Promoting the enhancement of traditional friendship and deepening mutually beneficial cooperation among the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) have taken the center stage of the organization's media and think tank summit which opened in Zhengzhou City, central China's Henan Province on Wednesday and will run until Sunday.
More than 400 representatives of nearly 200 media, think tanks, government agencies from SCO member states, observer states and dialogue partner countries, as well as international and regional organizations, attended the event.
Participants have conducted in-depth discussions on strengthening strategic synergy, deepening political mutual trust, enhancing people-to-people exchanges, and promoting mutual learning among civilizations.
The summit has also conducted extensive exchanges around the theme "Carrying Forward the 'Shanghai Spirit' and Jointly Building a Beautiful Homeland" to deeply explored how to better leverage the role of media and think tanks to promote the enhancement of traditional friendship, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation among the countries of the SCO and build a closer community with a shared future for the SCO.
SCO media, think tanks summit focuses on promoting friendship, deepening cooperation
SCO media, think tanks summit focuses on promoting friendship, deepening cooperation
SCO media, think tanks summit focuses on promoting friendship, deepening cooperation
China and Canada should work together to promote the stable, healthy and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said in Beijing on Friday.
He, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while attending the Canada-China Trade and Investment Banquet together with the visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Speaking at the event, He said that under the strategic guidance of the important consensus reached by their leaders, China and Canada should adhere to the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, win-win cooperation, and mutual success, and jointly promote the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations.
China is steadfastly expanding high-standard opening up, continuously developing new quality productive forces, and is willing to work with countries around the world, including Canada, to create new prospects for cooperation, said He.
Carney noted at the banquet that China is Canada's second-largest trading partner and said Canada looks forward to strengthening high-level exchanges with China, making full use of dialogue mechanisms in areas such as the economy and trade, and deepening cooperation in trade, agriculture, energy and other fields.
Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday to begin a four-day official visit to China, marking the first trip to the country by a Canadian prime minister in eight years.
China, Canada should work together for stable, healthy, sustainable economic ties: Vice Premier
