China's top legislator Zhao Leji met with Wan Muhamad Noor Matha, president of Thailand's National Assembly and speaker of the House of Representatives, in Beijing on Tuesday, and both sides pledged to deepen bilateral cooperation and build a closer China-Thailand community with a shared future.
Zhao, chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, recalled that Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in February, when the two leaders reached important consensus on working together to advance the building of the China-Thailand community with a shared future.
Zhao said that China is ready to work with Thailand to carry forward their traditional friendship, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, and achieve solid progress in building the China-Thailand community with a shared future.
Zhao expressed China's appreciation for Thailand's firm adherence to the one-China principle and said China is ready to strengthen the alignment of development strategies with Thailand, jointly promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and advance the synergy with Thailand's future industries, calling for the faster construction of key projects, including the China-Thailand railway.
He urged both countries to step up people-to-people exchanges, and ensure the successful celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relationship.
Zhao highlighted deeper cooperation in education, tourism, and joint efforts to combat cross-border crimes such as online gambling and telecom fraud.
He stressed the importance of working closely on multilateral platforms such as China-ASEAN cooperation and Lancang-Mekong cooperation, and putting into practice the vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind, as well as three major China-proposed global initiatives on development, security, and civilization.
Stressing that the NPC of China and Thailand's National Assembly have maintained close exchanges, Zhao called for greater multi-tiered communication between their legislative bodies and more mutual learning in social governance, public services, legislation, and oversight, so as to foster a sound legal environment for practical cooperation.
He also underscored closer coordination in mechanisms such as the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, in a bid to enhance cooperation among legislatures of developing countries.
Wan Noor reaffirmed Thailand's firm commitment to the one-China principle and voiced readiness to strengthen cooperation with China in trade, investment, infrastructure, culture, education, and tourism within the Belt and Road framework.
He expressed support for China's efforts to uphold international fairness and justice and maintain world peace and stability.
He said that Thailand's National Assembly is willing to deepen friendly exchanges with the NPC of China and contribute to the familial bond between the two sides through enhanced legislative cooperation. Wan Noor is on a visit to China from June 22 to 28, at the invitation of Zhao.
China's top legislator meets Thai National Assembly president
