On Oct 21, Deputy Minister Yan Dong of MOFCOM and Deputy Minister Gomes of East
Timor's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation co-chaired the second
meeting of the China-Timor-Leste Joint Committee on Economic and Trade
Cooperation in Dili. They reached broad consensus to deepen cooperation on
trade, investment, aid and people-to-people exchanges, to jointly uphold the
multilateral trade order, and to create a better business environment for
China-invested enterprises in Timor-Leste.