Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang met with Yasir al-Rumayyan, chairman of Saudi Aramco's Board of Directors, in Beijing on Thursday.
Ding, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the China-Saudi Arabia comprehensive strategic partnership has flourished, with cooperation continuing to deepen in various fields.
Ding said that Saudi Aramco has long been actively involved in China's reform and opening up and modernization drive, while achieving its own great development.
He expressed the hope that the two sides will continue to deepen cooperation in traditional fields of energy and chemical industry, actively carry out cooperation in sci-tech innovation and green transformation, and work together to maintain the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain and the multilateral trading system, so as to make greater contributions to China-Saudi Arabia relations and the development of the world economy, he said.
Al-Rumayyan said that China is an oasis of certainty in a world full of uncertainty. Saudi Aramco has always been optimistic about China's development prospects and is willing to further expand investment and trade cooperation with China and contribute to expanding the economic and trade cooperation between the two countries.
Chinese vice premier meets Saudi Aramco chairman
Chinese vice premier meets Saudi Aramco chairman
