Chinese premier urges further regional economic integration

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday urged all sides at the 9th East Asia Summit to push forward regional economic integration, so as to achieve integrated development and common prosperity.[Special coverage]

To achieve regional economic integration, the premier urged cooperation in six key areas, including promoting trade and investment facilitation, accelerating interconnectivity, expanding financial cooperation, stepping up poverty reduction cooperation, advancing maritime cooperation as well as intensifying people-to-people exchanges.