English.news.cn 2011-05-11
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| Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu (R, front) meets with Dutch Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation Maxime Verhagen in Beijing, capital of China, May 11, 2011. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin) |
BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- China and the Netherlands pledged on Wednesday to enhance bilateral agricultural and economic cooperation.
The pledge came out of a meeting between Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu and the Netherlands' Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation Maxime Verhagen in Beijing.
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| Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu (R, front) meets with Dutch Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation Maxime Verhagen. (Xinhua/Rao Aimin) |
Speaking highly of the relations and cooperation the two sides have developed over trade, agriculture and water conservation, Hui said China will join hands with the Netherlands to expand pragmatic cooperation in these areas.
The Netherlands has been China's second largest trade partner among EU member countries for eight years, and their cooperation in trade, agriculture and water conservancy leads those carried out between China and EU member states.
Verhagen agreed with Hui and promised to enhance cooperation with China in economics, trade and agriculture, and to promote the sustainable development of the two countries' economies.
On bilateral relations, Hui said China values its relationship with the Netherlands. It will maintain high-level exchanges and communications in various areas, and promote a better development of bilateral relations.
Verhagen said China is a strategic partner of the Netherlands and remains a foreign policy priority in the Netherlands' new government. He hoped his visit would further deepen bilateral friendship.
He also restated the invitation of Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who speaks on behalf of the Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, for Chinese President Hu Jintao to visit the Netherlands in November this year following the G20 summit.
This is Verhagen's first visit to China since taking office in October last year.
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