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China, Italy pledge to strengthen bilateralties
Top Chinese political advisor Jia Qinglin and Italian PresidentGiorgio Napolitano have vowed to boost bilateral relationsbetween the two countries.
Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People'sPolitical Consultative Conference (CPPCC), during a meeting withNapolitano on Tuesday first conveyed sincere greetings from President Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
Both China and Italy are ancient civilized countries, Jia said, adding that the two sides have madecontinuous progress in communications and cooperation in all fields in recent years.
He said the two countries have maintained frequent high-level exchanges while deepening politicalmutual trust and achieving fruitful economic results.
The two countries, Jia said, have understood and supported each other on issues of majorconcerns and have maintained close communications and coordination on international andregional affairs.
Jia said under the new circumstances, reinforcing Sino-Italian relations conforms to thefundamental interests of Italy and China.
China, he said, is willing to work with Italy to maintain close high-level exchanges and deepencooperation in such areas as science and technology, environmental protection, business andcreative design in a bid to better serve the development of both countries and benefit theirpeoples, he added.
Cultural exchanges, Jia said, play a critical role in state-to-state relations, which also enhancepeople-to-people ties.
Jia suggested the two countries take the success of holding "Culture Year" in each side as anopportunity to promote exchanges and cooperation in the fields of literature, radio and television, press and publication and heritage conservation, contributing to the world civilization diversity andintercultural exchanges.
Jia also introduced the relevant information and the importance of the recently held 18th NationalCongress of CPC. He emphasized that the CPC and the Chinese people will continue to emancipatethe mind, persist in reform and opening up, steadfastly advance along the road of socialism withChinese characteristics and keep struggling to build a moderately prosperous society.
for his part, Napolitano asked Jia to convey his cordial greetings and good wishes to Hu and Xi. Hespoke highly of the achievements made by China in the past decades, which also accords with theinterests of Europe including Italy.
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He said Italy has been paying close attention to the 18th National Congress of CPC, whichcoincided with the critical period of development of China. The congress has promoted a series ofimportant reform measures, which are of great significance to the future of China and the wholeworld, he added.
Italy is happy to see the continuous reinforcement of Italian-Chinese relations and the enlargementof bilateral pragmatic cooperation, he said.
More and more Italian enterprises are putting their eyes on China, Napolitano said, adding that Italysincerely hopes that the Italian-Chinese relations will achieve greater development.
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发表于 2016-7-11 09:55:55