China and Honduras held a ceremony on Wednesday to mark the second anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
The event was held in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, and was co-organized by the Chinese Embassy, the Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Ministry of Culture.
Attendees included the vice chairman of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Leung Chun-ying, Honduran Vice President Doris Alejandrina Gutierrez, Honduran Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina, Annarella Velez Osejo, Minister of Culture of Honduras, Chinese Ambassador to Honduras Yu Bo, and other prominent figures.
Guests from both sides highly praised the fruitful achievements in various fields such as economy, trade, culture, education, and public health since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, expressing great expectations for the future development of bilateral relations.
"Based on the principle of mutual respect, [China-Honduras] relations are characterized by brotherly sentiments. [China] highly respects our culture and people. The two countries maintain continuous exchanges in various fields, especially in the technology sector where China has a leading advantage," said Gutierrez.
"We are very confident and [We] firmly believe that together with Honduras, we can further advance in strengthening and deepening strategic alignment, making joint efforts to promote the high-quality development of [bilateral relations] within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative," said Yu.
A friendly football match and the handover ceremony of 8,000 sets of youth football jerseys donated to Honduras were held on Wednesday morning.
Honduras celebrates two-year anniversary of diplomatic relations with China
A 10-billion-yuan fund has been established at the just-concluded 2025 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) Annual Conference in Beijing to support China's emerging sectors of strategic importance.
The special fund, worth nearly 1.38 billion U.S. dollars, was announced at the Core Technology Investment and Development Forum on Sunday, aiming to provide financial support for a number of high-quality tech enterprises and help foster an innovation ecology conducive to the development of new quality productive forces.
The fund is established by multiple companies including the Zhongguancun Development Group, New China Life Insurance Company, and the Financial Asset Investment Company, a subsidiary of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
At the forum, projects of nine universities and institutes, including Tsinghua University and Peking University, received investment from the fund, with a total value of nearly 250 million yuan (about 34.45 million U.S. dollars) signed.
"We have built a full-life cycle industrial fund system around different growth stages of enterprises, from Angel investment, venture capital, to mergers and acquisitions, including mother fund, direct investment fund, second-hand share transfer fund, etc. For high-quality core technology projects, we have taken the lead in investing, making heavy and long-term investments. So far, we have cumulatively invested in more than 4,000 science and technology projects, among which over 1,000 national-level high-tech enterprises, nearly 800 enterprises that use specialized and sophisticated technologies to produce novel and unique products, 96 unicorn companies, and 161 listed companies have emerged," said Pan Jinfeng, chairman of Zhongguancun Development Group.
The 2025 Annual Conference of ZGC Forum ran from March 27 to 31 in the Chinese capital under the theme of "New Quality Productive Forces and Global Technology Cooperation," comprising five major sections, including meetings and technology trading.
The event provided new ideas and insights for global innovative development in large AI models, embodied intelligence, quantum technology, biomedicine, 6G, brain-computer interfaces, and other frontier areas in 128 events, highlighting the transformation of Zhongguancun, China's "Silicon Valley," into a global innovation hub, marked by groundbreaking technologies and the convergence of global expertise.
New fund created at 2025 ZGC Forum to support strategic emerging industries
