Zhao Shitong Meets with Thomas Gürber, Deputy State Secretary of Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
 ( 2024.02.06 )

Beijing, February 1st—Zhao Shitong, Assistant-minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met here today on the afternoon with Thomas Gürber, Deputy State Secretary of Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

Zhao said, not long ago, Premier Li Qiang successfully visited Switzerland, injecting new impetus into the China-Switzerland innovative strategic partnership. The Chinese side is willing to work with the Swiss side to strengthen exchanges and cooperation between the two countries' political parties and other fields, so as to promote China-Switzerland and China-European Union relations for stable and long-term development.

Gürber said, the Swiss side is ready to take the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries next year as an opportunity to further implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries and push bilateral relations to a new level.

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