*  *  *  Mr. Chairman, Mr. President, fellow Governors, ladies and gentlemen, First of all, please kindly allow me, on behalf of the Chinese Government and the Chinese delegation as well as in my own name, to express our thanks to the government of Uganda for hosting this Annual Meeting, which gives us the pleasure of visiting the beautiful city of Kampala and receiving the warm hospitality of the Ugandan people.
Considering the recent economic environment, high uncertainty seems to have become a constant. Some even say that we have entered the era of the so-called “new abnormal,” a persistent situation where it is hard to predict what will happen even in the near future.