2016 APEC LEADERS’ DECLARATION

　　We, the Leaders of APEC, met in Lima under the theme of Quality Growth and Human Development to continue working on our common endeavor to support free and open trade and investment, sustainable economic growth and shared prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region. Within this vision, in 2016 we have focused our efforts on the following thematic priorities: Regional Economic Integration and Quality Growth; Enhancing the Regional Food Market; Towards the Modernization of Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) in the Asia-Pacific; and Developing Human Capital.

　　Eight years after Peru hosted APEC for the first time, the world economic recovery is progressing, but facing increasingly far-reaching and interrelated challenges. The confluence of inequality in some economies and uneven economic growth, as well as environmental degradation and the risks posed by climate change, affect prospects for sustainable development, and deepen uncertainty toward the immediate future. In addition, globalization and its associated integration processes are increasingly being called into question, contributing to the emergence of protectionist trends.

　　While these challenges may pose a risk to our common aspirations and objectives, we recommit our efforts to ensure APEC maintains its global leadership as a forum that can, through cooperation, tackle the most pressing problems, and continue to be an incubator of ideas of the future. In that sense, we remain committed to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as it represents a balanced and comprehensive multilateral framework for international cooperation. We also welcome the recent entry into force of the Paris Agreement and commit to its transparent and effective implementation in order to transition towards a low carbon, climate resilient economy.

　　Quality Growth and Human Development

　　We reaffirm our aspirations towards balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative, and secure growth in the APEC region, as reflected in the APEC Accord on Innovative Development, Economic Reform and Growth, and the APEC Strategy for Strengthening Quality Growth by 2020, to bring greater focus to the importance of pursuing quality growth as envisaged in the 2010 APEC Growth Strategy.

　　Stressing the importance of achieving quality growth, we also pledge to focus our efforts on ensuring that our policies and strategies contribute in concrete terms to raising people′s quality of life and enhancing social equity in the region. We therefore recognize that our efforts to achieve APEC′s objectives and goals must remain focused on improving the lives of our people.

　　We recognize the vital importance of continuing work towards an inclusive education agenda that will enable people of all ages to meet the challenges of a globalized world. Furthermore, realizing that equitable access to high-quality education and training will allow our people to develop skills and competencies from early childhood and throughout their lifetime, we must focus our efforts on improving the quality, mobility and access to education including in partnership with employers, and soft skills development.

　　We encourage our economies to collaborate on improving education in the Asia-Pacific region under the principles established in the APEC Education Strategy. This strategy outlines a path for achieving a strong and cohesive APEC education community characterized by inclusive and quality education that supports sustainable economic growth and social well-being, enhances competencies, accelerates innovation and increases employability.

　　Given that full and productive employment for all population groups is essential for human development in the region, we also recognize that the economic empowerment of women, youth and persons with disabilities should be a priority under the APEC agenda for enhancing quality growth and human development.

　　In this regard, we commit to strengthen our efforts to ensure decent work and work life quality for all, especially socially vulnerable groups, by providing access to quality inclusive education and vocational training; boosting entrepreneurship; improving social protection; and enhancing regional cooperation.

　　We recognize women’s vital contribution to economic and social development and we commit to strengthen our efforts to support the mainstreaming of gender equality and women’s empowerment across APEC’s work, to ensure that women enjoy equal access to quality education and economic resources. We welcome efforts to support women’s entrepreneurship, grow women-led SMEs, enhance women’s digital literacy, promote women's career development, strengthen women and girls' access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and careers and address health-related barriers to women’s economic participation. We believe that the development of ICT plays a vitally important role in human development and we reaffirm our willingness to achieve next-generation broadband by 2020.

　　Recognizing health as the foundation of economic prosperity and human development, we highlight the importance of promoting health systems towards the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), which are resilient, sustainable, accessible and responsive to current and future needs to foster quality growth and human development. We look forward to further work on ways to address the fiscal and economic impacts of ill health.

　　Challenges and opportunities for free trade and investment in the current global context

　　We recognize that there has been a slow and uneven recovery from the economic and financial crisis of 2008, resulting in lower global economic growth, volatile financial conditions, lower commodity prices, rising inequalities, employment challenges, and significantly slower expansion of international trade in recent years.

　　We remain committed to using all policy tools – monetary, fiscal and structural – individually and collectively, to strengthen global demand and address supply constraints. We reaffirm the important role of mutually-reinforcing policies to buttress our efforts to achieve strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth. We reaffirm our previous commitments on monetary and exchange rate policies. We will refrain from competitive devaluation, resist all forms of protectionism and not target our exchange rates for competitive purposes. We reiterate that excess volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates can have adverse implications for economic and financial stability.

　　While the complex global economic environment will continue framing our work, it also represents an opportunity to reiterate our commitment to build a dynamic, harmonious and open economy in the Asia-Pacific region featuring innovative development, interconnected growth and shared interests, that advances employment opportunities for all, by reaffirming free and open trade and investment, accelerating regional economic integration, promoting competitive markets, encouraging economic and technical cooperation, and facilitating a favorable and sustainable business environment.

　　These overarching principles will continue to guide us in our common path. At the same time, we acknowledge that economies need to reach out to all sectors of our societies to better explain the benefits of trade, investment and open markets, and to ensure that those benefits are widely distributed.

　　Building on the WTO’s successful Bali and Nairobi Ministerial Conferences and recognizing all the elements contained in the Ministerial Declarations, we commit to continue implementing the Bali and Nairobi outcomes and advance negotiations on the remaining Doha Development Agenda issues as a matter of priority. We also note a range of issues of common interest and importance to today’s economies in the Asia-Pacific region may be legitimate issues for WTO discussions. Therefore, we instruct our officials to work with a sense of urgency and solidarity with all WTO members to set the direction together towards achieving positive, and meaningful results by the next WTO Ministerial Conference in 2017 and beyond.

　　We reaffirm our commitment to keep our markets open and to fight against all forms of protectionism by reaffirming our pledge against protectionism through a standstill commitment that we agree to extend until the end of 2020 and to roll back protectionist and trade-distorting measures, which weaken trade and slow down the progress and recovery of the international economy.

　　We welcome the progress made by economies in notifying their acceptance of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) and support its entry into force at the earliest possible date. We call upon the remaining APEC economies as well as other WTO members to make their utmost efforts to submit their instruments of acceptance of the TFA by the end of the year.

　　We recognize that WTO consistent plurilateral trade agreements with broad participation can play an important role in complementing global liberalization initiatives. In this regard, the ongoing or already concluded plurilateral agreements such as the Information Technology Agreement and its expansion, the Trade in Services Agreement, and the Environmental Goods Agreement, shall be open to all WTO members who share the objectives of such plurilateral agreements and negotiations for participation.

　　Furthermore, we also welcome the implementation of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) expansion and call on those who have committed to implement by July 1st 2016 to do so as soon as possible.

　　APEC Economies participating in the WTO Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) negotiations reaffirm their aim to redouble efforts to bridge remaining gaps and conclude an ambitious future oriented EGA that seeks to eliminate tariffs on a broad range of environmental goods by the end of 2016, after finding effective ways to address the core concerns of participants.

　　We underscore the importance of investment as a catalyst for economic growth and job creation. We commit to take concrete measures to provide an enabling environment for investment.

　　We acknowledge that structural reform is critical to improving economic efficiency, increasing productivity and competitiveness, creating jobs and promoting innovative growth in the face of the slowdown in the global economy. In this regard, we emphasize the importance of removing those structural and regulatory obstacles that unnecessarily inhibit cross-border trade, finance and investment, and create behind-the-border barriers to doing business. We encourage concrete actions by economies to deepen efforts in line with the Renewed APEC Agenda for Structural Reform (RAASR). Accordingly, we note the conclusion of RAASR Individual Action Plans by all member economies and welcome those commitments to important domestic structural reforms. At the same time, we recognize that structural reforms can be applied flexibly depending on domestic circumstances and macroeconomic situation. We also welcome the progress made so far on the Ease of Doing Business initiative.

　　We welcome the Strategy for Modernization of Finance Ministers’ Process and the Strategy for Implementation of the Cebu Action Plan, which will lay the foundations to ensure concrete outcomes to facilitate implementation of meaningful reforms in our economies that take into account their level of development and domestic circumstances.

　　Following the path established in the Beijing Roadmap for APEC’s Contribution to the Realization of the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) in 2014, we reiterate our commitment to the eventual realization of the FTAAP as a major instrument to further deepen APEC's regional economic integration agenda. With this vision, we endorse the Collective Strategic Study on Issues Related to the Realization of FTAAP and its Executive Summary. Furthermore, we endorse the Recommendations of the Study as the Lima Declaration on FTAAP (annexed to this Declaration).

　　We commend APEC officials for their hard work on finalizing the Collective Strategic Study. We instruct officials to implement the Lima Declaration on FTAAP, in particular to develop, and implement work programs towards the realization of the FTAAP. We look forward to regular progress reports on implementation of these work programs and APEC’s collective readiness to build capacity to realize the FTAAP. Furthermore, based on the Study and other APEC work as possible references, we instruct officials to consider next steps that can be taken towards the eventual realization of an FTAAP.

　　We recognize the Bogor Goals of free and open trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region as one of the most important milestones in the history of APEC, which inspires member economies in their pursuit of sustainable development and equitable growth. We acknowledge that APEC member economies have made substantial progress in many areas related to the Bogor Goals, including via lower applied tariffs, more Regional Trade Agreements/Free Trade Agreements (RTA/FTAs), increased openness to foreign trade and investment, and improved trade and investment facilitation. At the same time, we recognize that more work needs to be done to improve the existing trade and investment conditions, as progress has been uneven across the region.

　　We welcome, therefore, the Second-term Review of Economies’ Progress towards the Bogor Goals and instruct officials to pursue work in those areas where progress has been uneven, including non-tariff measures, the slowdown in trade within APEC, and unemployment.

　　Four years before the target of the Bogor Goals and with major developments taking place both within and outside APEC, we consider it pertinent to start a process of reflection on an APEC post-2020 vision. Therefore, we commend Peru’s initiative to start in 2016 a series of high-level dialogues on APEC Toward 2020 and Beyond and instruct our officials to continue this process on a yearly basis until 2020.

　　We acknowledge that the services sector is a major contributor to productivity and growth within APEC. Improved competitiveness in services as well as growth in services trade through an open and predictable environment for access to services is one of the key factors for APEC to boost its economic growth. We also recognize that we need to address barriers that inhibit our businesses from competing or trading in services markets. We therefore endorse the APEC Services Competitiveness Roadmap (annexed to this Declaration) and instruct officials to monitor and evaluate progress in implementing the Roadmap, taking concrete actions and pursuing mutually agreed targets that will facilitate services trade and investment and enhance the competitiveness of the services sector, while addressing factors constraining the growth of trade as well as considering the differences in economic and social circumstances across APEC economies.

　　We recognize that innovation is a key driver of quality growth. In this regard, we encourage efforts to identify new growth engines, and will embrace the opportunities brought forth by sectors such as the Internet and Digital Economy.

　　We welcome the endorsement of the next steps to advance our work on digital trade and the progress made in Internet Economy cooperation. We instruct officials to continue to advance work in accordance with the agreed work plan endorsed by Ministers. We also welcome APEC economies’ initiatives and leadership to explore new areas of potential economic growth in the area of digital trade and related issues, such as those identified by Ministers.

　　We recall the APEC Leaders 2011 Honolulu Declaration and recognize the importance of implementing the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) System, a voluntary mechanism whose participants seek to increase the number of economies, companies, and accountability agents that participate in the CBPR System.

　　We will collaborate to unleash the potential of the digital economy and strongly support an accessible, open, interoperable, reliable and secure ICT environment as an essential foundation for economic growth and prosperity. We will continue to promote policy and regulatory environment to ensure ICT security, data and privacy protection by developing interoperable and flexible frameworks. We also affirm that economies should not conduct or support ICT-enabled theft of intellectual property or other confidential business information, with the intent of providing competitive advantages to companies and commercial sectors. We also affirm the importance of promoting competition, entrepreneurship, and innovation through effective and comprehensive measures, including balanced intellectual property (IP) systems and capacity-building.

　　We recognize that micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are an essential component for economies to achieve quality growth and prosperity. As sources of innovation and employment, MSMEs are also well placed to promote entrepreneurship, to benefit from structural reform and to advance sustainability in our economies, maximizing the impact of policies, strategies and best practices. Strengthening of MSMEs will imply concrete progress in increasing their innovation capacities and competitiveness, including intellectual property rights commercialization, work towards guaranteeing access to financial means and capacity building, enhancing their participation in the internet and digital economy and through electronic commerce, reducing the technological gap, strengthening ethical business practices to support MSMEs’ growth and cross border trade, progressively inducing a shift into a more sustainable, eco-friendly and green production, and supporting their internationalization including through the means of ICT.

　　We welcome the Supporting Industry Initiative and look forward to its implementation in 2017. We recognize the potential of greening MSMEs for sustainable development in APEC and encourage officials to carry out additional work on this topic next year.

　　We resolve to advance Global Value Chains (GVCs) development, Supply Chain Connectivity, and Supply Chain Resiliency. We commend the solid progress towards the completion of the APEC Trade in Value-Added (TiVA) Database by 2018. We welcome the Report on APEC Developing Economies’ Better Participation in GVCs and encourage further efforts to enable better participation, greater value added and upward mobility of developing economies and MSMEs in GVCs. We recognize the value of using new technologies to achieve greater efficiencies, resilience and cooperation in supply chain connectivity and encourage efforts to explore current and future initiatives toward this end as identified by Ministers.

　　We also endorse Phase Two of the Supply Chain Framework Action Plan (SCFAP) 2017-2020 and welcome the implementation of the plan next year to continue efforts to enhance trade facilitation and supply chain connectivity in the APEC region.

　　We recognize that energy access and energy security are critical to the shared prosperity and future of the region. We also underline the importance of stable and transparent world energy markets. We reaffirm our readiness to further energy cooperation, including areas such as renewable energy sectors and energy efficiency to create necessary conditions for trade, investment and economic growth, ensuring that all the economies of the region have access to energy.

　　We reaffirm our aspirational goals to reduce aggregate energy intensity by 45 percent by 2035 and double renewable energy in the regional energy mix by 2030. We reaffirm our commitment to rationalize and phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies, welcome ongoing peer review and capacity building activities, and encourage further efforts to facilitate subsidy reform.

　　Towards real and functional connectivity in the region

　　We recognize that strengthened connectivity will contribute to opening up new sources of economic growth, fostering inclusive and interconnected development, advancing regional economic integration and bringing APEC economies closer as a community. In this regard, we note with appreciation that significant work has already been done by various APEC fora and working groups in advancing connectivity in the region, including providing support for enhancing sub-regional connectivity. However, challenges still remain.

　　We reaffirm, therefore, our commitment to the overarching goal of a seamlessly and comprehensively connected and integrated Asia-Pacific by 2025, express our appreciation for the efforts and accomplishments of APEC members in implementing the APEC Connectivity Blueprint 2015-2025, and encourage the use of policy dialogues noted in the Blueprint to exchange best practices and information on relevant topics.

　　We reiterate the importance of people-to-people connectivity and remain committed to its improvement through, inter alia, further development of tourism, cultural exchange, mobility of business people, cross-border education and travel facilitation.

　　We affirm our commitment to promote investment with a focus on infrastructure in terms of both quantity and quality. We reiterate the importance of quality infrastructure for sustainable economic growth. Recognizing the important elements to realize quality infrastructure identified in APEC Connectivity Blueprint 2015-2025 and its subsequent works, we are committed to translate this concept into actions including in ICT, energy and transport.

　　We welcome progress and look forward to continue exploring infrastructure financing including through mobilizing private sector resources and public-private partnerships (PPP). We encourage further work to pursue the quality improvement of investment opportunities. We are committed to enhancing the synergy and cooperation among various infrastructure connectivity programs in the region, and welcome the Collaboration Action Plan between APEC Member Economies and the Global Infrastructure Hub. We recognize the lack of effective solid waste management infrastructure imposes great socio-economic and environmental costs, and we encourage further work on this topic.

　　We welcome economies’ initiatives to achieve comprehensive regional connectivity, which are being jointly built through consultation to meet the interests of all. We encourage further implementation of these initiatives with a view to promoting policy coordination, facilities connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration, and people-to-people bonds in the region, and encourage further collaboration among these initiatives in order to promote regional economic integration and the common development of the Asia-Pacific region.

　　Food security, climate change and access to water

　　We recognize that APEC can contribute to address challenges to food security while preserving natural resources by taking steps to further promote sustainable agriculture, food, forest management, fisheries and aquaculture, enhance food markets, integrate food producers into domestic and global food supply and value chains, reduce food loss and waste, address chokepoints arising from infrastructure gaps, and burdensome and unnecessarily restrictive trade measures, as stated in the Piura Declaration on APEC Food Security, and reinforce capacity building including by facilitating innovation such as utilizing ICT and relevant technologies. We encourage efforts to promote agricultural sustainable development in the APEC Region.

　　We look forward to seeing this work progress in a manner that complements sustainable economic development and international trade in the APEC region. APEC work to increase economic integration will contribute to increased safe food availability through international trade with science-based regulations and WTO-recognized international food-related standards.

　　Climate change is one of the major challenges for food production and food security. We commit to enhance our cooperation on implementing policies to address the relationship between food security and climate change in ways that respect varying conditions in each economy and welcome the APEC Program on Food Security and Climate Change. We also commit to intensify our efforts to mitigate impacts of drought, flood and climate-related disasters on food production and food security.

　　We recognize that water is a key driver of agricultural development and a basic element for socio-economic development across the APEC region. Thus we encourage economies to share best practices in water management to ensure water availability and increase water use efficiency, considering multi-sectoral and multi-level perspectives. We will foster APEC cooperation for the sustainable use and integrated management of water resources.

　　Acknowledging the importance of socio-economic factors underlying food security in rural-urban communities and vulnerable groups, we aim to work towards a comprehensive approach towards rural-urban development. We recognize the important implications of urbanization and diet diversification in the APEC region and support APEC efforts to explore new integrated approaches building upon the experiences and best practices shared among APEC economies to promoting food security and economic growth that mutually benefit urban and rural areas, including the newly developed Strategic Framework on Rural-Urban Development to Strengthen Food Security and Quality Growth in APEC. We also note the direct relevance of a number of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for food security and poverty eradication. In supporting the Sustainable Development Goals we remain committed to increasing our efforts to combat illicit wildlife trafficking.

　　Looking forward

　　To achieve sustainable growth in the Asia-Pacific region we must continue working with a renewed sense of urgency and through Asia-Pacific partnership featuring mutual respect and trust, inclusiveness and win-win cooperation in implementing our commitments and achieving our goals.

　　We call for effective economic, financial and social inclusion of women, elderly, youth and rural communities as well as disadvantaged or vulnerable groups such as Indigenous peoples and persons with disabilities.

　　We strongly condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. We recognize the serious threat that terrorism poses to our fundamental values that underpin our free and open economies. We encourage economies to continue to take actions and share best practices in the four cross-cutting areas of APEC’s Consolidated Counter Terrorism and Secure Trade Strategy.

　　We welcome the Lima ACT Statement on Fighting Corruption and encourage all economies to implement critical anti-corruption actions, with a specific focus on bribery of domestic and foreign public officials, and with the effective participation of all relevant stakeholders, including through the APEC Anti-Corruption Authorities and Law Enforcement Agencies (ACT-NET).

　　We endorse the 2016 APEC Joint Ministerial Statement and commend the work of our Ministers and officials as reflected in the results of the Sectoral Ministerial Meetings, High-Level Policy Dialogues, the Finance Ministers’ Process, the Committees and Working Groups of the Senior Officials Meeting, and all related mechanisms. We instruct our Ministers and officials to continue their work, including implementation of the recommendations, work programs, initiatives and action plans of the resulting documents from the 2016 Sectoral Ministerial Meetings and High-Level Policy Dialogues, bearing in mind the vision contained in this Declaration, as well as our previous meetings.

　　We welcome the contributions of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) to our work as well as from the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC), international and regional organizations, the private sector, local government executives, and academia and other relevant stakeholders.

　　Recognizing that continuity of our agenda is key to APEC's relevance, we thank Peru for its leadership this year as it has built on the vision and work of the previous APEC hosts.

　　We look forward to meeting again in Viet Nam in 2017.

亚太经合组织第二十四次领导人非正式会议宣言

（2016年11月20日，秘鲁利马）

　　我们，亚太经合组织（APEC）经济体领导人，在“高质量增长和人类发展”这一主题下相聚利马，继续携手致力于支持亚太地区自由开放的贸易和投资、可持续经济增长和共同繁荣。基于这一愿景，我们2016年在以下几个方面重点开展工作：区域经济一体化和高质量增长，加强区域粮食市场，亚太区域中小微企业现代化以及人力资本开发。

　　从秘鲁首次主办APEC迄今的八年间，世界经济逐步复苏，但面临的挑战也与日俱增且更加错综复杂。部分经济体内部发展不平等，经济增速失衡，环境退化以及气候变化带来的风险相互叠加，对可持续发展的前景造成影响，并增加了近期的不确定性。此外，全球化及其相关的一体化进程日渐遭受质疑，助长了保护主义思潮的抬头。

　　这些挑战对我们的共同愿景和目标带来了风险，因此我们再次承诺将致力于确保APEC作为一个能发挥全球领导力的论坛，通过相互合作，着手应对最为紧迫的问题，并进一步孕育新思想。我们承诺将继续落实2030年可持续发展议程。我们认为这是在平衡而全面的多边框架下开展国际合作的典范。我们也对《巴黎协定》于近期生效表示欢迎，并承诺以透明而有效的方式落实该协议，从而实现向低碳、环保的经济转型。

高质量增长和人类发展

　　我们重申在APEC地区实现平衡、包容、可持续、创新和安全增长的愿景。这一愿景在《APEC经济创新发展、改革与增长共识》和《APEC加强高质量增长战略》中得到了体现。我们对《2010年APEC增长战略》中所展望的高质量增长给予更多重视。

　　鉴于实现高质量增长的重要性，我们承诺将确保我们的政策和战略能切实提高本地区民众的生活质量，增进社会公平。我们认识到APEC工作的目标必须着眼于改善民众生活。

　　我们认识到继续发展包容性教育，对于提高各年龄段民众应对全球化挑战的能力至关重要。我们进一步意识到，公平的优质教育和培训机会，可以使民众从幼年直至终生都有机会学习技能和培养竞争力。我们必须注重改善教育质量，提高教育资源的流动性，增加教育机会，包括与雇主建立伙伴关系以及开发软技能。

　　我们鼓励各经济体依据《APEC教育战略》所确立的原则开展合作，促进亚太区域内的教育发展。该战略明确了构建一个强大而富有凝聚力、以包容性和优质教育为特征的APEC教育大家庭的途径，以此支撑可持续经济增长，增进社会福祉，提升职业素养，加速创新，增加就业。

　　实现所有群体充分地生产性就业对本地区人类发展至关重要。我们认识到，应将妇女、青年和残疾人的经济赋权作为APEC加强高质量增长和人类发展议题的工作重点。

　　鉴此，我们承诺致力于确保所有人拥有体面工作和高品质生活，特别是加大对社会弱势群体的保护，为他们提供包容性和优质的教育及职业培训，鼓励企业家精神，完善社会保障体系，并为此加强区域合作。

　　我们认识到妇女在经济和社会发展中的重要贡献，并承诺将在APEC工作中致力于促进性别平等主流化和妇女赋权，确保妇女平等享有优质教育和经济资源。我们欢迎各经济体采取行动，支持妇女创业，帮助妇女经营的中小企业成长，提高妇女对于数字科技的认知水平，促进妇女职业发展，扩大妇女和女童接受科技、工程、数学领域的教育及从事相关职业的机会，消除妇女参与经济活动中的健康壁垒。我们相信，信息通信技术的进步对于人类发展意义重大。我们重申将致力于到2020年前建成下一代宽带。

　　认识到健康是经济繁荣和人类发展的基石，我们强调改善卫生系统的重要性，并将致力于建立有活力、可持续、易使用并能对当前及未来卫生需求作出迅速回应的全民健康系统，从而促进高质量增长和人类发展。我们将进一步开展工作，应对健康问题在财政和经济上造成影响。

　　当前全球自由贸易和投资面临的挑战和机遇

　　我们认识到2008年国际经济金融危机后，全球经济复苏缓慢且不平衡，导致近年来经济增速放缓，金融市场波动，大宗商品价格低迷，不平等现象加剧，就业问题突出，国际贸易增长显著放慢。

　　我们继续承诺将各自并共同使用各种政策工具，包括货币、财政和结构性改革措施，提高全球需求水平并解决供给方面的制约因素。我们重申相互促进的政策对于实现强劲、可持续、平衡和包容性增长发挥重要作用。我们重申此前关于货币和汇率政策的承诺，避免采取竞争性贬值措施，反对一切形式的保护主义，不以竞争性目的来盯住汇率。我们重申汇率的过度波动和无序调整会影响经济金融稳定。

　　当前全球经济的复杂局面对我们的工作造成了影响，但同时也是一次机遇，让我们重申，将致力于打造以创新发展、联动增长、利益融合为特征的充满活力、和谐的亚太开放型经济，促进就业，推进自由开放的贸易和投资，加速区域经济一体化，培育竞争性市场，鼓励经济技术合作，营造良好和可持续的营商环境。

　　我们将依据这些总体原则开展合作。与此同时，我们认为各经济体需要和广大公众沟通贸易、投资和自由市场所带来的好处，并确保使各方广泛受益。

　　基于世界贸易组织（WTO）巴厘岛和内罗毕部长级会议的成功举办，并认识到部长宣言所包含的所有会议成果，我们承诺将继续落实巴厘岛和内罗毕部长会议成果，并将重点推动多哈发展议程剩余问题的谈判。我们注意到当前亚太地区各经济体共同关心的一些重大问题也可在WTO框架下进行讨论。因此，我们指示官员们立刻与WTO各成员开展合作，为2017年WTO下届部长会取得积极和实质性成果设定方向。

　　我们重申将保持市场开放并反对一切形式的贸易保护主义，同意将不采取新的贸易保护措施的承诺延长到2020年，并取消损害贸易、迟滞全球经济复苏的保护主义和贸易扭曲措施。

　　我们欢迎各经济体在接受WTO贸易便利化协定方面所取得的进展，并支持该协定早日生效。我们呼吁尚未接受该协定的APEC经济体以及其他WTO成员力争在今年底前提交接受该协定的文书。

　　我们认识到，由各成员广泛参与的WTO多边贸易协定对于全球贸易自由化倡议发挥着重要补充作用。我们认为，正在谈判中和已经达成的多边协定，例如《信息技术协定》及其扩围，《服务贸易协定》以及《环境产品协定》，应对所有关注此类协定和谈判的WTO成员开放。

　　同时，我们欢迎落实《信息技术协定》扩围的行动，并呼吁承诺于2016年7月1日落实该协定的经济体尽快履行承诺。

　　所有参与《WTO环境产品协定》谈判的APEC经济体重申，将加倍努力，弥合分歧，找到解决各方核心关切的方案，力争达成一份面向未来的宏伟协议，到2016年底大范围取消环境产品关税。

　　我们强调投资在促进经济增长和创造就业方面的重大推动作用。我们承诺采取切实措施打造适宜的投资环境。

　　面对全球经济放缓，我们认识到结构性改革对于提高经济效率、提升生产力和竞争力、创造就业、促进创新增长至关重要。我们强调消除不必要的结构性和监管障碍的重要性，它们阻碍跨境贸易、金融和投资，为营商设置境内壁垒。我们鼓励各经济体采取切实措施深化落实《APEC结构改革新议程》。我们注意到各经济体已经完成各自落实该议程的单边行动计划，并对各方关于在经济体内部开展结构性改革的承诺表示欢迎。与此同时，我们认识到结构性改革需结合各经济体自身条件和宏观经济形势灵活落实。我们也欢迎营商便利化倡议迄今所取得的进展。

　　我们欢迎《财长会进程现代化战略》和《宿务行动计划实施战略》。这两项战略将为各经济体在考虑各自发展水平和内部条件的前提下，采取具体行动及有意义的改革措施打下基础。

　　根据2014年《APEC推动实现亚太自贸区北京路线图》确立的指导精神，我们重申将致力于推动亚太自贸区的最终实现，以此作为进一步深化APEC区域经济一体化的主要手段。基于这一愿景，我们批准《实现亚太自贸区有关问题的集体战略研究报告》及其摘要。同时，我们批准该研究报告提出的政策建议，并以此作为《亚太自贸区利马宣言》（附件一）。

　　我们赞赏APEC官员们为完成集体战略研究所付出的艰苦努力。我们指示官员们落实《亚太自贸区利马宣言》，特别是制定并落实逐步实现亚太自贸区的工作计划。我们希望看到落实相关工作计划和APEC为实现亚太自贸区而开展集体能力建设的定期进展报告。此外，基于该研究成果和APEC其他相关工作，我们指示官员们为最终实现亚太自贸区考虑下一步行动。

　　我们认识到，旨在实现亚太地区自由开放的贸易和投资的茂物目标，是APEC历史上最重要的里程碑之一。它指引着各成员经济体努力实现可持续发展和公平增长。我们认为APEC各成员经济体在落实茂物目标方面取得了诸多实质进展，包括降低关税，区域贸易安排/自由贸易协定的增加，对外部贸易和投资的进一步开放，贸易和投资便利化措施的不断完善。同时，我们认识到，本地区取得的进展仍不平衡，需采取进一步措施改善现有贸易投资条件。

　　我们欢迎《关于各经济体落实茂物目标进展的第二期评估报告》，指示官员们在进展不平衡的领域继续开展工作，包括非关税措施、APEC区内贸易放缓以及失业问题。

　　鉴于距离实现茂物目标的期限仅剩四年，且APEC地区内外形势发生了重大变化，我们认为应着手考虑后2020时代的APEC愿景。我们对秘鲁在2016年主动举办关于APEC面向2020年及未来合作愿景的一系列高级别对话表示赞赏。我们指示官员们在2020年前继续就这一话题展开年度讨论。

　　我们认为服务业对于APEC地区生产力提高和经济增长做出了重要贡献。通过为服务业提供开放和可预测的环境，来提高服务业竞争力，扩大服务贸易，是促进APEC地区经济增长的关键因素之一。为此，我们批准《APEC服务业竞争力路线图》（附件二），指示官员们监督评估落实该路线图的进展，采取具体措施实现共同目标，促进服务贸易和投资增长，提高服务业竞争力，与此同时，解决服务贸易增长的制约因素，并照顾到各经济体在经济社会条件上的差异。

　　我们认识到创新是高质量增长的关键动力之一。我们鼓励各经济体发掘新的增长引擎，抓住各行业中的新机遇，例如互联网和数字经济。

　　我们对数字贸易下一步工作计划获得批准以及互联网经济合作取得进展表示欢迎。我们指示官员们根据部长们批准的工作计划进一步开展工作。我们欢迎APEC各经济体提出倡议并发挥带头作用，在数字贸易及部长们提及的相关议题上发掘新的潜在经济增长点。

　　我们忆及2011年APEC领导人非正式会议通过的《檀香山宣言》，并认识到落实APEC跨境隐私规则体系的重要性。APEC跨境隐私规则体系建立在自愿基础上，其参与各方寻求更多经济体、企业和问责代理机构参与其中。

　　我们将继续合力挖掘数字经济的潜力，大力支持发展易接入的、开放的、可交互操作的、可靠而安全的信息通信技术使用环境，以此作为经济增长和繁荣的必要基础。我们将继续改进政策和监管环境，通过发展灵活而可交互操作的体系，确保信息通信技术的安全，加强数据和隐私保护。我们申明，各经济体不得为了增加其企业和其他商业部门的竞争优势，而采取或支持利用信息通信技术偷窃知识产权及涉密商业信息的行为。我们也强调通过综合有效的措施，包括平衡的知识产权体系和能力建设活动，来增加竞争、鼓励创业和促进创新的重要性。

　　我们认为中小微企业对于各经济体实现高质量增长和繁荣不可或缺。作为创新和就业的源泉，中小微企业有条件鼓励企业家精神，受惠于结构性改革，促进经济可持续发展，并使政策、战略和最佳实践的影响最大化。加强中小微企业，需要采取切实措施，增强中小微企业的创新能力和竞争力，包括使知识产权商业化的能力，保障其融资渠道并为其提供能力建设，通过发展电子商务提高其参与互联网和数字经济的程度，缩小技术差距，通过加强商业道德实践支持企业发展和跨境贸易，积极促使其向可持续、环保和绿色生产转型，并支持中小微企业国际化，包括使用信息通信技术。

　　我们欢迎辅助工业倡议，并期待该倡议在2017年得到落实。我们认识到绿色中小微企业对于APEC地区可持续发展的潜在重要性，并鼓励官员们明年就此开展更多工作。

　　我们决心推进全球价值链发展，并加强供应链联接和韧性。我们赞赏旨在2018年前完成APEC增加值贸易统计数据库而取得的工作进展。我们欢迎《APEC发展中经济体更好参与全球价值链报告》，并鼓励采取进一步努力，促使发展中经济体及中小微企业更好地参与全球价值链，创造更多增加值，并向价值链上游迈进。我们认识到运用新技术对于提高供应链联接的效率和韧性以及促进供应链合作的重要性，鼓励各成员按照部长们的指示，在现有和未来的倡议中就此开展更多工作。

　　我们批准《第二期供应链框架行动计划（2017-2020）》，并欢迎该行动计划在明年得到落实，进一步增进APEC地区的贸易便利化和供应链联接。

　　我们认识到保障能源供应和能源安全对于本地区共同繁荣和未来发展至关重要。我们强调稳定而透明的世界能源市场的重要性。我们重申愿进一步开展能源合作，包括发展可再生能源，提高能源效率，确保对本地区所有经济体的能源供应，从而为贸易、投资和经济发展创造必要条件。

　　我们重申到2035年将总能源密集度降低45%，以及到2030年将可再生能源在本地区能源结构中比重提高一倍的宏伟目标。我们再次承诺将把低效化石能源补贴合理化并逐步取消，并对当前开展的同行审议和能力建设活动表示欢迎。我们鼓励各成员进一步采取行动，推进能源补贴改革。

迈向实质而有效的区域互联互通

　　我们认识到加强互联互通可提供经济增长的新动力，促进包容和联动式发展，推动区域经济一体化，使APEC各经济体更紧密地结合成一个大家庭。我们注意到并感谢APEC各论坛和工作组在推进本地区互联互通，包括加强次区域互联互通方面所开展的重要工作。尽管如此，挑战依然存在。

　　为此，我们重申到2025年实现亚太地区无缝全面联通和融合这一首要目标。我们感谢APEC各成员为落实《APEC互联互通蓝图（2015-2025）》所作努力和取得的成就，并鼓励各方根据蓝图精神开展政策对话，就相关领域中的最佳实践和信息开展交流。

　　我们再次强调人员交往互联互通的重要性，并将致力于通过发展旅游业，促进文化交流，增加商务人员流动，推动跨境教育和旅行便利化，推进其进一步发展。

　　我们声明将致力于关注基础设施投资的质量和数量。我们重申高质量的基础设施对经济可持续增长有重要意义。《APEC互联互通蓝图（2015-2025）》及其后续工作已经明确了高质量基础设施的基本要素。我们承诺将致力于把这一概念落实到行动中，包括我们在信息通信技术、能源和交通等方面的工作中。

　　我们对基础设施融资方面取得的进展表示欢迎，并期待进一步发掘融资渠道，包括调动私人资本和发展公私伙伴关系。我们鼓励采取进一步措施，提高投资机会的质量。我们将致力于增加本地区不同基础设施互联互通项目之间的对接和合作。我们欢迎《APEC成员经济体和全球基础设施中心协作行动计划》。我们认识到缺乏有效的固体废物处理设施会导致高昂的社会经济和环境成本，我们鼓励在这一领域进一步开展工作。

　　我们欢迎各经济体在共商、共建、共享基础上实现区域全面互联互通的倡议。我们鼓励进一步落实这些倡议，促进本地区的政策沟通、设施联通、贸易畅通、资金融通、民心相通。同时鼓励各成员就这些倡议进一步对接，以促进亚太区域经济一体化和共同发展。

　　粮食安全，气候变化和获取水资源

　　我们认识到APEC可采取以下行动应对粮食安全的挑战并保护自然资源，包括推动可持续农业、食品、森林管理、渔业和水产养殖，完善食品市场，将粮食生产者纳入经济体境内和全球粮食供应链和价值链，减少粮食损失和浪费，并根据《皮乌拉APEC粮食安全宣言》精神，解决基础设施不足导致的瓶颈障碍，削减繁琐且不必要的贸易限制措施，加强能力建设，包括采用信息通信技术和相关科技促进创新。我们鼓励采取努力促进APEC地区农业可持续发展。

　　我们期待有关工作的进展能够与促进APEC地区可持续经济增长和国际贸易的努力互补。APEC区域经济一体化程度的提高，将促进基于科学监管和WTO认可的国际粮食标准的国际贸易，从而有助于实现更安全的粮食供应。

　　气候变化是粮食生产和粮食安全的一大挑战。我们致力于就政策落实加强合作，在尊重各经济体自身不同条件的基础上应对粮食安全和气候变化。我们对APEC粮食安全和气候变化项目表示欢迎。我们承诺将加大工作力度，减轻旱涝及其他与气候相关的自然灾害对粮食生产和粮食安全的影响。

　　我们认识到水资源是APEC地区农业发展的关键因素，也是社会经济发展的基本要素。因此，我们鼓励各经济体从不同部门角度和不同层面分享水资源管理方面的最佳实践，确保水资源供应，提高水资源利用率。我们鼓励APEC在水资源可持续利用和综合管理方面开展合作。

　　鉴于社会经济因素在实现农村和城市人口及弱势群体的粮食安全中发挥重要作用，我们将致力于推进农村城市统合发展。我们认识到APEC地区城镇化和食谱多样化所带来的影响，支持APEC总结各经济体既有经验和最佳实践，包括参考APEC新近制定的《加强粮食安全和高质量增长的农村城市发展战略框架》，探索促进粮食安全和经济增长，并兼顾城市和农村利益的新型综合路径。我们也注意到可持续发展的很多目标与粮食安全和消除贫困直接相关。我们将继续加大打击野生动物走私的力度，以支持可持续发展目标。

展望

　　为实现亚太地区可持续发展，我们必须意识到任务的紧迫性，通过互信、包容、合作、共赢的亚太伙伴关系继续开展工作，落实有关承诺，完成任务目标。

　　我们呼吁促进妇女、老年人、青年、农村人口和弱势群体，如原住民和残疾人，在经济、金融和社会领域的有效融合。

　　我们强烈谴责各种形式的恐怖主义行为。我们认识到，恐怖主义威胁着我们建立自由开放经济的信念。我们鼓励各经济体在《APEC反恐和安全贸易战略》的四个跨部门工作领域开展行动，并分享最佳实践。

　　我们欢迎《利马反腐败宣言》，鼓励各经济体采取关键性反腐措施，重点打击针对境内外公职人员的贿赂行为，并吸纳各利益攸关方有效参与，包括通过APEC反腐败执法合作网络开展合作。

　　我们批准2016年《APEC部长级会议联合声明》。我们赞赏部长和官员们在专业部长级会议、高级别政策对话、财长会进程、高官会各下属委员会和工作组以及其他相关机制中所取得的成果。我们指示部长和官员们再接再厉，铭记本次领导人宣言及此前历次会议所规划的愿景，落实2016年专业部长会和高级别政策对话所通过的建议、倡议、工作规划和行动计划。

　　我们欢迎APEC工商咨询理事会、太平洋经济合作理事会、国际和地区组织、私营部门、地方政府、学术界以及其他利益攸关方为我们工作所作贡献。

　　我们认识到保持议程的延续性对于APEC至关重要。我们对秘鲁今年发挥领导作用，在APEC往年工作成果和愿景基础上继续开展工作表示感谢。

　　我们期待着2017年在越南再次相聚。