{"id":83623,"date":"2026-09-05T08:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=83623"},"modified":"2026-09-05T08:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:05:55","slug":"minister-lis-statement-on-the-32nd-apec-small-and-medium-enterprises-ministerial-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=83623","title":{"rendered":"Minister Li&#8217;s Statement on the 32nd APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Issued by the APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Meeting<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>Guangzhou, People&#8217;s Republic of China, 5 September 2026<\/em>On Friday in Guangzhou, Li Lecheng, Chair of the 32nd APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Meeting and China\u2019s Minister of Industry and Information Technology, shared with ministers a statement that reflects a direction for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/NPZXhm0yIhs?e=f0773073fa&amp;c2id=bc053c42553905f12de54bba718214c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/NPZXhm0yIhs?e%3Df0773073fa%26c2id%3Dbc053c42553905f12de54bba718214c4&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788704801074000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1RQUyROShW2rBnVu09bMgS\">strengthening micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) across the Asia-Pacific region<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The statement noted the efforts of economies to foster MSMEs\u2019 development and strengthen their participation in global value chains, including through leveraging industry clusters and special economic zones.<\/p>\n<p>Ministers also reaffirmed that bolstering MSME supply chain resilience is vital to Asia-Pacific economic growth.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>Read the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/94VpxUIu1jq?e=f0773073fa&amp;c2id=bc053c42553905f12de54bba718214c4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/us.list-manage.com\/94VpxUIu1jq?e%3Df0773073fa%26c2id%3Dbc053c42553905f12de54bba718214c4&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1788704801074000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0xDWvFMVPUvT_72BO9_Avt\">Chair\u2019s Statement of the 32nd APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Meeting<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issued by the APEC Small and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83624,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83623\/revisions\/83624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}