Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday attended a welcome ceremony held by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi at the Al-Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo.
The limousine carrying Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, was escorted by a motorcycle convoy and met by a cavalry guard of honor near the entrance of the palace.
A military band played welcoming music, and a 21-gun salute was fired as Xi's motorcade arrived inside the palace grounds.
El-Sisi and his wife Entissar Amer warmly welcomed Xi and Peng, before the two heads of state headed to the reviewing platform, where the national anthems of both countries were performed.
After entering the palace, Xi, El-Sisi, and their spouses posed for photos in front of the national flags of China and Egypt.
Xi landed in Cairo on Tuesday evening to begin the state visit, which marks his first trip to the country in a decade. It also coincides with the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Egypt.
Xi attends welcome ceremony hosted by Egyptian president
Xi attends welcome ceremony hosted by Egyptian president
China has continued to deepen cooperation with Kyrgyzstan in meteorological satellite application, joint scientific research, and emergency disaster prevention support.
Kyrgyzstan and northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are both located in the Tianshan mountain system and share similar climate conditions. Driven by climate change, regional extreme weather events have increased, making joint meteorological disaster prevention, mitigation and relief a key priority. With the help of the China Meteorological Administration's Fengyun-2 satellite receiving and application system, Kyrgyzstan has received a steady and reliable supply of meteorological observation data.
In May this year, the city of Manas in Kyrgyzstan was hit by a mudslide triggered by torrential rainfall, and the local authorities declared a state of emergency. The Chinese side deployed Fengyun-3 and Fengyun-4 satellites in time to carry out high-frequency dynamic monitoring, capturing the evolution trend of the disaster and providing data support for Kyrgyzstan's disaster relief and emergency response.
"Since the beginning of this year, the Chinese side has activated the relevant emergency support mechanism twice to help Kyrgyzstan respond to flood disasters. Meanwhile, we have continued to optimize the 'Mazu' intelligent meteorological early warning solution, opened and shared independent innovation achievements including Fengyun satellites and meteorological AI models, to provide support for meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation as well as climate situation analysis in Central Asia," said Zheng Zhaojun, chief expert of the International User Service Center under the National Satellite Meteorological Center.
Relying on the Urumqi Institute of Desert Meteorology of the China Meteorological Administration, China has established a stable cooperation platform with Kyrgyzstan and other Central Asian countries. Through multiple rounds of sample analysis, research teams have systematically reconstructed the patterns of temperature, precipitation and glacier mass changes across Central Asia over the past 200 to 500 years.
Chinese weather satellites help deepen China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation
