China-arab cooperation highlighted at trade summit

SHANGHAI: Participants in the fourth China-Arab Trade and Investment Summit have hailed cooperation between China and Arab nations, saying that it has displayed great vitality and resilience amid the uncertainty and instability in today’s world.

At the event in Xiamen, Fujian province, they said that China-arab cooperation will boost the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and make positive contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind.

While delivering a video speech at the summit, Qu Yingpu, publisher and editor-inchief of China Daily, said that from the ancient Silk Road to today’s BRI, China and Arab nations have never stopped learning from each other through their trade connections and people-to-people exchanges, writing a spectacular chapter in the history of human civilisation.

Over the past years, China Daily has carried out a series of cooperative efforts with Arab media and enterprises and striven to contribute to the development of ties between China and Arab nations, he added.

Qu expressed his wish that China and Arab countries would keep deepening their trade and investment cooperation, push forward the high-quality development of the BRI and work together to build a China-arab community with a shared future facing the new era.

Ali Obaid Al Dhaheri, the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to China, said that the Arab-china connection had experienced a golden age during the seventh century, which encouraged trade to flourish and facilitated the exchange of scientific knowledge in medicines, mathematics and astronomy between the two regions.