Overview

• During his inaugural foreign trip as prime minister, Lawrence Wong met Premier Li Qiang in Beijing to commemorate the 35th anniversary of diplomatic ties.
• Singapore and China signed a letter of intent to develop a third-country training programme for ASEAN and Timor-Leste officials covering clean energy transition, climate resilience and sustainable urban development.
• The ministries of law agreed to exchange postgraduate law trainees while the intellectual property offices committed to a data-sharing framework to strengthen innovation protection.
• Li Qiang highlighted that China and Singapore, as beneficiaries of economic globalization, must promote open regionalism and multilateral trade to sustain global supply chain stability and expand collaboration in the digital economy and artificial intelligence.
• Wong is set to meet President Xi Jinping and National People’s Congress Chairman Zhao Leji before attending the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin to discuss broader economic and governance issues.