China's top legislator Zhao Leji met with visiting Finnish President Alexander Stubb in Beijing on Tuesday to discuss relations between their two countries.
At the meeting, Zhao, chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, said that over the past 74 years since the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries, China-Finland relations have maintained a good momentum of growth, setting an example for peaceful coexistence and friendly exchanges between countries of different sizes, cultures and systems.
China is willing to work with Finland to implement the important common understandings reached by President Xi Jinping and President Stubb, enhance strategic mutual trust, expand mutually-beneficial cooperation, advance people-to-people exchanges, and strengthen multilateral cooperation, so as to promote sustained and steady growth of future-oriented new-type cooperative partnership between China and Finland, Zhao said.
Zhao said the National People's Congress of China will work with the Finnish parliament to carry forward traditional friendship, strengthen communication and cooperation, and enhance exchanges of experience in legislative and supervisory work and governance, in contributing to the development of China-Finland relations.
Noting that Finland values its relations with China, Stubb said Finland is willing to expand exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields, strengthen exchanges between the legislative bodies of the two countries, support multilateralism and free trade, and jointly address global challenges.
Stubb is paying a state visit to China from Oct 28 to 31 at the invitation of Xi.
China's top legislator meets with visiting Finnish president on relations
China's top legislator meets with visiting Finnish president on relations
