China news agency, Beijing on February 17, Malaysian prime minister najib razak said asean should become the world's seventh largest economy in the next 10 years, GDP reached $4 trillion by 2020. This means that the association of south-east Asian nations (asean) GDP to increase almost double than now. The development of the association of south-east Asian nations (asean) hope Yu Dongmeng community built and perfect.
Asean community, including the association of south-east Asian nations (asean) political and security community, the asean economic community, the asean socio-cultural community three parts. The asean community is planned to be on December 31, 2015 will be completed, including key is built into the asean economic community (AEC). China-asean business association, chairman of the joint, the china-asean business council executive director ning-ning xu believes that in 2015, the association of south-east Asian nations (asean) facing a big test.
Non-tariff barriers is one of the major problems of restricting trade
Asean economic community will form a prosperous, active and with high competitiveness, as well as the single market, single production base of the economic community, implementation, trade of goods, services, investment and skilled Labour mobility. According to the international trade and industry minister of Malaysia for starr method, the association of south-east Asian nations (asean) at the end of 2015 the integration of regional economy, set up similar to the European Union's single market.
At present, the association of south-east Asian nations (asean) are trying to by executing the asean integration initiative (IAI), narrow between asean countries and the development gap between asean and the world; Through the implementation of the overall planning of the asean connectivity (MPAC) promote people in asean, economy, infrastructure and connectivity.
Ning-ning xu said that this year the association of south-east Asian nations (asean) to complete the "the asean community in 2009-2015 road map" of the remaining tasks. At present, the asean community construction plan hasn't finished 10%, and mostly in the form of community building.
Ning-ning xu said, according to construction schedule, the asean economic community in 2015, trade between asean countries from January further tariff concessions. Besides some sensitive products, tariff is no longer a big problem of restricting trade between asean countries and the main problem is the tariff barriers, need to be effective measures to implement the trade facilitation. This year, the construction of the asean economic community is faced with a unified customs standards, trade standards, the financial sector liberalization, to ensure that the investment protection, and many other tasks.
"According to the requirements of the construction of the asean economic community, most countries need to develop, modify, and through the related economic laws and regulations, this is an asean countries implementing internal reform and opening to the outside of the system construction, needs a process." Ning-ning xu said.
According to a recent survey of southeast Asia of 171 multinational companies, about 56% of the multinational companies that implement the AEC will in a few years later, while 36.9% of companies that need to be implemented after years of waiting, only 3.5% think the AEC will by the end of the year.
According to the research, given the global economic growth is not stable, the international oil prices are still low and the investment market sentiment three factors carefully, most of the multinational companies, said the AEC may not be in the original on December 31, 2015.
Ning-ning xu said, after the completion of the asean economic community will bring many opportunities to asean members, but at the same time also faces many challenges. At present, the association of south-east Asian nations (asean) countries many enterprises is still a lack of understanding of the asean economic community, even not ready yet, the lack of response.
Transition of the asean economic structural problems
At the end of 2015, the association of south-east Asian nations (asean) is not only to achieve the asean economic community built, but also led the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreements (RCEP) negotiations. However, in the regional economic cooperation to complete these two landmark event will not be easy. There are four asean countries is the trans-pacific partnership agreement (TPP) negotiations member, the TPP to formally signed this year. In 2015, is a busy year asean countries.