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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
LONDON, June 24 (Xinhua) — Yuan Jiajun, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, led a party delegation to the United Kingdom from June 22 to 23 at the invitation of the British government.
Yuan Jiajun met with UK National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell, attended a roundtable meeting between leading Chinese (Chongqing) and British enterprises, and held talks with Nicholas Lyons, Lord Mayor of the City of London, and Sherard Cowper-Coles, Chairman of the China-UK Business Council, among others.
Yuan Jiajun said that China is willing to work with the UK to maintain the positioning of the two countries as strategic partners, further strengthen dialogue and cooperation, consolidate strategic ties, deepen political mutual trust, jointly respond to challenges, and continuously expand practical cooperation in economy and trade, science and technology, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, local affairs and other fields, so as to jointly promote stable and mutually beneficial China-UK relations.
Chongqing is willing to leverage its strengths of industrial base, comprehensive hub role and megacity status to deepen exchanges and cooperation with the UK in areas such as smart manufacturing, trade and logistics, financial services and urban governance, making contributions to the further development of China-UK relations, he said.
The British side said that UK-China relations are of strategic significance, and cooperation between the two sides is conducive to world peace and development. The UK is willing to expand exchanges with China, deepen cooperation in such fields as economy and trade, science and technology, investment, education, and jointly safeguard multilateralism and the free trade system. –0–