[The first meeting of the China-Canada Joint Economic and Trade Commission Investment Working Group was held in Ottawa, Canada] On September 30, according to the Ministry of Commerce website, Li Chenggang, the International Trade Negotiator of the People's Republic of China and Vice Minister of Commerce, and Purvis, the Canadian Deputy Minister of International Trade, co-chaired the first meeting of the China-Canada Joint Economic and Trade Commission Investment Working Group in Ottawa, Canada. The two sides conducted candid, pragmatic and constructive exchanges on enhancing investment policy communication, improving investment environment, and two-way investment cooperation. Li Chenggang said that the meeting between the leaders of the two countries in January this year provided strategic guidance for the further development of China-Canada relations, and bilateral economic and trade cooperation has shown a positive momentum. Investment cooperation is an important part of bilateral economic and trade relations, and it is also a lasting source of power for the steady and long-term development of China-Canada economic and trade cooperation. China is willing to work with Canada to create a fair, open, transparent, non-discriminatory and predictable business environment for enterprises of both countries, and promote China-Canada investment cooperation to continuously achieve new results. Purvis said that Canada attaches great importance to developing economic and trade relations with China and is willing to work with China to conscientiously implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, enhance the understanding of each other's investment environment by enterprises of the two countries, and promote pragmatic investment cooperation that is in the common interests of both parties. Both sides agreed to give full play to the role of the investment working group mechanism, accumulate practical results for subsequent high-level exchanges between the two countries and the China-Canada Joint Economic and Trade Committee, and promote the healthy, stable and sustainable development of China-Canada economic and trade relations.