Wang Jiarui meets with BJP delegation
 ( 2014.11.20 )

 

BEIJING, Nov. 20 -- Wang Jiarui, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met today here with a delegation of India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Bhagat Singh Koshyari, a BJP member of the Lok Sabha.

Wang said that, as two countries of large populations, and two ancient civilizations striving for rejuvenation, China and India face many common domestic, regional and international problems, and thus share extensive common interests. The visionary leaders of the two countries, who have clear ideas on how to develop and build the country they respectively lead, have reached strategic agreement on developing a closer development partnership between China and India, said Wang. The CPC is willing to develop closer party-to-party ties with the BJP, which, like the CPC, is the governing party, expand channels of contacts, and jointly help deepen the strategic cooperative partnership between China and India, he said.

 

Koshyari said that the meeting between President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Modi has opened a new chapter in the India-China relationship. Through this visit to China, the MPs of the delegation have acquired a better understanding of China, and corrected their former impressions, he said. China is a great neighbor, said Koshyari, and the BJP is willing to engage in frank communication with the CPC, and jointly promote cooperation between the two countries in infrastructure building, investment, business, people-to-people contacts and cultural exchanges.

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