5月15日下午，四川省商务厅与泸州市人民政府厅市合作协议签约仪式在泸州举行。省商务厅党组书记、厅长曾卿，泸州市委书记杨林兴出席活动并讲话。
On the afternoon of May 15, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce and the Luzhou Municipal People's Government signed a cooperation agreement in Luzhou. Zeng Qing, Party Secretary and Director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce, and Yang Linxing, Secretary of the CPC Luzhou Municipal Committee, attended the event and delivered speeches.
省商务厅副厅长乔方介绍厅市合作协议内容，泸州市委常委、统战部部长李堂兵主持签约仪式，泸州市副市长罗素平汇报泸州商务工作情况。
Qiao Fang, Deputy Director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce, introduced the content of the cooperation agreement. Li Tangbing, member of the Standing Committee of Luzhou Municipal Party Committee and head of the United Front Work Department, presided over the signing ceremony. Luo Suping, Deputy Mayor of Luzhou, reported on Luzhou's commercial activities.
曾卿充分肯定泸州市商务工作取得的成绩，向泸州市委、市政府对商务工作的重视表示感谢。他指出，泸州经济发展基础好，势头强，商务主要指标位列全省第一方阵，既为泸州经济发展提供了有力支撑，也为全省商务稳增长作出了重要贡献。省商务厅与泸州市签署厅市合作协议，双方将加强厅市工作衔接，全力推动合作事项落地见效，助力泸州商务高质量发展，为全省商务领域厅市合作干出一个样板。
Zeng Qing spoke highly of Luzhou's commercial achievements and thanked the CPC Luzhou Municipal Committee and Municipal People's Government for attaching importance to business work. He pointed out that Luzhou's economic development has a good foundation and strong momentum, and its main business indicators rank first in the province, providing strong support for Luzhou's economic development and making important contributions to the steady growth of commerce across Sichuan. The Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce and Luzhou signed a cooperation agreement. The two sides will strengthen their department-city connection and make every effort to implement cooperation projects to drive high-quality business development in Luzhou and set a model for department-city commercial cooperation across the province.
杨林兴代表泸州市委、市政府，向省商务厅对泸州发展的关心支持和帮助表示衷心感谢。他说，泸州将以此次厅市合作为新的契机，积极主动作为，全力抓好相关工作，健全机制、完善措施，合力推进协议事项落地落实、早见成效。希望双方持续深化务实合作，拓展合作的深度和广度，力争在更多领域结出丰硕成果，为全省商务工作增光添彩。
On behalf of the CPC Luzhou Municipal Committee and the Luzhou Municipal People's Government, Yang Linxing expressed his heartfelt thanks to the Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce for its concern, support, and help to Luzhou's development. He said that Luzhou will seize the opportunity that comes with this department-city cooperation, take the initiative to try its best in all its work, and improve mechanisms and measures to jointly promote the implementation of the agreement and achieve early results. It is hoped that both sides will continue to deepen pragmatic cooperation, expand the depth and breadth of cooperation, and strive to produce fruitful results in more fields, thus delivering glory to commercial development in Sichuan.
在曾卿、杨林兴等的共同见证下，乔方和罗素平分别代表双方签署《四川省商务厅泸州市人民政府厅市合作协议》。根据协议，双方将以开放平台建设、外经贸提质发展、服务业高质量发展、消费中心城市建设等为重点，共同推动泸州打造高能级发展平台、提升自贸试验区开放水平、加快建设南向开放新高地等工作。
With Zeng Qing and Yang Linxing as the witnesses, Qiao Fang and Luo Suping, on behalf of both parties, signed the Cooperation Agreement between Luzhou Municipal People's Government and the Sichuan Provincial Department of Commerce. According to the agreement, the two sides will focus on the construction of an open platform, the improvement of the quality of foreign trade and economic cooperation, the high-quality development of the service industry, and the construction of a consumption hub, to jointly build a top development platform in Luzhou, raise the opening levels of the pilot free trade zone, and accelerate the construction of a new highland for opening to the south.
