习言道｜一图读懂：APEC到底是什么？

Group 1 - APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) is the highest-level and most influential economic cooperation mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region [3][5]. - APEC was established in response to the end of the Cold War and the rising trend of economic globalization and regional integration in the late 1980s [5][7]. - The first APEC Ministerial Meeting took place from November 5 to 7, 1989, in Canberra, Australia, marking the official establishment of APEC [7]. Group 2 - APEC currently has 21 member economies, including Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, and the United States [9]. - There are three observers in APEC: the ASEAN Secretariat, the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, and the Secretariat of the Pacific Islands Forum [10]. Group 3 - APEC's main discussion topics include trade and investment liberalization, regional economic integration, connectivity, economic structural reform and innovation, the global multilateral trading system, and economic and technical cooperation [17]. Group 4 - The highest-level meetings in APEC are informal leader meetings, typically held annually between September and November [11][19]. - The first informal leader meeting was held in Seattle, USA, in November 1993, establishing a fixed mechanism for annual meetings [21]. Group 5 - China officially joined APEC in November 1991, based on the principle of "One China" and the distinction between sovereign states and economic entities [22][23]. - China successfully hosted the ninth informal leader meeting of APEC in Shanghai on October 20-21, 2001 [25].