Kim Hak-bong, President of the Korea–China International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, a Chinese NEAR member government, and Shin Sung-sik, Advisor and former Commissioner of the Incheon Regional Office of the Small and Medium Business Administration, visited the NEAR Secretariat and held a meeting with Secretary-General Lim Byung-jin.
The NEAR Secretariat and the Korea–China International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center agreed to strengthen cooperation on measures to encourage greater participation by businesses in interregional exchanges among NEAR member governments in the future.