China’s top legislator visits Mozambique to promote friendship
MAPUTO - China’s top legislator Li Zhanshu paid an official friendly visit to Mozambique from Saturday to Tuesday to promote friendship and cooperation between the two countries. In the capital city of Maputo, Li, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), met with Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi and held talks with the African country’s Speaker of Parliament Veronica Macamo. During his meeting with President Nyusi, Li conveyed Chinese President Xi Jinping’s sincere greetings. Li said the deep China-Mozambique traditional friendship was rooted in the history of their struggles against imperialism and colonialism, and has grown even stronger in their joint efforts for common development. Li said China and Mozambique are all-weather friends and that successive leaders of both countries have made great efforts for the friendship. He noted that the bilateral ties has entered a new era since the heads of state of both countries decided to elevate the bilateral relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership of cooperation in 2016. Li said that China will uphold justice and pursue shared interests, and adhere to the principles of sincerity, real results, affinity and good faith in its Africa policy, as expounded by President Xi Jinping. China supports Mozambique’s efforts to realize independent and sustainable development, and will sincerely help Mozambique to develop and grow stronger, Li said. The top Chinese legislator briefed on China’s experience and practices of achieving economic development while maintaining political and social stability over the past 40 years since the start of the country’s reform and opening-up policy. He said these achievements were attributed to the overall leadership by the Communist Party of China, the advantages of socialism, as well as China’s development concepts that are people-centered and compliant with its own domestic conditions.
China stands ready to enhance exchanges on governance experience, and implement the important consensuses reached by heads of state of the two countries, Li said, stressing the three major advantages of bilateral relationship, that is, political mutual trust, economic complementarity and people-topeople friendship. Li said the Chinese side will encourage Chinese companies to invest in Mozambique within the frameworks of the Belt and Road Initiative, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, and the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries, in order to turn the bilateral traditional friendship and political mutual trust into more practical cooperation outcomes.
(Xinhua)