Chinese top advisor Jia Qinglin said in Beijing Wednesday that
China will strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the Austrian
Parliament to promote relations between the two countries.
Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's
Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top advisory
body, made the remarks in his meeting with a delegation of the
Austrian parliament's Federal Council headed by the council's
vice-president Anna Elisabeth Haselbach.
Jia said that ties between China and Austria were solid and
bilateral cooperation continues to boom in the fields of culture,
tourism and environmental protection.
China attaches importance to its ties with Austria and highly
appreciates the new Austrian government's friendly policies to
China and its one-China stance, Jia said.
Jia also highlighted the important role played by the CPPCC and
the Federal Council in promoting mutual understanding and
friendship between the two peoples, pledging the CPPCC would
further its cooperation with the Federal Council and contribute to
the long-term, stable development of the bilateral relations.
Haselbach noted that contacts and exchanges between the two
parliaments and two peoples had grown in an increasingly globalized
world.
She said the Federal Council would work with the CPPCC to cement
bilateral relations.
CPPCC vice-chairman Xu Kuangdi also met the delegation.
(Xinhua News Agency April 5, 2007)
