue mechanism in the field of transport under the framework of the Eurasian Conference, aimed at promoting the interconnection of transport facilities and the facilitation of transport through enhanced communication and cooperation among Eurasian countries. The first and second Eurasian Transport Ministers' Conferences were held in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Chengdu, China, in October 2009 and October 2011, respectively.
