Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met on Saturday with President of
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Haruhiko Kuroda in Cebu,
Philippines.
Wen said that since China joined ADB in 1986, China and ADB have
carried out fruitful cooperation in the fields of energy, transport
and other infrastructures. He expressed his hope that ADB will
continue to support China's economic and social development and
said China is ready to seek new ways of cooperation with ADB to
expand cooperation into the fields of agriculture, public health,
culture and education and environment protection.
Wen said that China is an active participant in cooperation
projects of Asian countries and is ready to strengthen cooperation
with ADB to push forward regional cooperation. He also said that
China is willing to provide help within its capability to other
countries on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, in order to
seek the realization of common development of all countries.
Kuroda said ADB is having very good cooperative relations with
China and ADB supports China to realize comprehensive, balanced and
sustainable development. He said ADB is willing to widen and deepen
its involvement in the cause of economic and social development of
China.
Kuroda said ADB highly regards China's important role in pushing
forward regional cooperation and is ready to carry out close
cooperation with China in the fields of poverty reduction and help
other countries in the region quicken the pace of development.
ADB is a Manila-based multilateral development financial
institution with 66 members. Its work is aimed at improving the
welfare of people in Asia-Pacific region, particularly people
living in poverty.
China has so far donated US$30 million to ADB-sponsored projects
in Asia besides US$20 million to set up a poverty alleviation and
regional cooperation fund with ADB.
Wen arrived Saturday to attend a series of summit meetings with
the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN) and Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and
India.
(Xinhua News Agency January 14, 2007)
