Concluding Senior Officials' Meeting of APEC opens

The Concluding Senior Officials' Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) opened here Sunday, kicking off the APEC Leaders' Week.

Senior officials' meetings of the APEC are a series of meetings held three or four times a year, with the concluding session being convened to prepare agenda and documents for the subsequent ministerial and leaders' meetings.

The theme of this year's APEC Singapore meetings is "Sustaining Growth, Connecting the Region". It is expected that when leaders of the 21 APEC members meet on Nov. 14-15, they will focus on how to secure an economic recovery and fight trade protectionism.

Source:Xinhua