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Twenty first century is Asia’s- Chinese PM:
China, India for enhanced ties
INDIA: Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Wednesday called for
further promotion of bilateral cooperation and trade links with India.
Wen, who arrived here in India’s capital city earlier Wednesday for a
three-day official visit at the invitation of his Indian counterpart
Manmohan Singh, stressed that China and India are cooperative partners
instead of rivals.
“There is enough room in the world for China and India to develop
both countries and cooperate with each other,” Wen said during a speech
before a bilateral business cooperation forum that attracted about 600
business elites from both countries.
Hailing the sound momentum of bilateral ties, Wen said that economic
and trade cooperation between China and India has witnessed
unprecedented progress in recent years. He said the cooperation has
entered a most vigorous and fruitful “new period.”
In 2009, two-way trade between China and India reached 43.381 billion
U.S. dollars.
Regarding India as one of China’s largest overseas engineering
contract markets, Wen said the two countries enjoy broad market space,
and should open markets for each other to give a strong boost to
economic growth.
Wen said the two countries have wide-ranging common interests in the
global economic and trade system, and share the same or similar stances
on many major economic and trade issues. China and India should also
expand cooperation in such areas as finance, tourism, energy and
environmental protection, and strength exchanges in science and
technology, education, culture and healthcare, Wen said.
He added that the two countries should also promote mutual
understanding and friendship between their peoples.
The Chinese leader, in addition, called for more exchanges between
the two countries’ business circles and the establishment of more
platforms for such interactions.
The 21st century is the century of Asia, in which both China and
India can achieve a lot, Wen said.
New Delhi, Thursday, Xinhua |
