The afternoon of January 25, Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee Secretary, Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress Yi Lianhong met with Prime Minister Browne and his entourage in Hangzhou, Antigua and Barbuda. Yi Lianhong on behalf of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, the provincial government and the people of the province on the visit of Prime Minister Browne and his entourage to express welcome.
Yi Lianhong said, Antigua and Barbuda is China’s important partner in the Caribbean region, the two countries over the years, political mutual trust is everlasting, pragmatic cooperation is fruitful, people’s friendship is deepening. Prime Minister Brown’s visit to China, Zhejiang as an important stop, fully embodies the promotion of the development of friendly relations between Ambar and Zhejiang Province attaches great importance to.
When President Xi Jinping worked in Zhejiang, he formulated the “Eight-eight Strategy”, a comprehensive plan and top-level design for the development of the province, which has guided Zhejiang to undergo an all-around, systematic and deep wonderful butterfly change over the past 20 years, with its economic strength rising rapidly, beautiful cities and towns, social harmony and stability, and people living and working in peace and contentment, especially after the successful hosting of the Hangzhou Asian Games and Asian Para-Games last year. Hosted the Hangzhou Asian Games Asian Para Games.
In the past, Zhejiang and Ambar have had close exchanges and pragmatic cooperation, and have achieved fruitful results and forged a deep friendship. At present, China is promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development, which brings new opportunities for cooperation between Zhejiang and Ambar. Zhejiang is willing to further deepen exchanges with Ambar, together with the high-quality construction of “One Belt, One Road”, to promote economic and trade reciprocity, and to strengthen cooperation in the digital economy, biomedicine, clean energy and other fields; deepen humanistic exchanges, in-depth cultural performances, youth forums and other activities; strengthen cooperation in tourism, and in the design of tourism routes, to create high-quality projects, etc. We will actively explore ways to bring more benefits to the people of the two places, so that the people of the two places will know each other better and be more intimate with each other, and make greater contributions to the deepening development of China-Antigua friendship and cooperative relations.
Prime Minister Browne thanked Zhejiang for its warm reception and spoke highly of the remarkable achievements in economic and social development under the guidance of the “88 Strategy”. He said, “Zhejiang is one of the most dynamic provinces in China and plays an important role in promoting the relationship between China and Ambar. This visit to Zhejiang will help us to experience the real, three-dimensional and comprehensive China, and will also help us to further deepen our understanding of Ambar, laying a more solid foundation for deepening bilateral relations between the two countries. In recent years, Ambar economic and social development has achieved rapid development, we hope to continue to maintain the good momentum, will take this visit as an opportunity to learn from the good experience and good practices of high-quality development in Zhejiang, to further strengthen exchanges and contacts with Zhejiang, in the context of building a “Belt and Road”, deepen the digital economy, transportation and tourism, education and science and technology, Medical and health care and other areas of practical cooperation, to achieve more cooperative results, to achieve more sustainable development, to better benefit the two peoples, hand in hand to promote the relationship between Antigua and Barbuda and China to a new level.”
Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Trade and Barbuda Affairs, Green, Minister of Health, Social Transformation and Environment, Joseph, Ambassador to China, Stuart-Young, provincial leaders Qiu Qiwen, Lu Shan, Chinese Ambassador to Antigua and Barbuda, Zhang Yanling, attended the meeting.
